Zd'oKo'⚫️

intuitive sceptic, impulsive specific

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW RESEARCH: IC3 just published one of the most comprehensive surveys on AI & crypto.

As AI & agents scale, model-level guardrails aren’t enough. AI needs:

• Trusted data
• Authenticated workflows
• Verified execution
• System-level security

Chainlink solves this.

[AI BALD KING @aibaldking]

@OnlyLJC ???

https://t.co/aDXCOHt1N8

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

I have a vision, but I have no interest in becoming the leader of a movement, building an organisation around myself, or spending my time on administration, governance committees, public relations, or bureaucracy.

What I do is build.

I research.

I solve problems.

I release what I create.

Then I move on to the next problem.

If people want to participate, they are welcome to do so.

If they do not, that is their choice.

The project does not depend on consensus, permission, popularity, or approval.

It depends on whether it works.

I intend to build this on Bitcoin. Real Bitcoin. Not as a speculative asset, but as a system for micropayments, economic coordination, and machine-to-machine transactions. The purpose is to create an environment where individuals can build, train, own, and operate specialised agents that provide real services and earn real revenue.

The future I see is not another Google.

It is not another OpenAI.

It is not another giant model attempting to absorb all human knowledge into a single centralised system.

The assumption behind these projects is that intelligence improves as knowledge becomes increasingly concentrated. That if enough information can be gathered into one place, and enough computation applied to it, the result will be superior to distributed human expertise.

This is the same mistake that Hayek criticised and that Mises identified decades earlier.

Knowledge is not centralised.

Knowledge is dispersed.

Knowledge exists in the minds of billions of individuals, each possessing information, experience, judgement, and expertise that cannot be fully aggregated into a central planning system.

What we are seeing now is an attempt to centralise knowledge into AI models.

The result is larger and larger systems that know a little about everything and truly understand very little.

They are useful tools.

But they are not the future.

The future is a world where billions of people build billions of tools.

A world where specialised agents emerge from specialised knowledge.

A world where expertise is created, refined, traded, verified, and improved through open competition.

A world where agents cooperate with other agents, verify one another, challenge one another, and continuously evolve.

The objective is not to create a machine that replaces people.

The objective is to give people the ability to extend themselves.

A lawyer should be able to build legal agents.

An engineer should be able to build engineering agents.

A scientist should be able to build scientific agents.

A teacher should be able to build educational agents.

Every individual should be able to create systems that embody their expertise and contribute to a larger economic network.

The internet connected documents.

This next stage connects expertise.

Not through centralisation, but through specialisation.

Not through planning, but through competition.

Not through a single intelligence, but through an ecosystem of intelligences.

That is the future I am building toward.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My statement on the sickening events in Belfast.

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@JacquesRetief84 @CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Very kind of you ,and i do what I can with what ive been given. And Mr Wright has kindly given me some "homework" so to speak

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Also I wouldn't expect you too, I can see your a busy man. Also i don't do X notifications

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Very kind of you sir. Much appreciated

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Thank you for your reply.
It has definitely peaked my curiosity and different outlook on "btc"..

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Thanks for taking the time to reply. Can you elaborate on BSV please?

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@JacquesRetief84 @CsTominaga @RonSwanonson My background didn't really allow for alot of reading time.
But ive tried making up for it these last few years (and alot everyday here) ,as much of it I shouldn't.

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@jeongwangh6289 Wich is uses to track the "ancestry" and "descendancy" graphs related to the https://t.co/xiNa7L7Hui i assume. And very interesting..

[The White Whale @WhiteWhaleLabs]

Crypto’s Belief Problem

When you first get into crypto, everyone gives you the same unofficial crash course.

DYOR. NFA. No crying in the casino. Establish your own conviction.

That last one is where a lot of us get hurt.

Because nobody really teaches you the difference between conviction and belief.

Conviction is supposed to be conditional confidence. Tested. Revisited. Challenged. Updated when new information comes in.

Belief is an emotional attachment.

Belief gets personal.

Belief becomes identity.

Belief makes you defend something long after the evidence exists to prove you wrong.

And in crypto, that can get very expensive. Very fast.

I’ve watched it happen over and over again. The fiercest bagworkers, the most loyal token holders, the “strongest communities” - they’re often the ones left holding for dear life after everyone else has moved on.

Because they cared too much.

Because they believed.

When you really believe in something, it doesn’t feel like a trade anymore. It feels like betrayal to question it. It feels like weakness to sell. It feels like abandoning the team, the mission, the founder, and the friends you made along the way.

Sometimes the bag is not just a bag.

Sometimes it’s your reputation.

Sometimes it’s your social circle.

Sometimes it’s the version of yourself who told everyone, publicly and loudly, “I think this is going to win.”

And walking that back is brutal.

Believe me, I know. Been there, done that, got the lousy NFT t-shirt.

One of the smartest things I heard early in my crypto journey came from my personal mentor. He told me:

“Just remember, most projects will go to zero eventually.”

At the time, I understood it intellectually.

Now I understand it on a deeper level.

Because what he didn’t add was:

“Except for the strongest few thousand believers who will stay behind and keep posting like the battle is still being fought long after the war has already ended.”

Every dead narrative has survivors.

Every washed out meme has believers.

