Nathan Guenther

I.T. Consultant, Google Cloud.
Business Solutions, Automation, Cloud Architecture Design and Administration.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

I already pay for X Premium+, and had to subscribe to Cursor Pro only to unlock on-demand pricing for Grok Bot. Why can’t I just buy more usage?

My cursor Models usage sit at 0%.

Please sell a simple Grok Bot top-up / separate spend cap.

Don’t make people upgrade Pro+ or Ultra to buy tokens for one product. It's also not even clear if those higher Cursor tiers include more Grok Bot specific usage.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@Rocket_Pool @grok is there an explainaton or more details on the “close minipools using flashbota bundles”? It’s not clear why that is high priority, or what the incentives are to use this new option.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@gajesh I've been waiting for something like this. Count me in. Love to know more

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@bryan_johnson Mark Plotkin - Ethnobotanist

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The first thing @balajis said to me when we met was that we both reject what society passively accepts: inflation and aging. The slow death of currency and life.

Inflation is the slow death of money through the loss of purchasing power. Aging is the slow death of biology through the loss of functional power.

Current culture treats the body as a consumable. A depreciating asset to be used up. Don't Die treats the body as capital. An appreciating asset for compounding gains.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.

Some of what this practically means:

Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.

Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.

ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world.

Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google.

Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.

Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem.

Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.

In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders.

In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer.

It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one.

In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord.
There is no single point of failure.
There is only love.
Milady.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

https://t.co/Lb6T42n5jl

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@owocki Really temped to order one, but when printed will the image quality be better? The text is very hard to read, and the image is quite grainy.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@OktaSupport @okta I've reached out, still waiting for a reply. We've been locked out for over 24 hours now, still have yet to get a hold of anyone from support.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@OktaSupport @okta My client is locked out of their tenant, and has no access to the support portal.

We have no ability to contact support, email support was deprecated, & phone support only allows entry via a Support Account ID (which requires us logging into the portal to know). Tried the sales line yesterday they tried to help but couldn't, and today no one is answered.

What other options do we have? Please help (dm me for specifics).

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@sassal0x I think most of your followers agree with your take, but the repetitive spam is unnecessary at this point. Quality > quantity

[Vivek Raman @VivekVentures]

Etherealize's core thesis - decentralization means:

- A network, just like the Internet, that is owned by none, and accessible by all
- For Ethereum, trust without a single point of failure
- Institutional resilience, maximum security, and minimized counterparty risk

(1/3)

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@wk057 @BitcoinKnots @HijackingBTC Filed https://t.co/yb5NcP3JyL for this. I may take a stab at implementing if I get time.

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@wk057 It's crazy there isn't a single well-maintained docker image for bitcoin knots (all popular ones 2+ years with no updates). Would make migration much simpler and stable for folks, rather than having to build and maintain a custom image. @BitcoinKnots @HijackingBTC

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@ethereumfndn Consider liquid staking with Rocketpool, the most decentralized staking option on ETH next to solo staking.

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

Oct 31, 1517: Martin Luther nails 95 theses to a church door in Germany, sparking the Protestant Reformation

Oct 31, 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto posts the Bitcoin white paper to the Cryptography Mailing List, sparking the separation of money and state

Hadn’t realized that before 🤯

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

Even though I'm posting this to get a 35% off coupon, I cant avoid saying it's freaking cool: https://t.co/IinZOzJZBv

[Taiki Maeda @TaikiMaeda2]

At the @SohnConf, @nshalek of @RibbitCapital made an investment pitch for $ETH in front of institutional investors.

He discussed tokenization, DeFi, stablecoins, upcoming ETF, and ETH's potential for an emergent store of value.

Here's the must watch 7 minute clip:

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@nerfsqueezer - Open Safari
- Paste the text into the URL field and press enter
- Allow Fantastical to open
- Confirm the alert that appears

[Nathan Guenther @nathang_21]

@nerfsqueezer Update: Support shared an undocumented option which fixed it for me.

- Copy the following line:

x-fantastical3://defaults?key=PassAddressesByNameToGoogleMaps&value=1&type=bool