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Flutter Engineer at Previously at @WalletConnect/@Reown and @krakenfx/@krakenpro. Taxation is theft. Opinions are my own.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

Two (mutually exclusive) truths:

1. #Bitcoin wouldn’t have achieved its deep penetration into society without Ross’s early involvement.

2. #Ross wouldn’t be free today if Bitcoin hadn’t achieved its deep penetration into society.

Ross 🤝 Bitcoin

[Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay]

Newcomers to Bitcoin may not understand why old timers care so much about Ross Ulbricht. Let me explain.

He embodied the ethos of early Bitcoin more than anyone. He was an entrepreneur who created a thriving marketplace.

He believed in radical freedom, including the freedom to trade anything with anyone else so long as it was peaceful and voluntary.

He regularly wrote about his views on freedom and why he built the first truly successful Bitcoin business - the Silk Road. He wanted to created a better world and believed his principles deeply.

Politicians like Schumer targeted both Silk Road AND Bitcoin as criminal enterprises that needed to be shut down.

When he was convicted the judge and the establishment threw the book at him. He was a first time, non violent criminal and they locked him up and effectively threw away the key.

In the early Bitcoin community we all felt how unjust this was. It was like they were locking up one of our own out of spite for what we all believed was a peaceful revolution.

Now tens of millions of people own Bitcoin and many just because of Number Go Up. Never forget there was a deeper purpose here and that getting rich is a nice side effect of that greater purpose.

Fix the money, fix the world.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@arbona_vicent Pero el que ha venido a mi TL a romper las pelotas pidiendo que le hagan la cola has sito tu.

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Qué manera de decir burradas, por dios! Qué vergüenza!

[Onda Cero @OndaCero_es]

🛸 La Voyager pone en evidencia el gran obstáculo de la exploración espacial

🗣️ @brunocardenosa explica por qué la propulsión actual implide que los vajes interestelares sean posibles

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@arbona_vicent Bueno, no puedo hacerme cargo de tu imbecilidad

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@arielipillo Lo están velando?

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨FACT: Cristiano Ronaldo ends the World Cup knockout stages with less successful dribbles than Vozinha.

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@arbona_vicent https://t.co/4eBOYzSxkE

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@brunocardenosa Y quién te ha insultado? Decirte ignorante no es insulto. Deja ya el victimismo y ponte a comunicar decentemente.

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@jordi_stuff @brunocardenosa Jordi, ve a succionar escroto y deja de justificar lo injustificable.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@tebayoso Pero mirá ma cara de pajero que tiene, pobre.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@brunocardenosa Ni si quiera soy español, hasta hoy ni te conocía y tú dices que llevo años obsesionado contigo. Ve a un psicólogo, por favor 🤦🏻

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@brunocardenosa Eh? muéstrame otro mensaje que te haya dedicado, UNO SOLO! Es literalmente la primera vez que veo algo tuyo y sinceramente espero que sea la última. Estás muy mal de la cabeza

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@brunocardenosa Y quién te ha insultado? Decirte ignorante no es insulto. Deja ya el victimismo y ponte a comunicar decentemente.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@OndaCero_es @brunocardenosa (Después del sol, obviamente)

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

Qué pedazo de ignorante. Esto es lo que pasa cuando ponen gente ignorante al frente de noticia científicas. El planeta más cercano a la tierra (dependiendo del momento orbital) es Venus y se encuentra a 0,0000040 años luz. Lo que se encuentra a 4,24 años luz de distancia es Próxima Centauri, LA ESTRELLA más cercana a la tierra, no el planeta.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@BowTiedMara 10? This people sets no less than 24

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@kokehtz O sea que si comprara un puntero láser por AliExpress no lo dejarían pasar por aduanas?

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@LocodlDividendo Soy argentino y te entiendo. No se quien es el idiota ese y probablemente representa a muchos argentinos. Pero a muchos otros, incluido yo, no.

[bc1Alfreedom 🟠 🦔 @alfreedom_dev]

@nocontextfooty You’ve never learned about perspective, hu? Or do you have like 12yo?

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@soy_muse That’s Argentinian commentator. Spanish ones are boring af