You will spend 90,000 hours of your life working. The government will take 45,000 of those hours in taxes. Inflation will quietly steal most of what’s left.
Hey look another coin that was down 98% from the highs after 6 years of drawdown that was "dead"...until it wasn't.
$ZEC will make new all time highs soon after over 6 years of bleeding and many more alts (with sound fundamentals) will follow.
You can even see that with ZEC we actually made a "lower low" with the third test of the range lows and despite this we are now nearly back at range highs, up 3,257% off of those lows.
This is why I have repeated that while .18 is a significant level on the $CRV chart- IT DOES NOT matter for spot holders if it is breached- it just invalidates the "triple tap" technical setup- not the investment thesis as a whole.
With that said, I still think there is a decent chance .18 will not be breached and that the bottom is already in. We will know soon enough and either way range highs are on the horizon imo.
Forex has officially arrived on @0xPolygon via @CurveFinance FX pools.
"Users can now swap between global currencies on-chain at a lower all-in cost than traditional cross-border rails..."
Live pairs include the Brazilian real, the Korean won, the Indonesian rupiah, the British pound, the Australian dollar and the US dollar.
Forex markets are the world's largest financial markets with a daily turnover of nearly 10 TRILLION dollars, and now those markets are officially coming on-chain via @CurveFinance pools.
Curve it baby.
$CRV
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
VIDEO EXPLAINER: The most important map of the Third Gulf War — the oilfields, the Strait of Hormuz, and the bypass pipelines.
Plus a look at how, two weeks into the war, Iran is still exporting lots of its oil, and most of it, via the strait.
@opinion
This story is actually insane:
• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully
• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again
• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries
• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security
Yes.
And this is not a new idea but one that I have been consistent on for a long time.
The clip below is from one of my Youtube videos that was shared on my Youtube channel 9 months ago- back when Bitcoin was trading just under 100k and many were saying that the "cycle top was in".
In this sub 2 minute clip I break down my expectations if the top WAS in (I also said I didn't believe this to be the case) and shared why even if our top was in I would still expect our massive alt season.
Of course, our top was in fact NOT in, and we went on to make a fresh impulse off the 74k level. That being said, the same logic I applied at that time can be applied to today's situation if we were to assume once again that the top is already in (and again, I don't believe it is).
Bottom line- whether the top is in or not- it doesn't change the fact that the best is yet to come for alts as I have repeated for years now that the biggest alt season will come post $BTC top, whether that is NOW or after $BTC climbs higher, somewhere above 150k+ (which is my expectation as long as 74k is not breached).
Transparent ZEC = Bitcoin
Shielded ZEC = encrypted Bitcoin
"Today, all other centralized exchanges have chosen to only support withdrawals to transparent addresses. This has fueled confusion and misinformed criticism of Zcash’s privacy architecture. Here's the reality: in the current crypto ecosystem, Zcash’s dual-address system is a feature, not a bug.
- Transparent ZEC shares its codebase with Bitcoin, which makes it easy for exchanges to support with minimal effort using existing infrastructure.
- Supporting shielded ZEC, on the other hand, requires deeper technical understanding and additional development work—something teams with a true commitment to privacy are willing to take on.
- Transparent ZEC is not the final destination. It's meant to be used as a bridge to shielded ZEC. It’s a mere adapter that makes Zcash easy for other platforms and teams to support, enabling broader adoption.
- Users can move from transparent ZEC to shielded ZEC at any time, with just a tap in wallets like Zashi.
Some have misunderstood this design, claiming that because transparent ZEC exists, Zcash isn’t “really private.” But they miss the point: best-in-class, mathematically provable privacy is available on demand. Just choose to use it.
Until exchanges follow Gemini's example and catch up, transparent ZEC remains a necessary and temporary on-ramp, one that expands access to this world-class privacy tool."
Hello Everyone, Comet LEMMON is going out with a bang The tail was as bright as ever last night. Captured with my Celestron RASA telescope, ZWO ASI533MC color camera, and an Antlia L-Filter.
🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:
Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.
France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages. The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.
Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.
Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.
Bitcoiners like to talk about persistence, proof of work and low-time preference
Zcash has been building for 12 years: first as a soft fork to improve Bitcoin’s privacy, then as an altcoin in 2016
The devs stuck around all this time making the protocol more scalable: they started from the state of the art privacy, then refined it to remove the trusted setup and make the protocol work on mobile phones
The devs are all OG bitcoiners who, instead of virtue signaling about HODLing and never spending a single sat, built the tech stack that can fix many of Bitcoin’s problems. You can find the Zcashers on the Bitcoin dot org page in 2009, in Blockstream’s 2015 sidechains paper, and in lots of old Bitcoin Talk threads
Today, Zcash exceeds all initial expectations and it’s only gonna get better with Tachyon (scaling to billions of users), shielded assets, and more!
If anything, every bitcoiner should love Zcash and buy at least 1 ZEC to support the effort of the team. After all, this is still the Zerocoin protocol that Bitcoin can add as a soft fork any time privacy gets taken more seriously.
Going back to persistence, proof of work and low-time preference: don’t you think these guys could have made more money if they gave up on Zcash and invented a new altcoin for every iteration which improved upon the limitations of the old protocol? They’re already at version 2 or 3, about to enter a new era once again.
Heck, if they just held their bitcoins instead of building anything they could have been much richer.
But Zcash is playing the long game – and the beautiful part is that today, 9 years after the mainnet launch, it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Low time preference and persistence aren’t only about HODLing through a beat market only to get richer 4 years later. They’re not about creating silly narratives about utopian lifestyles.
No siree, low time preference and persistence are about showing up even when you’re getting your ass kicked by the market and you become the laughing stock of the industry for discovering an inflation bug.
They’re about shipping better code even when the incentives don’t align and you could make more money working on another project.
They’re about following a vision for nearly a decade and never settling for something mediocre.
Zcash delivered the moon math – and now deserves to board the spaceship to the moon!
I recommend to all my friends to skip a bitcoin DCA and buy at least 1 ZEC. Not only for the USD gains, not just for your personal education about this tech,but to show support to Bitcoin’s unspoken heroes who have been building the ark that will one day save the Bitcoin network from censorship and surveillance.
To those about to ZEC, I salute you 🫡
Shielded Zcash hit over 4M shielded ZEC for the first time ever!
Nearly 25% of all ZEC are now protected by the shielded pools. And we are very close to reaching $1B in total shielded USD value.
Huge milestones across the board! Keep pumping this number up, zodlers!