Tony

#bitcoin is the way,
#cardano is second best

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

If all you look at is "price," that is all you will ever see.

If what you look at is fundamentals, "price' doesn't matter.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@ItsDave_ADA I agree. The problem is people are people, each with their own opinion, often times on things no one with those opinions understands.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@Washigorira Possibly

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@dangambardello I'd like to agree, we'll see. Cowen is live now and he passively back handed everyone that believes bitcoin follows PMI or any other real world metric (without naming names). "Bitcoin is doing what it has always done" according to him. I continue to HODL like always.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@F_Gregaard My perception is people building on Cardano believe they have to have funds from the treasury to do so. This drives me nuts. The treasury needs to shift from a primary source of funds to a tool of reimbursement if what's been built has shown value to the ecosystem.

[Input Output Group @IOGroup]

New exploits are coming. Google has brought its post-quantum migration forward to 2029 – ahead of the NSA's 2031 and the US government's 2035 deadlines.⏰

The challenge for Cardano – post-quantum VRFs for Nakamoto-style leader election – is an open research problem. CV26 funds IOR to solve it:

🔬 Performance-optimized PQ VRFs
⚙️ Quantum-secure Ouroboros analysis
📜 A clear migration roadmap and CIP

Cardano is positioned to lead the migration now, not follow.
📺 Varun Maram on the post-quantum strategy: jump in from 0:53 to 4:25 if you want a summary

[Jure @JureKaramarko]

Allow me to explain two things about Charles Hoskinson, and why crypto media is the biggest garbage on the market 👇

In the last 24 hours, all the biggest #crypto media outlets and influencers have been pushing the same coordinated story. That story says: Charles Hoskinson is stepping away, $ADA is collapsing, and Charles said that many projects on Cardano will soon announce that they are shutting down.

Read that twice.

Now let’s continue.

They are all repeating this, but they do not want to mention the following two key facts.

1️⃣ In a live stream a few days ago, @IOHK_Charles said this is a difficult time in the market, and that many who failed to build business models and sustainable projects will stop operating. That is what he said.

But this is not only about #Cardano. This applies to any project, and even to the coffee shop in your town. If you have no customers, if you are not selling coffee, you close the doors, my friend. But that does not mean the whole industry is in trouble. It means you did not know how to run your coffee shop, you had no marketing, and you failed.

And that is exactly what Charles said about many projects.

It does not mean that all projects on Cardano, or on any other blockchain, will fail. It means that the projects incapable of developing a real business model will fail. That is not Cardano’s problem. That is the problem of incapable leaders who did not know how to monetize their work.

2️⃣ Second thing:

“Charles is leaving!”

Tears almost come to my eyes when I see every garbage outlet write this while intentionally hiding the fact that Charles only said he needs a little break, but from X, from the trash that lives here, from the biggest human vampires, from the worst people with broken lives and broken minds hiding behind keyboards.

That is what he said.

He needs a break from the worst among us.

He is not leaving Cardano.

He is not leaving Midnight.

He just needs a break from the garbage around us on X.

He has hundreds of employees on long-term contracts. They are working, building, developing every single day, while some people on X only spread hate, FUD, and bitterness.

And if he said he is going to take a short break, that means he is taking a break from the crap here. It does not mean he is waking up tomorrow morning, shutting down the company, and firing hundreds of people.

Let’s continue.

The biggest crypto influencers, the same ones who kissed his ass for an interview, begged him, messaged him, asked for money for sponsorships, are now reporting that Charles is leaving.

They are twisting his words, faking the truth, and distorting the narrative.

The same media outlets that today say Cardano projects are dying will not tell you that they, as media outlets, were taking 2% or 3% of a project’s max token supply just to talk about them. They would create hype, dump everything, and take the profit. And today they say Cardano projects are failing, but they will not tell you that they also had a gun in their hands, and they were shooting at those same projects.

Shame on all of you.

