Börkur Jónsson

Building Icelandic stablecoin ISKT.

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@bryan_johnson Keep being yourself. Your doing great.

[Daði Kristjánsson @dadikr]

Bruðlað með fé almennings.

Carbfix er loftslags gæluverkefni sem á ekkert skylt við kjarnahlutverk Orkuveitunnar: að útvega okkur orku og vatn á hagkvæmu verði. Það þurfti meira að segja að breyta lögunum árið 2023 til að troða þessu inn í hlutverk OR, sem er skandall að Alþingi hafi samþykkt.

Rekstrartekjur hröpuðu úr um 1,5 milljörðum í 370 milljónir á einu ári. Reksturinn stendur ekki lengur undir eigin launakostnaði. Eigið fé neikvætt um rúma tvo milljarða og félagið skuldar OR 6,5 milljarða.

En laun stjórnenda hækka um 21%.

Áhættan af gæluverkefnum stjórnenda á ekki að lenda á heimilunum í hærra orkuverði.

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🔥CHARLES HOSKINSON: MORE CARDANO PROJECTS ARE ABOUT TO DIE

Reacting to TapTools shutting down, Hoskinson warned that more Cardano DeFi projects could DIE in the second half of 2026.

“I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT MY ROLE IS TO RESOLVE THIS." 💀

[willo2 @willo2_Poly]

I was just scammed for $500K by Polymarket.

I am "willo2", the top holder of YES on "MicroStrategy sells Bitcoin by May 31st".

Here's what happened:

[A.I.Warper @AIWarper]

Test this on anyone outside this AI bubble.

Guarantee you they assume it's real.

But please, I'd love to hear why you disagree 😊

[Velocity @VelocityDEX]

Introducing Drift Guild

A new permissionless program for Drift supporters to contribute, earn DRIFT rewards, and work their way into Drift’s inner circle.

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@Bulletxyz Still waiting for tat code

[Pankaj Kumar @pankajkumar_dev]

Claude Sonnet 5 "Fennec" & Opus 4.6 Leaks

- Launch Crash: 4 separate outages on Feb 3rd confirm a failed deployment and forced rollback of the new models.
- Double Drop: Vertex AI logs reveal two hidden models permission-gated in the backend: claude-sonnet-5 and claude-opus-4-6.
- Leaderboard King: Leaked benchmarks show Sonnet 5 hitting a massive 83.3% on SWE-bench Verified, destroying the current meta.
- Fennec Agents: New "Claude Code" features spawn autonomous sub-agents (QA, Backend) that act as a full dev team in your terminal.
- Pricing Shock: Rumored to be 50% cheaper than Opus 4.5 while running significantly faster on Google TPUs.
- Countdown: v0 teased an announcement within "3-4 hours," signaling the fix is in and launch is imminent.

(Unverified leaks; treat timelines and benchmarks with caution.)

[Solana @solana]

Our top 5 stories from Day 1.

All 40 hours are now on a YouTube playlist:

📺 https://t.co/hYC1TbrnMx

See you tomorrow 🫡

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@karlmehta @bryan_johnson do you concur?

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

If you went all out yesterday and feel like shit today, I invite you to go on a walk with me right now.

See if you can break away from whatever you're doing, or if you can't, save this and read it later when you can be out walking.

Evidence shows that walking and talking improves:
+ creativity
+ the ability to form new connections
+ emotional regulation
+ problem solving

My goal in our conversation is to connect with you at a deeper level than an ephemeral social post would normally allow.

Thus, why I'm asking you to change your physical setting and actually go on a walk with me.

Seriously....let's go for an actual walk.

Yesterday I posted that an average American Thanksgiving meal is equivalent to 7 cigarettes of metabolic harm. A lot of people got pretty upset with me. I was trying to point out that our culture is insane.

The indulgence that underwrites Thanksgiving is basically a shared death ritual. But we dress it up and pretend otherwise, choosing to ignore the science that the indulgence creates real biological harm. Not just for ourselves but for our kids, parents and friends. And it's not just one day. We all know this.

