Financial End Times

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[Financial End Times @EndFinancial]

$LINK

[Flannelhandler.lens @LoverPlaid]

I don't care what you think, total crypto market cap will be around 8 - 10 trillion minimum in 2030. If you really think you should sell now, more power to you.

I'm STILL getting more $LINK any chance I get.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Isn't it funny how Cassidy and Cornyn were BEGGING you to believe that they supported The President when their jobs were on the line, but the second they lost their primaries, they went full blown Mitt Romney on social media? Pathetic.

[TonemanLives 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @TonemanLives]

John Thune must be proud especially after watching what is taking place in California. It was a two horse race between Pratt and Bass until it came to counting the paper ballots. The ballots they tell us take weeks to count.

Funny, we used to do presidential elections in a few hours but today with all the technology it takes weeks in the most corrupt state in our country. How is it even remotely possible to have over 30 million votes when there are under 23 million registered? It’s not and watching Thune and Republicans sit back and say nothing, do nothing is a fucking travesty.

Somehow Democrats find millions of votes that don’t exist and this dirty, corrupt scumbag John Thune can’t find 51 votes to secure our elections and taking the cheat from the Democrats.

It’s not just Thune because the do nothing Republicans can’t even find 5 people to get together and remove Thune. As long as Thune is leader, Dems will be able to do Dem like things including cheating in our elections.

All because he’s part of the club. All because he hates Trump. If this doesn’t light a fire under everyone’s ass that these are desperate times with much needed desperate measures than nothing will. The bottom line. Find a way to get it done over are fucked. We’ve come too far, fought too hard to have a few politicians hold our countries fate in their hands. Find a way and let’s get it done, whatever it takes. My two cents

[⬡ LINK Collector ⬡ @Crypto_BitC]

Crypto valuations are not driven by fundamentals. They are driven by narrative, momentum, and what the crowd sees. Right now that disconnect is massive.

$LINK is being integrated and adopted by every major financial institution on the planet.

It is being cemented as the base interoperability layer for all of future finance, including tokenization and RWAs. Yet it still has a lower market cap than $ADA.

Charles Hoskinson has essentially moved on from ADA. No major integrations. No meaningful partnerships. No real future momentum.

After two decades investing in stocks I have learned this: what is obvious to someone paying close attention, researching deeply and thinking critically is invisible to the average investor staring at charts.

Charts show only a fraction. Real conviction comes from stacking partnerships, consistency, market opportunity, global trends and regulatory clarity.

The #Chainlink community has done exactly that for over seven years. It has become a collective hive mind spotting what others miss. What is clear to the critical thinkers here is still invisible to the broader market, especially those not paying attention to the coming digitization of global finance.

The institutions are not coming. They are already here building on Chainlink.

The disconnect will not last forever.

$LINK

What are you waiting for?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A restaurant. I could not finish my meal, and I bowed my head in shame.

Then they handed me a box, and I nearly wept.

The plate had been enormous. I am a samurai; I do not surrender to food. But this was a siege, and halfway through I knew I could not win. I set down my fork. In my country, to leave food on the plate is to insult the rice, the farmer, the cook, and your own ancestors, roughly in that order. So I sat there, quietly making peace with my dishonor.

Then the waitress smiled and said the most beautiful sentence I have heard here.

"You want a box for that?"

A box. To take it. Home.

I went still.

"You would save it?" I asked.

"Yeah, of course. It's still good."

It's still good. Three words my grandmother said to me a thousand times, across an ocean, in another language, over a bowl I was not allowed to leave.

I had crossed the world expecting to find everything different here. And a stranger in an apron had just handed me my grandmother's exact heart, in a small paper container, without knowing she had done anything at all.

I took the box. I held it like a newborn. I bowed to her, to the cook, and to the half a sandwich within, which would now live to see another day.

That night I ate it by a window, slowly, the way you eat something that was nearly lost. It was, if anything, better the second time. Everything saved is.

So now I order too much on purpose. Not from greed. From faith. Because I have learned that here, the same as home, a meal does not end when you are full.

It ends when the box is empty.

And the box is never empty the same day.

Which means a good meal can last forever,

as long as someone, anyone, still believes it is too good to waste.

[David Mays @EntropyHub]

My father's mother always made a specific chocolate cake for every family event. It was delightful. It was epic.

She passed away a year before I met my wife.

Some 15 years later, my wife found the recipe for that cake in my grandmother's belongings.

I told her the story of that legendary cake, and she started experimenting with reproducing it. She called it "heart attack in a pan" because it is basically a truckload of fats and sugars with just enough grains to hold the ingredients together.

After a few of my birthdays for practice, she had the process perfected. She rendered her own tallow, ground her powdered sugar from turbinado and melted it slowly into the butter to avoid grainy textures. She learned when to pour the hot icing onto the cooling cake so that it crisped up perfectly.

