Rob

minimalism. be nice and hodl. crypto & derivatives🌱 most like to say we are crazy but oh boy do they missunderstand, we are just early

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

Woke up today down 30k, my dentist couldn’t repair my portfolio but my smile :)

[Discover Crypto @DiscoverCrypto]

Be the short line type of person.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

@wasserpest einfach rein bre

[peaq @peaq]

.@akashnet and peaq unlock autonomous elastic compute for robots and machines

The strategic partnership enables on demand GPU and CPU compute for any robot or machine running peaqOS

→ peaqOS provides the context and coordination
→ Akash Network provides decentralized compute on demand

The output returns to the robot in seconds

https://t.co/y6jOdkgTKV

[Birds Colour 🕊️ @birdscolour56]

The Ruddy Kingfisher. What stunning colours.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

This keeps me away from cutting my arms open

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

Ohne Swarovski an meinen Schneidezähnen fühle ich mich nackt.

[Giovanni's BTC_POWER_LAW @Giovann35084111]

The left missed Bitcoin as a transformative tool for wealth creation, including for ordinary people and especially for the working class.

They dismissed it as something “for the rich,” when in reality Bitcoin created wealth for many people who were not wealthy before. It also gave millions of people access to a monetary network that does not require permission from banks, governments, or legacy financial institutions. For the unbanked and underbanked, Bitcoin is not a toy for speculators. It can be a lifeline, a savings technology, and a way to participate in a global financial system.

Bitcoin is for everybody.

One could write an entire book on how badly the left misunderstood it: a decentralized, open, censorship-resistant monetary system that anyone can join, regardless of class, nationality, race, or status. These are values the left should have recognized immediately. Instead, many chose to see only the billionaires, the volatility, and the speculation, while missing the deeper revolution.

Now the same thing is happening with AI.

AI has the potential to liberate people from menial, repetitive, and soul-crushing work. It can give ordinary people tools that were once available only to corporations, experts, or the wealthy. It can amplify creativity, education, productivity, and entrepreneurship. Used correctly, it could lift millions out of poverty and radically expand human potential.

And once again, much of the left reacts with fear, resentment, and prohibition.

They are positioning themselves on the losing side of another technological revolution. Being a Luddite does not work. It did not stop industrialization, it did not stop the internet, it did not stop Bitcoin, and it will not stop AI.

The right question is not how to stop these technologies. The right question is how to make sure they remain open, accessible, and empowering for everyone.

[BITCOIN - Decentralized & P2P @Cipherhoodlum]

@projecteleven Breaking 15 bit ECC and comparing it to 256 bit is like cracking a 2 digit PIN and saying you are close to brute forcing every atom in the observable universe

The gap is about 3.5 × 10^72 times bigger

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

Music is so important.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

I wanted to do this since a long time 🤧 OKONOMIYAKI #cryptosoupgroup

[Aporia @0xaporia]

A Boeing 737 flight deck costs $120 million. This wooden open-source dashboard is trying to replace it.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

@delucinator ahhahah yup

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Jim Cramer says "how can oil be up and the war be over."

"Can't have both."

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

The Orange March Continues.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

I'm 2 cm close to quit my job and move to Japan, 2 cm only. Wouldn't there be this immense language barrier 👹

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

Explaining Bitcoin to an empty room in 2013 when it was worth $100.

[growthepie 🥧📏 @growthepie_eth]

Another day, another $7 million in stablecoins added to @Mantle_Official

New ATH: $961 Million
What bear market?

[binji @binji_x]

Vitalik just laid out some core principles, but lets dig into the reason why EVERY principle named here matters by reminding ourselves of how real people have been hurt when these principles are missing, and real people are being helped where they exist.

Let´s walk through them:

¨Minimizing centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties¨

FTX is the clearest example. Billions in customer funds, were routed through a single trusted entity and then misappropriated without oversight. People trusted a brand name and the brand name, one that made it to the Superbowl, Hollywood, and even the White House, betrayed them.

