Do you understand the slippery slope of giving a government access to economically and digitally assassinate anyone if they don’t fall in line with what the government deems to be correct?
A very simple example is corruption - if there is a corrupt government and someone wants to expose them and the government finds out about it, the whistleblowers whole life will be assassinated without harming them physically. You will be cut off financially, socially and be unable to navigate in society when everything (starting with social media) is tied to a digital ID.
Digital ID is just a layer in an onion
Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess water.
Your government is also considering banning solid food, as it presents a needless choking hazard.
You are not an adult.
You are a baby.
Eat the baby food.
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@Asquith_is_back@ArcherKaeru Work very hard, get taxed all of it, look around and see handouts given to promote unproductivity and you don’t see a problem?
BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.
Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.
The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.
That means:
• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed
All directly on your phone.
Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.
Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.
In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.
Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.
Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.
USDT and other transfers across regions like Asia etc, it’s extremely large and popular.
Anecdotal but I remember going for dinner 2 years ago with some mates and one of a friends friend was from Beijing, offered to send me funds in USDT on Tron as an offer to split the bill 🤯
he was non crypto native, simply used it as “everyone else had it”.
In the agentic economy, once agents start moving value, I believe the most interesting question is: which infra the agents run on?
Rails decide everything here & I think it will condense to a core set of requirments:
- *Throughput* is the obvious one. An agent paying per API call, per query, per cycle of compute generates millions of micropayments an hour, which turns cost into a hard physical constraint. Sub cent payment means nothing if the fee to settle it is larger, so the real bar is enormous scale & a cost floor near zero at the same time.
- *Unified liquidity*, b/c no agent focused on optimizing the task at hand, is going to compound the problem he is dealing with by reasoning about which of 35 chains an asset lives on or holding a separate gas token for each, when an easy alternative exists. Fragmentation just produces failed or worse execution.
So what an agent will seek is a single liquidity surface it can express an intent against & have the routing handled beneath it, rather than a convoluted map of bridges it has to navigate itself.
- *Privacy* is crucial & perhaps still underrated. Consider that a public ledger broadcasts an agent's entire strategy to every competitor & mempool bot in real time.. He's asking to get front run & exploited.
So I'm thinking that in the agentic economy privacy becomes alpha preservation & is no longer just "ideological" or a "nice to have".
Also, if the agentic economy really takes off, privacy is a precondition for any enterprise/corporate issued agent, especially if they have to handle regulated data.
- *Identity*. Existing rails assume a human performing every txn, but an agent has no traditional ID, nothing a counterparty can verify. So the infrastructure itself will have to issue identity. Ideally some form of delegated authority with bounded & revocable spend & execution you can cryptographically prove that ran as intended. Otherwise, giving an agent a wallet is a liability rather than a capability. So it's a crucial piece of the puzzle.
So the job, as an investor bullish on the agentic economy, is now identifying the chain that best satisfies all these requirements:
T.U.L.I.P.
Throughput, Unified Liquidity, Identity, & Privacy
(might have picked a better acronym, but at least it's memorable)
Stout. Ale. Fuck IPAs only pussies drink IPAs. Start telling the liberal girl with a small pooch belly but nice C cups all immigrants must leave. She says you’re not White you can’t be racist and then you proceed to dump 2 decades of generational trauma on her until her Asian (mongoloid not fucking brown) bestie shows up and you criticise her for her shitty accent even though she grew up in the YooKay. Bunch of manlet Spanish dudes show up and you tell them to fuck off while pounding a shot of Jameson with your bud. Next pub. Stop for a cheeky pastel de nata off soho along the way. Tell the Dutch guy peering into the handjob massage parlours at Chinatown he needs to negotiate the price down or he’s fucked. Cheeky taco between pubs at a spot in the alleyway. Start telling the workers there they’re going home since the place is all cash and no one’s paying taxes. They say you’re going home to China you tell them no I’m Singaporean there’s a difference maricon. Leave with the hot (but also chubby) cashier screaming insults at you. Next pub. Find a booth. More ales. Pork scratchings. More ales. Back to Chinatown. Late night fried rice. Chicken chow mein. Tell the handjob lady standing outside by a red door she’s getting fat in mandarin but she starts yelling back in Cantonese. Bunch of British birds appear from a hen party. Tell the soon to be bride if he loved you you would be pregnant by now but turns out she’s a traveler and already has 2 kids. One of her friends tried to knick your wallet too. Stumble singing oasis with your mate into a late night chippy and check the brown worker’s immigration status. He has ILR? Preach the gospel of Restore Britain and tell him he’s not going to be deported (yet). Some mid 3/10 Chinese international student walks in with a pasty bloke from Southampton. Tell her in mandarin if he loved her he wouldn’t split the bills. She never looks at him the same afterward. Blackpill the bloke on how hard it is for mixed kids to have organ donors and increased mental illness statistics. He downloads tinder while she’s collecting a small haddock and chips. Piss in a back alley while your mate tries to streammog you. Congolese man tries to mug you. Fight Congolese man off. 1am. Pubs are closing. Find an off license. Scream fuck you cunt at the bicycle cart dudes that blast Bollywood music bc he nearly runs you over. Cheeky bottle on the tube. Cop takes your first bottle on the platform so you board the train and whip out the next. Pass out. Miss your stop and wake up in Brixton. Smells like Africa. Bosh. Millions must go.