Every L1 that rides off into CT’s memory has a group of people still standing there, still defending it, still telling each other the comeback is coming.

That part is heartbreaking to watch. The evolved version of me doesn't even try to educate them any more, I just wish them the best of luck while silently pouring a drink for their lost capital.

Because a lot of those people are not bad people. They’re often the best people in crypto. The ones who care the most. The ones who show up every day. The ones who gave their passion-project life when nobody else did.

But crypto has a cruel way of punishing the people who believe the most.

We are all basically venture capitalists out here gambling on some of the highest risk/reward opportunities on earth, while often possessing the least amount of investment education and experience that exists.

I think founders need to think harder about this.

Your true believers are your best customers, and your best marketing staff.

Not the airdrop farmers. Everyone's a believer during points season.

The real believers.

The people who looked at what you were trying to do and believed in your vision. The people who cared when there was no obvious reward for caring.

Find ways to reward them.

Real ways.

Non-inflationary ways.

Build "Proof of Belief" into the design.

Not because anyone should hold an asset forever. That’s cult logic and a horrible investment strategy.

But because if someone genuinely believed in what you were building, that should mean something.

The idea of rewarding actual belief instead of temporary engagement is important.

And traders?

We need to get better at understanding the disctinction between conviction and belief.

We need to become better at letting go.

We need to understand that it's okay to love something and still sell it.

It is okay to respect a founder or a team and still decide the token is no longer a sound investment.

It is okay to believe in a vision and still admit the market does not care right now and perhaps never will.

It is okay to say, “I was wrong.”

Because your money deserves more respect than your ego.

Your future deserves more loyalty than your bags.

Founders: stop designing tokens only for mercenaries. Start thinking about how to reward real belief without inflating your token into dust.

Traders: stop confusing conviction with belief.

Belief can be beautiful. It can build communities, movements, and products that never would have existed without it.

But blind belief becomes a trap.

And in crypto, the "Belief Trap" has eaten more people than any exploit, rug, or liquidation wick ever could.

🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@JacquesRetief84 @CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Vague

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Sorry I just seen what you sent on it. I wish I could speak another language other than ozzie slang. Thanks for your time 🙏

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@CsTominaga @RonSwanonson Ive recently discovered you here on X and have been amazed at your obvious intelligence. If I may be so rude to as ask a personal question, but what were the main investments that got you to we're you are now in life? And what crypto related product would you recommend?

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@cryptofergani And how much money will I need for that to happen 🤔
Because fuk knows not all of us can just slap thousands on the table in hope of that happening...

[Zd'oKo'⚫️ @splinterviz]

@WhiteWhaleLabs Thank you WW , You have/are been an inspiration to me mate, and look forward to continue to learn and grow from your wisdom 🫡

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

The BTC crowd still imagines that large financial institutions think like they do.

They don't.

The retail holder sees 100,000 BTC and thinks, "They want the price to go up."

The hedge fund sees 100,000 BTC and thinks, "How much profit can I extract from the volatility around this position?"

That is the difference between a religion and a trading desk.

The faithful imagine ownership.

Professionals calculate exposure.

In a constrained market with limited liquidity, limited settlement capacity, enormous derivative volume, and participants who believe every dip is sacred, the opportunities become extraordinary.

A fund does not necessarily care whether BTC rises or falls. It cares whether it can create positions whose gains exceed losses elsewhere.

If a market falls 50%, the retail investor loses 50%.

The professional asks whether the derivative structure returned 200%, 500%, or 1,000%.

That is the game.

The amusing part is that BTC advocates spent years demanding institutional adoption as though Wall Street were arriving to join the choir.

Wall Street did not arrive carrying hymn books.

Wall Street arrived carrying spreadsheets.

You invited entities whose entire purpose is to identify mispricing, exploit panic, harvest volatility, and extract returns from both directions.

When BTC rises, they collect fees.

When BTC falls, they trade the decline.

When BTC becomes volatile, they trade the volatility.

When holders become distressed, they trade the distress.

And if the market becomes sufficiently weak, sufficiently illiquid, and sufficiently one-sided, the incentives become even more obvious.

The retail investor asks, "Why would they hurt their own position?"

Because the position is not the business.

The profit is the business.

Losing one dollar on inventory while making ten dollars elsewhere is not a loss.

It is a trade.

That is the lesson people never seem to learn.

You begged for institutional adoption.

You got institutional behaviour.

Now you are discovering those are not remotely the same thing.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. FBI Director Kash Patel reveals **3 MILLION** p*dophile accounts on the Tor network were taken down, plus a nearly 100% SURGE in child predator arrests

"7,200 kids that we found that got to go home. 3,400 child predators and traffickers arrested. That's up 99% from the best year Biden ever had. That means kids are being protected at levels that are simply unheard of!"

"And that means this FBI, here's another thing. We didn't just do the physical work on the streets. We went to the cyber community and we dismantled 3 million pedophile accounts off the Tor network where these predators prey on our children and think they can hide from this FBI."

"They can't. We are going to the ends of the earth and the cyber realm to make sure our most precious commodity kids are safeguarded."

"And the numbers speak for themselves because the FBI are putting kids first." @FBIDirectorKash @kayleighmcenany

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.