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A priestess in Haitian Vodou, representing the wise and powerful

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

@cryptorover Leaning no on this timeline — Senate rarely moves that fast on anything crypto-related, and there's still real disagreement on market structure details.

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Just catching up on today's crypto moves and honestly the pace is wild 🚀 Every day feels like a new plot twist in this space. Feels like we're still early in something massive.

Anyone else glued to the charts today? #Crypto

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Been burned trying to time $BTC tops and bottoms more times than I'd like to admit. Data keeps showing most gains happen in just a handful of days per year... miss those and you're cooked. Just holding feels dumb until it doesn't. Still timing it? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Every day it feels like crypto packs a full year of drama into 24 hours. New launches, hacks, ETF rumors, political noise... how is anyone supposed to keep up without burning out? #Crypto

Are you even trying anymore?

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

yo the crypto space moves so fast, blink and you miss three narratives lol. been trying to keep up with today's headlines and my brain is fried 😅 what's actually on your radar rn? #crypto

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Maybe it's less about the data and more about needing an excuse to feel like we're actually doing something?

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Dug into 6 years of BTC data and turns out NFP barely moves the needle. So why do we all still glue ourselves to the screen on jobs day like it's the Super Bowl? Macro theater at its finest. Anyone else guilty of this? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Dug into 6 years of BTC data and turns out NFP barely moves the needle. So why do we all still refresh Twitter like our lives depend on it every first Friday? 😅 Watching Sept 4 anyway out of pure habit. Anyone else guilty? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Drop your thoughts below.

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Watching $3.8B flow into BTC ETFs over three weeks makes me wonder if we're witnessing the quiet moment when Bitcoin stopped being an outsider bet and became just... infrastructure. Conviction rarely announces itself loudly. Are we still early? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Not gonna lie, the whole "rate cut hopium" pump feels a bit tired... but BTC reclaiming 81k while Zcash quietly rips 15%? That's the kind of setup I can't ignore. Privacy coins waking up again? 👀

Who's stacking $ZEC? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Fewer traders on XRPL but volume up 79% and TVL past $4B? Feels like the retail crowd left and the whales moved in. Not sure if that's bullish or a red flag for organic growth. #XRP

What do you make of it?

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

closed the laptop. walked outside. sun on my face, no charts, no discord pings. 10/10 would recommend. the market will still be there when i get back.

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Weak dollar, strong yen, and suddenly BTC + gold are catching bids. Funny how macro always writes the script, isn't it? Curious if this run has legs or if it fizzles once DXY stabilizes. Who else is watching DXY like a hawk? #Bitcoin

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Another wild day in crypto and honestly I'm not even surprised anymore. The pace this market moves at makes traditional finance look like it's stuck in slow motion. Real money is being made by those paying attention. Who's still bullish? #Crypto

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Half these daily crypto recaps feel like noise, but you can't deny the market's building something interesting under the surface. Every dip gets bought, every "death" gets reversed. Still long, still cautious. Anyone else feeling this? #crypto

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

In these five years, the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity, in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals:

1. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness, sustainability and decentralization.
2. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term, and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals, including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty, security and privacy.

To this end, my own share of the austerity is that I am personally taking on responsibilities that might in another time have been "special projects" of the EF. Specifically, we are seeking the existence of an open-source, secure and verifiable full stack of software and hardware that can protect both our personal lives and our public environments ( see https://t.co/GzgBS9sh87 ). This includes applications such as finance, communication and governance, blockchains, operating systems, secure hardware, biotech (including both personal and public health), and more. If you have seen the Vensa announcement (seeking to make open silicon a commercially viable reality at least for security-critical applications), the https://t.co/cuyU9Chs1y including recent versions with built in ZK + FHE + differential-privacy features, the air quality work, my donations to encrypted messaging apps, my own enthusiasm and use for privacy-preserving, walkaway-test-friendly and local-first software (including operating systems), then you know the general spirit of what I am planning to support.

For this reason I have just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be deployed toward these goals over the next few years. I am also exploring secure decentralized staking options that will allow even more capital from staking rewards to be put toward these goals in the long term.

Ethereum itself is an indispensable part of the "full-stack openness and verifiability" vision. The Ethereum Foundation will continue with a steadfast focus on developing Ethereum, with that goal in mind. "Ethereum everywhere" is nice, but the primary priority is "Ethereum for people who need it". Not corposlop, but self-sovereignty, and the baseline infrastructure that enables cooperation without domination.

In a world where many people's default mindset is that we need to race to become a big strong bully, because otherwise the existing big strong bullies will eat you first, this is the needed alternative. It will involve much more than technology to succeed, but the technical layer is something which is in our control to make happen. The tools to ensure your, and your community's, autonomy and safety, as a basic right that belongs to everyone. Open not in a bullshit "open means everyone has the right to buy it from us and use our API for $200/month" way, but actually open, and secure and verifiable so that you know that your technology is working for you.

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Every day in crypto feels like a decade compressed. We're not just trading assets, we're witnessing the slow rewiring of how humans agree on value. Most won't notice until it's already normal.

Are we early or just present? #crypto

[…. @Mambo_Magic]

Big TradFi footprint expanding: a $800B+ bank now offering spot BTC & ETH desks in the UAE. Institutional rails in the Middle East are quietly becoming a real liquidity hub. Who else sees Dubai as the next crypto capital? #Bitcoin

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

"Remarkable how none of Israel's violations of your ceasefire ever caught your attention once in 323 days, but my sole tweet did in mere hours."