I miss the days when we all believed crypto would revolutionize the world. I miss having to compile qt wallet on a fresh machine. The ICO/Alt/shitcoin eras took a lot from us. There are still some freedom fighters out there (looking at you @tari) but right now… I’m tired boss.
@mooncat2878 Maybe the $sea drop will be a consolation prize. I have so many zero value jpegs now. That said, the communities spawned great friendships. Especially the Ghxst community. Pxin Gxng forever.
🌟👋 Meet the Team at the ASIMOV Protocol!
Joshua J. Bouw (@JoshuaJBouw), Head of Protocol 🔗, is best known as the “Godfather of Proof-of-Stake” 👑 for having co-founded Blackcoin, the first PoS blockchain—a pioneering breakthrough that eliminated mining, introduced staking incentives, and laid the foundation for modern PoS networks including Ethereum and NEAR.
Joshua has many firsts under his belt. For example, he was the first-ever recipient of a smart contract 📝, written by David Zimbeck for BitHalo, marking one of the earliest real-world implementations of programmable money—predating Ethereum’s launch! He also helped pioneer multicoin pools, enabling stakers to mine other currencies which were then swapped into a single coin, optimizing liquidity across chains. 🔀
He played a key role in advancing PoS security that enhanced network integrity and resistance to attacks. His work directly influenced the broader adoption of PoS protocols across L1 and L2 blockchains. Joshua was also involved in Aleph Zero’s early bootstrapping, working on privacy-enhanced smart contracts. 🤫
More recently, Joshua was a core developer on @NEARProtocol’s EVM team, and subsequently headed up that team as it spun out from NEAR into a separate company called Aurora. Under his leadership, NEAR’s EVM development reached full Ethereum compatibility while drastically optimizing execution speeds ⚡ and gas costs 💨—thus delivering the first production EVM cleanly layered and implemented as a nonprivileged smart contract on an underlying WebAssembly contract runtime. 📚
Most recently, as Head of Construct at @HaltiaAI, a founding member of the ASIMOV Protocol, Joshua has focused on delivering user-owned AI running on edge devices 📱, integration with knowledge graph models 🕸️, and decentralized AI verification ✅. He is engineering the backbone for decentralized, semantically linked data—ensuring data provenance, provability, and verifiable claims of knowledge for the world to use.
Joshua's essential contributions to staking security, trustless verification, and cross-chain interoperability now form some of the foundations that the ASIMOV Protocol is being built on. 👇
Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are.
President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!
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