Low Risk DeFi Protocols should operate differently where collateral is locked onchain, liquidation rules are automatic and no single person can move funds at their discretion. The protocol should not ask you to trust anyone but the code, we must keep it this way, front ends included. The temptation to centralize parts of this for efficiency gains is one we should try to avoid.

¨Permissionless access¨

In 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria restricted citizens from sending more than $20 per week through mobile banking. Overnight, millions of people lost the ability to move their own money.

Meanwhile, anyone with an internet connection can deposit into DeFi protocols today with no application or approval and no government deciding your weekly limit. A farmer in rural Nigeria and a portfolio manager in London have the same door, a door that never closes. This is a birthright for crypto, and DeFi should continue being a global force for all.

¨Maximizing control over your own assets¨

In 2013, Cypriot banks froze accounts overnight and took up to 47.5% of deposits above €100,000 to bail themselves out. People woke up and discovered their savings had been confiscated. They had no say or warning.

In DeFi, your assets sit in a wallet only you control. No bank board can vote to take a percentage of your balance. Self custody means the rules don't change while you sleep. As things advance, there are pros and cons to self custody, we must heed these and develop better systems to ensure the security of both assets, and the people holding them.

Security first

In 2016, Bangladesh Bank lost $81 million when hackers exploited the SWIFT messaging system. The world's most trusted interbank network was compromised.

DeFi has had its own painful lessons. But the trajectory matters. Many top teams have now operated for nearly six years across brutal market conditions without a loss of user funds. Security in DeFi is a practice and it compounds over time. Reducing centralized chokepoints as mentioned above, can increase security too!

Privacy

Every time you swipe a card, your bank knows what you bought, where you were, and when. That data gets packaged and sold. You never consented. You probably never knew. The same is true for blockchains today.

Vitalik is right that privacy in DeFi is still early. But the direction matters, momentum across efforts in IPTFT, the EFs PSE, Kohaku, and L2s are promising. The goal is to create a system where you can participate fully without surrendering your data as the price of entry. This is the next leg up in having DeFi be used at scale, safely, in the real world.

The walkaway test

When the founder of QuadrigaCX died in 2019 (or claimed to), $190 million in customer crypto vanished with him. The entire exchange depended on one person holding the keys. One person.

A protocol that passes the walkaway test keeps running even if every member of its founding team disappears tomorrow. Ethereum itself is the best example. No single person can shut it down. The strongest financial infrastructure is infrastructure that doesn't need its creators to survive.

Oracle security and decentralization

In 2023, a price oracle manipulation on Mango Markets led to over $100 million being drained. The attacker didn't hack the protocol's logic. They fed it bad information, and the protocol trusted that information blindly.

Vitalik calls this a skeleton in the closet and he's right. Oracles are the bridges between the real world and onchain systems. If that bridge can be corrupted, nothing downstream is safe. Chainlink and other decentralized oracle networks are building toward resilience here, but this remains one of DeFi's most critical frontiers. We cannot rest on our laurels here and continuous innovation is a necessity.

Democratizing risk management and wealth building

For most of human history, sophisticated financial tools belonged to the wealthy. Hedging, portfolio diversification, yield optimization etc, were services you could only access with a private banker and a six figure minimum.

DeFi protocols today offer these tools to anyone. A student in Lagos can access the same yield curves that a hedge fund in Connecticut uses. Not a watered down version, the same one, this is absolutely beaitiful because it offers a structural shift in who gets to build wealth. One of the biggest prides of crypto is all the regular people it helped, the Cobie´s and the GCRs of the world would not exist if tools were not democratized, they must continue to be.

[pashov @pashov]

🚨A smart contract exploit from 1hr ago just drained ~8536 ETH, worth around ~$26M

The code was live on Ethereum for almost 5 years already. Source code unverified - only bytecode is public.

[Rob @averagjoetrader]

You cannot buy everything, you cannot kiss every girl, so just buy Bitcoin!