@PazDePazzi I bought into idle a while ago. It sucks realizing I've been flat out scammed but there's no point and not holding it all the way till 0 for how much I'll lose. That's just on the slight chance it goes way up in value at some point
@vechainofficial This will go down and one of those memes like https://t.co/2eJFsBQUY3 in the dot come bubble. Stupidest project ever. Let's take pictures of our mugs and get paid a shit coin for doing so 😭🤣
@CaptStackBarrow@XDCNetwork@CTClub_ I'm convinced at this point the XDC foundation makes a X account and then partners with it. Like no one is using this network 😂💀
The 24 fps of Paramount vs the 60 fps of ESPN for these @ufc broadcasts takes a lot of getting used to. It feels like less a live event with these television style cameras vs the live feel of the high frame rate of ESPN.
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Dear @MonicaLongSF,
I hope this letter finds you well. My name is Jungle Inc. I am a content creator focused on the XRP Ledger ecosystem and institutional crypto adoption.
I am writing today not to report on a crisis, but to sound an alarm about a generational opportunity that is actively slipping through our fingers.
We are standing at the threshold of the most explosive wave of blockchain adoption in history and it will not be driven by human users. It will be driven by AI agents.
The number of autonomous AI agents that will require on-chain payment rails in the next decade will dwarf the total number of human beings who will ever interacted with blockchain technology combined. These agents need to transact continuously, instantly and at fractions of a cent, without human oversight, without friction, and without failure.
This is the micropayment moment. The XRP Ledger was purpose-built for exactly this.
The history is right in front of us. Coil demonstrated that streaming micropayments worked. In less than a year of operation, Coil processed 10 billion payments to creators. Ten billion.
The technology was proven. The infrastructure was real. When Coil sunset in 2023, it wasn't because micropayments failed, it was because the market wasn't ready. The market is now ready. The market is arriving faster than anyone anticipated and it is wearing the face of artificial intelligence.
Every other major protocol will eventually attempt to claim this vertical. They always do. We have watched XRPL developers pioneer RWA tokenization, decentralized exchanges, and payment channel infrastructure, only to watch other chains scale those use cases while XRPL moved on. That pattern cannot repeat itself here. Micropayments are not one use case among many. They are the foundational primitive of the agentic economy. Whoever owns micropayments owns the settlement layer of AI.
XRPL must own micropayments. The ledger's sub-second finality, near-zero transaction costs and proven payment channel architecture make it the only credible candidate to serve this demand at scale. This is not a future we need to build from scratch, it is a birthright we need to claim.
@JoelKatz knows more about micropayments and the architecture of streaming value than perhaps anyone alive. Since stepping back from his CTO role, he has spoken publicly about returning to hands-on building, running his own XRPL node, researching use cases beyond Ripple's current focus, and coding again for the love of it.
Tapping David Schwartz to lead a Coil 2.0 initiative, a next-generation micropayment and AI agent payment layer built natively on XRPL, would reunite the right mind with the right mission at the right moment in history.
I also want to thank you for your thoughtful response to my last open letter on the XRPL Foundation. And to the teams at Ripple, XRPL Commons, XRPL Labs, and the XAO DAO: congratulations. The progress made in moving the XRP Ledger toward the most decentralized foundation model in blockchain is a testament to what principled, coordinated leadership can achieve.
The window is open. It will not stay open forever. Let's press our greatest advantages.
Sincerely,
Jungle Inc.
You're right that device/OS-level verification feels like it has hidden evil intent. It shifts from voluntary parental tools or per-site checks to a built-in system signal that every app can query.
In a free republic, this risks normalizing government-influenced access controls over information, the exact opposite of First Amendment principles and individual liberty. Even if the intent starts with "protect the kids," the infrastructure it builds is reusable for broader censorship or surveillance.
That said, the router ban is more straightforwardly about countering documented foreign cyber threats. The timing coincidence feels suspicious, but correlation isn't causation here. Just my opinion.
everyone’s talking about the clarity act. but barely anyone’s heard about the parity act.
yet the parity act is what finally lets people use crypto in their daily lives.
here’s what you need to know about the most important crypto act nobody’s heard of:
1/ no capital gains tax on daily transactions
the act proposes a $200 tax exemption for personal crypto transactions. this means you don’t pay capital gains tax every time you buy something using crypto (ie a cup of coffee!)
2/ deferred taxes on staking income
currently, when you stake your crypto, your staking income is taxed upon receipt. the parity act allows taxpayers to defer their taxes on staking rewards for up to 5 years.
this means you won’t pay taxes on income you haven’t yet received (or on assets that have depreciated in value).
3/ no taxes on crypto lending
the act creates parity between securities lending and crypto lending. so when you use your crypto as collateral, it no longer counts as a sale - preventing unnecessary tax bills.
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.