A young South Korean is playing the Korean national anthem “Aegukga” on the violin for the other patriots who have gathered at Jamsil Olympic Park to restore election fairness. Today is Memorial Day in the Republic of Korea.
🚨 한국 애국자분들께 긴급히 호소 드립니다.
우리 애국 어르신들이 선택과 행동이 젊은 사람들과는 약간 다르기에 간혹 마음에 안드는 경우도 있을 수 있습니다.
애국 어르신들은 체력적으로 젊은 여러분들의 모든 행동을 따라하기는 어렵습니다. 그러나 그 분들은 목숨을 걸고 나오신 분들입니다.
그분들이 하실 수 있는 것에 대해서 비난하기 보다는 그저 지켜보시고 응원해주시고 젊은 애국자분들은 하고자 하는 데로 행동에 옮기십시오.
지금은 마지막 전쟁 입니다. 우리끼리 싸울 시간이 없습니다.
그리고 젊은 애국자 여러분에게 무슨일이 생기면 어르신들은 절대로 가만히 있지 않으실 것이고, 목숨 받쳐 여러분들을 지키실 분들입니다.
그분들에게 비난 보다는 그분들이 하실 수 있는 일에 응원을 더하여 주시고, 각자 분야에서 끝까지 싸워 이 전쟁에서 승리합시다!
전쟁은 하나님 손에 있고, 승리는 우리에게 있을 겁니다.
Make Korea Great Again🇰🇷
God bless all✝️
참고로 정치인들, RINOs 은 절대로 믿지 마세요!!
"Experiencing Communism in Korea"
It's one thing to understand communism intellectually and in principle; experiencing it first-hand is quite another. Recognizing its incremental and insidious nature in the lives of actual human beings in their own environment has been a shocking and eye-opening experience for me. And here in South Korea it is not yet even fully realized.
But it is imminent unless something changes... fast.
Communism is not merely an abstract threat. It actually enables and empowers evil people to deprive others of their lives and liberty.
During my academic years I worked with other academics who had escaped Germany, China, and Russia. They were quite clear on the matters of socialism and communism.
I would entertain their very strong positions, and do my best to relate. Understanding my naivete they would insist, "No, Dr. Frank. It's not just a bad form of government. It is EVIL."
Now... I think I'm finally starting to get it.
My heart breaks for these people.
🚨 TRUE AMERICAN HERO, KOREAN WAR MARINE RUDY MEEKINS
This legendary U.S. Marine earned FOUR Purple Hearts for wounds in combat…
But the memory that stayed with him all these years wasn’t about the battlefield.
It was a young Korean boy who handmade a Korean flag from a rice sack, and traded it to Rudy for a single can of beans.
In the middle of hell, a small act of kindness and humanity between a Marine and a local kid.
This is what our Greatest Generation was made of. Warriors with hearts of gold who fought for freedom and showed compassion even in war.
Respect to Rudy Meekins. These stories need to be told.
Semper Fi, Marine.
Hat tip to the American Veterans Center for sharing this.
"GROK"
The "Great Republic of Korea" is a group of young folks working to restore Korea to its foundational principles of prayer and liberty.
Such an honor to meet with them!
Everyone spends a lot of time debating whether blockchain has a real use case.
Meanwhile, FIFA World Cup ticket transactions are settling on Avalanche.
Over the last few days alone, FIFA ticket activity has generated more than 60,000 transactions on Avalanche. Transaction volume increased as much as 24x above normal levels. Active addresses grew roughly 10x.
The tournament has not even started yet.
What is most interesting about this is not the transaction count.
It’s the user.
Nobody is buying a World Cup ticket because they want to use a blockchain.
They are buying a ticket because they want to watch their team play.
The technology is simply helping make that happen.
That is how every successful technology platform eventually evolves.
Nobody books an Uber because they care about the infrastructure running underneath it.
Nobody streams Netflix because they care about content delivery networks.
Nobody sends an email because they are excited about internet protocols.
Nobody cares what powers the experience.
They care that the experience works.
For years, much of the blockchain industry has focused on convincing people to care about blockchains.
I think that is the wrong goal.
Businesses care about outcomes.
Customers care about experiences.
Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping to use a specific database, cloud provider, or blockchain.
They want a product that works.
They want speed, reliability, security, transparency, and global accessibility.
If blockchain can deliver those things better than existing systems, people will use products powered by it without ever thinking about the underlying technology.
