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Dear ICP community, the Internet Computer has now been running strong for 5 years 👏👏👏 Here is a celebratory preview of ICP "cloud engines," the sovereign frontier cloud technology the network shall soon provide from Main points: — Cloud engines enable anyone to spin up their own sovereign frontier cloud. The technology involves an extraordinary inventive step, in which cloud is created from a mathematically secure network of nodes. The nodes run as part of the Internet Computer network ( but are selected and configured by the cloud engine's owner. — The frontier cloud provided by engines is strongly focused on enabling AI agents to build and update online applications and services for us. The world is changing fast, and nearly all new online apps and services are already being built with the help of AI, and thus cloud engines target the future of cloud. — Software hosted on cloud engines is tamperproof, which means that it is immune to infrastructure hacks, because it runs inside a mathematically secure network protocol, rather than on computers directly. This means that AI agents, and those building with them, don't need to have a security team in the loop, or to trust someone else's security team. This is crucial, because in the future, non technical people will demand the freedom to build with full automation — where they just need to issue instructions to AI about what to build, and don't need to worry about anything or anyone else. Of course, apps and services running on engines are also vastly safer from the new breed of hacker being enabled by frontier AI. (The cloud engines themselves are also "tamperproof." Even if a hacker gains physical access to some portion of a cloud engine's nodes, and can make arbitrary changes, the computations and data of the hosted apps and services cannot be corrupted or interrupted so long as the network's fault bounds aren't exceeded. The recent hack of Vercel, a major cloud platform, which gave hackers access to the apps it hosted, provides additional perspective on the importance of this advantage.) — Software hosted on cloud engines is guaranteed to run, so long as a sufficient number of the engine's nodes are running. This means that AI can build applications and services without the need to have a human systems admin team constantly tinkering with the underlying platform to keep it running, which is again crucial, because in the future, non technical people will expect the freedom to use AI to build without the support of others. — New frontier programming language technology, in the form of the Motoko language developed by Caffeine Labs, leverages seminal "orthogonal persistence" technology that unifies program logic and data to deliver further unlocks for AI (Motoko is the first computer language being developed that targets agents that are writing software rather than humans engineers per se). Nowadays, AI can build and update production apps at a prodigious rate, even at the speed of conversation. But it can also make mistakes, and there's a risk that an update it creates might be "lossy" in the sense it causes some transformed data to be lost. Again, in this new world, it's both undesirable and impractical for everyone to have to have a systems admin team on-hand to detect lossy updates and roll them back, but Motoko provides a solution: it can detect new software updates are lossy before they are applied, reducing potentially catastrophic errors by AI to harmless coding retries. — Software hosted on cloud engines is "serverless" but unlike traditional serverless software, directly it directly incorporates data through "orthogonal persistence." Another key purpose is simplify backend software logic and fuel the modeling power of AI by increasing abstraction (sorry for the technical language!!!). Put simply, this enables AI to produce more sophisticated backends, faster, and at dramatically lower costs, as measured by the number AI API tokens consumed during coding. (Tip for the technical: orthogonal persistence is a new paradigm where "the program is the database," and data lives inside program variables, which is possible because it's as if hosted software runs forever in persistent memory). — An expanding database of skills at shall make it possible to develop and directly deploy apps and services to your cloud engines directly from Claude Code, Perplexity, Codex and other AI platforms. Further, your account on can be connected, so that new apps and updates created through conversation automatically appear hosted from your cloud engine. In the future, R&D is going to be very seamless. You converse with AI, and your secure and unstoppable apps or services are created or updated. Cloud engines are designed to directly support this "self-writing cloud" future where we can work hands-free. — Tech sovereignty is becoming a huge issue worldwide, with governments and corporations seeking to create sovereign tech stacks owing to geopolitical tensions. Increasingly, people are realizing that tech provided by foreign nations can come with hidden backdoors and kills switches, from the base platform, right up through hosted apps and services. ICP technology is open source, and those building on ICP using AI own their own source code. When you have the source code, you can verify that there are no backdoors, and when you own the source code thanks to AI, you can update it at will, freeing you from vendor lock-in. But cloud engines take sovereignty much further... — You create a cloud engine by selecting the nodes that will be combined. You can choose the class of nodes used, and their number, but more importantly, you can choose who operates the nodes, and where they are located. Almost any configuration is possible, because the Internet Computer scales the security privileges afforded to hosted software within the network according to configuration (software hosted on cloud engines can directly interoperate with software on other engines and traditional subnets, but base restrictions are applied according to security rules). A cloud engine can be created within a region such as Europe, to comply with regs such as GDPR, or completely within a sovereign state like Switzerland or Pakistan. But cloud engines go further still... — Sovereignty is also about freedom from vendor lock-in. Cloud engines are essentially ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) network configurations, and this means the underlying compute nodes they combine can be swapped out without interrupting their hosted apps and services. This is a big deal. In addition, cloud engines now support nodes that are instances running on Big Tech's clouds, in addition to nodes that are dedicated specialized hardware, as per the Gen I and Gen II nodes that dominate the Internet Computer today. For example, it is possible to have an engine running across different AWS data centers, say, and then reconfigure the engine to run across a mixture of AWS, Google, Azure and Hetzner for even more resilience, without the users of hosted apps and services noticing a thing. That's true freedom. — Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important too, and cloud engines allow special "AI nodes" to be added to them, so that hosted software can perform inference on hardware provisioned by the owner from a location the owner has selected. Even though the AI nodes are only accessible within the cloud engine, they can still benefit from the forthcoming Internet Intelligence Gateway (IG), which will make it possible to validate inference performed on key frontier open weights LLMs, even when the inference is performed on completely independent AI clouds. When the results of inference are received, this technology can verify that neither the prompt+context (input) nor the inference result (output) have been modified, and that the results were produced by the precise LLM expected. This ensures that AI clouds don't cheat by running inference on cheaper models than are being paid for, and bad actors aren't modifying the inputs or outputs to surreptitiously insert advertising into results, say, or change facts, or insert malware when code is being generated. What's super cool about this technology is the cost of the verification is scalable. A very valuable additional security can be achieved with only 1-2% of extra cost. — Scaling apps and services when they hit capacity limits is another thorny problem that cloud engines help the world address. Engines make scaling possible without rewriting or reconfiguring software. The query workload capacity of hosted software can be horizontally scaled simply by adding new nodes to an engine, and nodes can also be added in geographical proximity to demand. Meanwhile, update workload capacity can first be scaled-up by swapping an engine's nodes out for the next class up, and then when no larger class of node is available, horizontally scaled-out by "splitting" the engine into two, which doubles available capacity. (Technical tip: horizontally scaling update capacity by splitting engines requires multi-canister architectures). — For those who have been following how Caffeine builds apps that can efficiently store large numbers of files, I should mention that apps built on cloud engines will also support the new ICP Blob Storage cloud network (since cloud engines currently have up to about 3 TB of memory, which apps storing large amounts of files can easily exceed). We are also working on allowing blob storage nodes to be added to cloud engines, to enable sovereign mass blob storage within an engine, similarly to how AI nodes can be added currently. — Lastly, but certainly not least, I should mention that cloud engines are multi-blockchain capable, and ready for digital assets, thanks to the clever math at their core. For example, an e-commerce service built on a cloud engine can securely accept and custody stablecoin payments, or a multi-chain DEX could be hosted. Further, engines can support software autonomy (software orchestrated and controlled by other autonomous software, in a decentralized way) and can themselves be orchestrated by SNS technology, and thus run autonomously too. Today, though, the focus is on *mainstream* cloud. This year, the cloud industry will generate approximately one trillion dollars in revenue. That number is already huge, but is expected to grow to two trillion dollars by 2030. After years of continuous development, which have seen more than $500m spent on R&D, the Internet Computer network is now tacking directly toward this mainstream cloud market with cloud engine technology. In their first version, cloud engines are not meant to be a cloud panacea. For example, currently they are not ideal for working with big data. You should use something like DataBricks for that. Cloud engines are carefully targeted at enabling AI to produce traditional online applications and services, including SaaS, in a safer and more productive way, which represents a new market segment with tremendous potential. Of course, DFINITY will continue to work relentlessly to push forward ICP's capabilities, so expect further developments. It's worth mentioning that this cloud segment isn't just about creating new apps and services using AI, it's also about replacing legacy systems and apps built on super expensive SaaS services. Caffeine Labs is working to produce technology (Caffeine Snorkel) that can study an enterprise's legacy systems and app built on SaaS, create replacement systems and apps, and migrate the data, while supporting key stakeholders through the process over email and chat, with full automation. Thus the legacy systems and SaaS markets shall also be addressed by cloud engines. Zooming out, and reasoning in a more metaphysical way, we believe, as we always have, that there is room for a new kind of cloud created by mathematical networks, that provides seminal advances in the fields of security and resilience, as well as true sovereignty and freedom from lock-in. That this same technology, with the help of additional technologies like orthogonal persistence and Motoko, enables AI to build for us without the need for so much oversight, and to create more backend sophistication while consuming fewer AI API tokens, enables ICP to bring game-changing advances to the world. Cloud engines will work synergistically with the Intelligence Gateway, which will enable apps and services running on engines to seamlessly leverage AI, wherever that AI is running, while providing verifiability at extremely low cost for open weights frontier models. 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Dear ICP community, the Internet Computer has now been running strong for 5 years 👏👏👏 Here is a celebratory preview of ICP "cloud engines," the sovereign frontier cloud technology the network shall soon provide from Main points: — Cloud engines enable anyone to spin up their own sovereign frontier cloud. The technology involves an extraordinary inventive step, in which cloud is created from a mathematically secure network of nodes. The nodes run as part of the Internet Computer network ( but are selected and configured by the cloud engine's owner. — The frontier cloud provided by engines is strongly focused on enabling AI agents to build and update online applications and services for us. The world is changing fast, and nearly all new online apps and services are already being built with the help of AI, and thus cloud engines target the future of cloud. — Software hosted on cloud engines is tamperproof, which means that it is immune to infrastructure hacks, because it runs inside a mathematically secure network protocol, rather than on computers directly. This means that AI agents, and those building with them, don't need to have a security team in the loop, or to trust someone else's security team. This is crucial, because in the future, non technical people will demand the freedom to build with full automation — where they just need to issue instructions to AI about what to build, and don't need to worry about anything or anyone else. Of course, apps and services running on engines are also vastly safer from the new breed of hacker being enabled by frontier AI. (The cloud engines themselves are also "tamperproof." Even if a hacker gains physical access to some portion of a cloud engine's nodes, and can make arbitrary changes, the computations and data of the hosted apps and services cannot be corrupted or interrupted so long as the network's fault bounds aren't exceeded. The recent hack of Vercel, a major cloud platform, which gave hackers access to the apps it hosted, provides additional perspective on the importance of this advantage.) — Software hosted on cloud engines is guaranteed to run, so long as a sufficient number of the engine's nodes are running. This means that AI can build applications and services without the need to have a human systems admin team constantly tinkering with the underlying platform to keep it running, which is again crucial, because in the future, non technical people will expect the freedom to use AI to build without the support of others. — New frontier programming language technology, in the form of the Motoko language developed by Caffeine Labs, leverages seminal "orthogonal persistence" technology that unifies program logic and data to deliver further unlocks for AI (Motoko is the first computer language being developed that targets agents that are writing software rather than humans engineers per se). Nowadays, AI can build and update production apps at a prodigious rate, even at the speed of conversation. But it can also make mistakes, and there's a risk that an update it creates might be "lossy" in the sense it causes some transformed data to be lost. Again, in this new world, it's both undesirable and impractical for everyone to have to have a systems admin team on-hand to detect lossy updates and roll them back, but Motoko provides a solution: it can detect new software updates are lossy before they are applied, reducing potentially catastrophic errors by AI to harmless coding retries. — Software hosted on cloud engines is "serverless" but unlike traditional serverless software, directly it directly incorporates data through "orthogonal persistence." Another key purpose is simplify backend software logic and fuel the modeling power of AI by increasing abstraction (sorry for the technical language!!!). Put simply, this enables AI to produce more sophisticated backends, faster, and at dramatically lower costs, as measured by the number AI API tokens consumed during coding. (Tip for the technical: orthogonal persistence is a new paradigm where "the program is the database," and data lives inside program variables, which is possible because it's as if hosted software runs forever in persistent memory). — An expanding database of skills at shall make it possible to develop and directly deploy apps and services to your cloud engines directly from Claude Code, Perplexity, Codex and other AI platforms. Further, your account on can be connected, so that new apps and updates created through conversation automatically appear hosted from your cloud engine. In the future, R&D is going to be very seamless. You converse with AI, and your secure and unstoppable apps or services are created or updated. Cloud engines are designed to directly support this "self-writing cloud" future where we can work hands-free. — Tech sovereignty is becoming a huge issue worldwide, with governments and corporations seeking to create sovereign tech stacks owing to geopolitical tensions. Increasingly, people are realizing that tech provided by foreign nations can come with hidden backdoors and kills switches, from the base platform, right up through hosted apps and services. ICP technology is open source, and those building on ICP using AI own their own source code. When you have the source code, you can verify that there are no backdoors, and when you own the source code thanks to AI, you can update it at will, freeing you from vendor lock-in. But cloud engines take sovereignty much further... — You create a cloud engine by selecting the nodes that will be combined. You can choose the class of nodes used, and their number, but more importantly, you can choose who operates the nodes, and where they are located. Almost any configuration is possible, because the Internet Computer scales the security privileges afforded to hosted software within the network according to configuration (software hosted on cloud engines can directly interoperate with software on other engines and traditional subnets, but base restrictions are applied according to security rules). A cloud engine can be created within a region such as Europe, to comply with regs such as GDPR, or completely within a sovereign state like Switzerland or Pakistan. But cloud engines go further still... — Sovereignty is also about freedom from vendor lock-in. Cloud engines are essentially ICP (Internet Computer Protocol) network configurations, and this means the underlying compute nodes they combine can be swapped out without interrupting their hosted apps and services. This is a big deal. In addition, cloud engines now support nodes that are instances running on Big Tech's clouds, in addition to nodes that are dedicated specialized hardware, as per the Gen I and Gen II nodes that dominate the Internet Computer today. For example, it is possible to have an engine running across different AWS data centers, say, and then reconfigure the engine to run across a mixture of AWS, Google, Azure and Hetzner for even more resilience, without the users of hosted apps and services noticing a thing. That's true freedom. — Sovereign AI is becoming increasingly important too, and cloud engines allow special "AI nodes" to be added to them, so that hosted software can perform inference on hardware provisioned by the owner from a location the owner has selected. Even though the AI nodes are only accessible within the cloud engine, they can still benefit from the forthcoming Internet Intelligence Gateway (IG), which will make it possible to validate inference performed on key frontier open weights LLMs, even when the inference is performed on completely independent AI clouds. When the results of inference are received, this technology can verify that neither the prompt+context (input) nor the inference result (output) have been modified, and that the results were produced by the precise LLM expected. This ensures that AI clouds don't cheat by running inference on cheaper models than are being paid for, and bad actors aren't modifying the inputs or outputs to surreptitiously insert advertising into results, say, or change facts, or insert malware when code is being generated. What's super cool about this technology is the cost of the verification is scalable. A very valuable additional security can be achieved with only 1-2% of extra cost. — Scaling apps and services when they hit capacity limits is another thorny problem that cloud engines help the world address. Engines make scaling possible without rewriting or reconfiguring software. The query workload capacity of hosted software can be horizontally scaled simply by adding new nodes to an engine, and nodes can also be added in geographical proximity to demand. Meanwhile, update workload capacity can first be scaled-up by swapping an engine's nodes out for the next class up, and then when no larger class of node is available, horizontally scaled-out by "splitting" the engine into two, which doubles available capacity. (Technical tip: horizontally scaling update capacity by splitting engines requires multi-canister architectures). — For those who have been following how Caffeine builds apps that can efficiently store large numbers of files, I should mention that apps built on cloud engines will also support the new ICP Blob Storage cloud network (since cloud engines currently have up to about 3 TB of memory, which apps storing large amounts of files can easily exceed). We are also working on allowing blob storage nodes to be added to cloud engines, to enable sovereign mass blob storage within an engine, similarly to how AI nodes can be added currently. — Lastly, but certainly not least, I should mention that cloud engines are multi-blockchain capable, and ready for digital assets, thanks to the clever math at their core. For example, an e-commerce service built on a cloud engine can securely accept and custody stablecoin payments, or a multi-chain DEX could be hosted. Further, engines can support software autonomy (software orchestrated and controlled by other autonomous software, in a decentralized way) and can themselves be orchestrated by SNS technology, and thus run autonomously too. Today, though, the focus is on *mainstream* cloud. This year, the cloud industry will generate approximately one trillion dollars in revenue. That number is already huge, but is expected to grow to two trillion dollars by 2030. After years of continuous development, which have seen more than $500m spent on R&D, the Internet Computer network is now tacking directly toward this mainstream cloud market with cloud engine technology. In their first version, cloud engines are not meant to be a cloud panacea. For example, currently they are not ideal for working with big data. You should use something like DataBricks for that. Cloud engines are carefully targeted at enabling AI to produce traditional online applications and services, including SaaS, in a safer and more productive way, which represents a new market segment with tremendous potential. Of course, DFINITY will continue to work relentlessly to push forward ICP's capabilities, so expect further developments. It's worth mentioning that this cloud segment isn't just about creating new apps and services using AI, it's also about replacing legacy systems and apps built on super expensive SaaS services. Caffeine Labs is working to produce technology (Caffeine Snorkel) that can study an enterprise's legacy systems and app built on SaaS, create replacement systems and apps, and migrate the data, while supporting key stakeholders through the process over email and chat, with full automation. Thus the legacy systems and SaaS markets shall also be addressed by cloud engines. Zooming out, and reasoning in a more metaphysical way, we believe, as we always have, that there is room for a new kind of cloud created by mathematical networks, that provides seminal advances in the fields of security and resilience, as well as true sovereignty and freedom from lock-in. That this same technology, with the help of additional technologies like orthogonal persistence and Motoko, enables AI to build for us without the need for so much oversight, and to create more backend sophistication while consuming fewer AI API tokens, enables ICP to bring game-changing advances to the world. Cloud engines will work synergistically with the Intelligence Gateway, which will enable apps and services running on engines to seamlessly leverage AI, wherever that AI is running, while providing verifiability at extremely low cost for open weights frontier models. We believe that cloud engines represent an inflection point in the storied history of the Internet Computer project, and I'm very proud to be sharing the details with you on the network's fifth birthday 💪 I'll be back with more news soon!!

