Linoix

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so

[Linoix @_linoix]

Let me tell you a crypto story that many of you don’t know, the very reason why it exists today! Everything you need to know: the community, where it started, where we are now, and where we’re headed

Where It All Started

In 2004, a small group of people developed a network called Tor. It allowed users to browse the internet without worrying about being spied on. It was primarily designed for important journalists and whistleblowers to share sensitive information with the outside world, without the risk of being tracked, silenced, or even killed for holding and sharing valuable truths

Why Tor works so well

Tor is based on Onion Routing. It uses a global network of relays, hosted by volunteers, to bounce internet traffic across different countries. This makes it extremely difficult to trace where a message originated, especially after several hops

The Double Edged Sword

Tor empowered good actors but also criminals. When it became more publicly known, criminals started using it to sell drugs, weapons, malware, and things you don't even knew existed. Hence the rise of the Dark Web on Tor, where the majority of the data is illegal content

At some point both parties shared one major issue. No private way to handle payments, until Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin in 2009

To be clear: we still don’t know if Satoshi was a black hat, white hat, or grey hat. Nor if Bitcoin was explicitly made for the Tor community

But when Bitcoin arrived, for the first time, people could pay each other privately over the internet

Suddenly, .onion shops exploded across Tor. It was chaotic. You needed to know the right IRC channels and community websites like 4chan; otherwise, you'd be lost for days trying to find the right webshop

Back then bitcoin was valued at all sort of prices depening on which network of people you knew

The Rise of Bitcoin

As time passed, Bitcoin became the currency on Tor. But users complained they didn't know how to buy. So in 2010, https://t.co/xSQfjAth72 became the first crypto exchange. Bitcoin was priced at $0.003. Soon after, the infamous Mt. Gox launched

Exchanges made Bitcoin more accessible, drawing more users to Tor, but also scammers. You’d buy something and just hope it will be delivered

Then came Silk Road, built by @RealRossU mainly. It was like eBay for the Dark Web, complete with reviews and categories. High ratings meant you’d likely get your order delivered

The Rise of Other Cryptocurrencies

Satoshi not only brought us Bitcoin. He also inspired others to copy Bitcoin's code, which led to the emergence of:
- 2011: Namecoin, Litecoin
- 2012: Ripple, Peercoin
- 2013: Dogecoin
- 2014: Monero (private-by-default via Ring Signatures)

And finally, in 2015, @VitalikButerin introduced a more innovative approach, something with a real use case: a cryptocurrency called Ethereum and its ERC-20 network powered by smart contracts

Around the same time, more and more exchanges started popping up

A Hetch Against Banks Called Store of Value

Before crypto was even recognized as a store of value, early investors went through multiple bull runs. At some point, crypto hit the mainstream (mainly due to COVID-19 and stimies), and it became more common to describe cryptocurrency as a store of value or a stock-like investment. As of today, this is even widely accepted around the world

From Decentralization to Centralization

The COVID bull cycle was great, but the state we're currently in is far more centralized than you might think

Instead of using wallets, 70% of all crypto users now rely on CEXs (centralized exchanges). Interactive wallets like @MetaMask have made it easier for users to buy and sell crypto on dApps, but this only accounts for about 30% of users

We even have ETFs now and crypto reserves held by countries

The most overlooked problem is that CEXs can alter the circulating supply within their own exchanges. The bids and asks you see are just magic numbers in a database, making it much easier to manipulate the price whenever they want

The Centralization Problem

To make this easier to understand for the average crypto user, I’m going to try explain it in a way everyone can grasp

Imagine all current blockchains as banks. Let’s take the most well-known in crypto, it’s called the Bank of Ethereum

Bank of Ethereum sits between companies and other banks (like XRP, XMR, HYPE, SOL, etc.), all offering different kinds of services, much like what you see in a real-life city

Most of these banks have walls made of titanium. When you enter, everything must follow strict protocol, mostly private and secure. Everything that enters has to go through high-level encryption and obey certain rules

But the nicest part is that anyone can walk around it, peek inside, and even try to break it. It’s all allowed, fully digital and open-source

On the flip side, because it’s open-source, hackers are constantly looking for exploits to drain tokens. Most of the time, when a token drops -90% in a single day, this is the reason

The Bank Problem

Every day, developers are working to improve everything inside their "bank" to make it more secure and robust. What’s wrong with that? Well, all eyes are focused on what’s happening inside the bank. The inside is secure, but what about outside? What about the streets and the community?

