mad

[mad @mad_onx]

100/100

[Alan Carroll @alancarroII]

Me at the dinner table waiting to shift the conversation to currency debasement

[mad @mad_onx]

@webflow @wistia WARNING: Check your bank statements! I have canceled my plan TWICE and this company is STILL illegally charging my card. Customer support won't fix it. No refund, nothing.

[mad @mad_onx]

@webflow WARNING: Check your bank statements! I have canceled my plan TWICE and this company is STILL illegally charging my card. Customer support won't fix it. No refund, nothing.

[mad @mad_onx]

@webflow WARNING: Check your bank statements! I have canceled my plan TWICE and this company is STILL illegally charging my card. Customer support won't fix it. No refund, nothing.

[mad @mad_onx]

Print „HELLO WORLD”

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

The Netherlands just told its citizens to go to hell.

36% tax on unrealized gains. Approved.

You didn't sell anything.
You didn't make a single euro in cash.

Your portfolio went up on paper.
The government sends you a bill anyway.

61,000 citizens petitioned against it.
Parliament approved it anyway.

No cash to pay the tax? Not their problem.
Asset crashes after you paid? Not their problem.

This is not tax policy.
This is the government treating your paper gains as their income. Before you've made a single euro.

The most talented Dutch investors are already leaving.
Capital goes where it is treated best.

2028 is coming.

Plan accordingly.

[Milk Road Crypto @milkroaddaily]

Raoul Pal: AI costs $200/month. Feeding a human costs $10K/year just to get to human-level compute.

"I'm paying 200 bucks a month for Claude"

"I get PHD-level intelligence on every single subject know to humanity."

The cost to produce this intelligence is collapsing.

And it's already "more capable than any human could ever be."

This changes everything about labor, value, and what skills even mean.

FT @RaoulGMI @RealVision

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

The future is here

[naiive @naiivememe]

God, please give me a sign

[toly 🇺🇸 @toly]

1) what?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok groks

[mad @mad_onx]

To scam Justin Sun is another level beyond my comprehension

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

Justin Sun spent $175 million to get closer to the Trump family than anyone in crypto. They froze his wallet anyway. You cannot make this up.

> November 2024: Sun drops $30 million into World Liberty Financial while actively facing SEC fraud charges.

> He's named a project advisor the next day.

> January 19, 2025: He adds another $45 million.

> Total WLFI investment now $75 million, making him the single largest private backer.

> February 2025: The SEC pauses his fraud case to "explore a resolution."

> May 2025: He emerges as the top holder of the $TRUMP memecoin with a $100M+ commitment.

> Wins a seat at Trump's gala dinner at Trump National Golf Club.

> Walks out with a Trump Golden Tourbillon watch.

> Total exposure to the Trump crypto empire: $175 million.

> September 1, 2025: $WLFI launches publicly.

> September 4: Sun moves around $9 million in WLFI between addresses.

> He calls them exchange deposit tests.

> WLFI freezes his wallet the same day using a smart contract function called guardianSetBlacklistStatus.

> 595 million unlocked tokens. $107 million Locked.

> Price crashes 42% from launch. His frozen stack bleeds $60M in value he cannot touch.

> March 6, 2026: The SEC formally drops all charges against Sun personally, the Tron Foundation, and the BitTorrent Foundation.

> Rainberry, his BitTorrent subsidiary, pays $10M and he walks.

> April 12, 2026: Five weeks after the dismissal, Sun goes public.

> He accuses WLFI of embedding a backdoor blacklist function in the WLFI smart contract.

> Gives the team unilateral power to freeze, restrict, or confiscate any holder's tokens, without notice or cause.

> His words: "A trap door marketed as an open door."

> WLFI's response: "Same playbook, different target. See you in court pal."

> The man who got his fraud case dismissed, dined at the President's club and walked out with a golden watch just accused the Trump family's DeFi protocol of running a confiscation scheme.