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A historic day for financial markets as SpaceX achieves the largest IPO in history at $1.75T The numbers are big but I believe we are early in SpaceX’s arc to make humans multi planetary and become larger than the combined GDP of the world today ($100T ish) Both Starlink and AI satellites can be multi trillion dollar business and are the first two applications of having the reusable rocket launch Next will be building infrastructure on the moon, mars and then asteroid mining Revenue was at $18.8B as of Q1 26 but has already doubled since with the Anthropic and Google deals. Combined with Cursor and Starlink V3 ramp later this year we will be approaching a $50B revenue run rate in just a few months By 2030 I project $500B in potential revenue with half of that if not more as operating cashflow At a 20x multiple on 50% margins we hit $5T valuation in just 3.5 years … and rapidly growing intrinsic value from there Spacex could easily not focus on revenue this much and continue to just build its core tech for moon and mars , we’ll see Either way, incredibly pumped to be a $SPCX shareholder and congrats to all employees and Elon Musk in this epic IPO. To the moon and mars !!!!! 🚀🚀🚀
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A historic day for financial markets as SpaceX achieves the largest IPO in history at $1.75T The numbers are big but I believe we are early in SpaceX’s arc to make humans multi planetary and become larger than the combined GDP of the world today ($100T ish) Both Starlink and AI satellites can be multi trillion dollar business and are the first two applications of having the reusable rocket launch Next will be building infrastructure on the moon, mars and then asteroid mining Revenue was at $18.8B as of Q1 26 but has already doubled since with the Anthropic and Google deals. Combined with Cursor and Starlink V3 ramp later this year we will be approaching a $50B revenue run rate in just a few months By 2030 I project $500B in potential revenue with half of that if not more as operating cashflow At a 20x multiple on 50% margins we hit $5T valuation in just 3.5 years … and rapidly growing intrinsic value from there Spacex could easily not focus on revenue this much and continue to just build its core tech for moon and mars , we’ll see Either way, incredibly pumped to be a $SPCX shareholder and congrats to all employees and Elon Musk in this epic IPO. To the moon and mars !!!!! 🚀🚀🚀

Gali

16,180 views • 1 month ago

21 Rules of $KASPA 1. Those who understand buy Kaspa. 2. Those who don’t, criticize Kaspa. 3. Everyone is against Kaspa before they are for it. 4. You will never be done learning about Kaspa. 5. Kaspa is powered by chaos. 6. Kaspa is the only game in the casino that we can all win. 7. Kaspa is the one thing in the universe that you can truly own. 8. Everyone gets Kaspa at the price they deserve. 9. Only buy Kaspa with the money you can’t afford to lose. 10. Tickets to escape the matrix are priced in Kaspa. 11. Kaspa insight is restricted to those with a need to know. 12. All your models will be destroyed. 13. The cure to economic ill is the orange pill. 14. Be for Kaspa, not against Fiat. 15. Kaspa is for everyone. 16. Learn to think in Bitcoin & Kaspa. 17. You don’t change Kaspa, it changes you. 18. Laser eyes protect you from endless lies. 19. Respect Bitcoin & Kaspa, or it will make a clown out of you. 20. You do not sell your Bitcoin & Kaspa (unless you understand marketcycles) 21. Spread Bitcoin & Kaspa with love. 22. Bitcoin was the testnet of Kaspa 23. Bitcoin = digital Gold, Kaspa = digital silver 24. Kaspa = 600x faster than Bitcoin (soon 6000x faster) Just have a look at: (change to 10BPS --> end of Q1 implemented) 25. Kaspa solves the Trilemma (read it again) 26. 90% of all KAS in circ supply 27. In 2 years $KAS is already more scarce then $BTC 28. Already 2nd biggest hashrate. Compare with $BTC MC 10 years ago = bigger hashrate already 29. Like $BTC = Firstmover. BTC = first blockchain KAS = first Ghost Blockdag 30. Marathon (biggest publicly listed BTC mining company) is now involved in $KAS Mining BONUS: Binance, Coinbase, VCs & KOLs initially ignored $kas because they had no control over it. Now they’re forced to chase what they once dismissed. Our lesson? Follow the tech, don't go against it. Don´t sleep on it Michael Saylor and just read "The book of Kaspa" #micdrop 🫳🎤
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21 Rules of $KASPA 1. Those who understand buy Kaspa. 2. Those who don’t, criticize Kaspa. 3. Everyone is against Kaspa before they are for it. 4. You will never be done learning about Kaspa. 5. Kaspa is powered by chaos. 6. Kaspa is the only game in the casino that we can all win. 7. Kaspa is the one thing in the universe that you can truly own. 8. Everyone gets Kaspa at the price they deserve. 9. Only buy Kaspa with the money you can’t afford to lose. 10. Tickets to escape the matrix are priced in Kaspa. 11. Kaspa insight is restricted to those with a need to know. 12. All your models will be destroyed. 13. The cure to economic ill is the orange pill. 14. Be for Kaspa, not against Fiat. 15. Kaspa is for everyone. 16. Learn to think in Bitcoin & Kaspa. 17. You don’t change Kaspa, it changes you. 18. Laser eyes protect you from endless lies. 19. Respect Bitcoin & Kaspa, or it will make a clown out of you. 20. You do not sell your Bitcoin & Kaspa (unless you understand marketcycles) 21. Spread Bitcoin & Kaspa with love. 22. Bitcoin was the testnet of Kaspa 23. Bitcoin = digital Gold, Kaspa = digital silver 24. Kaspa = 600x faster than Bitcoin (soon 6000x faster) Just have a look at: (change to 10BPS --> end of Q1 implemented) 25. Kaspa solves the Trilemma (read it again) 26. 90% of all KAS in circ supply 27. In 2 years $KAS is already more scarce then $BTC 28. Already 2nd biggest hashrate. Compare with $BTC MC 10 years ago = bigger hashrate already 29. Like $BTC = Firstmover. BTC = first blockchain KAS = first Ghost Blockdag 30. Marathon (biggest publicly listed BTC mining company) is now involved in $KAS Mining BONUS: Binance, Coinbase, VCs & KOLs initially ignored $kas because they had no control over it. Now they’re forced to chase what they once dismissed. Our lesson? Follow the tech, don't go against it. Don´t sleep on it Michael Saylor and just read "The book of Kaspa" #micdrop 🫳🎤

