Arie Jones

Master of the Le'sigh Side
@TelcoinTAO - Platform Council
Owner\Vice President at Indy Data Partners, Inc.
Owner - OpRail

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Sigh….

[Saritha Komatireddy @sarithaforny]

Your move, New York.

Get out there and vote and let’s put crime and corruption in check.

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

Two billion dollars in losses from insurance fraud scheme here in Los Angeles. Two billion!
https://t.co/1MZUJCW7Zu

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

lol

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

Brazil has aircraft carriers, advanced radar, and 4.5 generation aircraft.

If Delta Force DARED to step into the jungle, they’d be torn to shreds.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

All I see is a bunch of dudes that are going to wind up in the dirt.

[Selous Scout @scout84436]

How the fuck does a random Haitian have a Colt Monitor.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

So some successful engineering going on at Oprail this week.

Snapshot recovery process for Telcoin nodes ..recovery to current block <10 minutes.

Working on moving the infra around so we have proper separation of environments ...

Automation incoming..

[Paul Yeager 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @mtntallpaul]

So it turns out that Ukraine's issues with Starlink were caused by Ukraine.

Starlink terminals disconnected at speeds above 160 KPH, as determined by the Starlink terminals internal GPS.

To get around this, Ukraine hacked the Starlink terminals to think they were stationary regardless of speed.

SpaceX figured this out, and updated the system software to detect excessive speed by seeing how rapidly the terminal switched from on satellite to another. This broke Ukraine's hack, and Starlink would no longer work at high speeds.

Ukraine was using Starlink in a way that violated the terms of service.

Starlink figured it out and stopped it.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Who the hell are these people that think these Haitian gangs are some type of elite force

[🌎Timothy Guzman☮️ @TimothyGuz89022]

Bukele is a Complete Idiot, he authorized El Salvadorian troops to basically invade Haiti. I got news for Bukele, Haitian Gangs are well armed and dangerous, a blood bath of El Salvadorians coming home in body bags instead of trying to negotiate the release of their soldiers.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

lol…Haitian gang members ….suicide mission…lol…good one

[one1 @Lovecangive1]

It will be the worst decision ever made in history because it will be a suicide mission. Anybody who says otherwise doesn’t know how funded and armed they are and the 2-3 million gang members basically fighting a 2-million-man military.

[Railway @Railway]

An urgent notice from the Railway team

https://t.co/niUAhTAQJM

[Telcoin Association @TelcoinTAO]

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to last week's X Space with David Palmer (@Metaversebizz) and Parker Spann (@P4Cap).

One question from David stayed with us: when did you last make a normal phone call, or send an SMS? Most of that traffic now runs through apps built on top of the network, and so does most of the value.

For mobile operators, he sees one big area left:

"So I think the last frontier of that is payments, right?"

Listen below.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

lol…amazing self own

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Oh I guess I don’t understand how things work though?

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Always the French…

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Hi @elonmusk , we’ve conducted the most comprehensive study to date on tax unfairness in the United States.

We found that you, like your fellow billionaires, pay a lower effective tax rate than the average American.

So if you really want to help the American people, I have a better suggestion than charity: pay more taxes. 🧵

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Like wth are we evening doing here?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Zohran Mamdani's father:

“America is the root of all evil in the world, and it was the inspiration for the Nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.”

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

lol….so sayeth the sim racer

[David Cramer @zeeg]

Sorry yall but putting thrusters on a car has nothing to do with “performance” or racing.

Like what are you even talking about?

Just say it’s a cool prop and move on. It’s like all of a sudden people who have never even been to a track want to talk cars.

[𝕃𝟙𝕓𝕖𝕣ⓣ𝕪 𝕃𝕒𝕕☘️ @L1bertyLad]

For anyone who missed yesterday’s discussion with Parker Spann (@p4cap) and David Palmer (@Metaversebizz), they covered David’s role as @TelcoinTAO's telecom advisor, mainnet, and how they’re approaching operator adoption.

A few things worth sharing:

• Parker said mainnet is coming later this year. No specific date was given.

• Validator onboarding is happening now. He asked operators and mobile money providers to get their technical and strategy teams involved before mainnet. Reach out to @TelcoinTAO if you are interested in getting involved or to learn more.