That is what real adoption looks like.
The World Cup is one of the largest sporting events on earth. Millions of fans from around the world are interacting with a ticketing system powered by Avalanche. Most of them will never know or care what blockchain is running underneath.
And honestly, that is a good thing.
The future of this industry will not be determined by how many people talk about blockchains.
It will be determined by how many businesses quietly put it to work solving real problems for real customers.
Ticketing.
Payments.
Financial services.
Loyalty.
Gaming.
Identity.
The biggest winners will not necessarily be the chains that generate the most headlines.
They will be the ones powering experiences that people use every day without realizing it.
That is exactly why Avalanche has aligned around a simple idea:
Technology Built for Business.
Not technology built for speculation.
Not technology built for press releases.
Technology built to solve real problems for real organizations serving real customers at global scale.
When people ask what blockchain is good for, they often imagine some future use case that has not arrived yet.
The reality is that it is already happening.
Right now, thousands of FIFA World Cup ticket transactions are settling on Avalanche.
That feels a lot closer to the future than most people realize. 🔺⚽️
What if @pudgypenguins became Pokémon?
This video might give you the answer...#PenguinMon@LucaNetz is the GOAT. 🐐
Penguins make this world a lot more colorful. 🐧💙
What a community. 🚀✨
Project Quantum "Reveal"🧐
For the last few days, ever since @LucaNetz latest interview, I've been thinking about Project Quantum and @AbstractChain.
My conclusion is that Luca with Quantum is trying to solve these five crypto problems:
Capital.
Launch.
Liquidity.
Ownership.
Community.
Because if we're being honest, crypto has struggled with all five.
The Capital Problem 💰
The entire crypto market is worth a few trillion dollars.
That sounds impressive until you compare it to traditional capital markets.
Global equity markets exceed $125 trillion.
Global bond markets exceed $145 trillion.
The capital exists.
Crypto simply hasn't found a sustainable way to access it.
For years, the industry has been asking:
"How do we bring Wall Street into crypto?"
More exchanges.
More ETFs.
More onboarding.
More narratives.
Yet crypto still largely operates inside its own bubble.
And maybe that's the wrong question.
Maybe Quantum is asking:
"How do we bring crypto to Wall Street?"
Not by asking institutions to become crypto natives.
Not by asking trillions of dollars to learn wallets and seed phrases.
But by creating rails that allow crypto assets to interact with the deepest pools of capital on Earth.
The Launch Problem 🚀
Luca has repeatedly said that the current token launch model is broken.
And honestly, who can disagree?
Launch.
Pump.
Dump.
Move on.
We've seen it hundreds of times.
Most projects focus on creating a better token.
Quantum seems focused on creating a better launch environment.
That's a completely different approach.
The Liquidity Problem 🌊
Another thing Luca keeps mentioning is liquidity.
Not tokenomics.
Liquidity.
Because even a great asset struggles if there isn't enough demand.
Most crypto assets trade inside the same ecosystem and compete for the same liquidity.
The same money rotates from one narrative to the next.
The same participants move between projects.
The same capital gets recycled.
What if Quantum is trying to access entirely different liquidity pools?
Not just crypto liquidity.
Global liquidity.
That changes everything.
The Ownership Problem
This is the part I think most people are missing.
The Ownership problem 🫳
Crypto has become incredibly good at distributing tokens.
But not necessarily at creating owners.
Projects distribute millions.
Communities receive value.
Many participants sell immediately and move on.
The relationship ends the moment the distribution arrives.
Yet throughout the interview, Luca repeatedly talked about ownership, community and creating success for people.
Not extracting value from them.
Creating value with them.
That doesn't sound like someone building another short-term token cycle.
That sounds like someone trying to build long-term alignment.
The Community Problem 💚
This is where Abstract feels different.
Abstract isn't just a chain.
It's one of the few ecosystems where community participation is actively measured.
XP.
Streaks.
Builder support.
User engagement.
Ecosystem participation.
At first, many of us viewed XP through a familiar crypto lens:
Collect points.
Get an airdrop.
Sell tokens.
Move on.
After this interview, I'm no longer convinced that's the whole story.
Because if Quantum is truly trying to solve Capital + Launch + Liquidity + Ownership, then XP starts looking very different.
Not as a farming system.
But as a participation system.
A way to identify the people who were actually here.