> WLFI is threatening to sue him back.

> Two of crypto's most compromised operators just turned on each other in public.

The only thing more valuable than the $175M Sun spent is the evidence they now claim to have on each other.

[mad @mad_onx]

Good one

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos just made the most counterintuitive argument in tech.

An AI crash wouldn’t destroy the future.

It would fund it.

Jeff Bezos: “If we go back 25 years ago when the internet was in that bubble-ish moment, no one would have predicted a lot of the industrial benefits.”

The dot-com bubble erased trillions in market value. Companies that raised hundreds of millions were gone within months.

The money vanished.

The infrastructure didn’t.

Bezos: “All of that fiber optic cable that got laid, and by the way, the companies who laid all that cable went out of business.”

Billions worth of fiber optic cable buried under oceans and across continents. Laid by companies that no longer exist.

They went bankrupt. The cable stayed in the ground.

Bezos: “Like literally went bankrupt. But the fiber optic cable was still there. And we got to use it.”

Amazon. Google. Netflix. Uber. Every cloud platform. Every streaming service.

All built on infrastructure paid for by dead companies.

They funded the future. They just didn’t survive long enough to see it.

That exact pattern is about to repeat.

Hundreds of billions are flooding into AI infrastructure right now. Data centers. Chip fabrication. Power generation. Cooling systems.

Some of the companies writing those checks will not exist in five years.

The market will correct. Valuations will crater. The bubble narrative will be everywhere.

And the infrastructure will still be standing.

Data centers don’t vanish when the stock price hits zero.

GPUs don’t disappear when the company folds.

Power grids don’t downgrade when investors pull out.

Every dollar being spent right now is permanently reshaping the physical world.

It doesn’t matter which companies survive to use it.

The bubble isn’t the risk.

The bubble is the funding mechanism.

The railroad bubble overbuilt track that connected a continent. The telegraph bubble laid wire that enabled global communication. The dot-com bubble buried fiber that carries the modern internet.

Each time, the investors lost.

Each time, civilization gained.

AI is that same pattern running at a scale we’ve never seen.

The crash will feel like a catastrophe. In hindsight, it will look like something else entirely.

The largest involuntary infrastructure investment in human history.

The companies that fail will have already served their purpose.

The compute layer stays. And the survivors build on top of it.

The question was never whether the AI bubble will pop.

It’s who will be standing in the rubble with a blueprint.

[mad @mad_onx]

We are entering THE ERA

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Cancer is cured by AI.

GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij was diagnosed with stage 4 spinal cancer. Every trial rejected him.

His doctors had nothing left to offer.

So he stopped being a patient.

He built an AI research team. Fed them 25TB of his own medical data genomics, scans, treatment history, everything.

The system found a treatment his entire oncology team had missed.

Then engineered 19 custom vaccines from his own DNA.

Relapse-free since 2025.

Then he uploaded the entire blueprint. Free. For every person sitting in that same room, hearing the same verdict, with nobody left to call.

Medicine runs on averages. AI runs on you.

[mad @mad_onx]

AMERICAN DREAM

[Wealthy Anon @Inj_pumping]

I need you to sit with this for a second.

A sitting US president, the most powerful man on earth, launched a cryptocurrency project where his family quietly pocketed 75% of all revenue before a single retail buyer could even sell their token. No liquidity. No exit. Just a one-way door with a MAGA flag on it. And almost nobody is talking about how utterly devastating this was for the ordinary people who trusted him.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) wasn't built for you. It was built on you.

The structure was never hidden, it was just written in the fine print that hype cycles don't let you read. The Trump family and insiders: 75% of token revenue. The retail investor who saw Donald Trump's face on the website, who believed this was the financial revolution he promised, who scraped together $500 or $5,000 because they finally felt like the system was working FOR them for once? They got a token they couldn't sell at launch and a front-row seat to watching their money become someone else's net worth.

