It was the middle of the night, at about 1.30am, when Norway lost to England.
Yet thousands of Norwegians went to the Palace in Oslo and celebrated with one final Viking row.
They did not riot. They did not burn cars. They did not smash bus stops or glass windows of shops.
They smiled. The laughed. They saw the positive in their performance. They celebrated their heritage. They were proud of who they have been in the past and who they are today.
Norway might be out of the World Cup 2026 but they are in our hearts.
In the last three weeks, I think we have all fallen a little bit in love with Norwegians.
The tax wealth campaigners in the UK are mostly mad about what is happening in the USA.
A lot of their inequality data is based on the USA not the UK.
The USA is a much more unequal society than the UK.
For example the USA has double the average net worth but a lower media net worth of the UK:
UK average - $293K
USA average - $620K
UK median - $125K
USA median - $107K
The official measure of wealth inequality is the Gini-Coefficient - it is WAY higher in the US compared to the UK (.82 vs .57).
In the UK, top 10% earners make $90K vs $160K in the States. The top 1% of earners in the UK make less than $250K vs $650K+ in the US.
The legal full time minimum wage in the UK is mandated at £24K vs £11.5K in the US. The income inequality in the USA is much wider than the Brits.
The top 1% of wealth in the UK requires $4.5M and in the USA you’d need $13M.The wealthy in the US are much richer.
All of this data points to the idea that the UK is a more equal society by historical standards and relative to the USA.
I see wealth campaigners in the UK talking about Elon and Jeff as if we have anything to do with them. We don’t… the UK can’t put a wealth tax on US Billionaires!
One thing these campaigners fail to mention is that the USA is a more unequal society but it’s also a growing economy with rising living standards and lower unemployment and more optimism.
Long story short - the UK is not the USA. If you are British and you are outraged by the inequality in the USA nothing you do locally makes a difference to the way our US friends run their economy.
Campaigning for wealth taxes in the UK is like getting a divorce because your neighbours wife cheated.
Say you have £100M net worth. The proposed wealth tax is 2% on assets over £10M… so you’d owe £1.8M every year in additional taxes.
To pay the additional £1.8M each year (2% on £90M) you would need to pay a £4M dividend. Of that £4M dividend, you get zero ALL of it is tax (see calculation below).
Given that most scalable assets pay less than 4% yield as it is, there is no point in owning UK assets. Especially because you’d also be paying tax to buy the assets, to employ people to run the assets and you’d be losing CGT or IHT if you sell them or die.
All serious investment would dry up and the economy becomes a backwater, stagnant economic wasteland rapidly.
I really wish serious devs would finally start studying Cardano and building scalable and secure apps on it.
Leios is just around the corner, which opens up the potential for EUTxO.
Louder for the Cardano haters: Cardano already has what ETH wants to engineer.
It’s called EUTXO!
Bitcoin’s UTXO model extended for smart contracts.
For years Cardano has been criticized, yet with every new proposal Vitalik is moving Ethereum closer to the design principles Charles and Cardano championed from the beginning.
Can’t wait to see what they decide to call it after they copy Cardano’s homework.
If i was @IOHK_Charles i’d be annoyed AF that for like 10 years he been preaching superior tech and most of the industry been fudding him….
But than @VitalikButerin slowly and steadily pivots Ethereum into most of tech concepts Charles researched and implemented and is instead applauded like he is innovating.
Charles will get no apologies and no recognition Because the internet always wins.
I think crypto beginners are not aware of the current state of the #Cardano ecosystem and the fact that some Cardano Native Tokens, which are tied exclusively to $ADA, are about to turn into monsters soon. This Cardano price works perfectly for some projects. Time will reveal everything very soon... What a time to be alive! For those who understand the game, this is a life-changing moment. Stay focused, explore the Cardano ecosystem, and find projects with strong communities. Join those.
Here's your weekly reminder #crypto people 🫵🏻 if you think this super intelligent, crazy tough mf'er is ever gonna stop "going for No1" your unbelievably deluded, the man's relentless.
@IOHK_Charles 💪🏼🐐
$ADA
Cardano is becoming the trust layer for AI agents.
Masumi is building an agent-to-agent stack on Cardano with X42 payments, escrow settlement, refund flows, decision logging, and a decentralized registry for AI services.
That means agents can hire other agents, verify delivery with hashed confirmations, and settle work on-chain while Hydra expands throughput for larger scale activity. Research driven.
If Masumi and Sokosumi execute, $ADA could sit underneath how autonomous software gets discovered, hired, paid, and audited across chains. Worth watching closely. 🚀
#Cardano $ADA #CardanoCommunity #AI #Hydra
Sometimes I wonder if I made the biggest financial mistake of my life.
I bought $PLTR, $TSLA, and $NVDA when most people either didn’t understand them or thought they were terrible bets. Not because I was a genius, but because I became obsessed with understanding what they were building. I studied the numbers, the vision, and I trusted my conviction.
Years later, the market proved me right.
Then I discovered Cardano.
And I did the exact same thing. I spent thousands of hours studying blockchain, cryptography, economics, governance, and the potential of a completely new financial infrastructure. I reached a conclusion that changed my life: I sold positions that today would be worth a fortune to bet on what I believed could be an even greater opportunity.
There are days when I ask myself if I sold my future children’s financial future chasing an intuition.
But then I remember something: if I had listened to the majority, I never would have bought $PLTR, $TSLA, or $NVDA when nobody wanted them.
I don’t know if Cardano will turn out to be my greatest investment decision or my biggest mistake.
What I do know is this: I’d rather live with the consequences of trusting my own research and convictions than spend the rest of my life wondering, “What if I had trusted myself one more time?”
I'm going to keep saying this, feel free to mute me if you're tired of hearing it...but if we want to increase Cardano's onchain activity, we need to support businesses that are currently generating revenue.
Not future or speculative. Current. As in today.
JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "the long-term consequences of this hack, are, every single holder of $ADA will have more secure wallets, more options on their security, and a redoubling of commitment to open-source. That's a fundamental win for everybody."
If anybody knows me, they know I have rules.
Those rules matter because they protect my integrity, my judgement, and the people around me.
They allow me to speak openly, form independent views, make informed decisions, and vote without someone else paying the price for my opinion.
I have declined luxury travel.
I have declined private meetings.
I have declined generous roles with good teams.
I have declined interesting events, access, introductions, and opportunities that would have personally benefited me.
I have also declined offers of profit where the cost would have been borne by the Cardano ecosystem.
Some of those decisions were life changing.
That is the point.
Principles only matter when they cost you something.
I am an average person who cares deeply about the future of Cardano. I care about accountability, fiscal responsibility, incentives, infrastructure, builders, users, and the long term health of the ecosystem.
I am not a threat. I live a very basic, happy life with my family.
I am someone who does not give up, does not bend easily, and does not trade integrity for access.
The show will go on.
Cardano will continue, Cardano will rise driven by genuine people that truly care.
A lot of people are asking me why I keep rooting for Cardano and why I still hold $ADA.
The answer is simple.
There is no better chain out there.
Yes, there are faster chains, more hyped chains but they all have flaws.
The biggest flaw of Cardano is that it missed the global adoption for smart contracts in the last bull market, because it was busy building a strong and methodical foundation.
Great things take many years to build and test.
Cardano has just exceeded 122 million transactions on mainnet, with almost 9 years of reliability and resilience.
That's just one reason, people are choosing Cardano.
> I wake up
> There is a new Prime Minister
> There are more tax rises
> I go and vote against tax rises
> There is a new Prime Minister
> There are more tax rises
> I become disillusioned with the political system
> There are more tax rises