God With Me

circular temple (cycle) surrounded by columns (supports). Tholos. Still rounding.

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

Bitcoin will reach $200k THIS DECADE or I delete my account. 🫡

[Ted @TedPillows]

People losing hope in $ETH. I also have an opinion about it.

Sharing it next week.

[God With Me @tholos_round]

MiCA is officially showing its teeth 🦷 The EBA just laid out how heavy those crypto fines can get, and it's a wake-up call for any project sleeping on EU compliance. Wild to see regulation actually catching up. Bullish or bearish for adoption? 🤔 #MiCA

[K A L E O @CryptoKaleo]

One of the craziest phenomenons in crypto is something can be down 90% and people think it’s a great buying opportunity and then it goes down another 90%

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Volatility tests every capital structure. Strategy remains focused on Bitcoin, disciplined capital allocation, credit quality, and long-term value creation. We appreciate our investors and will continue to execute with transparency and resolve. $MSTR

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year.

Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world.

Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring.

Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list):

* The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals.
* PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer
* Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate.
* Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds.
* EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale.

These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play.

In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin.

The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive.
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[God With Me @tholos_round]

anyone else remember how many "crypto is dead" headlines dropped right before the 2019 run?

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Robinhood trimming staff isn't doom—it's the classic late bear shakeout. Weak hands fold, smart money quietly stacks. Every cycle plays out the same way and yet people still panic sell at the bottom.

Who's accumulating right now? #crypto

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Imagine Mr Eazi saying his celebrity crush is Tems and it’s not about yansh knowing his wife doesn’t have a large bum.

People and humiliating their partners

[carter🌚 @carter6f]

Temi Otedola: “Who’s your celebrity crush?”

Mr Eazi: “Temi Otedola.”

Mr Eazi: “Who’s yours?”

Temi: “Michael B. Jordan… but I don’t care about looks.”

[God With Me @tholos_round]

@Letter_to_Jack Boxing is choreographed fighting because of the rules but a soldier is trained to survive. In a fight till death situation a marine will most likely win.

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Zidane’s passing highlight = Thierry Henry lowlight

Igwe of fools get mind dey correct Ronaldo 😅😭

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Follow the money 😅

The big players just entered the chat and they never play fair, it’s monopoly or nothing.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING: Apapa Customs Intercepts 1.8 Tonnes of Cannabis

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Bruno can find any other player in football with his passing except Ronaldo who ironically is the easiest player to find in football because of his exceptional positioning.

I strongly believe it’s intentional, yesterday Bruno’s lack of urgency was clear for the world to see.

[God With Me @tholos_round]

“Proudly single mom”

[QUEEN OF HEARTS💕 @Simple_Queeny]

I will not leave my hectic life, accept an invitation that’s supposed to be a place to rest and relax and start cooking, why is the fridge or freezer not stocked prior to her coming, why are you even cooking? That should’ve been sorted and all you guys should do is microwave and

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Destiny swap don happen
He use money buy wahala, baba don use him head for another person. Him dream na another person reality.

He go need very serious irapada but for am to see the money to finance the irapada sef go tough.

Him matter don get k-leg

[F E E Z @Feeztm]

I did ègbè ola from apasè ifa but they are only bringing money in my dreams.. I’m broke in real life. 😭💔

- Nigerian man laments.

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Landman Season 1 Ep1

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

VIDEO: Plane Takes Off From Concrete Road After Missing Destination In Delta

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Nigerian army just too useless if you see Navy SBS dey do their thing you go doubt say na the same country military.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Nice one.

Now, let me show you Nigerian military forces & whatever they're training for. 🙂‍↔️

[Master.K @kayisaaca1]

Me when I see someone fall asleep 5 minutes after laying down :

[God With Me @tholos_round]

84 year old shepherd can’t lead his sheep but he can collect tithe and offering.

God pass una

[God With Me @tholos_round]

Ribbed for extra pleasure 😈

[Redd @ReddCinema]

A Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has designed a glass beer bottle that you can actually stick into the sand on the beach 👀