Yes, we gather as friends and family, relax from the stresses of work, and feel some reprieve from the difficulties of life. These moments are among the best the life has to offer. Laughter, friendship, gratitude and love. Yes to all of this.

The issue is that somehow the virtues of Thanksgiving (family, gratitude, love) got hijacked by indulgence.

First, I think we can agree, being in poor health sucks. Being overweight sucks. Being tired sucks. Looking like shit sucks.

Conversely, being jacked feels amazing. Feeling energetic is euphoric. Having a spring in your step and glow about you is incredible. The confidence that comes with great health is peak human experience.

But...that doesn't stop people from feeling the compulsion to overindulge and then needing to create a self justification for doing it.

So they create moral frameworks to justify indulgence. To make it a virtue. They'll call the indulgence "moderation" or say "it's only one day". They'll say it's necessary for bonding. They'll attack health as extreme and weird.

They'll try to claim moral superiority that they're living life by killing themselves and those who don't do the same aren't living life.

They'll equate indulgence with emotion, love, and connection and frame health as sterile, cold, anti-human. Joy does not require indulgence and health does not eliminate joy.

They're on the battlefield of moral frameworks trying to justify their behavior. It's really just cope. Nobody wants to be sick and look like shit.

We saw this with body positivity. When people couldn't lose weight, they made a whole moral philosophy about obesity being a virtue. The moment GLP-1s came out, those same people dropped the weight and body positivity. Turns out, people really want to look and feel great.

People protect themselves from feeling bad with moral frameworks.

You don't need to do what I do for health. You can find your right balance but let's be real and reconcile that harming ourselves is generally not a good idea.

Ok, so if we have some common ground here and you want to improve your health and avoid self destructive behavior, I'd like to share what worked for me when I had to dig myself out of a hell hole of addiction.

I was 50lbs overweight. Binge ate every day at 7 pm. Inflamed. Depressed. Miserable.

I tried everything to stop the self destructive behavior but was ultimately powerless.

So for a decade, I was locked in a brutal civil war. There were two of me.

Morning Bryan was great. He woke up at 5 am, meditated, exercised, and planned a perfect day of productivity and health. He was optimistic, disciplined, and ambitious. He set the trajectory for success.

Then, there was Evening Bryan.

Evening Bryan usually showed up around 7:00 pm. Exhausted from decision fatigue, battered by the stress of building a company, and emotionally depleted. He didn't care about health. He didn't care about tomorrow. He cared about one thing: relief.

And he knew exactly where to find it. The pantry.

Evening Bryan would hijack the controls. He’d eat the brownies. He’d order the pizza. He’d binge on the chips. He would undo everything Morning Bryan had built, crashing the plane into the side of the mountain every single night.

Morning Bryan would wake up the next day in the wreckage, feeling bloated, groggy, and filled with shame, promising that today would be different. But it never was. Because Evening Bryan was always waiting at the end of the day to sabotage him.

I tried willpower. I tried trying harder. It failed every time.

Then, I realized: this wasn't a character flaw. It was a governance and system failure.

I treated my mind like a company. I looked at the data. Evening Bryan was psychologically compromised. He was operating under high cortisol and low executive function. He was literally unfit to make decisions regarding nutrition.

So, I convened an internal board meeting. I sat Evening Bryan down.

I said, "Look, we appreciate your service. We know you’re suffering. We know you want to soothe the pain. But looking at the data, your decision making is threatening the viability of this entity. You are a bad actor in the system."

So, I fired him.

I formally revoked Evening Bryan’s authority to handle food.

I established a new rule: under no circumstance, ever, is Evening Bryan authorized to eat between 5 pm and 10pm. No exceptions, ever.

It sounds crazy, but it was the most liberating moment of my life. I learned of the most valuable lessons of my life: in some circumstances, none is better than some.

People will say that's extreme and I will point out, most humans can't do moderation. "Some" usually ends up in all.

That's especially true when everything around is engineered for addiction. So, it's easier to not play with fire. Just remove the bad thing from your life entirely.