Jens Illgner - Road To Glory Jil

46,585 views • 1 year ago

I'm very pleased to to share that I’ve now completed what I believe to be the most detailed and up-to-date Kubernetes and Cloud Native (KCNA) certification course available 🚀 Dive Into Cloud Native, Containers, Kubernetes and the and the Cloud Native Associate (KCNA). More than a certification course, it’s a transformational journey to becoming a certified Kubernetes professional 🌟 📚 What sets this course apart? This course covers the CNCF's entire KCNA curriculum and more, taking you from the fundamentals to advanced mastery in Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native technologies. Surpassing the knowledge required to achieve this qualification and providing you with knowledge that will help you in any career. You will also bootstrap the likelihood of success with paths that follow the KCNA such as the CKA, CKAD, Prometheus and GitOps qualifications! 🛠️ Course Features (see the Video for examples): 🖥️ Interactive Hands-On Labs: Dive deep into Kubernetes with our incredible browser-based labs 🎥 In-Depth Video Tutorials: Learn complex concepts through high-quality, engaging videos 📝 Study Tips: Get insider tips before each lesson to maximise your study efficiency ✅ Quizzes: Test your knowledge and reinforce learning at every step 📚 Further Study: Explore beyond the course with curated resources for deeper learning 🏆 3 x Practice Exams: Simulate the real KCNA exam prior to booking to experience to ensure you’re fully prepared! I’m confident that with the comprehensive materials provided that anyone who puts the time and effort in will achieve the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Certification 🏅 🔗 Check out the video for more details. The course is available on my site, and with this announcement I’m excited to continue the early access offer for a small amount of time further! #Kubernetes
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I'm very pleased to to share that I’ve now completed what I believe to be the most detailed and up-to-date Kubernetes and Cloud Native (KCNA) certification course available 🚀 Dive Into Cloud Native, Containers, Kubernetes and the and the Cloud Native Associate (KCNA). More than a certification course, it’s a transformational journey to becoming a certified Kubernetes professional 🌟 📚 What sets this course apart? This course covers the CNCF's entire KCNA curriculum and more, taking you from the fundamentals to advanced mastery in Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native technologies. Surpassing the knowledge required to achieve this qualification and providing you with knowledge that will help you in any career. You will also bootstrap the likelihood of success with paths that follow the KCNA such as the CKA, CKAD, Prometheus and GitOps qualifications! 🛠️ Course Features (see the Video for examples): 🖥️ Interactive Hands-On Labs: Dive deep into Kubernetes with our incredible browser-based labs 🎥 In-Depth Video Tutorials: Learn complex concepts through high-quality, engaging videos 📝 Study Tips: Get insider tips before each lesson to maximise your study efficiency ✅ Quizzes: Test your knowledge and reinforce learning at every step 📚 Further Study: Explore beyond the course with curated resources for deeper learning 🏆 3 x Practice Exams: Simulate the real KCNA exam prior to booking to experience to ensure you’re fully prepared! I’m confident that with the comprehensive materials provided that anyone who puts the time and effort in will achieve the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Certification 🏅 🔗 Check out the video for more details. The course is available on my site, and with this announcement I’m excited to continue the early access offer for a small amount of time further! #Kubernetes

James Spurin

14,355 views • 2 years ago

Hey guys, welcome back. BTC closed inside of the TBO cloud, up 1.66% on Friday, my third green day in a row, the first close inside since it fell out back on May 26. My macro trend is still bearish since all four TBO lines point down, but I'm expecting Bitcoin to stay bullish through July after catching a bullish OBV cross above the 21SMA on Thursday. I'm watching for this week's candle to close above last week's high at 65,622, which is a tall order, but Bitcoin's RSI at 59.69 tells me there's still room to run before overbought. Ethereum had a fantastic day too, closing up 3.3% and shooting up 14% since Wednesday, with a bullish engulfing candle on the weekly and a bullish RSI reset that I like a lot, targeting around 2,080. Solana dropped another 1.9% and remains in bearish consolidation, which I actually see as healthy given Bitcoin dominance staying bearish, since that's keeping alts strong. My total altcoin cap chart closed inside the cloud with a bullish OBV cross too, which I think marks the start of a regime shift, though I'm still telling anyone on a DCA strategy to keep taking profits since we're in a macro bear market overall. On the TradFi side, I saw a bearish TBO reversal print on Thursday plus a wick into the cloud, so I'm on the fence there, watching the Dixie closely since a break above 102 would be real trouble. The Nikkei and KOSPI both bounced, oil stayed oversold for a tenth straight bar, and gold and silver both printed TBO reversal signs that I'm watching for a tag of the fast line before I'd consider taking profit or flipping short. For my picks, I bought Bitcoin cash on its RSI reset, I'm watching Solana, Farcoin, and Whiff for pullback entries, and I flagged Morpho and Aerodrome as showing early bearish reversal signs worth watching this weekend. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 Bitcoin closes inside the TBO cloud 02:46 Ethereum strength and RSI room 04:53 Bitcoin dominance and altcoin breadth 06:53 TradFi setup, Dixie, and USDJPY 09:27 Nikkei, KOSPI, oil, gold, and silver 12:01 Better Traders resources and bot trading 14:17 Kraken, prop trading, Phemex, and AFX 16:20 Bitcoin Cash, Solana, and TBO close shorts 18:30 XRP, SUI, PEPE, VVV, and LAB warnings 20:56 XLM, ALLO, GWEI, FAI, and Fetch 23:21 Micron and MELI pullback setups
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Hey guys, welcome back. BTC closed inside of the TBO cloud, up 1.66% on Friday, my third green day in a row, the first close inside since it fell out back on May 26. My macro trend is still bearish since all four TBO lines point down, but I'm expecting Bitcoin to stay bullish through July after catching a bullish OBV cross above the 21SMA on Thursday. I'm watching for this week's candle to close above last week's high at 65,622, which is a tall order, but Bitcoin's RSI at 59.69 tells me there's still room to run before overbought. Ethereum had a fantastic day too, closing up 3.3% and shooting up 14% since Wednesday, with a bullish engulfing candle on the weekly and a bullish RSI reset that I like a lot, targeting around 2,080. Solana dropped another 1.9% and remains in bearish consolidation, which I actually see as healthy given Bitcoin dominance staying bearish, since that's keeping alts strong. My total altcoin cap chart closed inside the cloud with a bullish OBV cross too, which I think marks the start of a regime shift, though I'm still telling anyone on a DCA strategy to keep taking profits since we're in a macro bear market overall. On the TradFi side, I saw a bearish TBO reversal print on Thursday plus a wick into the cloud, so I'm on the fence there, watching the Dixie closely since a break above 102 would be real trouble. The Nikkei and KOSPI both bounced, oil stayed oversold for a tenth straight bar, and gold and silver both printed TBO reversal signs that I'm watching for a tag of the fast line before I'd consider taking profit or flipping short. For my picks, I bought Bitcoin cash on its RSI reset, I'm watching Solana, Farcoin, and Whiff for pullback entries, and I flagged Morpho and Aerodrome as showing early bearish reversal signs worth watching this weekend. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 Bitcoin closes inside the TBO cloud 02:46 Ethereum strength and RSI room 04:53 Bitcoin dominance and altcoin breadth 06:53 TradFi setup, Dixie, and USDJPY 09:27 Nikkei, KOSPI, oil, gold, and silver 12:01 Better Traders resources and bot trading 14:17 Kraken, prop trading, Phemex, and AFX 16:20 Bitcoin Cash, Solana, and TBO close shorts 18:30 XRP, SUI, PEPE, VVV, and LAB warnings 20:56 XLM, ALLO, GWEI, FAI, and Fetch 23:21 Micron and MELI pullback setups

Aaron Dishner

11,627 views • 13 days ago

Fulu Talisman Ordinals Release Announcement【Backup version】 （The Official Release Announcement of FuluTalisman has gained too much popularity, with nearly 50,000 reads within 24 hours. Excessive private messages and frequent interactions have temporarily frozen the account. It will take a few days to unlock. During this period, operations will be primarily managed by 孟元景| Mark Meng. Collaboration community giveaways can use this tweet.） 🚀Positioning🚀 The world's first decentralized religious PFP Ordinals collection. 5000 years of Chinese Taoist runes. Every Ordinals Address and collection needs the Fulu Talisman to bring good fortune and blessings. 🔥Introduction🔥 XianDAO, a decentralized religious organization, announces the launch of the Ordinals collection “FuluTalisman.” MarkMeng, founder of XianDAO, is the 76th generation descendant of Confucian saints, a disciple of the top Taoist sect with 1600 years of history, and the inheritor of ancient martial arts. MarkMeng deeply believes that BTC is the spiritual totem of the crypto world, but its ecosystem remains underdeveloped. He believes that BTC's ecosystem needs to carve out its own unique path to distinguish itself from others. Inspired by Taoist supreme deity Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity), MarkMeng uncovered and resurrected 250 human-shaped Taoist runes. Using the Bitcoin decentralized network as the largest technological religious altar, he built the XiuXian Meme IP to construct a decentralized religious kingdom on-chain, driving the prosperity of the BTC ecosystem. 📜Basic Information📜 Official Website: XianDAO Discord: Supply: 5000 Launch Platform: TBA Mint Time: TBA ✨Mint Rounds✨ Round 1: OG Round Price: Free Each OG holder address can mint 2 FuluTalisman (snapshot time TBA) Note: It is recommended to split holdings between different addresses (one OG per address). An additional 250 spots will be allocated for XianDAO Builders. Round 2: WL Round Price: 0.0003 BTC (~30 USD) Each address can mint one FuluTalisman. Note: If you wait too long, there is a small chance you may miss out. Round 3: Public Round Price: 0.0003 BTC (~30 USD) Note:Every address can mint one FuluTalisman. 💰Important Notice💰 The #BitcoinXiuXianOG is the safest and most reliable choice. It represents XianDAO’s identity, the core asset of our Meme IP, and the golden shovel. You can even purchase directly here: 🔮Rune Airdrop Rules🔮 FuluTalisman is just the beginning. Our next step is the world’s first decentralized religious rune airdrop through a divine ritual to summon the Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity). Both #BitcoinXiuXianOG and #FuluTalisman collections will receive 50% of the runes, distributed evenly within each collection. The snapshot will be announced before the airdrop, and distribution will be based on the address holdings at that time. #BitcoinXiuXianOG holders will receive approximately 7 times the amount of runes compared to #FuluTalisman holders. 🙏Charitable Donation Request🙏 We are preparing to host the grandest religious ritual in the world’s largest tech temple — the decentralized Bitcoin network. This will be a divine summoning ceremony to invoke the Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity). To achieve this, we need more donations. Please donate BTC to the following address: bc1p262j3h03gfcajhn2ruj75jgvthssnrhupnqdtyceyu90zn4ven9sc9qwd4 Please note: This is a charitable act with no return. It is an opportunity to accumulate merit. You can donate any amount, such as 10U, 15U, or 20U worth of BTC — any contribution is welcome. All BTC will be used to host the divine ritual and empower the arrival of the Emperor of Nothingness. Additional Ordinals collections and runes will be offered as sacrificial gifts to Satoshi Nakamoto’s address. Every donor's address will be recorded and etched on the Bitcoin blockchain as a permanent document of sacrifice, sent to Satoshi’s address. Together, we will help revitalize the BTC ecosystem. All participants in this grand religious ritual will become part of this monumental legacy, eternally etched in history. 🔔Follow, Like, Retweet, and leave your best New Year wishes in the comments with an @ to your friends. This will bring you and your friends good fortune in the New Year. — MarkMeng, 2025.1.13 XianDAO
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Fulu Talisman Ordinals Release Announcement【Backup version】 （The Official Release Announcement of FuluTalisman has gained too much popularity, with nearly 50,000 reads within 24 hours. Excessive private messages and frequent interactions have temporarily frozen the account. It will take a few days to unlock. During this period, operations will be primarily managed by 孟元景| Mark Meng. Collaboration community giveaways can use this tweet.） 🚀Positioning🚀 The world's first decentralized religious PFP Ordinals collection. 5000 years of Chinese Taoist runes. Every Ordinals Address and collection needs the Fulu Talisman to bring good fortune and blessings. 🔥Introduction🔥 XianDAO, a decentralized religious organization, announces the launch of the Ordinals collection “FuluTalisman.” MarkMeng, founder of XianDAO, is the 76th generation descendant of Confucian saints, a disciple of the top Taoist sect with 1600 years of history, and the inheritor of ancient martial arts. MarkMeng deeply believes that BTC is the spiritual totem of the crypto world, but its ecosystem remains underdeveloped. He believes that BTC's ecosystem needs to carve out its own unique path to distinguish itself from others. Inspired by Taoist supreme deity Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity), MarkMeng uncovered and resurrected 250 human-shaped Taoist runes. Using the Bitcoin decentralized network as the largest technological religious altar, he built the XiuXian Meme IP to construct a decentralized religious kingdom on-chain, driving the prosperity of the BTC ecosystem. 📜Basic Information📜 Official Website: XianDAO Discord: Supply: 5000 Launch Platform: TBA Mint Time: TBA ✨Mint Rounds✨ Round 1: OG Round Price: Free Each OG holder address can mint 2 FuluTalisman (snapshot time TBA) Note: It is recommended to split holdings between different addresses (one OG per address). An additional 250 spots will be allocated for XianDAO Builders. Round 2: WL Round Price: 0.0003 BTC (~30 USD) Each address can mint one FuluTalisman. Note: If you wait too long, there is a small chance you may miss out. Round 3: Public Round Price: 0.0003 BTC (~30 USD) Note:Every address can mint one FuluTalisman. 💰Important Notice💰 The #BitcoinXiuXianOG is the safest and most reliable choice. It represents XianDAO’s identity, the core asset of our Meme IP, and the golden shovel. You can even purchase directly here: 🔮Rune Airdrop Rules🔮 FuluTalisman is just the beginning. Our next step is the world’s first decentralized religious rune airdrop through a divine ritual to summon the Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity). Both #BitcoinXiuXianOG and #FuluTalisman collections will receive 50% of the runes, distributed evenly within each collection. The snapshot will be announced before the airdrop, and distribution will be based on the address holdings at that time. #BitcoinXiuXianOG holders will receive approximately 7 times the amount of runes compared to #FuluTalisman holders. 🙏Charitable Donation Request🙏 We are preparing to host the grandest religious ritual in the world’s largest tech temple — the decentralized Bitcoin network. This will be a divine summoning ceremony to invoke the Emperor of Nothingness (The Primordial Supreme Deity). To achieve this, we need more donations. Please donate BTC to the following address: bc1p262j3h03gfcajhn2ruj75jgvthssnrhupnqdtyceyu90zn4ven9sc9qwd4 Please note: This is a charitable act with no return. It is an opportunity to accumulate merit. You can donate any amount, such as 10U, 15U, or 20U worth of BTC — any contribution is welcome. All BTC will be used to host the divine ritual and empower the arrival of the Emperor of Nothingness. Additional Ordinals collections and runes will be offered as sacrificial gifts to Satoshi Nakamoto’s address. Every donor's address will be recorded and etched on the Bitcoin blockchain as a permanent document of sacrifice, sent to Satoshi’s address. Together, we will help revitalize the BTC ecosystem. All participants in this grand religious ritual will become part of this monumental legacy, eternally etched in history. 🔔Follow, Like, Retweet, and leave your best New Year wishes in the comments with an @ to your friends. This will bring you and your friends good fortune in the New Year. — MarkMeng, 2025.1.13 XianDAO

