One thing I can say I’m happy about @DogechainFamily is the amount of value we were able to airdrop to the community. I always strongly felt crypto is all about giving upside to the community and we always tried our best to uphold that.
Wrote in 2018 - https://t.co/mUIHq0R00M
I don’t believe any of this religious hype for any cex or gambling market
Users will come and lose all their money and leave and that’s how it dies
It’s the inevitable life cycle for all gambling venues
Someone sent $0 worth of a dog coin to a man who didn't ask for it. He turned it into the largest crypto donation in history.
> In August 2020 an anonymous person calling himself Ryoshi launched Shiba Inu with one quadrillion tokens
> It had no investors, no VCs or a press release.
> His plan, written in something he called a "woofpaper", was to send 50% of the entire supply directly to Vitalik Buterin.
> He just sent him 500 trillion SHIB tokens to his wallet without warning.
> His reason was: "There is no greatness without a vulnerable point. As long as VB doesn't rug us, Shiba will grow and thrive."
> He intentionally made the co-founder of Ethereum the single largest holder of his memecoin as a marketing strategy without ever telling him.
> Vitalik woke up one day with 50% of a dog coin sitting in his wallet and had no idea what to do with it.
> By May 2021 those tokens were worth over $1 billion.
> He donated 50 trillion SHIB to India's COVID-19 relief fund
> Worth $1.2 billion at the time it was the largest crypto donation in history.
> Then burned 410 trillion of the remaining tokens, destroying $6.7 billion in a single transaction
> Saying he didn't want to be a "locus of power" in a dog coin project.
> SHIB pumped on the news of the burn.
> In May 2022 Ryoshi deleted every account, every blog post, every trace of himself and disappeared.
> His last words: "I am not important, and one day I will be gone without notice. Take the SHIBA and journey upwards frens."
> Nobody knows who he is. He never sold a single token.
The coin he built reached a $40 billion market cap. None of it was supposed to work and all of it did.
@dheerajbatra Stagflation is a black swan waiting to happen. Everyone’s too rich off investing their ppp loans, shitcoin diamond hands, and nft rug pulls
A few facts:
1️⃣ The person who pulled 510k lines of #Claude Code source code from a 60MB source map is a 25 years old boy From China.
2️⃣ His LinkedIn: UCSB in 3 years, 4.0 GPA. His comment:"too easy."
Dropped out of Berkeley PhD after 2–3 years. Comment:"lol."
3️⃣ White hat. Found bugs in X, Chrome. $1.9M in bounties.
4️⃣ He called out Anthropic last year for scraping user code under the guise of "safety reviews."
5️⃣ After the leak, his take:"Claude's code is nowhere near as interesting as OpenCode's."
President .@realDonaldTrump
It’s time to take a strong, serious look at the Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX situation.
FTX was HUGE, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the United States. Massive revenue, massive volume. A real powerhouse.
Yes, it went through Chapter 11. But let’s be honest, it was a very profitable business. That kind of success doesn’t just disappear. It deserves a real second chance.
And Sam very smart, very successful investor, he should have the opportunity to come back, rebuild, and do something great again.
Binance and its billionaire CEO Changpeng Zhao did play a role in FTX's collapse-FTX's bankruptcy came after its token FTT collapsed in value after Zhao said his firm sold all of its FTT holdings, and Zhao later backed out of plans to acquire FTX.
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@Jason
one trend that i see with the vibe coders is they don't want to share their ideas b/c they fear someone will steal it.. a lot of solo dev / business projects that are not cooperating and collaborating and aligning as much we used to pre-AI. more isolation
Software will proliferate just as videos, music, writing did.
The market structure will shift from a “fat middle” to mega-aggregators and a long tail.
It’ll be a slower process due to network effects, but many traditional vendor lock-ins will get eaten by AI.
ai slop can
- create/post 24/7 at infinite scale economies
- find/write scripts
- publish across infinite accounts
- infinitely trial and error until virality hits
- target any niche
- self-learn on audience
ai slop to soon completely disrupt manual slop