The Streets and Its People

When you walk from building to building, you’ll encounter:
- People (fellow degens)
- Surveillance cameras (your ISP)
- Scammers (hackers)
- Known banks (CEXs mainly KYC)
- Less-known banks (DEXs)
- Hookers offering you free blowjobs (KOLs)
- Police officers (government)
- A lot of shit piles (meme coins and useless projects)
- Gems (meaningful projects building for the community on the streets)

You

Just like how your wallet holds different cards in the real world, used for ID, gym access, or opening doors via RFID, your crypto wallets are similar. Whether it’s MetaMask, Phantom, Trust Wallet, or a desktop Bitcoin wallet, these are (d)apps to access different chains

Of course, you can choose to stay "safu" in a CEX and just peek through the one-way mirror (closed source) at the streets

The Worst People in the Streets

The hookers (KOLs) are the best deceivers. They lure you into buildings promising free blowjobs. 90% of the time, your pants get pulled down and you get f***ed from behind, sometimes without lube. And worst of all? You already paid

That’s not even the worst case. In 8% of cases, you get a blowjob for a few seconds. Just as you're about to cum (your bag just did a 10x and you think it’ll go higher), they bite your dick off. The lucky 2% actually cum. https://t.co/21pgqd0z43? Just a strip tent where you paid your favorite hooker

Then there are the scammers, clever deceivers mimicking buildings and luring you in (mostly through @X ads [still can't believe this is not fixed yet]) with promises of airdrops. You sign a contract to receive the reward, but in small print, it says it’ll drain your wallet. Full of greed, thinking you’re getting free money, you sign... then boom you’re outside, drained (that feeling is the worse I experienced in crypto)

And it gets worse. Some high-IQ scammers replicate entire banks (chains). One day you walk into what you think is your usual bank and bam, you signed the wrong contract. Wallet drained

The Known Banks Start to Stink

I think centralization peaked this year. It’s gotten so bad that when people try to leave their known bank and explore the streets, CEXs are freezing accounts out of nowhere. People can't even withdraw their money

Binance used to be a highly respected CEX. But most of the 30% of users who actually live in the streets now see Binance as a scammer. It used to support solid projects, sometimes early gems. People from the streets respected that. But greed took over. Billions in fees weren’t enough. Billions on their own BNB chain weren’t enough. Now they walk out the bank, decorate a pile of shit, walk back in, and everyone inside (the 70%) starts buying it, while Binance is selling in the background. Sick and corrupt if you ask me

That’s why listings dump 90% within weeks. Binance lost a lot of street cred. Hence, #BoycottBinance became a thing for a short moment

That Recent Gem in the Streets

DEXs are maturing. One that finally made it is @HyperliquidX

Now there's a real way to compete with CEXs, without KYC, without magic numbers in a database. Everything is transparent. This is decentralization making a comeback, and if you graphed it, you'd see decentralization dominance is starting to outperform centralization again

Thanks, @chameleon_jeff

Of course, CEXs are scared. It’s known that Coinbase and Binance are trying to exploit Hyperliquid. Recently, Binance even added perps and spot for $HYPE because the open interest is skyrocketing on Hyperliquid

This is a bad sign if you understand magic numbers and arbitrage bots

But lets stay optimistic, finally, migration is happening, from known banks (CEXs) to unknown banks (DEXs, especially Hyperliquid). I believe in a few years, we’ll see a complete reversal: 70% on DEXs, 30% on CEXs

Fun fact: most projects must give a portion of their circulating supply to big CEXs like Binance to get listed. That was protocol. Hyperliquid didn’t care. Did none of that and still got listed. If you’re really someone from the streets, you highly respect that move from Hyperliquid

The Next Big Problem in the Streets (we are currently here)

Hookers, scammers, and known banks are always going to exist. But the real problem? Users think everything is safu. Especially newcomers

They don’t realize they’re walking through shitty streets, distracted by scammers, hookers, and banks offering degen services. Meanwhile, surveillance cameras are logging their every move

Every police officer (government) can review those logs at any time. That’s why Tor was made in the first place!