孟元景| Mark Meng

119,923 views • 1 year ago

$TITAN Investment Strategy & Rewards The majority of the presale funds raised will be directed to our uniquely designed, strategic investment portfolio. Carefully designed to seize explosive growth opportunities while ensuring steadier and more reliable rewards. 1⃣BTC We intend to allocate a portion of the funds to acquire a fleet of the latest S21 Hydros BTC miners. Currently, we are working with our partners at Cardania to build a new mining farm, leveraging their highly competitive electricity rates of just $0.052 per kWh. This Bitcoin mining operation is aimed to provide consistent and steady rewards, creating a sustainable foundation for long-term growth and stability. 2⃣IAG We plan to acquire IAG, a token from Iagon, a leader in decentralized cloud storage solutions. $TITAN holders will earn Iagon tokens through our node operations, which offer a highly competitive APR of up to 30%. 3⃣DEDI We plan to participate in the DEDI B2B GPU platform by operating GPUs and sharing the resulting profits with $TITAN holders. Additionally, we will acquire DEDIUM tokens for staking, enabling us to distribute DEDI staking rewards to our holders. 4⃣WMT We recognize the immense potential in WMT, and our investment at this ideal entry point reflects our belief in its long-term value. By strategically incorporating WMT into our portfolio, we position $TITAN holders to benefit from its future success. As the WMT ecosystem grows, the rewards will flow back to our community, aligning us with one of the most innovative projects in the space. 5⃣Other investments & $TITAN treasury We will set aside funds for future investments on Cardano and across other blockchains as we continue to grow. This includes the 15% of the TITAN treasury, which will be dedicated to scaling our operations over time. Details about the presale will be available soon. The Rise Of The $TITAN has begun.
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$TITAN Investment Strategy & Rewards The majority of the presale funds raised will be directed to our uniquely designed, strategic investment portfolio. Carefully designed to seize explosive growth opportunities while ensuring steadier and more reliable rewards. 1⃣BTC We intend to allocate a portion of the funds to acquire a fleet of the latest S21 Hydros BTC miners. Currently, we are working with our partners at Cardania to build a new mining farm, leveraging their highly competitive electricity rates of just $0.052 per kWh. This Bitcoin mining operation is aimed to provide consistent and steady rewards, creating a sustainable foundation for long-term growth and stability. 2⃣IAG We plan to acquire IAG, a token from Iagon, a leader in decentralized cloud storage solutions. $TITAN holders will earn Iagon tokens through our node operations, which offer a highly competitive APR of up to 30%. 3⃣DEDI We plan to participate in the DEDI B2B GPU platform by operating GPUs and sharing the resulting profits with $TITAN holders. Additionally, we will acquire DEDIUM tokens for staking, enabling us to distribute DEDI staking rewards to our holders. 4⃣WMT We recognize the immense potential in WMT, and our investment at this ideal entry point reflects our belief in its long-term value. By strategically incorporating WMT into our portfolio, we position $TITAN holders to benefit from its future success. As the WMT ecosystem grows, the rewards will flow back to our community, aligning us with one of the most innovative projects in the space. 5⃣Other investments & $TITAN treasury We will set aside funds for future investments on Cardano and across other blockchains as we continue to grow. This includes the 15% of the TITAN treasury, which will be dedicated to scaling our operations over time. Details about the presale will be available soon. The Rise Of The $TITAN has begun.

