Vlad Nistor

#crypto #blockchain #DeFi. Angel Investor. Former crypto exchange CEO. Former fund manager. Let's build the future of finance.

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@rookie_of_Ph IBC is superior to both.

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

the prices

[Luke Cannon @lukecannon727]

“Michael, so you own 5% of all Bitcoin & decided you were going to sell some to test the liquidity?"

“That’s correct Dave.”

“And you did this immediately after using up your cash to buy back debt at an 8% discount?”

“I did, Dave.”

“So when you actually did what you said you were going to do, the liquidity test didn't go well?”

“Sadly true, Dave.”

"And you only sold 32 BTC, even though you knew that wouldn't be enough to cover the next year of dividend payments?"

"Yes, Dave."

"So in the process of selling BTC to try & save STRC, you ended up killing BTC, STRC, & MSTR?"

"Very astutely observed, Dave."

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@Proton_Pass @ProtonPrivacy But does it work on Proton services?

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@datarade No. They pay €2.58 per litre.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is what these social media ID verification/age verification laws are really about, and you’re an idiot if u think any of this is about “protecting children.”

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

BREAKING: Israel this morning launched the “Land Registry and Settlement of Rights” online system for the occupied State of Palestine.

In May 2025, Israel’s Security Cabinet resolved to initiate comprehensive land title settlement across the West Bank. The objective was plain: to complete the juridical and administrative annexation of occupied territory through the wholesale registration of land under Israeli authority.

Operationalized on 15 February 2026, the scheme transferred powers to the Israeli Ministry of Justice and the Survey of Israel, allocated ILS 244 million (USD 79 million), and set in motion the permanent acquisition and registration of approximately 58 per cent of Area C, some 35 per cent of the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem.

The system, codenamed “Grenade”, was launched this morning and openly endorsed by Ministers Smotrich and Strook as “a central pillar in applying sovereignty in the territory and strengthening our hold and roots in Judea and Samaria.”

The candor is striking. What was once advanced incrementally, is now pursued through digitized cadastral engineering. A land registry presented as bureaucratic modernization is, in substance, an instrument for the consolidation of unlawful territorial acquisition.

International law is neither ambiguous nor silent. An occupying Power is prohibited from annexing occupied territory, permanently appropriating public or private property outside the strict limits of military necessity, or altering the legal status of the territory under occupation. Yet this is precisely what is now occurring, in broad daylight, through administrative and technological means designed to render unlawful presence increasingly irreversible.

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@aixarizzo @lufthansa Only airline to ever spill anything on me. Also pretended like nothing happened. They do it on purpose feels like.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

The most revealing thing about this AI leadership paper is that it reads less like a vision for innovation and more like a glossy whitepaper for a 21st century East India Company.

Every generation of incumbents discovers a new moral vocabulary for why they alone should control transformative technology.

In the 90s it was cryptography. We were told strong encryption was too dangerous to spread because terrorists, rogue states, chaos, dual-use, etc. So the US crippled exports, weakened products, slowed adoption, and kneecapped parts of its own software industry. Right up until reality steamrolled the policy and we woke up to its stupidity and then eCommerce, secure communications, software signing, and the modern internet exploded and gave us tremendous benefits.

Now the exact same priesthood has returned with AI.

- “Dual-use.”
- “Strategic advantage.”
- “Model distillation.”
- “National security.”

- “Responsible access.”
A few different nouns but mostly the same ones. Same instinct:

Centralize control, gatekeep compute, fuse state and corporate power, and call it safety.

The funniest part is that this strategy is almost perfectly designed to accelerate the thing they claim to fear.

You do not stop a rival superpower (who happens to be the absolute best at scaling energy and manufacturing and who has a choke-hold on rare Earths refinement) from building domestic capability by permanently attempting to strangle them.

You create the economic and political incentive for total self-sufficiency.

We have already done that as Jensen warned. We went from 100% market to nearly 0%. Huawei is now manufacturing millions of chips. DeepSeek v4 trained on them. They have more energy than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile, we have activists and anti-economic fools like AOC and Bernie pushing for data center moratoriums and we can't build a single bullet train in 20 years and folks fighting to not expand the energy grid here and new nuclear plants getting tied up in environmental regulation for a decade.

The sanctions did the exact opposite of what the hawks wanted. They jumpstarted a moribund, dinosaur of a Chinese chips industry. We basically said to the people who happen control the most powerful manufacturing engine on the planet "we intend to squeeze you."

They rightly saw it as an existential threat.

The sanctions become the industrial policy.

Huawei. SMIC. Domestic lithography. Packaging. Memory. Entire Chinese supply chains that did not exist at serious scale a decade ago now exist precisely because Washington convinced Beijing they had no choice.

Brilliant work.

So the endgame here is what exactly?

1) Push China into a Manhattan Project for chips and AI.
2) Increase the strategic value of Taiwan even further.

3) Once China reaches self sufficiency that can invade Taiwan and choke off our own super advanced chips where are made there exclusively (and no we don't have even close to enough TSMC factories in Arizona or anywhere else in the world).

That's every NVIDIA chip. Every Google tensor chip. Every Apple chip. Every chip in you iPhone and Android phone. Every Amazon chip. The chips in your car and truck and hair dryer and washing machine.

4) Escalate a cold tech war into a permanent civilizational bloc conflict that is likely to turn into a shooting war at one point.

5) Fragment the global software ecosystem.

6) Create American AI aristocracies protected by regulation and compute licensing.

And somehow call this “open innovation.”

Meanwhile the actual history of software keeps screaming the opposite lesson:

Knowledge diffuses, open ecosystems win, developers route around gatekeepers, and attempts to permanently contain computation usually fail.

What really jumps off the page is the assumption that a tiny cluster of frontier labs should become quasi-sovereign actors, deciding who gets intelligence, who gets compute, who gets models, and which countries are permitted to participate in the future.

Not elected governments.

Not open markets.

Not open-source communities.

A handful of corporations sitting beside the national security state, insisting that concentration of power is necessary to protect democracy.

You almost have to admire the audacity.

[Federica Mogherini @FedericaMog]

Subscribe every word

[mert @mert]

According to the bankers, bridges and self custody wallets exist

*check notes*

specifically to do crime

how are these people this stupid

[Kickboxing Romania @kickboxing_ro]

Robotics: Romania made history by securing top four spots globally at 2026 Tech Challenge World Championship in Houston, Texas, USA

1st Place: 🇷🇴 Velocity (Brăila)
2nd Place: 🇷🇴 Heart of RoBots (Buzău)
3rd Place: 🇷🇴 Quantum Robotics (Bucharest)
4th Place 🇷🇴 AI Citizens (Focșani)

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@AlecStapp They forget SpaceX buys most (advanced)! rocket parts from Europe.

[Ivan the K™ @IvanTheK]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE🚨

LIVE LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO EXIT THE MIDDLE EAST.

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@POLITICOEurope The pains of only being "the product" for US companies.

[Ania_In_UA @Ania_In_UA]

You see, when other countries do it, they're fighting soldiers. When Ukraine does it against the russians, the russian soldiers suddenly turn into "random 24 year olds".

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@joewrote I believe India is the biggest democracy in the world.

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@MarioNawfal They would turn FSD off before impact, so 0 chance?

[Vlad Nistor @vnistor]

@openclaw More duct tape next time!