The people who showed up early.
The people who supported the ecosystem before success was guaranteed.
The people who helped create value.
Maybe We've Been Looking At XP Wrong
Maybe XP still leads to rewards.
Maybe it doesn't.
Nobody outside the team knows.
But after listening to Luca talk about Project Quantum, I find myself asking a different question.
Not:
"How big will the airdrop be?"
But:
"What if XP is measuring who deserves a seat at the table?"
Because if you're trying to build a new ownership model, you first need a way to identify participants.
And Abstract already has one.
XP.
To conclude my already too long thinking 😅
Maybe Quantum fails.
Maybe it succeeds, just like @pudgypenguins .
Both outcomes are possible.
But nobody spends years building something.
Nobody spends tens of millions of dollars.
Nobody takes on legal, regulatory and financial complexity at this scale just to launch another ordinary token.
Something bigger is clearly being attempted.
And whether it succeeds or not, I want to see where this train goes.
That's why I keep collecting XP.
That's why I keep supporting builders.
That's why I keep showing up on Abstract.
Not because I know exactly what's coming.
But because for the first time in a long time, it feels like someone isn't trying to solve the next crypto cycle.
It feels like they're trying to solve crypto itself.
Maybe Project Quantum isn't a token launch.
Maybe it's an attempt to solve:
Capital.
Launch.
Liquidity.
Ownership.
Community.
And if that's true, then Abstract might be building something far more important than most people realize. 💚
"L'IA dissout complètement toutes les théories où l'État doit intervenir dans l'économie."
Je me souviens d'une conversation avec un ami il y a quelques années. On parlait des fondateurs de Google.
Il m'avait lâché : "Tu sais, les fondateurs de Google, c'est deux gauchistes universitaires."
Ça m'a marqué.
Aujourd'hui, Sergey Brin fait son coming out républicain. Bezos vire chad. Zuckerberg se masculinise. Musk est devenu le porte-étendard de l'accélération.
Ce n'est pas un hasard.
Ces gens-là, ce sont les cerveaux les plus brillants de la planète. Et ils utilisent l'IA plus intensément que n'importe qui. Ils baignent dedans 24/7. Ils l'ont construite, ils la nourrissent, ils l'interrogent.
Or l'IA a une propriété que les idéologies détestent : elle ne pardonne pas l'incohérence dans la data.
Tu peux mentir à un militant. Tu peux mentir à un journaliste. Tu peux mentir à un prof de Sciences Po. Tu ne peux pas mentir à un modèle qui a digéré toute la littérature économique, toute l'histoire des civilisations, toutes les courbes de croissance, tous les effondrements soviétiques, vénézuéliens, cubains, nord-coréens.
Quand tu lui demandes honnêtement de regarder la data vraiment la data, pas les narratifs il n'y a qu'une conclusion possible pour quiconque n'est pas complètement dogmatique, fou, ou avec un ego qui a quitté l'atmosphère :
Le système économique le plus optimisé, le plus producteur de richesse, le plus producteur de progrès humain, c'est la liberté totale des marchés. L'État n'a rien à y faire.
Pas "un peu". Pas "avec nuances". Rien.
Toutes les fois où l'État a "corrigé" un marché, il a créé une distorsion qui a coûté plus cher que le problème initial. Toutes les fois où il s'est retiré, l'humanité a fait un bond.
Ma thèse, c'est que les cerveaux de cette planète sont tous en train de s'en rendre compte en même temps. Pas parce qu'ils ont lu Hayek ou Mises (la plupart ne les ont jamais ouverts). Mais parce qu'ils passent leurs journées à dialoguer avec une intelligence qui n'a pas d'agenda politique et qui leur renvoie la cohérence brute des faits.
Le virage de Bezos. Le coming out de Brin. La radicalisation de Musk. Le revirement de Zuckerberg.
Ce n'est pas une mode. C'est un signal.
L'IA est en train de diluer les idées à la con. Le gauchisme en tête.
Et ce n'est que le début. Parce que dans 5 ans, ce ne seront plus seulement les fondateurs de la Silicon Valley qui auront fait le chemin. Ce sera n'importe quel gosse de 16 ans qui aura passé 1000 heures à challenger ses idées reçues avec un modèle plus intelligent que ses profs.
La gauche intellectuelle a survécu un siècle grâce au monopole narratif des universités et des médias.
Ce monopole vient de tomber.