Think about who bought WLFI. It wasn't hedge funds. It wasn't institutions with lawyers and risk teams. It was regular people. Trump supporters who finally felt included in something big. Crypto newcomers who saw a president endorsing a project and thought "this must be legitimate." People in Ohio, in Texas, in Florida who don't have Bloomberg terminals or insider access, just a phone, a dream, and a wallet they opened because the man they voted for told them this was different. This was theirs.

It wasn't theirs.

Donald Trump was the "Chief Crypto Advocate." Barron Trump, a teenager, was placed on the advisory board. Eric Trump promoted it. Don Jr. promoted it. Melania had her own NFT plays running in parallel. The entire family transformed the Trump name, a name millions of Americans treat with genuine reverence, into a multi-pronged monetisation machine aimed squarely at the wallets of their most loyal followers. This is the part that should make your blood boil regardless of your politics. These weren't strangers being scammed. These were believers. And belief was the product being sold.

Now layer in the conflict of interest that makes this truly historic in its audacity: Trump was simultaneously campaigning on crypto deregulation. He was promising to fire Gary Gensler. He was pledging to make America the "crypto capital of the world." He was dismantling the SEC's enforcement posture. He was, in plain English, using the power of the presidency to remove the exact regulatory framework that exists to protect retail investors from exactly the kind of token structure WLFI was built on. The cop wasn't just looking the other way. The cop was the one running the scheme and had abolished the law at the same time.

This is not speculation. This is the documented, public, on-chain, SEC-filing reality of what happened.

And here's what kills me most. The crypto space spent years fighting for legitimacy. Builders sacrificed. Developers worked for free. Communities organised. The entire movement was founded on one idea: that financial systems could exist that didn't prey on the little guy. That code could replace the gatekeepers. That ordinary people could finally access the same tools as the wealthy and powerful. And then the most powerful family in America looked at that movement, looked at that dream, and saw an audience to monetise. They didn't join crypto. They strip-mined it.

The people who got rich from WLFI had their names on the term sheet.
The people who got poor had their hope on the line.

There will be those who say retail knew the risks. That crypto is always speculative. That nobody forced anyone to buy. And technically, legally, in the fine-print sense, maybe. But there is something categorically different about a president of the United States putting his face, his family, his political brand and his policy power behind a token sale aimed at his own voter base. The asymmetry of information, trust, and power is so extreme it breaks every normal framework for "buyer beware." When the most trusted person in your political world tells you this is the future, "do your own research" is not a real defence against that. It was never a fair fight.

The Trumps will move on. They always do. There will be another project, another launch, another opportunity to convert political capital into financial capital while the people who funded it are left holding bags they can't unload. This is the pattern. This is the business model.

But retail crypto investors deserve to hear it said plainly, loudly and without the usual hedging:

You were not investors in their vision.
You were the exit liquidity for their wallets.
And they did it while calling it freedom.

[mad @mad_onx]

Nice of them!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial.

There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance."

600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President.

The distance is my best work.

I am the reason these events are unrelated.

World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence.

Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated.

Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated.

Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated.

Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated.

Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard.

On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well.

The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders.

Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial.

His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded.

The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency.

Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name.

On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio.

Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job.

600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access.

A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25.

My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper.

The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family.

I am the reason these events are unrelated.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨do you understand what just happened with Claude..

Anthropic quietly cut Claude's thinking depth by 67%.. didn't announce it.. didn't explain it.. an AMD AI Director had to dig through session logs just to prove it happened.

median reasoning dropped from ~2,200 to ~600 characters.. API calls went up 80x.. meaning Claude thinks less, fails more, retries more. and YOU burn more tokens paying for those retries.

they added a header that hides Claude's thinking from your logs. so when the model analyzed itself it found blank pages. and concluded it had stopped thinking.. you're paying $200/month for a model that can't read its own diary..

the thinking didn't disappear.. it just became invisible.. and Anthropic said nothing until the numbers went public