Note this: People will run into serious problems in the coming years because they’re doing and did everything centralized

Think a centralized VPN is enough? That's just a hoodie. A cop can pull it off your head. Centralized VPNs log your data, and they’ll hand it over when requested

Worst part? 70% of all users are already known by CEXs due to KYC

Forgotten Privacy, Where TF Did It Go?

Remember Tor? The network that brought Bitcoin to live in the early days? It disappeared into the background

Why? Old Tor is scary and slow. Scary because it’s associated with the dark web. Slow because websites used to be 100KB around the time Tor was released, now they’re 3MB on average. That’s a 30x increase in load, and Tor never scaled with it

The Scaling Problem

There has been a debate in the (remaining) Tor community for years now

One side wants to monetize to support relay hosts. The other side fears it’ll lead to centralization

I'm on the side of monetizing it. Why? Imagine mining Tor tokens like Bitcoin miners mine BTC. That would incentivize people to join the network with new relays, leading to rapid scaling. Bitcoin already proved this works

Cleaning and Securing the Streets, One of the Last Gems

To protect our identities, we need a bigger and better Tor network, open-source, modern, using tech like AI to filter out the nasty stuff

We can already see @AnyoneFDN laying a decentralized foundation to protect people through Onion Routing. Call it Tor V2.0. It’s like everyone is getting Iron Man suits instead of hoodies

Essentials For The Crypto Ecosystem

From the beginning until now, these are the tokens I consider foundational:
- Bitcoin: digital store of value
- XMR: private digital store of value
- ETH: utilizing digital value
- LINK: solved the oracle problem
- HYPE: solving the CEX problem

These five make decentralized store of value, trading, and utility possible

And if all goes well with Anyone Protocol:
- ANYONE: solving the privacy problem

Privacy Is No Joke

You made a million? Thinking of cashing out? There's literally one country where you can go fully off-grid and keep it all: the Central African Republic

Anywhere else? Get ready for:
- Getting blacklisted by your bank
- Getting taxed
- Waiting months or even years
- A nice invite from your government or bank to explain every detail

The more "anon" route (considered fraud):
- Pay rent or expenses with crypto without reporting it
- Use multiple banks
- Cash out in small amounts over time and avoid reporting

I believe soon all data stored by the surveillance camera's, centralized VPNs and police officers will be sorted by AI to make everyone easy targets

And yes, there are still a few big problems unsolved:
- Seamless crypto use in the real world for everyone in a fair way
- RWA (though I think Hyperliquid will catch this one)
- A platform to truly support good projects (Binance abandoned this long ago, I hope Hyperliquid takes that torch)

But none above can harm current crypto users. Stay safuh frens!

[Linoix @_linoix]

99% of degens and normies still don’t get @AnyoneFDN tech

Today, a friend said $HYPE will go to the moon. Told him to buy $HYPE in 2024, but he waited for his favorite KOLs to confirm

Same for $ANYONE. 1B will happen, but most wait until 500M and KOLs shilling it. 8M currently

[ANyONe Protocol @AnyoneFDN]

The May recap video for ANYONE.

[Linoix @_linoix]

@bee_fumo I run sudo apt install <dep_name> --before-vibe-coding. It’s an initiative led by a community that checks dependency versions before vibe coding corrupts them

[Linoix @_linoix]

If they keep building like this, it won’t even matter anymore in the near future which privacy layer you choose. @AnyoneFDN will already have all the essential things built, tested, and developed. It’ll be a no-brainer

$ANYONE

[ANyONe Protocol @AnyoneFDN]

The Anyone hidden ecosystem is here.

Access censorship-resistant sites via their .anyone domain name.

