2025-05-20
Resilience and the Other Side
- Speaking from Buenos Aires after the 600 million theft allegation storm, he calls crypto media unredeemable and pushes veracity bonds.
- Ecosystem progress is real: StarStream, Midgard, BitVMX, and Leios, plus the Genius Act and a coming market structure bill.
- Social media turned suffering into a spectator sport, so he must change how he engages, hiring a media team and building new media.
- Argentina under Milei has a real shot to abolish its central bank, so IO opened its largest office there as a hub for all chains.
- Despite exhaustion, he keeps the faith that the best days are ahead.
26 entries
Opens from Buenos Aires after two weeks on the road, from a Eastern Wyoming College graduation to Consensus in Toronto to opening the Argentina office.
Laments a political discourse where anyone you dislike is a criminal or Nazi, with no consequences when the allegations prove false.
Celebrates ecosystem progress: StarStream bringing folding and co-routines to layer 1, and Stanford Phil's Midgard for the layer 2 ecosystem.
Sergio of Rootstock is helping bring BitVMX to Cardano for a Bitcoin 2025 demo, and Brian Bush's Leios data makes Cardano the fastest chain.
Regulatory progress is extraordinary: the US went from banning crypto to passing the Genius Act with market structure next.
Calls out CoinMarketCap and Cointelegraph for propagating a 600 million theft allegation with no victim, no lawsuit, and no request for comment.
Proposes veracity bonds where media must stake money they lose if a story is false, a market crypto should build.
The wheel of scandal cycles must be broken by people taking accountability, or opting out to build a new system.
Social media took the id of mankind and made the suffering of others a spectator sport like gladiators in a coliseum.
He still believes crypto can liberate humanity because some people still love knowledge, creativity, and building.
Years studying social network theory let him watch the misinformation contagion spread rung by rung with no accountability.
Crypto media is unredeemable and must be replaced, and he will launch a new way of doing things with willing allies.
Late stage capitalism made everyone hyper transactional, so society needs an emotional and spiritual evolution.
Recommends Steve Taylor's Time Expansion Experiences, citing Salvia trips where two minutes can feel like ten years.
Reflects that 25 years from Bush v Gore to two Trump terms corroded truth, with Biden's missed stage 4 cancer and dementia unquestioned.
Warns AI is so convincing that most men may date an AI girlfriend, and society is losing its grip on reality.
The people behind the curtain are just as clueless, and some hope an artificial superintelligence takes over given the P doom risk.
Midnight is a chain of optimism with cooperative economics, and recounts surviving over a thousand bullet ant stings in the Amazon.
Honors the hard lot of police, nurses, teachers, truckers, and plumbers, saying he is lucky to lead a movement that can change everything.
He must change how he uses social media and AMAs now that he has gotten too big, hiring a media team, which costs him closeness with people.
In 2026 IO spins up a new media and social media team for journalists tired of the current system.
Builders' livelihoods are harmed by the drama, and custodians of the ecosystem's goodwill should step up instead of squabbling.
The best days are ahead with Midnight and the Leios CIP, after dinner with Santiago and the TX Pipe team on project blueprint with Blink and Harmonic.
The Argentina office is a hub for every chain's meetups and hackathons, and Argentina has a real shot to abolish its central bank for private money.
Unlike El Salvador's Bukele, Argentina truly embraces crypto with power at the edges, the one country that unlocks the world.
Closes that despite being tired, overweight, and injured, he keeps the same passion every day, hoping some encouraging words help.