Soversign

Advocate for a decentralized web, individual privacy, and sovereign identity. Unplug from the matrix. The web is not free if you are the product.

[Soversign @soversign]

Gift Article: Plug-in balcony solar kits promise to cut energy costs and grid reliance for renters and apartment-dwellers.

Very cool! Hugely popular in Germany, but U.S. lags behind in regulation that would allow safe use of these systems.

https://t.co/ConuvQDKWD

[Steven D. McKie @Steven_McKie]

The new https://t.co/Jj7S7Y4UHR will be 10000x better than the random one I made in like 2016 in a day. Never really used it. The podcast and essays were in different online services and RSS and on X/Twitter.

This update should keep me covered till 2030.

[Bob Hawkes @AGreatDomain]

Informative article from @ValidatorAIapp. Using data from 300,000 founders, looked at what distinguishes founders who actually act on a startup idea. Article by Aron Meystedt, @FirstDomain. https://t.co/txm6IwrWz3

[EZ4U2NV @EZ4U2NVCrypto]

ICP isn’t just competing in crypto…

It’s securing waterfront property on the future of cloud infrastructure.

While others fight over transactions,
ICP owns compute, storage, AI, and full-stack execution — on-chain.

This isn’t a token.

It’s the land everything else will have to build on.

🌐 No servers
🔐 No middlemen
⚡ Sovereign compute

The question isn’t if this narrative hits…

It’s who understands it early.

#ICP #InternetComputer #Web3 #Cloud #AI #Crypto #CCC

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in “countercurrent” politics, which focus on the common good. What is urgently needed is the courage of new visions and an educational pact that gives young people space and trust. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea https://t.co/81zzJos7Ij

[Darpan @darpanmunjal]

Domainers operate at an interesting intersection:
markets, language, and timing.

You have to know what industries are about to need,
what words will resonate,
and when the world will be ready for it.

Not for everyone. And the best ones don't get enough credit.

[Soversign @soversign]

@adam3us Adam-- what do make of these two books by "Satoshi Nakamoto"?
Wave and Ripple Design Book and the
Official Bitcoin Coloring Book (not really a coloring book, it seems)
There's been lots of wild speculation over the years.

https://t.co/UsVawo2jvi

https://t.co/qhUutk1ywN

[Ultiname.com @ultiname_com]

The Vibe-Coding Revolution: How AI is Reshaping Domain Registration:

Ai shifts the domain discovery phase into a fluid, conversational interface...Instead of hunting for exact-match keywords, users simply describe their project’s core concept, target audience, and desired “vibe” to an AI assistant. The large language model (LLM) then processes this intent to propose contextually relevant domain names, matching them with top-level domains (TLDs) that fit the brand’s aesthetic.

https://t.co/DKPV0UWNnJ

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"A society that has secured abundant energy, industrial production, and physical safety creates the conditions in which political attention can migrate upward into questions of identity, moral positioning, and self-actualization." 1/6

[Rand @rand_longevity]

we need to break up big medicine

[Andrew Rosener 🛒 🔁 @andrewrosener]

We own https://t.co/vfoBBJDiTo - who wants to get ahead of the disclosure event? Come and get it!

[Darpan @darpanmunjal]

During my recent visit to India, I sat down with Anurag Batra (@BWBusinessworld).

Launching AI startups is easier than ever.
Building a memorable brand is harder than ever.

We discussed why great domain names matter, how AI is reshaping branding, lessons from entrepreneurship, and the thinking behind the Atom rebrand.

Watch here 👇
https://t.co/sHdvUjfaa6

[Ultiname.com @ultiname_com]

Domain Names: the most misunderstood asset class.
Forbes article by @darpanmunjal
https://t.co/oR2BOJ6CHG

[Domain Pro @domainpro]

Is Private AI the next big thing?

Is publicizing data more irrational than ever before?

Building AI agents with private data is probably way more valuable than simply selling private data to the public.

[dom | icp @dominic_w]

Hey appreciate the thoughtful post, but need to clarify some points here.

Firstly, regarding ICP's dev community. Those using Caffeine — currently hundreds of thousands a month, and rising — are building apps too. People vibe coding, and people using self-writing, are all devs. This is a new paradigm.

In fact, scroll forward a year, and I doubt much code will be being written by humans outside specialized fields. Yesterday, I saw a very convincing Slack clone created for ICP using Claude Code (Rust backend, React frontend) by a semi-technical person without programming skills. It was only a few days work.