The biggest media outlets, the biggest scams around us, the big KOLs, the X accounts, the media houses, all of you are just common garbage, ready to beat a dead man on the floor for 100 extra clicks.

Cardano will survive.

Charles will be fine.

We will all be fine.

We will succeed.

And you will never be able to look your own children in the eyes. One day, tell them you sold yourselves for 100 extra views. 🤮

[Jason Appleton (Crypto Crow) @jasonappleton]

Bitcoin CRASHING! Crypto Manipulation FINALLY REVEALED (Watch Immediately) https://t.co/IgGBfLRW9n No video demonstrates what I've been incoherently rambling about for weeks than this one.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@Morecryptoonl

[dori @dori_coin]

If you really don't like the direction Charles and the FEs are taking or the work they're doing, come forward with your own alternative.

If you genuinely think your alternative is the solution and the right answer, try setting up your own foundation, building your own blockchain network, and growing your own ecosystem yourself.

Honestly, I don't think a single person among those indiscriminately attacking them has the courage to even try, or the capability to pull it off.

If you don't have the confidence to do it yourself, I wish you'd respect them and stay humble.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@dangambardello Yet alts continue to bleed against bitcoin. Riddle me that, Batman. Darndest thing I ever seen.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@TheOCcryptobro Yes. I'd expand on this. Life is a Psyops.

[Michaël van de Poppe @CryptoMichNL]

"AI agents will hold more crypto than humans within a decade."

Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) studied math, dropped out, built one of the only blockchains designed by peer-reviewed research. He co-founded Ethereum, walked away over how it was run, and built Cardano to do it differently.

The man who has argued with everyone in this industry now thinks the biggest user of crypto won't be people at all.

"Humans are a rounding error in the system we're building. AI agents don't sleep, don't panic-sell, and don't care about price. They transact in tokens because that's the only thing they can actually use."

We cover:
- Why AI agents (not humans) become the dominant on-chain actors, and what that does to every token model
- The infrastructure that has to exist before agents can transact safely at scale
- Why most current blockchains can't handle machine-speed transactions
- Where Cardano's research-first approach fits in a world of autonomous agents
- The identity problem: how do you tell a human from an agent on-chain, and why it matters
- Why he's bullish on the technology but blunt about the timeline
- What he thinks the rest of the industry is getting wrong about AI + crypto
- The one thing that has to happen for any of this to be real

Thanks to Charles for coming on @new_era_finance.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Why AI Agents Change Everything
06:30 - Humans as a Rounding Error
12:00 - The Infrastructure Gap
18:30 - Identity: Human vs Agent On-Chain
24:30 - Where Cardano Fits
30:00 - What The Industry Gets Wrong
34:00 - The Timeline Nobody Wants To Hear

[Collin McCune @Collin_McCune]

160 is a big number. This letter makes two clear points:

1) law enforcement and national security is a top priority for the crypto industry.
2) The reason the U.S. is the innovation capital of the world is because policymakers chose to protect developers over the last 50 years. That must continue with this new technology for America to keep its lead.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@TapTools This one hurts... one of the few permanent browser tabs that is always open on my browser. One stop shop, truly. Gonna miss this, a lot.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@Sssebi I think I am tired of all this winning Trump advertised

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@novogratz Give me control of a country's money and I care not for its' laws.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@TheOCcryptobro A single summit/convention is made up of insiders, not consumers. These are "networking" events. They are localized and quickly forgotten. Marketing is prolonged advertisement showing consumers why they need a product. Both important, but not the same.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@brian_armstrong The man at the head of one of the biggest banks in the world, which has paid out billion upon billions in fines for illicit activity and banked Epstein himself, is saying Brian is full of shiz? Now that's funny.

[Tony @BitcoinStark]

@LuxAlgo gee, shocker

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 BREAKING: CME Group launches 24/7 crypto trading today.

Starting May 29 at 4:00 p.m. CT, institutions can trade BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, XLM, AVAX, and SUI futures around the clock.