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Building Quantinium's L1 Blockchain - Dir. of Blockchain & Engineering, This is my only Quantinium account on X. Est. in crypto & blockchain since '13

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How Quantinium got here.

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📢 We’ve been quiet. But we’ve been building.

A year ago, Quantinium closed a $4M seed round led by Blockchange Ventures (@BlockchangeVC ), one of the most respected VCs in Web3 🤝

This wasn’t just capital. It followed a landmark deal with Lynd Living, unlocking decentralized Wi-Fi for over 1 million households and paving the way for $216 million in ARR over ten years.

Blockchange saw what others missed. A fusion of Web2 infrastructure and Web3 innovation that’s set to redefine how the world connects 🛜

This was the moment we knew. We weren’t just building tech. We were building a movement.

Read the full announcement on our Blog 👉 https://t.co/uH52Tj4Drh

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@AuAgGaming @nickyboom_box @NostalgikFuture @BriggsOnchain @mrbayoa1 you're also taxed on the $1k/week

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@sciencegirl The Sun

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I Bought $250,000 Worth of Physical Nickels

No, that’s not a typo.

That’s 5 million coins. 55,000 pounds of American metal stacked in boxes from a local bank vault — an asset the government literally can’t print anymore.

Most people would call it insane.
But let me explain the thesis.

Each U.S. nickel is made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, weighing 5 grams. That means every $1 million in face value equals roughly 100,000 pounds of metal.

At current metal spot prices, the melt value of a modern nickel sits around $0.043 – $0.047, depending on commodity fluctuations — or roughly 90–95% of face value. That means the U.S. Mint loses money on every coin it produces. They’ve tried to change the composition for years, but Congress hasn’t approved it yet.

So what happens when they finally do?
The old “real” nickels become the last batch of government-issued coins containing significant industrial metal. When that happens, they’ll vanish from circulation overnight — just like the 90% silver coins did after 1964. Those who held them saw a 10–15× nominal gain over the following decades as melt value outpaced inflation.

My $250,000 position, therefore, isn’t a “trade.”

It’s an asymmetrical bet that the U.S. Mint will eventually debase the coinage again, that metal scarcity and inflation will continue to erode the dollar, and that a bag of nickels will one day be worth more dead than alive.

Worst case? I still have $250,000 in legal-tender coins backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Best case? The melt value doubles, triples, or gets banned outright — which would make the existing supply finite and far more valuable to collectors and contrarians alike.

It’s not crypto, it’s not stocks, it’s not even silver.

It’s 5 million tiny claims on an industrial commodity the government accidentally subsidizes.

That’s deep value.

That’s the Nickel Standard.

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What the fuck has the UK become? This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.

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Just launched a Testnet in 8 min on @AvaCloud

Expeditious !

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McMoe, aka the Most Connected Man on Earth, named his dog after his favorite WiFi network... 🐶🛜

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@Imrexx_dev @0xAbhiP probably better as a series

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@elonmusk disney will sue you for this

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@Quantinium_fdn @okx On the todo list for our own explorer. Some testnet info/charting can also be seen here: https://t.co/b2hKyd7qoG

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@Guesslee004 @TaraBull808 risky group of 10s of millions if not hundreds of millions of listeners

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We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form

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Nahid is great

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We’re live 🎥

@addiell0pez & @SerkanTerek are on with @perryjsmith and @janockbro from @AvaCloud talking what’s next for Quantinium 🛜

Join now to hear how we’re redefining internet access on @avax 👇

https://t.co/AqpXUQPdad

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@sakenexe Briskets

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@AvaCloud Thanks for this AvaCloud team. Serkan and Addiel are A-players.

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L1 Builder Spotlight: Quantinium https://t.co/6REhIPkhzT

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Follow our discussion live!

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L1 Builder Spotlight: Quantinium https://t.co/6REhIPkhzT

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We've got another incredible L1 Builder Spotlight featuring @Quantinium_fdn live right here tomorrow at 11AM EST!

Join us as we go in-depth on their product and explore how their L1 is reshaping internet access across the world.

🗓 July 23 | 11AM EST
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