Now, when 5 pm rolls around and the stress hits, and Evening Bryan is out and about with all of his persuasive arguments that we've worked hard, we deserve it, it will calm us down, we just need a break, today is the last day, tomorrow we'll work out really hard....

He can't do it. His credentials have been revoked.

That ended my internal war. Yes, I still fell prey to Evening Bryan a few dozen times after that. But soon, after a few reps, I build the muscle to stop him.

The thing I now know as true: it is never, ever, ever worth it. It's just not worth it to self indulge. I never feel proud of myself. I never feel more life.

So this is my suggestion to you: identify your Evening Bryan. The version of you that pushes that self destructive habit that makes your life miserable. You know who that is within you.

Then make a rule that stops their self destructive behavior. No exceptions.

Write down all of the arguments they make to persuade you to do the thing you don't really want to do. So when they show up with that argument, you can see it for what it is. Have your counter arguments ready.

You'll need to get a few reps in but your experience may mirror mine. Once you get over the hump, you never want to go back.

Internal work is the hardest work. It also is the primary generator of misery or joy in our existence. It's worth the effort.

Wishing you all the best.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Whatever is keeping you up is not worth it

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@bryan_johnson lets go!

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@bryan_johnson Bryan could you please add shipping to Iceland.

[mert @mert]

turning 30 today (yes, I went bald at 25)

a few personal learnings about my 20s that might help others who are not uncs yet:

1) understand that age is a bad proxy for knowledge

especially in Eastern cultures, you are treated as being more knowledgeable and more respectable the older you are

while you should be respectful towards others, understand that the vast majority of "adults" have no idea what they're talking about

they are just as dumb as you, but have the added arrogance of age

the arrogance is portrayed as confidence, which makes you trust that they're correct, but this is not the case

2) take way more risks

everyone tells you to do this when you're young and while you don't have familial responsibilities, yet most people still don't do it

a good reframe here is to think not of what can go wrong, but of what can go right

3) default to action, you have tons of years and energy to error correct

almost no mistake is catastrophic enough to ruin your life, that doesn't result in jail or ill health

4) where you live matters more than you think

you are in a trade with your government. they take a large percent of what you make and give you things in exchange like safety, transport, etc

make sure you are getting a good trade. if you're paying 60% in taxes and getting the worst medical care on earth (canada), get out

5) get good at communicating, no matter what your job or career is

to write, speak, and listen are human skills and they amplify the ceiling of roughly any single job or career you will get

6) if you're unsure where you're going, start with the end in mind and work backwards, and then course correct

7) start or join a startup

8) read the beginning of infinity by david deutsch and skin in the game by taleb

9) create more than you consume

your life's goal should be to go to the grave empty, you should have nothing more you could have added to civilization

10) in the age of fake internet personas, be relentlessly authentic and like minded people will find you

11) in a similar light, always reassess your current situation and determine whether you're in it because you yourself reasoned up from your own independent thinking or because you're blindly following social norms

12) understand that all advice and lists like this one are deeply path dependent and personal and the most important thing is to always think for yourself

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@mert quit coffee around 6 months ago aswell. Got alot better sleep. Did you cheat and get your caffeine some other way?

[Velocity @VelocityDEX]

In the past 24 hours, crypto markets experienced one of the largest flushes in recent history. This was a true stress test for risk systems across the ecosystem, including Drift.

Amid this extreme volatility, Drift processed over $76 Million in liquidations across both perpetual and spot markets, incurring just $18K (~0.02%) in socialised losses and maintaining zero downtime throughout.

Drift’s risk engine ensured orderly markets and user protection through prudent liquidation parameters, a robust Insurance Fund, and multiple loss-mitigation mechanisms.

Insurance Fund (IF) depositors earned $600K from the liquidation activity. The IF continues to reinforce protocol stability while providing sustainable yield opportunities for participants underwriting protocol risk.

[lil perp @crispheaney]

$600m OI 📈

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@marcryptonio @Helius it's insane

[Börkur Jónsson @borkurj]

@solanamobile Still don’t have my seeker