I put my entire life into Cardano. My time, my expertise, my savings. I’ve literally gone all in, and for over 5 years now.
No salary for 3 years, along with my co founder, and every payroll was paid on time. This isn’t meant as a guilt trip just context towards my reality.
I forced my cofounders to envelope the ‘entrepreneur mindset’ and make sacrifices to make our vision of Anvil work.
I thought we were in good company in Cardano. A bunch of scrappy, smart people who are building the future financial rails of the world. Unfortunately, not everyone was living like starving entrepreneurs and looted our community/treasury while keeping cushy salaries. Now the price is in the teens…and we can’t even get contracts on Cardano to sustain our business, with no indication that change is coming, all community business proposals are not passing atm.
I gave up my 30s for this. I had a great career trajectory making solid money. I don’t regret the decision I just wish it went different. Believe it or not, we didn’t make many stupid decisions, we were responsible with salaries, and ran very lean operations. Did we fail? Or did Cardano fail to flourish and create real opportunity?
I bought Ada, I believed in the token. I dropped my 401k on it. Held it religiously for 5 years, all to sell at .16 so I don’t lose my house? It’s insane lol was I supposed to sell on everyone’s heads? I thought being a believer was the whole point now I just feel like a sheep. I don’t even have the 100k Ada required anymore to go straight to the treasury. The only thing I can think of that hurt worse were my kidney stones. This is the most defeated I have felt in a long time.
And now I’m watching 8 months of hard work and relationship building get thrown away. Can’t get a hold of half the DReps otherwise you come off as annoying. Didn’t do a Japan tour? Good luck!
I had to waste 6 days explaining to one of our top DReps why the product needs Cardano. He basically said we didn’t need to use blockchain or cardano. Instead of explaining the value we create I gotta convince our top DReps why a project chose to build on Cardano? 🤯
Im not perfect but I damn sure tried to be! Answered everyone promptly, reached out to DReps, and did our best to listen/apply feedback. I show up everyday.
Can someone explain to me why I should keep trying to build here? I’ve legit lost everything but my wife who isn’t getting any happier with me.
Today is the first day I work towards getting my life back. IDK exactly what that means but I’m done feeling like this for nothing.
The great purge release. A monster load of issues we could not see are finally in after the culling of slop and noise. Enjoy your new freshly minted lobster.
Do you understand how cool this is?
On my desk is a DGX Spark running a Hermes agent powered by Qwen 3.6
It runs 24/7/365 doing tasks for me. Doesn't matter if the internet goes out. I have super intelligence running for me at all times
Next step I want to get a Tesla solar roof so I'm dependent on NOBODY to run my intelligence.
Even if they cut off my power I'll keep going.
This is the future. Sovereign intelligence.
The AI doomers are the most ill informed, dangerous, anti-American people out there right now
AI is quite literally the most important technology in the history of our species
It is the only technology ever that completely democratizes success
There is no more barriers anymore. Not more gates stopping anyone from creating the product or business they always wanted to build
As long as you have internet you can sign up for a free ChatGPT account and use Codex to build a value generating business
This has never happened before. The poor kid living in the Boston suburb who could never afford a proper education or build strong connections now has infinite knowledge and ability to code and build at his finger tips
In the next several years this will lead to a job explosion like we've never seen before. When anyone in the world can build businesses, generate revenue, and hire, we'll have more job creators than ever
The issue is, there are an incredible amount of destructive forces in the world trying to stop this abundant reality from happening
They're trying to convince you AI is bad. That we should slow it down. That it shouldn't be built. That it will destroy the world and eliminate all jobs and kill us all
These people deep down want to see the destruction of America. They want to destroy others so they themselves can gain power
They view the world as zero sum rather than positive sum. They must destroy and keep others down so they themselves can dominate
These people are the true danger. They're the ones trying to stop abundance. We can not let them succeed
AI is going to make the world a beautiful, incredible, rich, abundant place. If you do not see this yet I encourage you to cut out the demons telling you otherwise. I encourage you to go hands on with the tools
I encourage you to open your minds and see the beauty of what's coming
Introducing GPT-5.5
A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done.
Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.
Drop what you're doing. It happened.
ChatGPT 5.5 is out and it beats Opus 4.7 in almost every benchmark
It even beat Mythos in some benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 2.0
This is what you need to do immediately if you want to escape the permanent underclass:
• Download the Codex desktop app and start using this model. Codex now has computer use so it can act as an agent
• Upgrade your OpenClaw to ChatGPT 5.5. A lot of the team has been saying they have been building this model for OpenClaw (I will verify this soon)
• Everything you do on your computer for the next 24 hours, describe it to ChatGPT 5.5 and ask how it can do the task better
• It's by far best in class for knowledge work tasks. Every document, spreadsheet, presentation you create should go through 5.5
• Take a moment and be grateful you are alive during the greatest tech explosion in history
When new tech drops, you have to take advantage of it. That's the only way to win
Put your phone on Do Not Disturb and get to it