So we have to think about ICP as being a platform for agents too going forward. Furthermore, while some of those agents will be inside Claude Code or Caffeine, say, others will be independent agents working directly for users, such as OpenClaw instances.

If we keep on trucking, there will be millions of people building on ICP in a year thanks to AI. Building on ICP will give them a number of advantages I've covered elsewhere.

Secondly, onchain cloud compute costs should remain viable despite the increases, but it's important to realize that the NNS makes the Internet Computer adaptive, and should this prove not true, then it can make further adjustments iteratively.

Getting down to the current proposal to increase the cost of subnet memory from ~$5/GB a year to $12.5/GB a year...

(@SnassyIcp forgive me sometimes stating things you already know for the benefit of others following!)

That's for memory on a 13X subnet (i.e. a sub-blockchain with 13 nodes from different providers, in different data centers, in different geographies, etc, which is orchestrated and configured by the 50X NNS subnet, which hosts software that seamlessly integrates with software on every other subnet, etc etc)

Certainly, $12.5/GB is more expensive than Amazon Web Service's S3 storage at $0.28/GB per year BUT — comparing a "blob storage" service designed to remotely store static data likes files, with dynamic memory that app logic can directly read/write it at will, doesn't make sense.

Apps need to store the dynamic data — user accounts, details of objects like products, indexes, etc — in memory. Blob storage doesn't work for that.

If you build an e-commerce service on ICP, the details of your products, the organization of those products (e.g. categorization), user accounts, sales records, etc etc will all live in memory. You would only be able to put things like photos and videos of products into blob storage like S3, or the forthcoming ICP Blob Storage.

Unless the e-commerce service is Amazon, even if it is a pretty huge service, it will only need a few hundred MBs of memory to maintain that data. In practice, it will pay $10 or something a year — this is totally insignificant for most e-commerce scenarios.

Of course, in the above, I'm assuming that product videos and photos are stored on S3 or ICP Blob Storage.

Now, it's important to recognize, that hosting an app like an e-commerce service on ICP provides enormous benefits, and delivers enormous cost savings.

For example, your app is tamperproof, and doesn't need a traditional cybersecurity setup (and team) to protect it. Cost always has to be considered within the context of the benefits delivered.

In order to thrive, the Internet Computer has to target mass-market mainstream use cases (which is why with DFINITY 2.0 and Internet Computer 2.0 you can see things like cloud engines coming, in parallel to initiatives like Caffeine).

We have been making tremendous headway. In fact, we are the only blockchain that supports large numbers of users who don't care they are using a blockchain, and mostly don't even know. They are doing it because it's useful to build on the Internet Computer, not because there is some sucky speculative token incentive involved — it's the first major innovation in our industry since tokens (Bitcoin) and DeFi (Ethereum).

So hopefully, given the wider perspective, I hope this increase proves really insignificant for those building on ICP, while helping drive the tokenomics by taking us towards a more deflationary future.

Nb. on a separate note, for those that have followed this far, you should know that memory on other blockchains is tens of thousands of times more expensive that on ICP. Yes, you read that right!

They often make the ridiculous claim that you can still build apps on them because you can keep the app data on IPFS, or on something like Walrus (similar to ICP Blob Storage).

Their Pinocchio noses are growing in double time when they tell you this. Blob data on IPFS or Walrus cannot be dynamically processed by onchain app logic, because, in contrast to memory, it is stored remotely.

It's baseless that blob storage can support the creation of something like an onchain e-commerce service, where the app needs to enable the vendor to add/remove products dynamically, and record customer sales, and so on. For that you need memory.

Hope all this makes sense.

[Soversign @soversign]

@cultra Nice! Was about to hand register https://t.co/nGRxcwFnrr but hard to compete with this. 😀

[Soversign @soversign]

@atomHQ Can someone explain to me what this means in practical terms like I'm five years old.

[Soversign @soversign]

@afternic @Karakehayov 👍

[Soversign @soversign]

@afternic @Karakehayov Congratulations @Karakehayov on your milestone, but if I'm reading the screenshot correctly your 267,000 listings @ $10 renewal fees cost you $2.67 million each year. How do you make a profit?

[Michael Pilarczyk @Mikeyothedj]

Climate Action Playing Cards https://t.co/lZjJDUX19a