House Of Titans

10,646 views • 1 year ago

A video-text summary of my argument that we now live in the age of TECHNOFEUDALISM (in 16', 2000 words): Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in space but also in the microcosm of genetic engineering. So, how do I dare claim that capitalism has been killed? By whom? The deliciously ironic answer is that capitalism was killed by its own hand… by capital! If I am right, the issue is not what AI will do to us in the future but what has already happened: Capital became so dominant that it mutated into a variant so toxic that, like a stupid virus, it killed off its host, capitalism, replacing it with something far, far worse. This new mutant capital, that killed capitalism, lives in the proverbial cloud – so, let us call it cloud capital. What is cloud capital? What makes it so different? Cloud capital, of course, does not really live up in the cloud. It lives down on Earth, comprising networked machines, server farms, cell towers, software, AI-driven algorithms – and of course it lives on our oceans’ floors where untold miles of optic fibre cables rest. Unlike traditional capital, from fishing rods to the steam-engines of the Industrial Revolution to today’s modern industrial robots that are produced means of production, cloud capital does not produce anything – it comprises machines manufactured so as to modify human behaviour. That’s what Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant or Apple’s Siri is: It is a produced means of behavioural modification. It is a machine, a piece of capital, which we train to train us to train it to determine that which we want. And, once we want it, the same networked machine sells it to us, directly, bypassing markets. As if that were not enough, the same machinery succeeds in making us sustain the enormous behavioural modification machine network to which it belongs with our free voluntary labour. We are sustaining it as we post reviews, rate products, upload videos, rants, photos - we help reproduce cloud capital without getting a penny for our labour. In essence, it has turned us into its cloud serfs! Meanwhile, in the factories and the warehouses, where waged proletarians work under increasingly precarious conditions, the same algorithms that modify our behaviour and sell products to us directly – those algorithms are deployed, usually by digital devices tied to the workers’ wrists, to make proletarians, workers in the warehouses, in the factories work faster, to direct and to monitor them in real time. I started by saying that wherever we turn, we stumble on the triumph of capital. But it is cloud capital that is the real winner. It is amazing how it performs, at once, five roles that used to be beyond capital’s capacities: Cloud capital grabs our attention. It manufactures our desires. It sells to us, directly, outside any traditional markets, that which is going to satiate the desires it made us have. It drives proletarian labour inside the workplaces. And it elicits massive free labour from us, its cloud-serfs. Is it surprising that the owners of this cloud capital – let’s call them cloudalists – have a hitherto undreamt power to extract? To extract gargantuan surplus value from proletarians; untold quantities of free labour from almost everyone; and mind-numbing cloud rents from vassal capitalists – from sellers? Is it a wonder that they are vastly more powerful than Henry Ford or Rupert Murdoch could ever be? “Hang on”, I hear you say. “Is Jeff Bezos really different to Henry Ford? Aren’t they all a species of monopoly capitalists? Monopolists?” No, is not a monopolistic capitalist enterprise. The moment you enter you have exited capitalism altogether! Sure enough, the place is teaming with buyers and sellers. So, yes, it is an enormous trading platform but, no, a market it certainly is not! One man called Jeff owns everything. But he is much, much more than a mere monopolist. Jeff doesn’t own the factories that produce the stuff sold on his platform by traditional capitalists who have to use it to ply their trade. What he does own is more important: Jeff owns the algorithm that decides which products you see and which you don’t – the very algorithm that you have trained to know you perfectly so that it matches youwith a seller, whom it also knows perfectly well, with a view to maximising the probability that every such match, transaction, will generate, for Jeff, the highest rent that Jeff can charge the seller for what you buy: up to 40% of what you pay is pocketed by Jeff, the cloudalist! The mind rebels at the enormity but also the radical novelty of this kind of exploitation: The same algorithm that we help train in real time to know us inside out - that same algorithm both modifies our preferences and administers the selection and delivery of commodities that will satisfy these preferences. If you and I were to type “electric bicycles” or “binoculars” while in you and I would get totally different recommendations. In a traditional market or shopping mall it would be as if you and I were walking next to each other, our eyes trained in the same direction, the same shop window, but we were to see different things depending on what Jeff’s algorithm wants each one of us to see. Everyone navigating around – except Jeff Bezos of course – everyone in is wandering around in algorithmically constructed isolation as if in a Panopticon where, unable to see each other, we only see Jeff’s all-seeing algorithm or, more accurately, only what his algorithm allows us to see with a view to maximising his cloud rent – which is, of course, today’s version of the ground rent that the feudal lords used to extract from their vassals and their peasants. This is not capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to technofeudalism! How did cloud capital kill capitalism? How did it rise up? Who paid for it? Capitalism, lest we forget, had two pillars: markets and profit. Of course, markets and profit remain ubiquitous. Nevertheless, cloud capital has evicted both markets and profit from the centre of our socioeconomic system, pushing them out to its margins, and replacing them: Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by cloud fiefs – digital trading platforms like or Alibaba which, as we saw, look like, but are not, markets. And Profit? The fuel of capitalism? Well, that has been replaced by its feudal predecessor: rent. But, specifically, a new form of rent, a cloud rent that must be paid for access to those cloud fiefs or digital platforms. But how did cloud capital emerge?It began life in the late 1990s when the original Internet, which was a Commons – it functioned as a capitalism-free-zone – that original Internet, Internet 1.0 if you want, was privatised by the emergent Big Tech. Who paid for the trillions it cost to manufacture and to accumulate cloud capital so quickly in the hands of so very few cloudalists? The startling answer is: The G7 countries’ central banks, mostly! How did that happen? Well, by accident, or – to be more precise – by… crisis! After the financial sector collapse of 2008, our central bankers printed up to $35 trillion to bail out the bankers at a time when the governments were subjecting our peoples to harsh austerity. Capitalists were clever enough to foresee that the many would be too impecunious to buy their stuff. So, instead of investing, they took the central bank money to the stock exchange and the bond markets, where they bought shares, bonds – along with yachts, art, bitcoin, NFTs any ‘asset’ they could lay their hands on. The only capitalists who actually invested in capital were Big Tech owners. For example, 9 out of every 10 dollars that went into creating Facebook came from these central bank monies! That’s how cloud capital was financed and how the cloudalists became our new ruling class. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. These old-fashioned, terrestrial capitalists continue to extract surplus value from waged labour, but they are no longer in charge, as they used to be. They have become vassals in relation to the owners of cloud capital, of the cloudalists. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour — in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance to do it. But surely, someone will say, this is still capitalism, isn’t it? So, you are still unconvinced? I know, it is hard to part with the term, with the word, capitalism. It is not just liberals who think of capitalism like fish think of the water they swim in – as natural. Socialists too need to feel that our purpose in life, the reason we landed on this Earth, is to overthrow capitalism. The news that I bring that capital beat us to it, and now we have something worse in capitalism’s place, that news is hard to accept. Indeed, it is mostly my fellow-travelling leftist friends who try to dissuade me – to convince me that, yes, cloud capital may be important but “this is still capitalism mate”. Let’s call it rentier capitalism or monopoly capitalism, they suggest. But that simply will not do! Cloud rent is not like ground rent, because it requires massive investment in new tech. And it is not monopoly rent either, because Bezos and Zuckerberg, instead of monopolising markets to sell their manufactures (like Ford and Eddison did), Bezos and Zuckerberg have replaced markets and have no interest in manufacturing anything (unlike Henry Ford and Thomas Eddison). How about surveillance capitalism? Again, no, it won’t do. Cloudalists do not simply use algorithms to brain wash us on behalf of advertisers in an otherwise capitalist setting. No, cloud capital reproduces itself through our free-labour, it directly exploits waged labour, and it squeezes cloud rents from vassal capitalists in trading platforms that are not markets. This is not capitalism folks! Any kind of capitalism. But what about the observation that technofeudalism is parasitic on the capitalist sector within it? Yes, it is true. Were the conventional capitalists to die out, cloudalists would perish, unable to skim off cloud rents from the manufacturers. So what? After capitalism overthrew feudalism, capitalists were also parasitic on landowners, in the sense that, without private land producing food, capitalism would wither. Similarly, now: While the traditional capitalist sector feeds technofeudalism, it is cloud capital and cloud rent that dominate. Does it matter whether we call it technofeudalism or some form of capitalism? At this point, it is important to recall Marx’s maxim that the point is not to interpret but to change the world. So, does it matter if this is still capitalism or whether we call it technofeudalism? I think it does. Recognising that our world has become technofeudal helps us grasp the enormity of what it will take to organise the victims of exorbitant power, the exploited who, now, include not only waged labourers but also the hordes of cloud serfs who are reproducing the very cloud capital that keeps them in a state of deepening precarity. The concept of technofeudalism drives home the point that organising auto-workers and nurses, while still essential, is insufficient. It elucidates what it will take to organise the movements against the fossil fuel cartel when our means of communication are run on cloud capital primed to poison public opinion. It explains how the shift to electric cars caused German deindustrialisation, as profits due to precision mechanical engineering are being replaced by rents extracted by owners of the cloud capital keeping tabs on the drivers’ routes and in-cabin habits. Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter suddenly makes a lot more sense. Twitter for Musk is an interface between his mechanical capital stock at Tesla and SpaceX and cloud capital. The New Cold War between the USA and China, especially after the war in Ukraine, is explained as the repercussion of an underlying clash between two technofeudalisms, one whose cloud rents are denominated in dollars the other in yuan. Isn’t it mindboggling? It took mind-bending scientific breakthroughs, fantastical neural networks, and imagination-defying AI programs to accomplish what? To create a world where, while privatisation and private equity asset-strip all physical wealth around us, cloud capital goes about the business of asset-stripping our brains. To own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. Once we have reclaimed our minds, we can put them collectively to work out a way to create a new cloud capital commons. It will be damned hard. But it’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artefacts from a produced means of behaviour modification to a produced means of human collaboration and emancipation. Cloud serfs, cloud proles and cloud vassals of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our mind-cloud chains! US Edition: UK Edition: Greek Edition:
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A video-text summary of my argument that we now live in the age of TECHNOFEUDALISM (in 16', 2000 words): Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in space but also in the microcosm of genetic engineering. So, how do I dare claim that capitalism has been killed? By whom? The deliciously ironic answer is that capitalism was killed by its own hand… by capital! If I am right, the issue is not what AI will do to us in the future but what has already happened: Capital became so dominant that it mutated into a variant so toxic that, like a stupid virus, it killed off its host, capitalism, replacing it with something far, far worse. This new mutant capital, that killed capitalism, lives in the proverbial cloud – so, let us call it cloud capital. What is cloud capital? What makes it so different? Cloud capital, of course, does not really live up in the cloud. It lives down on Earth, comprising networked machines, server farms, cell towers, software, AI-driven algorithms – and of course it lives on our oceans’ floors where untold miles of optic fibre cables rest. Unlike traditional capital, from fishing rods to the steam-engines of the Industrial Revolution to today’s modern industrial robots that are produced means of production, cloud capital does not produce anything – it comprises machines manufactured so as to modify human behaviour. That’s what Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant or Apple’s Siri is: It is a produced means of behavioural modification. It is a machine, a piece of capital, which we train to train us to train it to determine that which we want. And, once we want it, the same networked machine sells it to us, directly, bypassing markets. As if that were not enough, the same machinery succeeds in making us sustain the enormous behavioural modification machine network to which it belongs with our free voluntary labour. We are sustaining it as we post reviews, rate products, upload videos, rants, photos - we help reproduce cloud capital without getting a penny for our labour. In essence, it has turned us into its cloud serfs! Meanwhile, in the factories and the warehouses, where waged proletarians work under increasingly precarious conditions, the same algorithms that modify our behaviour and sell products to us directly – those algorithms are deployed, usually by digital devices tied to the workers’ wrists, to make proletarians, workers in the warehouses, in the factories work faster, to direct and to monitor them in real time. I started by saying that wherever we turn, we stumble on the triumph of capital. But it is cloud capital that is the real winner. It is amazing how it performs, at once, five roles that used to be beyond capital’s capacities: Cloud capital grabs our attention. It manufactures our desires. It sells to us, directly, outside any traditional markets, that which is going to satiate the desires it made us have. It drives proletarian labour inside the workplaces. And it elicits massive free labour from us, its cloud-serfs. Is it surprising that the owners of this cloud capital – let’s call them cloudalists – have a hitherto undreamt power to extract? To extract gargantuan surplus value from proletarians; untold quantities of free labour from almost everyone; and mind-numbing cloud rents from vassal capitalists – from sellers? Is it a wonder that they are vastly more powerful than Henry Ford or Rupert Murdoch could ever be? “Hang on”, I hear you say. “Is Jeff Bezos really different to Henry Ford? Aren’t they all a species of monopoly capitalists? Monopolists?” No, is not a monopolistic capitalist enterprise. The moment you enter you have exited capitalism altogether! Sure enough, the place is teaming with buyers and sellers. So, yes, it is an enormous trading platform but, no, a market it certainly is not! One man called Jeff owns everything. But he is much, much more than a mere monopolist. Jeff doesn’t own the factories that produce the stuff sold on his platform by traditional capitalists who have to use it to ply their trade. What he does own is more important: Jeff owns the algorithm that decides which products you see and which you don’t – the very algorithm that you have trained to know you perfectly so that it matches youwith a seller, whom it also knows perfectly well, with a view to maximising the probability that every such match, transaction, will generate, for Jeff, the highest rent that Jeff can charge the seller for what you buy: up to 40% of what you pay is pocketed by Jeff, the cloudalist! The mind rebels at the enormity but also the radical novelty of this kind of exploitation: The same algorithm that we help train in real time to know us inside out - that same algorithm both modifies our preferences and administers the selection and delivery of commodities that will satisfy these preferences. If you and I were to type “electric bicycles” or “binoculars” while in you and I would get totally different recommendations. In a traditional market or shopping mall it would be as if you and I were walking next to each other, our eyes trained in the same direction, the same shop window, but we were to see different things depending on what Jeff’s algorithm wants each one of us to see. Everyone navigating around – except Jeff Bezos of course – everyone in is wandering around in algorithmically constructed isolation as if in a Panopticon where, unable to see each other, we only see Jeff’s all-seeing algorithm or, more accurately, only what his algorithm allows us to see with a view to maximising his cloud rent – which is, of course, today’s version of the ground rent that the feudal lords used to extract from their vassals and their peasants. This is not capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to technofeudalism! How did cloud capital kill capitalism? How did it rise up? Who paid for it? Capitalism, lest we forget, had two pillars: markets and profit. Of course, markets and profit remain ubiquitous. Nevertheless, cloud capital has evicted both markets and profit from the centre of our socioeconomic system, pushing them out to its margins, and replacing them: Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by cloud fiefs – digital trading platforms like or Alibaba which, as we saw, look like, but are not, markets. And Profit? The fuel of capitalism? Well, that has been replaced by its feudal predecessor: rent. But, specifically, a new form of rent, a cloud rent that must be paid for access to those cloud fiefs or digital platforms. But how did cloud capital emerge?It began life in the late 1990s when the original Internet, which was a Commons – it functioned as a capitalism-free-zone – that original Internet, Internet 1.0 if you want, was privatised by the emergent Big Tech. Who paid for the trillions it cost to manufacture and to accumulate cloud capital so quickly in the hands of so very few cloudalists? The startling answer is: The G7 countries’ central banks, mostly! How did that happen? Well, by accident, or – to be more precise – by… crisis! After the financial sector collapse of 2008, our central bankers printed up to $35 trillion to bail out the bankers at a time when the governments were subjecting our peoples to harsh austerity. Capitalists were clever enough to foresee that the many would be too impecunious to buy their stuff. So, instead of investing, they took the central bank money to the stock exchange and the bond markets, where they bought shares, bonds – along with yachts, art, bitcoin, NFTs any ‘asset’ they could lay their hands on. The only capitalists who actually invested in capital were Big Tech owners. For example, 9 out of every 10 dollars that went into creating Facebook came from these central bank monies! That’s how cloud capital was financed and how the cloudalists became our new ruling class. As a result, real power today resides not with the owners of machinery, buildings, railway and phone networks, industrial robots. These old-fashioned, terrestrial capitalists continue to extract surplus value from waged labour, but they are no longer in charge, as they used to be. They have become vassals in relation to the owners of cloud capital, of the cloudalists. As for the rest of us, we have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour — in addition to the waged labour we perform, when we get the chance to do it. But surely, someone will say, this is still capitalism, isn’t it? So, you are still unconvinced? I know, it is hard to part with the term, with the word, capitalism. It is not just liberals who think of capitalism like fish think of the water they swim in – as natural. Socialists too need to feel that our purpose in life, the reason we landed on this Earth, is to overthrow capitalism. The news that I bring that capital beat us to it, and now we have something worse in capitalism’s place, that news is hard to accept. Indeed, it is mostly my fellow-travelling leftist friends who try to dissuade me – to convince me that, yes, cloud capital may be important but “this is still capitalism mate”. Let’s call it rentier capitalism or monopoly capitalism, they suggest. But that simply will not do! Cloud rent is not like ground rent, because it requires massive investment in new tech. And it is not monopoly rent either, because Bezos and Zuckerberg, instead of monopolising markets to sell their manufactures (like Ford and Eddison did), Bezos and Zuckerberg have replaced markets and have no interest in manufacturing anything (unlike Henry Ford and Thomas Eddison). How about surveillance capitalism? Again, no, it won’t do. Cloudalists do not simply use algorithms to brain wash us on behalf of advertisers in an otherwise capitalist setting. No, cloud capital reproduces itself through our free-labour, it directly exploits waged labour, and it squeezes cloud rents from vassal capitalists in trading platforms that are not markets. This is not capitalism folks! Any kind of capitalism. But what about the observation that technofeudalism is parasitic on the capitalist sector within it? Yes, it is true. Were the conventional capitalists to die out, cloudalists would perish, unable to skim off cloud rents from the manufacturers. So what? After capitalism overthrew feudalism, capitalists were also parasitic on landowners, in the sense that, without private land producing food, capitalism would wither. Similarly, now: While the traditional capitalist sector feeds technofeudalism, it is cloud capital and cloud rent that dominate. Does it matter whether we call it technofeudalism or some form of capitalism? At this point, it is important to recall Marx’s maxim that the point is not to interpret but to change the world. So, does it matter if this is still capitalism or whether we call it technofeudalism? I think it does. Recognising that our world has become technofeudal helps us grasp the enormity of what it will take to organise the victims of exorbitant power, the exploited who, now, include not only waged labourers but also the hordes of cloud serfs who are reproducing the very cloud capital that keeps them in a state of deepening precarity. The concept of technofeudalism drives home the point that organising auto-workers and nurses, while still essential, is insufficient. It elucidates what it will take to organise the movements against the fossil fuel cartel when our means of communication are run on cloud capital primed to poison public opinion. It explains how the shift to electric cars caused German deindustrialisation, as profits due to precision mechanical engineering are being replaced by rents extracted by owners of the cloud capital keeping tabs on the drivers’ routes and in-cabin habits. Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter suddenly makes a lot more sense. Twitter for Musk is an interface between his mechanical capital stock at Tesla and SpaceX and cloud capital. The New Cold War between the USA and China, especially after the war in Ukraine, is explained as the repercussion of an underlying clash between two technofeudalisms, one whose cloud rents are denominated in dollars the other in yuan. Isn’t it mindboggling? It took mind-bending scientific breakthroughs, fantastical neural networks, and imagination-defying AI programs to accomplish what? To create a world where, while privatisation and private equity asset-strip all physical wealth around us, cloud capital goes about the business of asset-stripping our brains. To own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. Once we have reclaimed our minds, we can put them collectively to work out a way to create a new cloud capital commons. It will be damned hard. But it’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artefacts from a produced means of behaviour modification to a produced means of human collaboration and emancipation. Cloud serfs, cloud proles and cloud vassals of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our mind-cloud chains! US Edition: UK Edition: Greek Edition:

Yanis Varoufakis

1,816,042 views • 2 years ago

Mito Pereira was a par on the last away from winning the PGA Championship in 2022 before he joined Torque GC on the LIV Golf League later that year. 3 seasons later, he was relegated yesterday after finishing 51st on the Individual Standings. He gave his reaction after the round: “To be honest, I was really happy for Sebastian, really happy for Joaco, really happy for Carlos. Obviously how Sebastian played this tournament, how Joaco played this entire year and Carlos also. It's never easy to play bad, but I tried. I gave my best, and we move on. “Hopefully I'll have more opportunities in the future. If not, I know I gave my best these past two years. But overall really happy for these guys, too, and really happy to get the win with this team. “That, I think, means a lot to me and of course for them. On that side, I'm really happy. On the other one, I just know I gave my best.” You can see on Mito’s face how devastated he is to lose his status, despite his team picking up their first win of the season. He worked so hard over the last few events, often the first and last man on the practice ground, but it just wasn’t enough. He didn’t speak about where he goes from here, but he will likely attempt to earn a contract again via LIV’s pathway systems, The International Series on the Asian Tour (the official feeder tour) or the Promotions Event (Q School). It’s unclear at the moment how many spots are up for grabs, but with the incoming LIV leadership having re-applied for OWGR status, they will likely offer as many spots as it takes to provide a genuine and authentic pathway system. One of the biggest criticisms of the LIV Golf League was the lack of jeopardy, but this season it is definitely there, and it’s brutal!
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Mito Pereira was a par on the last away from winning the PGA Championship in 2022 before he joined Torque GC on the LIV Golf League later that year. 3 seasons later, he was relegated yesterday after finishing 51st on the Individual Standings. He gave his reaction after the round: “To be honest, I was really happy for Sebastian, really happy for Joaco, really happy for Carlos. Obviously how Sebastian played this tournament, how Joaco played this entire year and Carlos also. It's never easy to play bad, but I tried. I gave my best, and we move on. “Hopefully I'll have more opportunities in the future. If not, I know I gave my best these past two years. But overall really happy for these guys, too, and really happy to get the win with this team. “That, I think, means a lot to me and of course for them. On that side, I'm really happy. On the other one, I just know I gave my best.” You can see on Mito’s face how devastated he is to lose his status, despite his team picking up their first win of the season. He worked so hard over the last few events, often the first and last man on the practice ground, but it just wasn’t enough. He didn’t speak about where he goes from here, but he will likely attempt to earn a contract again via LIV’s pathway systems, The International Series on the Asian Tour (the official feeder tour) or the Promotions Event (Q School). It’s unclear at the moment how many spots are up for grabs, but with the incoming LIV leadership having re-applied for OWGR status, they will likely offer as many spots as it takes to provide a genuine and authentic pathway system. One of the biggest criticisms of the LIV Golf League was the lack of jeopardy, but this season it is definitely there, and it’s brutal!

Flushing It

463,741 views • 11 months ago

It's official. OpenAI just launched SORA 2... and an entirely new social app. Truthfully... I wanted to hate this. The idea of an endless turbo slop scroller is just… nightmare fuel to me. BUT. The reason I think Sora (the app) might actually just work, is that it’s a multiplayer meme-creation machine. It’s fun. It doesn’t take itself seriously. I think of it like a super advanced evolution of JibJab. The group chats will love it. Now… personally, I'd guess that I will be churning after the novelty fades… but I wouldn’t be surprised if they built some meaningful network effects here. But let’s talk about the model. Sora 2 is an instant Veo 3 alternative. It actually produces better physics, better audio, and deeper realism imo. It can also generate up to 15 seconds of video. Where it falls short is that it’s limited to 720p right now. We can assume 1080p and 4k exist, but the compute cost associated would probably not be economically viable for OpenAI. Okay back to the app. You can create a model after your own likeness, for yourself OR other people to use as a “cameo.” You have control over who and how someone can use your likeness. I’m “rpn24” on the app. If you have access to the app (it’s invite-only for now) – go ahead and create whatever you want using me (for now). I'm not too worried because OpenAI leaned heavily into moderation for launch. Which is probably smart because I expect the media and general public to blast this at first. They’ve also taken further precautions to protect your likeness. You can not export or save a video with someone else's likeness on it, and screen recording is disabled. Also Sora is testing (first I know of its kind) an algorithm you can prompt.
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It's official. OpenAI just launched SORA 2... and an entirely new social app. Truthfully... I wanted to hate this. The idea of an endless turbo slop scroller is just… nightmare fuel to me. BUT. The reason I think Sora (the app) might actually just work, is that it’s a multiplayer meme-creation machine. It’s fun. It doesn’t take itself seriously. I think of it like a super advanced evolution of JibJab. The group chats will love it. Now… personally, I'd guess that I will be churning after the novelty fades… but I wouldn’t be surprised if they built some meaningful network effects here. But let’s talk about the model. Sora 2 is an instant Veo 3 alternative. It actually produces better physics, better audio, and deeper realism imo. It can also generate up to 15 seconds of video. Where it falls short is that it’s limited to 720p right now. We can assume 1080p and 4k exist, but the compute cost associated would probably not be economically viable for OpenAI. Okay back to the app. You can create a model after your own likeness, for yourself OR other people to use as a “cameo.” You have control over who and how someone can use your likeness. I’m “rpn24” on the app. If you have access to the app (it’s invite-only for now) – go ahead and create whatever you want using me (for now). I'm not too worried because OpenAI leaned heavily into moderation for launch. Which is probably smart because I expect the media and general public to blast this at first. They’ve also taken further precautions to protect your likeness. You can not export or save a video with someone else's likeness on it, and screen recording is disabled. Also Sora is testing (first I know of its kind) an algorithm you can prompt.

Roberto Nickson

147,338 views • 9 months ago

I'M HOSTING A COMPETITION! Want to win $30 of lux? I think theres a lot of potential for speedruns of the Cupper Level Warden Freekit%, me and some friends tried to hit a speedyish time in sponsored survival and finished with 5:12 left. I want to see the best time possible. The rules are as follows: 1. You must only play in the Sponsored Survival gamemode 2. Your entire run must be recorded from at least 1 player's pov 3. You complete the run when the warden is dead and the last button has been shot. 4. Time is based on time left on the IGT (top left) 5. You have until the mode goes away on the 9th of June to post a time 6. Submissions are done either through interaction with this post or via DM's or discord or via Discord ( Please send me the whole run, is a good service. 7. The prize will be delivered as 1x$10 giftcard for each crew member (if you win as a duo or solo we will find a way to get you paid fairly) on a platform of their choosing. Anything that is genuinely gamebreaking is banned too, optimizations are allowed, exploits arent. This covers pretty much everything, my goal with this is to see what the fastest time looks like, their optimizations and their strategies. To that end I nominate ritz and aeiou, two players who are known for their competencies in doing pve fast in bungie games. I invite anyone to join in this competition, I want to see how well you can play this map and complete its pinnacle challenge. May the fastest crew win!
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I'M HOSTING A COMPETITION! Want to win $30 of lux? I think theres a lot of potential for speedruns of the Cupper Level Warden Freekit%, me and some friends tried to hit a speedyish time in sponsored survival and finished with 5:12 left. I want to see the best time possible. The rules are as follows: 1. You must only play in the Sponsored Survival gamemode 2. Your entire run must be recorded from at least 1 player's pov 3. You complete the run when the warden is dead and the last button has been shot. 4. Time is based on time left on the IGT (top left) 5. You have until the mode goes away on the 9th of June to post a time 6. Submissions are done either through interaction with this post or via DM's or discord or via Discord ( Please send me the whole run, is a good service. 7. The prize will be delivered as 1x$10 giftcard for each crew member (if you win as a duo or solo we will find a way to get you paid fairly) on a platform of their choosing. Anything that is genuinely gamebreaking is banned too, optimizations are allowed, exploits arent. This covers pretty much everything, my goal with this is to see what the fastest time looks like, their optimizations and their strategies. To that end I nominate ritz and aeiou, two players who are known for their competencies in doing pve fast in bungie games. I invite anyone to join in this competition, I want to see how well you can play this map and complete its pinnacle challenge. May the fastest crew win!