Use our one-click scripts to install the latest client and check it out:
🔹 https://t.co/UUCS9B3tFP

See the new DNS endpoint, which is also mirrored as a hidden service:
🔹 https://t.co/luKD4HLNdg

[Linoix @_linoix]

@AlgodTrading IT ALWAYS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO BUY THE DIP

IT ALWAYS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO BUY THE DIP

IT ALWAYS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO BUY THE DIP

IT ALWAYS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO BUY THE DIP

IT ALWAYS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO BUY THE DIP

FUKKIN PUSSIES

[Linoix @_linoix]

It always feels like that, but whenever even a small amount of retail money moves from stocks to crypto, there’s always a bull run

There’s not much money to be made in stocks anymore. Sooner or later, the rotation starts

It also always feels counterintuitive to buy the dip

[ROGER MOON | HCC @rogermoonCrypto]

Crypto is dead!

[Linoix @_linoix]

“Fortunes are made in what people overlook.”

$ANYONE

[Linoix @_linoix]

“What’s ignored today may become essential tomorrow.”

$ANYONE

[Linoix @_linoix]

@usualknowledge @AnyoneFDN I'm 100% sure we are early

“The crowd arrives after the discovery.”

[Linoix @_linoix]

Everyone talks about crypto and privacy, yet no one mentions @AnyoneFDN

People don’t realize the Anyone Network is the ultimate solution for privacy

Coins like $ZEC and $XMR are great for storing money privately, but what about everything else you do digitally besides money?

[Linoix @_linoix]

When $ANYONE lifts off from these prices, it is going to be so big, you’re gonna wish you listened to yourself and bought more at these levels

[Linoix @_linoix]

@stupidtechtakes It’s even crazier to think Grok is developed in so-called “war rooms” lmfao

[Linoix @_linoix]

I've never been wrong on any of my main bets. I would be surprised if $ANYONE isn’t sitting in the top 100 in the near future

Seriously, the most undervalued and underrated project I’ve ever witnessed

It is as important as $HYPE but few understand

[Linoix @_linoix]

Been in crypto since 2014, is like reading a story you already know the ending to. Three times now I’ve called the next chapter, and every bull run I’ve pulled a 20–50x

Next chapters? DEXs + privacy:

- @HyperliquidX $HYPE

- @AnyoneFDN $ANYONE

[Linoix @_linoix]

Yeah, and the layer @AnyoneFDN is building on top of this will become a hideout for real people and real information

[Nir Zicherman @NirZicherman]

Here's what the internet will soon become because of AI:

An infinite library, with infinite truths and infinite falsehoods, and a complete inability to tell those two things apart.

This is straight from the 1941 Jorge Luis Borges story “The Library of Babel”. In it, he imagines an infinite library made up of books of random letters.

Because it is infinite, it contains not only every book ever written, but every book that could possibly be written. It contains every possible truth as well as an infinite number of falsehoods.

The secrets of the universe, of life, of everything, are hidden somewhere in that library.

The only issue is: that magical book is impossible to find. And if you found it, how would you ever know you found the book of truth, and not one of the infinite books of lies that surround it?

[Linoix @_linoix]

@Irishgirlbragh_ Today I identify myself as Asian

Tomorrow: A Nazi

The day after: as a black man which is mute and blind

The day after: as a binary hooker

The day after: as a Irish girl who writes about a unicorn who doesn't have a pattern

The day after I kill myself

[Linoix @_linoix]

Website vulnerabilities will soon be found in seconds because of AI, not days (already happening today)

The future security layer may be a <random-hex>.onion for companies

Old Tor is to slow for this

@AnyoneFDN is building the right onion-routing network, powered by $ANYONE

[Linoix @_linoix]

The crypto market is currently very boring. But I promise that every penny you invest in $ANYONE will pay out big time when ethereum:native goes up

[Linoix @_linoix]

@KhanAbbas201 Lmfao didn't know what this is. Guess what... I have been doing this for 4 years now

[Linoix @_linoix]

@0xBossman No one talks about people suffering inside, knowing the world is fukt

[Linoix @_linoix]

@paulsaladinomd This is the eternal dread for people following an animal-based diet. We all look lean AF, weird body problems go away, and generally feel good

Still, no one believes it, or they’re too stubborn to just try it for 2–3 weeks. Well, at least this stubbornness keeps my meat cheap

[Linoix @_linoix]

@quotesdaily100 For people looking for a faster, safer Tor alternative: https://t.co/UjjmvIuapo