The family reunion comes in October. My wife made the cake and placed it on the table labeled as "Louise's chocolate cake". After an 18 year absence from that table, the cake had finally returned.

My father took a bite and said it was perfect.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life.

I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days.

Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever.

So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth.

The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power.

The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps.

I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED.

Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box.

I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank.

I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it.

And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything.

"Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing."

The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect.

I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins.

I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one.

So tell me, America.

Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law?

I have decided there is not.

You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins.

It is the most insane way to hold a war.

I will fight in every single one.

[Financial End Times @EndFinancial]

I do not have a PhD. I know what a woman is.

https://t.co/wY6g9zhxpx

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

The receipts stack up.

[Heather Lauer @HeatherLauer]

The Montana Republican Party backed conservative challengers against centrist incumbents who repeatedly voted against the party platform and sided with Democrats, and succeeded in unseating several of them. Imagine that, Idaho! https://t.co/Y6VUlBL0fp

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Keep working two jobs, suckers, while you vote for this commie piece of shit.

[Angela Belcamino @AngelaBelcamino]

Out of nowhere… Nithya Raman is now at 60% to advance in the LA mayoral race against Karen Bass.

Spencer Pratt has slipped to 39%.

What’s going on here?

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The thing that will never cease to amaze me about bureaucrats is their obsession with credentials. To the point where it takes a lifetime to amass them.

Everyone is out there giving shit to the government about hiring young professionals.

Alexander the Great was 22 when he became famous.

Napoleon was 24.

I mean you get the idea and the list goes on.

But there’s something to be said about youth and virility. It lets you buck back against the system, usually.

The most dangerous person to a bureaucracy is the one who’s put in charge of it who hasn’t had time to marinate in it. To be molded by it.

Rising in a curated bureaucracy gate-keeps you. Until you’ve crossed every T and dotted every i.

And by that point, you’re nice and docile. Tame. Old AF. The non-boat rocker.

The fire that was once inside you for change, long gone.

Now you just want a future. A retirement. Something nice to settle into.

The youthful man you once saw in the mirror is now dead. A casualty of your desire to sacrifice principle for comfort.

Outsized bureaucracy is the enemy of civilization. Treat is as such.

Destroy it from the inside out.

Rebuild it in the spirit that it was meant to serve.

The American Spirit.

[Kate @kate_p45]

🚨EXPOSED: If you want to know who’s really helping Senator John Thune run out the clock on America First…
Look no further than these frauds in the GOP:
@TomCottonAR
@SenatorLankford
@SenJohnBarrasso
@SenCapito
These are the SAME Senators who sat on their hands like statues while Democrats burned down our country for 4 straight years, laundered trillions in taxpayer money, putting illegals, Ukraine, and every foreign interest BEFORE American citizens.
And now? They’re actively helping Thune stall, sabotage, and slow-walk President Trump’s agenda… while blocking his nominees like it’s their full-time job.

Real “conservatives,” huh?
All talk. Zero spine. Pure Uniparty.
Call them out. Tag them. They need to be held accountable for their betrayal to their constituents.

cc:@ScottPresler @POTUS @elonmusk

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Thank you, President Trump. 🇺🇸

I am fighting for each and every Californian, to restore the California Dream.

Change is coming.☀️👊
@POTUS

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Read this thread. I gave a possible identity to the SPLC plant in Charlottesville - and it's someone who was central to organizing Unite the Right, and also talked about running over protesters before the rally.

I'm pretty sure I nailed it. There's no one else in those transcripts who fits, especially after today's revelations.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?

He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.

The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:

"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."

That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.

And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.

I have the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

I tried to go to this famous sushi place in Tsukiji. I showed up at 6am because I heard the line was getting crazy. There were already 30 people ahead of me.

I waited 2 hours. Finally got inside. Sat at the counter. The chef was this serious-looking guy, didn't smile, barely talked.

I ordered the omakase. He nodded and started making pieces one by one.

Each piece he put in front of me, he watched me eat it. Not in a creepy way, more like he was checking if I ate it right.

On the fourth piece, I reached for soy sauce and he said "no." First word he'd said to me.

I froze. He pointed at the sushi and said "already seasoned. No soy sauce."

I ate it without soy sauce. He nodded, went back to making the next piece.

It kept happening. Sometimes he'd put a little wasabi between the fish and rice and say "no wasabi." Sometimes he'd hand me the sushi and motion for me to eat it right away, not wait.

I realized he wasn't being rude. He was teaching me. Each piece was supposed to be eaten in a specific way to taste it right.

At the end, he put down a piece of tamago, the sweet egg omelet. I knew this was the last piece, the dessert of sushi.

I ate it and he finally smiled. A small smile, but it was there.

He said "you listen. Many customers don't listen. They eat how they want. But you listen."

I told him I didn't know anything about sushi, so of course I'd listen to him. He's the expert.