• Developers are already working on integrating existing applications and bringing local currencies onchain.

• Part of the plan is to move existing mobile money apps with millions of users onto Telcoin Network.

• Parker said the banking and partner API allows operators, wallets, and fintechs to offer bank accounts under their own brand. Customers could use those services through apps they already have.

• David is already helping them reach the right decision makers. Parker said those introductions are getting them into the right rooms pretty much immediately.

• The first use cases Parker expects to move quickly are remittances, mobile money, and payments between operators, using stablecoins and onchain FX.

• Parker also said they’ve identified an agentic application he’s excited about, but left the details for another time.

David kept coming back to one point: operators need to see how this makes them money. His work includes helping the team build that business case and connect it with the people who can approve it.

He said he hopes we’ll start seeing the results over the next few months. He also described the next 12 to 18 months as a critical window for execution.

No new operators were named, but Parker did explicitly say onboarding and integration work are underway.

You can watch the full video here: https://t.co/rYeWBT04y7

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[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Man, Palmer just giving this dork 1st degree burns left and right

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@BlackHC And which of us has done more for Ukraine, the obsolete brute who makes weapons for killing people or modern enlightened flag emoji boy?

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

lol ahhhh the world is healing

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇹🇷 Interpol arrests HEX & PulseChain crypto founder Richard Heart in Turkey.

[𝕃𝟙𝕓𝕖𝕣ⓣ𝕪 𝕃𝕒𝕕☘️ @L1bertyLad]

Just got this email from @TelcoinDAB…

You can now move USD from your connected bank account into eUSD and withdraw it back to your bank through ACH with ZERO fees charged by Telcoin.

No deposit fees. No withdrawal fees.

This is the kind of stuff that matters when it comes to making digital cash practical for everyday people. Getting money in and out shouldn’t be complicated or expensive.

Another piece of the infrastructure coming together. base:0x09be1692ca16e06f536f0038ff11d1da8524adb1

[Telcoin Association @TelcoinTAO]

Telcoin Association welcomes David Palmer as our Strategic Telecom Advisor.

David brings 25+ years in telecom, including a decade leading blockchain and Web3 work at a global mobile operator, and co-founded Pairpoint, a Vodafone and Sumitomo venture.

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

@ReyaneRemache The patent attorneys entering the chat

[Arie Jones @programmersedge]

Yeah…I think they’ll probably find out how IP is actually enforced pretty soon

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Chamath says IP and software were "effectively rendered worthless" this week, after people decompiled Adobe's core products and published open-source versions, as every service goes headless

"The more important point I want to make though, is I sent this to Nick, there's been a couple things that happened in the last couple days, which I think are incredibly important."

"There have been people that decompiled the entire, the entire big five. What is the big five? Adobe has five very, very important products in their product suite. Freeberg may know them all, but I just know Photoshop. There's like a bunch of others. Okay."

"And these folks decompiled it, distilled it, and published open source versions of these things. And Rust, yeah. And I was so shocked, because I was like, hold on a second, these are like profound products that have existed and have had moats for years, and now they're just open source versions."

"And then Nikita was, I think, trolling, and he was building on that idea, and just talking about GTA, because it's about to get released. I think GTA 6 is about to come out, and we'll reconstruct this."

"Why is this important?"

"I think that IP and software was effectively rendered worthless two days ago."

"Because if you think about it, when everything is headless, so when Elon makes his services headless, Benioff made Salesforce headless a few months earlier, when all of these things are headless, and you can wrap them in agent tools, and you can connect them via MCP to other experiences, the value of IP does no longer exist in software. It doesn't exist."

"And I think that probably is the most profound implication."

"So, like, even in our business, we would argue with some of our customers all the time, because we'll say, oh, we'll build this for you, we'll own the IP. They'll say, no, we want the IP. We don't know how to negotiate it. And two days ago, I walked into the 8090 guys, I said, who cares? Who cares? But before, it was always a negotiation and a set of trade-offs. Now it's a who-cares thing, where, like, the IP is irrelevant."

"It still takes a while for the machinery of a business, and frankly the market, to understand. But that is the most important thing that happened this week in AI, in my opinion."