Samuel James

Creating software for the crypto industry.

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

I know the price is moving down but I'm more bullish than ever.

[yourfriendSOMMI ❤️💛💚💙 @yourfriendSOMMI]

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🧃 Juicy News #1405

⚪ Bitcoin $73,000
⚪ Ethereum $2000
💩 ETH-BTC = 0.027

⚪ Oil $88

🇺🇸 Bitcoin 2 Red Years in a Row (so far)

🇺🇸 MICHAEL SAYLOR: "Working ₿etter."
It's that time of the week.

🇺🇸 Bitcoin 2 Red Yearly Candles in a Row

🇺🇸 Crypto lobbying groups spent 11X more on republicans than on democrats.

🇺🇸 The SEC says a Texas man spent $6.2M of investor funds on personal expenses while marketing fake AI crypto trading software.

🇫🇷 SoftBank will invest €45 billion in France to build large-scale AI data centres over the next five years.

🇺🇸 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned that stablecoins could "blow up" under the proposed CLARITY Act.

🇺🇸 Trump says it's time to physically audit Fort Knox which hasn't been comprehensively audited since 1953.

[Samuel James @SamuelJamesCT]

@cryptomanran @LibertySwapFi @RichardHeartWin 🔥

[Rakkzy @rakkzy]

When regulation comes to all the other blockchains, PulseChain will be seen as the last remaining free chain.

[⬣ AWildSJ ⬣ @AWildSJ]

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[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Owen Benjamin was probably the smartest, wisest person in Hollywood so of course he got canceled harder than anyone in the history of the entertainment business. That’s when he found the secret to happiness.

0:00 From Hollywood Comic to Cultural Exile
16:56 Was Someone Orchestrating Owen's Cancellation?
23:56 Truth, Fame, and Sin
36:28 Neocons, Getting Banned, and Conspiracy Theories
42:30 The Daily Wire, the Gay Community, and Taboo Humor
51:38 Losing Everything, Illusion, and Nick Fuentes
58:47 Insecurity, Debt, and the Need for Validation
1:07:29 How Is Owen Still Reaching People After Being Cancelled?
1:12:11 Vulgarity, Honor Culture, and Prayer
1:23:10 Starting Over on a Farm in Idaho
1:34:20 The Symmetry of Music and Owen's Community
1:41:26 The Feeling That the World Order Is Ending
1:46:23 Slaying a Wizard, Deception, and Building Community
1:58:29 AI, Energy, and the Illusion of Replacing Humanity
2:05:36 Why Are Animals So Important?

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

The last line of this description is why this interview is so special.
One thing that kept me going in comedy despite the oppression was to show people the trick. Once I saw it I knew how many people were suffering in these false hierarchies. Where up was down and down was up.
Down is up.
Lots of people wanted me to be their poster boy of suffering in exile and they wanted to make me very rich as a permanent victim. The irony is comedic.
True joy comes from the coherence of an honest life, and the best things in life are simple and all around us all the time.
Now I don’t even see myself as ever being oppressed. I was granted an exit to an upside down pyramid and it was scary and painful leaving, but there’s nothing in there worth anything.

[CryptoCoffee.pls @CryptoCoffee369]

Did you know you can bridge coins directly from PulseChain to your private Railgun zk address?

You can also go the other way from Railgun to PulseChain

Nobody can track you - privacy is a good thing :)

Supports stablecoins and ETH for now

[Besthawk960 @Besthawk960]

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[yourfriendSOMMI ❤️💛💚💙 @yourfriendSOMMI]

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Binance CZ (my friend) went onto Patrick Bet-David Podcast (7M+ Subs).

CZ frequently mentions "Freedom of Speech" here.

Very interesting because PulseChain is the first blockchain in the world which is started from a Free Speech Movement.

🟨 Binance CZ may be closer than we think...

💊 Or, my veins have been spiked with some very strong illegal substances.

🤔 Which one is it?

[Pavel Durov @durov]

🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy. Most importantly, fully AI-ready.

It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one dev flow. Start building! https://t.co/6Amgo2hW2S

[Alex McWhirter @SIN3R6Y]

Heard

[Besthawk960 @Besthawk960]

https://t.co/0kdMxG8iRH tablets have arrived in Sicily....introducing HEX, Pulsechain and defi to our Sicilian friends...thanks to help from the https://t.co/JbYfPIiLsP "please like and share"...and have a great day 😀

[Samuel James @SamuelJamesCT]

@SIN3R6Y @ApexHex369 🤌🔥

[Alex McWhirter @SIN3R6Y]

When PulseChain launched, the one thing I knew we were going to be missing was infrastructure.

Not hype.

Not another token.

Not another chart.

Infrastructure.

Ethereum had years to build out the tooling, RPCs, indexers, data services, dashboards, wallet support, integrations, and all the invisible pieces that make a chain actually usable.

PulseChain needed a lot of that on day one.

So that’s where I focused.

It is a relatively thankless part of the ecosystem. Most people only notice infrastructure when it breaks. It does not really have a flashy narrative. It does not pump because a node stayed online. It does not trend because a backend service quietly handled traffic for another app.

But a lot of projects depend on it.

That work was hard, and for the most part, I do not really make anything from it. I did it because I thought it needed to be done.

At this point, I consider a lot of that infrastructure work done. Or at least done enough that I can start shifting more attention toward the next missing pieces.

Software is like an onion.

There are layers upon layers.

Most people only see the final app, the interface, the button they click, or the thing they directly use. But underneath that are all the other pieces that have to exist first: RPCs, APIs, data services, indexers, contracts, routing logic, security assumptions, UX standards, integrations, and a dozen other things nobody really wants to think about until something breaks.

Some software cannot properly exist until other software exists beneath it.

And when those lower layers are missing, someone has to build them.

