Happy Sunday

Broadcasting from Wyoming on January 18 2026, he says crypto must be dragged kicking and screaming through a tough slump, and every mountain needs a valley to be a mountain.

A Midnight roadmap workshop went into detail that privacy is not just faster ZK but universal construction for privacy enhancing tech: MPC, TEE, fully homomorphic encryption, and ZK together.

Real privacy means the whole banana, your data, network stack, guaranteed erasure of leased data, and steganographic plausible deniability, then discussed where PET meets abstraction.

90 percent of DEX transactions will be intent-driven by 2030, so Midnight aims to be the platform routing trillions in intents to solvers, plus progress on smart compliance.

The Pentad is doing well, with the Intersect board visiting IO offices to discuss 2026 goals, and fruitful CCI negotiations on tier one bridges and stablecoins.

Pessimism has become toxic learned hopelessness where anything not announced instantly is called a scam, and he escaped it by uninstalling Twitter 18 days ago, broadcasting via API only.

Asks what the complainers have ever built or achieved, saying that hopeless attitude, applied to weight, jobs, and relationships, makes every waking moment miserable.

Defines hard work as hitting the gym during a gout attack, shaking hands and smiling on an exhausting tour, or revising a roadmap for the 15th time because it is not good enough.

Embedded actors pull the rug every time there is progress, as in October, but you get back up and keep building something never done before with Midnight's universal PET and lattice folding.

Rebuts the claim that Ethereum and Bitcoin permanently won, noting they had nothing before launching, and mocks permanent monopolies via Blackberry, Internet Explorer, MySpace, AOL, and Windows.

Nothing is permanent and the only certainty is change, so you must bring new experiences, like Midnight letting you use crypto with just a phone, a fingerprint, and a pin, no wallet.

He spent two weeks over Christmas revising every product roadmap until 3am because he wants agency to win, unlike those who spread toxicity from one failure to the next.

Once Bitcoin DeFi and Midnight upgrade Cardano, its DApps can be among the most competitive by doing new things for untapped communities, and many builders are fired up.

Builders who claim stablecoins will never come because everyone hates Cardano over an old mean tweet are wrong: service providers care about money, and deals get signed once ink hits paper.

You cannot bet your future on mercenaries who are friends in rich times and gone in poor ones, so you build strong economic moats through leadership and collective bargaining.

Progress was slowed by real events, Scary Gary destroying markets, Luna and FTX collapsing, ADA falling from 3.25, roadmap delays, and rebuilding the Cardano DevX several times, yet they never gave up and delivered Laos and governance.

Admits some bitterness and resentment he will never fully heal from, but says he never lost the mission, vision, or desire, and chooses to stay though it drains him.

People chasing a 10x to pay bills are like Judas trading Jesus for silver, sleepwalking into a future where AI and tech oligarchies stamp a number of the beast on you.

Asks if you want a world where everything you say and do is monitored and your human value is a number an AI stamps on you, which is the legacy financial system, and no one will save you.

Crypto exists as the only tool against that dystopia, but the powers changed the goalpost to money and coin market cap because they could not beat crypto on philosophy.

You see the system daily in deplatforming, China's social credit, and decaying money, asking how much groceries 100 dollars buys versus your grandfather, with no agency over it.

He was broke when he started and may go broke again and does not care, refusing to be a billionaire in a world where he cannot say what he believes or must prop up an evil power structure.

Holding onto things brings sadness since the world changes, and what matters is looking in the mirror knowing he was honest, which is why 2025 was so hard.

Blasts the 2025 Trump administration's chaos and pay-to-play popularity contest around a mercurial boy king, watching a slow train wreck barrel toward the Clarity Act.

After 137 amendments the Clarity bill hands the keys to the SEC with all new projects securities by default, no better than Scary Gary under Biden, a bill Elizabeth Warren wrote.

Despite hundreds of millions in crypto donations and lobbying, people like Brad say it is not perfect but better than no clarity, handing power to the same people who sued and jailed the industry.

Like the 93 year old Securities Exchange Act of 1933 you own a bad law forever, so take the chaos and fight for integrity rather than hand the revolution to 15 banks and custodial KYC.

Leaders took their silver to join a new oligarchy for the money and private jets, betraying Satoshiism, and living a lie decays people into zombies bereft of humanity.

Says why Midnight and Cardano comes down to the people behind them having integrity, taking the right road not the easy one, not done until you have your freedoms and are in charge.

Over 10 years they said and did it: a decentralized government, a decentralized protocol, formal methods, through a hard fight, because the mission mattered.

Midnight is 10 times harder because it must serve the whole industry with a unified PET, a fight worth having for an honest money system that breaks up the tech oligarchies.

Technology can save humanity because it is the only place you can throw away the past, since tech monopolies rarely last a decade unlike financial ones, so keep the faith.

He will work the holiday writing papers and code, because no matter how loud the dog barks the caravan moves on, and the community is what drives it.

Closes that people are angry, scared, and struggling, but they get out not by their worst nature but by realizing everyone is in this together with a universal value of freedom and objective reality.