He laughed and said "many experts come here and don't listen. You are not an expert, so you learn. That is good."

Best sushi I've ever had, and probably ever will have. But more than that, I liked that he cared enough to teach me the right way.

[Obliviscaris @obliiviiscariis]

Why Chainlink is (significantly) superior to Quant:

$LINK $QNT

1. This article is comparing Quant's full platform to Chainlink CCIP. The correct comparison is Quant Overledger/Fusion vs Chainlink CRE, the Chainlink Runtime Environment, which is Chainlink's full orchestration platform (which includes CCIP).

2. The main reason CRE has significantly more adoption than Overledger, despite Overledger launching ~6 years prior, is the following:

As the article states, Quant is closed-source software. You need to trust Quant. Chainlink is an open-source, fully auditable protocol, and CRE is a decentralized runtime environment, which means that it orchestrates workflows in a fully verifiable, tamper-proof way at every single step.

- Because Chainlink is based on the use of Decentralized Oracle Networks, it means that every capability Chainlink CRE has is fully verifiable and tamper-proof:

- The workflow itself
- Off chain data
- Any privacy requirements
- Any Compliance requirements -Interoperability with other chains (CCIP)
- Connectivity to any legacy systems (SWIFT, DTCC, etc.)

Once you realise just how much there is to orchestrate in a fully verifiably way, you see how much less of a solution Quant is compared to Chainlink.

(Just look at Chainlink Confidential Compute and the Automated Compliance Engine as examples for an idea of how much goes into creating even these relatively small elements of the grander CRE platform.)

- Quant is API-based and has no way of producing verifiably tamper-proof consensus about anything in a workflow. Trust is placed in Quant's closed-source software, Quant's Firewall, API serves, etc. The only thing you don't need any trust in is the blockchains themselves.

3. The whole point of using blockchain is verifiable security. The Oracle Problem is something that most people think they understand, but actually don't:

The Oracle Problem is not just figuring out how to connect blockchains to real world data. The actual problem in a more broad definition is:

How do we connect blockchains to every else that is needed in highly complex workflows in a way that matches the same level of security the blockchain itself offers.

Once you realise that there's little point using blockchains if the other, non-blockchains things in the workflow don't also have the highest level of security, you realise why Chainlink and CRE are so important.

Every single capability, every single step in a CRE workflow is Byzantine Fault Tolerant.

The same is not true for Quant Overledger. It is a much less elegant, much easier thing to build, because it's much easier to orchestrate workflows when you don't need to worry about matching the same level of security as the underlying blockchains.

This is why Quant is a more niche, enterprise-focused middleware, and why Chainlink CRE is significantly more suited as a global standard for orchestrating workflows with the highest security.

And this is why The DTCC a few weeks ago integrated Chainlink CRE and the Chainlink Data Standard into its Collateral Appchain recently.

Chainlink has significantly more adoption in both TradFi and DeFi. It's demonstrated its elite security with its track-record of securing value. Quant has demonstrated anything even remotely close to that.

SWIFT, DTCC, and many of the largest financial institutions are actively working with Chainlink. If Quant "solved interoperability in 2018" as their CEO claims, why have SWIFT been working with Chainlink for 8 years?

There's a reason the CEO said that, because Quant solved interoperability in a simple but effective way for enterprise connectivity to blockchain usecases, but it's not anything like a truly secure, truly trustless and complete orchestration layer that can be adopted as a global standard like CRE.

[Samantha Kutner @ashkenaz89]

I have to share this because it is fucking wild.

Two pre-med students got on the train tonight, made a beeline for the spot directly in front of me, grabbed the rails, and subjected me to their conversation.

The girl was saying something flowery and then, enthusiastically, she called for more Luigi Mangiones.

I know what this looks like. Coddled kids who become coddled adults, saying the most ridiculous shit because no one has ever pushed back. These people never get the chance to develop the skills one develops when they exist in communities that are larger than their polycules.

I said, very sternly: “assassinating CEOs is not the answer.”

She blinked.

“I was just joking.”

I waited.

“I mean. He’s more like, he’s a symbol of something larger.”

I kept looking at her.

Then she tried to redraw the map entirely: “We were just having a conversation.”

I said: “You were talking loudly…in my direction. So this is the conversation we (I made a small circle between her, her friend, and me) are having now.”

And then, this is the part, she said, with a straight face: “can we just turn the temperature down?”

As if she hadn’t called for targeted killings thirty seconds prior. As if I had introduced the heat.

I did not…turn the temperature down.

The discomfort on her face was legible and correct. Mild embarrassment and discomfort is a gift some people should experience more.

Not only will she live, but she will remember me when her embarrassment gives way to actually learning something about what it is like to exist in the real world with other people.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The UK won two world wars and Japan lost one horrifically. Yet it’s Japan that is still a culturally homogeneous, high-trust, low-crime country.

Mass immigration does more damage to your nation than being hit with a nuclear bomb.