That is a lot of what my work on PulseChain has been. Not just building the thing people see, but building the things the visible thing depends on.

That also means I have had to put my own personal opinions aside in a lot of cases.

There is software out there that I do not personally agree with. There are projects I would not use myself. There are decisions I may not like, products I may not believe in, and approaches I may think are wrong.

But infrastructure has to be agnostic.

If you are building foundational layers for an ecosystem, you cannot only support the things you personally like. You cannot alienate every project you disagree with. You cannot build in a way that says, “This only works for my corner of the chain.”

That is not how we grow.

A real ecosystem needs room for different products, different opinions, different strategies, and different types of users. Even when I disagree with someone, that does not automatically mean they should be cut off from the infrastructure layer.

That is not always easy.

But I think it matters.

And to be clear, I see a lot of devs working very hard on a lot of things.

I do not like shitting on people who are actually building good things. I can personally disagree with someone’s direction and still respect the work they are putting in. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

There are projects I might not use myself. There are design choices I might not make. There are products I might think should go a different direction.

But if someone is showing up, writing code, solving problems, and trying to make the chain more useful, I respect that.

The beauty of software is that none of this has to be winner-take-all.

If another dev does not like Cappy, but they like a feature in it, they can implement that idea in their own way. If they think I missed something, they can improve on it. If they think my approach is wrong, they can prove it by building something better.

That is how this should work.

And in cases where there is strong overlap, I will even help where I can, as time allows.

That is how you grow.

That is how you get taken seriously as a chain.

In my opinion, anyway. I can be wrong.

That is part of why I’m building Cappy.

If you do not like Cappy, you do not have to use it. I mean that sincerely. I am not building a wallet because I think everyone has to agree with my taste, my priorities, or my product decisions.

I am building the wallet I personally would want to use.

That may not be the wallet you want to use. That’s fine. Some people like Microsoft Word. Some people like Google Docs. Some people like Rabby. Some people like MetaMask. Some people want something simple. Some people want something powerful. Some people want every possible feature. Some people want as little friction as possible.

There is no single perfect answer for everyone.

But the wallet I wanted to use on PulseChain did not exist in the form I wanted it to exist, so I decided to build it.

A lot of the pieces of this chain, I honestly thought other people would eventually figure out. In some cases, they did. In other cases, not really.

I thought we would attract more external devs. I thought more projects would port over. I thought more teams would support their forks. I thought more of the obvious gaps would get filled over time.

Maybe I was wrong to expect that.

Maybe I should have seen it differently from the beginning.

Either way, it is what it is.

At some point, I stopped waiting for other people to build the things I wanted to see exist.

That does not mean I think I am always right. I am not infallible. I am sure I will make decisions some people disagree with. I am sure some people will not like the way I build things. I am sure some people will think I should be working on something else.

That is fine.

You can dislike the software I write and not use it.

It really is that simple.

But I am going to keep building the things I believe are important.

People ask, “What about Sigma?”

I am working on it in parallel with Cappy.

People ask, “What about Cross Chain IcosaHedron?”

I am working on it in parallel with Cappy.

People ask, “What about the other ten pieces of software the ecosystem still needs?”

That is exactly the point.

These things are not always separate in the way people think they are. A wallet needs infrastructure. Cross-chain systems need reliable data. DeFi products need tooling. User-facing apps need lower-level services that most people will never directly touch.

Some things need other things to exist before they can function properly.

And if those other things do not exist, someone has to make them.

I am not randomly jumping between projects.

I am building the layers that make the next layer possible.

I have been told many times that I should run a foundation, or try to organize things, or try to be some kind of public face for the ecosystem. I do not know if I would even be good at that. Maybe I would. Maybe I would not.

What I do know is that I am at least decent at software.

So that is where I am putting my energy.

I can try to do the things I wish more people were doing.

Am I the happiest with Richard right now? No.

Do I respect what he has built? Yes.

Am I still hopeful for the future? Yes.

Those things can all be true at the same time.

I have more or less put everything on the line to move quickly and build things I think matter. The infrastructure phase was the first big priority, and I think that work is now far enough along that I can focus more heavily on actual products people can touch, use, critique, and hopefully benefit from.

Many of you support me, and I see that.

I do not take it lightly.

All I can really promise is this: I am going to keep trying to give this ecosystem the best software I can.

Not because everyone has to use it.

Not because I think I am the answer to every problem.

Not because I agree with every project.

But because I still believe PulseChain deserves better tools, better infrastructure, better user experiences, and more people willing to actually build the missing pieces.

That is what I am trying to do.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. I hope you like the things I do. None of this is any kind of advice, especially financial and P.S. Cappy comes with a block explorer that (hopefully) people find fast and functional enough to like. It was a requirement to make Cappy work. Modified Blockscout fork.

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

Hey @RichardHeartWin ….

Let’s do it.

[Samuel James @SamuelJamesCT]

@cryptomanran @TamTamHEX @RichardHeartWin 🔥

[Liberty Swap ⚡️PulseChain | Railgun | HyperLiquid @LibertySwapFi]

Submitted the newest build of @zkxwallet

Finally, after this update, we can move beyond Railway Wallet and make shielding and unshielding from ANY blockchain as simple as a couple of clicks.

@zkxwallet is taking this experience to a whole new level.

[Rakkzy @rakkzy]

I've been studying crypto for many years and I've never seen anything quite like PulseChain.

Feels like it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. The ecosystem is immaculate, has the security of ETH and the community is second to none.

When this chain takes off, it's going to be like a rocket ship to the fricken moon.

[Dale Mychasiw @bitcoinyqr]

@adamobrien There are lots of socially responsible bitcoin atm operators. No one talks about the efforts they take to prevent fraud, and the education they provide their clients.