marathonaire

46,333 views • 1 month ago

I closed out the weekend with a very green run on BTC, up 0.9% Saturday, 0.8% Sunday, and 2.68% week to week, marking five confirmed green days in a row for the first time since that March run all the way back from the 9th to the 16th. Bitcoin is sitting inside the daily TBO cloud in bullish consolidation, RSI hasn't even tagged overbought yet, and I'm now looking at a bullish engulfing candle on the weekly. My target for July is the weekly fast line at 71,145, roughly 12% higher from here, but I want to be clear the macro trend is still strong bearish and this bounce doesn't mean we're going up and to the right forever. Ethereum had a great weekend too, printing its first TBO close short since December, which tells me the short I called back on May 18th (a 29% drawdown) could be winding down. I'm not panic selling shorts yet, I want to wait for a pullback to the fast line before acting either way. Stablecoin dominance combined is showing lower highs and a TBO close long, which lines up with my expectation that this green July is a short term bounce rather than a trend change, and I'm watching for it to go oversold as my signal that the rally is closer to done than people think. Across the board I'm seeing similar setups: Bitcoin dominance printed a bullish divergence, Ethereum dominance is heading toward the top of its cloud where I plan to trim, and Solana dominance is still strong but showing signs a scale out opportunity is coming. In Tradfi, the Dixie looks ready to fall further which is bullish for crypto, gold and silver both have TBO close longs, and oil remains oversold for an incredible stretch. For my picks I like Bitcoin Cash and Aerodrome off their oversold bounces, I'm watching Solana and Ethereum for pullback entries, and I flagged Morpho, Lab, and Professor as weak charts I expect to roll over hard. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 Bitcoin's green weekend and reality check 02:28 Bitcoin RSI, July target, and weekly trend 04:30 Ethereum TBO close short and pullback plan 07:23 Stablecoin dominance and July bounce warning 10:17 Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana dominance 13:18 Total market cap and bullish trap risk 16:11 TradFi, Dixie, USDJPY, and S&P futures 19:15 TBO, journal, Kraken, Phemex, and AFX 22:51 Bitcoin Cash, Aerodrome, LIT, and Solana 25:27 Link, Litecoin, CRO, SKY, KAS, and BONK 28:09 DEXE, RIVER, Morpho, LAB, and Professor 30:44 ONDO, FET, USELESS, NPC, HBAR, and AKT 33:24 AMD, Dell, HOOD, HPE, AMAT, and Dutch Bros 35:38 SMST, BMNZ, and July video wrap
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I closed out the weekend with a very green run on BTC, up 0.9% Saturday, 0.8% Sunday, and 2.68% week to week, marking five confirmed green days in a row for the first time since that March run all the way back from the 9th to the 16th. Bitcoin is sitting inside the daily TBO cloud in bullish consolidation, RSI hasn't even tagged overbought yet, and I'm now looking at a bullish engulfing candle on the weekly. My target for July is the weekly fast line at 71,145, roughly 12% higher from here, but I want to be clear the macro trend is still strong bearish and this bounce doesn't mean we're going up and to the right forever. Ethereum had a great weekend too, printing its first TBO close short since December, which tells me the short I called back on May 18th (a 29% drawdown) could be winding down. I'm not panic selling shorts yet, I want to wait for a pullback to the fast line before acting either way. Stablecoin dominance combined is showing lower highs and a TBO close long, which lines up with my expectation that this green July is a short term bounce rather than a trend change, and I'm watching for it to go oversold as my signal that the rally is closer to done than people think. Across the board I'm seeing similar setups: Bitcoin dominance printed a bullish divergence, Ethereum dominance is heading toward the top of its cloud where I plan to trim, and Solana dominance is still strong but showing signs a scale out opportunity is coming. In Tradfi, the Dixie looks ready to fall further which is bullish for crypto, gold and silver both have TBO close longs, and oil remains oversold for an incredible stretch. For my picks I like Bitcoin Cash and Aerodrome off their oversold bounces, I'm watching Solana and Ethereum for pullback entries, and I flagged Morpho, Lab, and Professor as weak charts I expect to roll over hard. CHAPTER MARKERS 00:00 Bitcoin's green weekend and reality check 02:28 Bitcoin RSI, July target, and weekly trend 04:30 Ethereum TBO close short and pullback plan 07:23 Stablecoin dominance and July bounce warning 10:17 Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana dominance 13:18 Total market cap and bullish trap risk 16:11 TradFi, Dixie, USDJPY, and S&P futures 19:15 TBO, journal, Kraken, Phemex, and AFX 22:51 Bitcoin Cash, Aerodrome, LIT, and Solana 25:27 Link, Litecoin, CRO, SKY, KAS, and BONK 28:09 DEXE, RIVER, Morpho, LAB, and Professor 30:44 ONDO, FET, USELESS, NPC, HBAR, and AKT 33:24 AMD, Dell, HOOD, HPE, AMAT, and Dutch Bros 35:38 SMST, BMNZ, and July video wrap

Aaron Dishner

10,267 views • 11 days ago

Congratulations to 's new CEO, Laura Burkhauser! And congratulations to me on my new role, executive chairman! If you haven't heard it, “executive” chairman is a title founders give themselves so they can still hang around the office and undermine their successor for a few years until they get listless and put themselves back in the job. That’s a joke - at least in our case! As executive chairman, I won’t be in an operating role or be responsible for making decisions… I’ll just be around a little more than a normal board member - to be a sounding board to Laura, to provide historical context and continuity, to solemnly reflect on why no one actually wants to talk to me, etc. Why the change? The very short answer is that Laura is the better CEO for Descript. The longer answer… We’re at an exciting moment in Descript - $55M in ARR, growing 75% YoY (and accelerating!) - and we’re at the beginning of a transformative shift in the company with the launch of our AI video editing agent. As the company gets to this scale, the nature of the CEO role changes. I’ve been through this before, so it’s not a surprise. And I’ve been transparent that, at some point, it would no longer be the job for me. I can work myself into a state of being excited about the role… but why bother when I’ve got someone on deck who will take to it like a fish to water? Which brings us to Laura. Within weeks of becoming our head of product two years ago, I had Laura marked as my successor. She has these things that never occupy the same body: Incredible product judgment, keen business sense, S-tier communication and leadership skills, deeply principled, courageous, unshakable self-confidence — AND she’s a weirdo (I can’t imagine a better culture carrier than the namer of Underlord). I feel lucky to have had this opportunity to work alongside her and be someone she will mistake for having given her a career opportunity that she would have gotten anyway. So once again, congratulations to Laura - and to Descript! May you win at business with grace and magnanimity! Note: I posted this already on LinkedIn. Is that ok? Did I do it alright? Sorry if you read it in two places, it's exactly the same.
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Congratulations to 's new CEO, Laura Burkhauser! And congratulations to me on my new role, executive chairman! If you haven't heard it, “executive” chairman is a title founders give themselves so they can still hang around the office and undermine their successor for a few years until they get listless and put themselves back in the job. That’s a joke - at least in our case! As executive chairman, I won’t be in an operating role or be responsible for making decisions… I’ll just be around a little more than a normal board member - to be a sounding board to Laura, to provide historical context and continuity, to solemnly reflect on why no one actually wants to talk to me, etc. Why the change? The very short answer is that Laura is the better CEO for Descript. The longer answer… We’re at an exciting moment in Descript - $55M in ARR, growing 75% YoY (and accelerating!) - and we’re at the beginning of a transformative shift in the company with the launch of our AI video editing agent. As the company gets to this scale, the nature of the CEO role changes. I’ve been through this before, so it’s not a surprise. And I’ve been transparent that, at some point, it would no longer be the job for me. I can work myself into a state of being excited about the role… but why bother when I’ve got someone on deck who will take to it like a fish to water? Which brings us to Laura. Within weeks of becoming our head of product two years ago, I had Laura marked as my successor. She has these things that never occupy the same body: Incredible product judgment, keen business sense, S-tier communication and leadership skills, deeply principled, courageous, unshakable self-confidence — AND she’s a weirdo (I can’t imagine a better culture carrier than the namer of Underlord). I feel lucky to have had this opportunity to work alongside her and be someone she will mistake for having given her a career opportunity that she would have gotten anyway. So once again, congratulations to Laura - and to Descript! May you win at business with grace and magnanimity! Note: I posted this already on LinkedIn. Is that ok? Did I do it alright? Sorry if you read it in two places, it's exactly the same.

Andrew Mason

39,421 views • 10 months ago

Unpacking OCM Genesis on Bitcoin: A Guide. OCM Genesis is upgrading from Ethereum to Bitcoin this month. I put together this guide to help everyone understand what OCM Genesis holders on Ethereum will get when they upgrade to Bitcoin (Hint: it's A LOT!) 👇👇👇 Before diving in, a reminder that everything you will see in this guide is happening 100% on-chain on #Bitcoin. I've also included a video demonstration of the features! By the end of this guide, it will be clear why this is being called an UPGRADE and not simply a migration! Chapter 1: Viewing Your OCM on Bitcoin To view your OCM Genesis on Bitcoin, navigate to and replace the 09017 with the ID number for your OCM. My OCM is #9017. Chapter 2: Your Sat Page A sat is a small piece of Bitcoin. When you upgrade, you will own the sat identified on your sat page, along with all of the inscriptions on it. The sats your OCM Genesis is inscribed on are significant: Your sat is on Block 9. This is the earliest Bitcoin block in circulation. Your sat is on sat range 450x. Block 9 includes sat 450x through 499x. Sat 450x represents the lowest numbered bitcoin in circulation. Only 2% of Block 9 sats are in sat range 450x. Your sat offset is 178-XXXXX, where XXXXX is the ID number for your OCM. All OCM Genesis were inscribed on sequentially numbered sats, on this specific sat range. 450-178-XXXXX is a good way to remember where your OCM lives. Chapter 3: One Sat, Four Inscriptions At the bottom of the page for your sat you will see several inscriptions: 1. OCM Genesis: Perspectives 2. OCM Genesis: 20219 3. OCM Genesis: Deconstructed (AKA: Objects, Code, Motion) 4*. OCM Genesis: Certificate of Ownership *This will be inscribed onto your sat during your upgrade process. Each of these inscriptions is applied onto your single sat via re-inscription. They are inseparable: permanently intertwined on your Block 9 450x sat. You get ALL FOUR when you upgrade to BTC. Chapter 4: Understanding Your Inscriptions OCM Genesis: Certificate of Ownership This inscription will certify that you are the owner of not only all of the inscriptions on this sat, but also the OCM Genesis on Ethereum (though you will no longer be able to access the asset on Ethereum). OCM Genesis: 20219 The OG. This is the child of the parent inscribed back in February, Inscription #20219, for the year (2021) and month (9) Genesis launched on Ethereum. - Press SPACEBAR to move the eyes! OCM Genesis: Deconstructed The parent was secretly inscribed in March. Inscription #464551. This is an abstract art piece that uses the DNA of your Genesis OCM. - Press SPACEBAR to freeze the current position of the shapes! OCM Genesis: Perspectives The perspective of your OCM changes with each passing minute. Odd minutes = OCM Genesis: 20219. Even minutes = OCM Genesis: Deconstructed. This one has a lot of things going on! - Press '2' to view OCM Genesis: 20219. - Press '3' to view OCM Genesis: Deconstructed. - Press '4' to view the inscription numbers of the two parents (20219, 464551), and the ID of your OCM. - Press 'M' to view the metadata(traits) of your OCM. Popular meta-traits such as Nips, 4+ Zeros, and Matching are included within the metadata. - Right-click-save to download the SVG of OCM Genesis: 20219. Epilogue There is a LOT to unpack here, even just on the surface. Under the surface? The engineering complexity and care woven into these pieces are intrinsic to the art itself, and I believe will come to be appreciated as such. I also think that people will look back and identify OCM Genesis as being well ahead of its time. And hopefully, through this demonstration of the power of Bitcoin Ordinals, OCM inspires other Ethereum collections to UPGRADE over to Bitcoin. !RISE Looking to participate in this historic upgrade? Turn 🔔 on for OnChainMonkey® Pick up an OCM Genesis on Ethereum: Questions? Come join the OCM Discord:
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Unpacking OCM Genesis on Bitcoin: A Guide. OCM Genesis is upgrading from Ethereum to Bitcoin this month. I put together this guide to help everyone understand what OCM Genesis holders on Ethereum will get when they upgrade to Bitcoin (Hint: it's A LOT!) 👇👇👇 Before diving in, a reminder that everything you will see in this guide is happening 100% on-chain on #Bitcoin. I've also included a video demonstration of the features! By the end of this guide, it will be clear why this is being called an UPGRADE and not simply a migration! Chapter 1: Viewing Your OCM on Bitcoin To view your OCM Genesis on Bitcoin, navigate to and replace the 09017 with the ID number for your OCM. My OCM is #9017. Chapter 2: Your Sat Page A sat is a small piece of Bitcoin. When you upgrade, you will own the sat identified on your sat page, along with all of the inscriptions on it. The sats your OCM Genesis is inscribed on are significant: Your sat is on Block 9. This is the earliest Bitcoin block in circulation. Your sat is on sat range 450x. Block 9 includes sat 450x through 499x. Sat 450x represents the lowest numbered bitcoin in circulation. Only 2% of Block 9 sats are in sat range 450x. Your sat offset is 178-XXXXX, where XXXXX is the ID number for your OCM. All OCM Genesis were inscribed on sequentially numbered sats, on this specific sat range. 450-178-XXXXX is a good way to remember where your OCM lives. Chapter 3: One Sat, Four Inscriptions At the bottom of the page for your sat you will see several inscriptions: 1. OCM Genesis: Perspectives 2. OCM Genesis: 20219 3. OCM Genesis: Deconstructed (AKA: Objects, Code, Motion) 4*. OCM Genesis: Certificate of Ownership *This will be inscribed onto your sat during your upgrade process. Each of these inscriptions is applied onto your single sat via re-inscription. They are inseparable: permanently intertwined on your Block 9 450x sat. You get ALL FOUR when you upgrade to BTC. Chapter 4: Understanding Your Inscriptions OCM Genesis: Certificate of Ownership This inscription will certify that you are the owner of not only all of the inscriptions on this sat, but also the OCM Genesis on Ethereum (though you will no longer be able to access the asset on Ethereum). OCM Genesis: 20219 The OG. This is the child of the parent inscribed back in February, Inscription #20219, for the year (2021) and month (9) Genesis launched on Ethereum. - Press SPACEBAR to move the eyes! OCM Genesis: Deconstructed The parent was secretly inscribed in March. Inscription #464551. This is an abstract art piece that uses the DNA of your Genesis OCM. - Press SPACEBAR to freeze the current position of the shapes! OCM Genesis: Perspectives The perspective of your OCM changes with each passing minute. Odd minutes = OCM Genesis: 20219. Even minutes = OCM Genesis: Deconstructed. This one has a lot of things going on! - Press '2' to view OCM Genesis: 20219. - Press '3' to view OCM Genesis: Deconstructed. - Press '4' to view the inscription numbers of the two parents (20219, 464551), and the ID of your OCM. - Press 'M' to view the metadata(traits) of your OCM. Popular meta-traits such as Nips, 4+ Zeros, and Matching are included within the metadata. - Right-click-save to download the SVG of OCM Genesis: 20219. Epilogue There is a LOT to unpack here, even just on the surface. Under the surface? The engineering complexity and care woven into these pieces are intrinsic to the art itself, and I believe will come to be appreciated as such. I also think that people will look back and identify OCM Genesis as being well ahead of its time. And hopefully, through this demonstration of the power of Bitcoin Ordinals, OCM inspires other Ethereum collections to UPGRADE over to Bitcoin. !RISE Looking to participate in this historic upgrade? Turn 🔔 on for OnChainMonkey® Pick up an OCM Genesis on Ethereum: Questions? Come join the OCM Discord:

imjosh

21,189 views • 2 years ago

This Chinese developer linked two $2,999 NVIDIA DGX Sparks into one box and runs the full Qwen3-235B at home, after dropping his $1,999-a-month cloud bill to zero. He wired 2 small boxes into a single computer, split a giant 235-billion-parameter model in half between them, and serves it across his own network at about 10 tokens a second, with no internet, no cloud, right there on the desk. No data center, no thousand-dollar graphics cards, no monthly cloud bill. Just him, 2 gold boxes the size of a sandwich, one cable between them, and 1 power strip. And here is the whole payoff. He used to pay the cloud $1,999 a month for the same model, and the meter ticked on every request. Now he paid $5,998 once for 2 boxes, they covered their cost in 3 months, and after that he sends as many requests as he wants for free, only electricity. The two Sparks talk over one fast cable, each holds 128GB of memory, and together they carry the whole model, about 73GB loaded per box, with the chip inside pinned near the limit at 96%. Both boxes work as one and keep trading data over the cable, with no cloud in the loop and no single word leaking out. The ready model sits on one local address, and any app on his network calls it as easily as ChatGPT. And here is how he described, in plain words, what this pair of boxes does: "this is a pair of boxes that holds the huge Qwen3-235B model and serves it to one network. the model is split in half, and each box owns its half. parts: // Box 1 (holds the first half of the model and starts the answer fast, the first word appears in under a second) // Box 2 (holds the second half and writes out the rest, about 10 tokens a second) // Cable (connects the 2 boxes and moves data between them on every step, with no lag) // Address (one local address where any app sends its request, like to a cloud model) // Test (a script that runs big prompts through and measures speed and delays) // Monitor (checks temperature, power draw, and load on both boxes every 2 seconds). the model never goes to the cloud. he only steps in when a box runs hotter than 80 degrees or the cable between them starts dropping data." So the system knows exactly what it is, what it is for, and where its limits are. It knows it has to hold the whole huge model across 2 boxes on its own. It knows it has to answer every request locally, with no meter, no limits, and no internet. It knows the human is only needed when a box overheats or the link between them stalls. → The setup runs around the clock on 2 boxes, each pulling under 60 watts → However many requests he sends, the monthly bill is $0, only electricity → The first box starts the answer in under a second → The second writes text at about 10 tokens a second → One request at a time: 838 tokens in 85 seconds, first word in 0.8s → Two requests at once: 697 tokens in 108 seconds, first word in 0.7s → Both boxes sit at 96% load and warm up to 76-78 degrees And only when a chip in a box runs hotter than 80 degrees or the cable between the 2 Sparks drops data does the system call the owner. And when he himself is out on a run or in a coffee shop, he still reaches his own model at home from his phone: sends a big prompt to the local Qwen3-235B, gets the full answer back in under a minute and a half, with no token meter ticking and no limit to hit. Here is what the test shows on his screen during one of the night runs: "one request at a time: 838 tokens in 84.9 seconds, first word in 0.8s, then 0.1s per token." "two requests at once: 697 tokens in 107.6 seconds, first word in 0.7s, then 0.15s per token." "Box 1: chip at 96% load, 76 degrees, 56 watts, 73GB used in memory." "Box 2: chip at 96% load, 78 degrees, 56 watts, the Qwen3-235B model fully loaded." And while everyone around is paying for AI by the month and bumping into limits, his top-tier model just sits on the desk and works as much as he wants: his own little power plant instead of a forever meter. He has no server rack of his own and no cloud account behind it. Just 2 DGX Spark boxes on a desk, one model split in half between them, one local address, and a folder of prompts next to it. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest way to stop paying for AI: $5,998 of hardware on the desk once, $0 a month to the cloud, unlimited forever, and between them 2 gold boxes, 1 cable, and the full Qwen3-235B answering at home with no internet.
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This Chinese developer linked two $2,999 NVIDIA DGX Sparks into one box and runs the full Qwen3-235B at home, after dropping his $1,999-a-month cloud bill to zero. He wired 2 small boxes into a single computer, split a giant 235-billion-parameter model in half between them, and serves it across his own network at about 10 tokens a second, with no internet, no cloud, right there on the desk. No data center, no thousand-dollar graphics cards, no monthly cloud bill. Just him, 2 gold boxes the size of a sandwich, one cable between them, and 1 power strip. And here is the whole payoff. He used to pay the cloud $1,999 a month for the same model, and the meter ticked on every request. Now he paid $5,998 once for 2 boxes, they covered their cost in 3 months, and after that he sends as many requests as he wants for free, only electricity. The two Sparks talk over one fast cable, each holds 128GB of memory, and together they carry the whole model, about 73GB loaded per box, with the chip inside pinned near the limit at 96%. Both boxes work as one and keep trading data over the cable, with no cloud in the loop and no single word leaking out. The ready model sits on one local address, and any app on his network calls it as easily as ChatGPT. And here is how he described, in plain words, what this pair of boxes does: "this is a pair of boxes that holds the huge Qwen3-235B model and serves it to one network. the model is split in half, and each box owns its half. parts: // Box 1 (holds the first half of the model and starts the answer fast, the first word appears in under a second) // Box 2 (holds the second half and writes out the rest, about 10 tokens a second) // Cable (connects the 2 boxes and moves data between them on every step, with no lag) // Address (one local address where any app sends its request, like to a cloud model) // Test (a script that runs big prompts through and measures speed and delays) // Monitor (checks temperature, power draw, and load on both boxes every 2 seconds). the model never goes to the cloud. he only steps in when a box runs hotter than 80 degrees or the cable between them starts dropping data." So the system knows exactly what it is, what it is for, and where its limits are. It knows it has to hold the whole huge model across 2 boxes on its own. It knows it has to answer every request locally, with no meter, no limits, and no internet. It knows the human is only needed when a box overheats or the link between them stalls. → The setup runs around the clock on 2 boxes, each pulling under 60 watts → However many requests he sends, the monthly bill is $0, only electricity → The first box starts the answer in under a second → The second writes text at about 10 tokens a second → One request at a time: 838 tokens in 85 seconds, first word in 0.8s → Two requests at once: 697 tokens in 108 seconds, first word in 0.7s → Both boxes sit at 96% load and warm up to 76-78 degrees And only when a chip in a box runs hotter than 80 degrees or the cable between the 2 Sparks drops data does the system call the owner. And when he himself is out on a run or in a coffee shop, he still reaches his own model at home from his phone: sends a big prompt to the local Qwen3-235B, gets the full answer back in under a minute and a half, with no token meter ticking and no limit to hit. Here is what the test shows on his screen during one of the night runs: "one request at a time: 838 tokens in 84.9 seconds, first word in 0.8s, then 0.1s per token." "two requests at once: 697 tokens in 107.6 seconds, first word in 0.7s, then 0.15s per token." "Box 1: chip at 96% load, 76 degrees, 56 watts, 73GB used in memory." "Box 2: chip at 96% load, 78 degrees, 56 watts, the Qwen3-235B model fully loaded." And while everyone around is paying for AI by the month and bumping into limits, his top-tier model just sits on the desk and works as much as he wants: his own little power plant instead of a forever meter. He has no server rack of his own and no cloud account behind it. Just 2 DGX Spark boxes on a desk, one model split in half between them, one local address, and a folder of prompts next to it. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest way to stop paying for AI: $5,998 of hardware on the desk once, $0 a month to the cloud, unlimited forever, and between them 2 gold boxes, 1 cable, and the full Qwen3-235B answering at home with no internet.

Blaze

93,219 views • 1 month ago

matthew's 5 minute ment from the last day of encore con... i always get so touched when he mentions the simplest of things the 9 of them did and how he just wants to do it again together... 🦊 i... am having a lot of thoughts right now, there were so many moments that we've had together for the past 2, actually 3 years now. as for you guys, you watch us perform on stage the most often but what i'm thinking of right now is when we get off work at dawn and joke around with each other and just laugh and send funny pics of each other too, everything was so simple but those times... i really will miss it so much, those small sides (of ourselves) and when i went to bed yesterday i also felt a little weird. like i was somewhat... scared. but why am i scared? i was not scared to perform on stage, i was scared since this would be our last time performing as 9 of us, just... when i felt lonely too, like what gunwook said, we could go up and down the dorms and talk to each other, when we go overseas, we would just talk and laugh in the hotel until dawn, this is... i will just miss this so much. we worked so hard too and, back then too during our 2.5 years we were like "wah it's been 2.5 years!" but it ended as soon as we opened our eyes so it felt like a dream. it just didn't make sense. so even now i'm actually, recently when i went back to the dorm, ricky wasn't there. it was a bit... i just miss ricky. i really miss him so much 🐱 i miss you too, i'll come find you a lot at the dorm 🦊 i really miss everything, like how ricky showers and sings at dawn and i miss every single thing. 🦊 firstly, i like it most when i see the members' faces so please let me see it once as a group. *group hug* 🦊 oh... so actually after i came to korea, whenever i felt lonely, i could just send kkt messages to the guys and we could just meet and have a meal too and that was so nice. for me, it was so simple to have a meal amongst us but it made my heart so warm. so... my first feeling was, after we debuted did we have jjajangmyeon and pizza? back then i was so happy and it was the start of us, now i just... want to have a meal together again... i'm sincerely looking forward so much to every members' future and you guys will love the 9 of us forever, right? i'll also watch the guys' videos and upload comments, you guys have to do it too! zerobaseone is forever. don't worry. i love you!
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matthew's 5 minute ment from the last day of encore con... i always get so touched when he mentions the simplest of things the 9 of them did and how he just wants to do it again together... 🦊 i... am having a lot of thoughts right now, there were so many moments that we've had together for the past 2, actually 3 years now. as for you guys, you watch us perform on stage the most often but what i'm thinking of right now is when we get off work at dawn and joke around with each other and just laugh and send funny pics of each other too, everything was so simple but those times... i really will miss it so much, those small sides (of ourselves) and when i went to bed yesterday i also felt a little weird. like i was somewhat... scared. but why am i scared? i was not scared to perform on stage, i was scared since this would be our last time performing as 9 of us, just... when i felt lonely too, like what gunwook said, we could go up and down the dorms and talk to each other, when we go overseas, we would just talk and laugh in the hotel until dawn, this is... i will just miss this so much. we worked so hard too and, back then too during our 2.5 years we were like "wah it's been 2.5 years!" but it ended as soon as we opened our eyes so it felt like a dream. it just didn't make sense. so even now i'm actually, recently when i went back to the dorm, ricky wasn't there. it was a bit... i just miss ricky. i really miss him so much 🐱 i miss you too, i'll come find you a lot at the dorm 🦊 i really miss everything, like how ricky showers and sings at dawn and i miss every single thing. 🦊 firstly, i like it most when i see the members' faces so please let me see it once as a group. *group hug* 🦊 oh... so actually after i came to korea, whenever i felt lonely, i could just send kkt messages to the guys and we could just meet and have a meal too and that was so nice. for me, it was so simple to have a meal amongst us but it made my heart so warm. so... my first feeling was, after we debuted did we have jjajangmyeon and pizza? back then i was so happy and it was the start of us, now i just... want to have a meal together again... i'm sincerely looking forward so much to every members' future and you guys will love the 9 of us forever, right? i'll also watch the guys' videos and upload comments, you guys have to do it too! zerobaseone is forever. don't worry. i love you!

~원~

56,789 views • 4 months ago