Mark Tolentino

Private Stage Investor, DEFI, NFT, Blockchain Evangelist 🚀 Bullish on: Crypto, Web 3, open source technology & smart contracts. Channeling my inner degen ❤️

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

From left to right #HuobiGlobal team/Top 100 Blockchain advisor @PhuStyles with comedian Jimmy O. Yang/CEO of @vizionprotocol Shane Brown/Founder NGO Bitcoin Argentina @RodolfoBits/#SharkTank @kevinolearytv I want to say thank you for a wonderful #Bitcoin2022 ❣️💎🙌

[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For this reason I have just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be deployed toward these goals over the next few years.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.

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@Kaspa_HypeMan @pumpolinsky #changinglives by changing the narrative. This ⬆️ is a good read

[Wolfie @Kaspa_HypeMan]

🚨 WallStreetBetsCrypto is buzzing about $KAS — and the sentiment is nearly unanimous: bullish. 📈

This deep-dive on Kaspa is making waves 👇
🔗 https://t.co/egQKS881QY
#Kaspa $KAS #Crypto #WSB #Altcoins

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

Look at all these laser eyes at @shakira concert #Bitcoin #crypto - very bullish 😎

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

Bullish on #bitcoinart and #pepe too! What’s your thoughts on this art gallery ⁦@TheBitcoinConf⁩

[Crash @CrashiusClay69]

$BRETT is gonna send a shockwave thru the world just like SHIB did in 2021

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@Omikamitoken IYKYK @MustStopMurad will be looking at this #memesupercycle and see that his @spx6900 just got rekt by @Omikamitoken

[Omikami @Omikamitoken]

We’ve been here before. You know what to choose. 🔴 #RedPill #Omikami

[LAMEDO 🟧⬛️ @lamedoo]

#Omikami & #ryu are inevitable
In God we Trust.

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@omikaminews @RyoshiResearch @RyuJinDragonETH @Omikamitoken Very boooolish 📈

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@NFAdotcrypto Timing couldn’t be any better

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

#XRPArmy should be celebrating this long awaited decision…is it time for some #Crypto gains💪 for #XRP? Let’s see what @BenArmstrongsX have to say…

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@CrashiusClay69 Don’t over complicate things because it’s a new sector. He’s simply applying Graham’s investing and holding it for the long term. He sees intrinsic value in #brett and it’s fun to watch his bags grow! Like him or hate him, his picks have been beating the market 📈many times over

[Earvin Magic Johnson @MagicJohnson]

I met Jerry West for the first time in 1979 at the Forum where he introduced me to Bill Sharman, Chick Hearn, and then Laker owner Jack Kent Cooke. My father, agent and I negotiated over lunch then Jerry took me to the locker room to show me my Lakers jersey. I started to cry and Jerry explained to me the expectation of wearing the purple and gold, how he saw my role, and how he envisioned me fitting into the organization. I’ll never forget that moment.

When training camp began, he gave me so many golden nuggets and really critiqued every facet of my game. After every practice he would give me notes on how I could get better and those sessions carried over to the regular season. Once a week we went over what I needed to improve and how I could dominate in the league. Those meetings meant everything to me because I learned so much from him.

We had a basketball camp in Hawaii called the Jerry West Magic Johnson Fantasy Camp for 20 years. At the camp we shared every meal together and that’s when we really bonded and solidified our great friendship outside of the Lakers. Jerry West was more than a general manager, he was a great friend and confidante. He was there in my highest moments, winning 5 NBA Championships, and in my lowest moment when I announced my HIV diagnosis and we cried together for hours in his office.

Every time I achieved a goal or crossed a milestone, one of the first calls I received was from Jerry West. When I started my business, was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, was named Lakers President of Basketball Operations – he would always pick up the phone and give me a personalized call to congratulate me. 

Beyond his basketball accolades as a basketball player and NBA executive, Jerry West was a great man, a leader of men, fiercely loved his family and friends, and despite holding jobs with other franchises, he was a Lakers fan for life. Laker Nation, the only reason we have 17 NBA championships is because of Jerry West and his expertise drafting players, trading for players, and hiring the right coaches. Today is a sad day for basketball fans and sports fans across the globe.

Cookie and I are just devastated and continue to lift up his beautiful wife Karen; sons David, Mark, Michael, Ryan and Jonnie, extended family, and loved ones in prayer.

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@lamedoo Watch this #MEMECOİNS 101. @lamedoo your message is on point! If you don’t have a plan…you plan to fail!

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@Ashcryptoreal #crypto_trading

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

What’s up #crypto degens? Sunday is always fun when you’re around good frens around @F1 #MiamiGP

[Mark Tolentino @OfficialMarkNFT]

@Ashcryptoreal Wishful thinking….lol

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