So Charles - the space pinned to my profile he tells me he no longer controls ADA since he burned the Genesis keys But he also: -keeps receiving hundreds of millions of USD of ADA through all his companies to keep working on Cardano (he made threats to dreps if they didnt approve) - makes threats that Cardano will fail if his "4th generation" new blockchain midnight fails - and now tells us we should stop using open public town hall forums that promote free speach and instead move towards his private discord? HAHAHAHAHAHA When i think he couldnt get more brazen

is USDC on base the current front runner for agentic wallets?

Please answer all concerned people @COTInetwork: Is it just me, or are we dealing with opportunistic amateurs trying to cash out by riding a narrative? After the AMA we still have no names. We don’t know who really bought COTI. There is no ZK Foundation anymore. @RobbieVdg says “we” but doesn’t explain who “we” are. He also says people from the old team are involved but doesn’t say who. @shahafbg is cowering like nobody else. The COTI website says the ECB or Bank of Israel are using COTI, which is literally lying. I check the chain every day. The only right thing @RobbieVdg says is that institutions/banks are old, so partnerships are very slow to get and even slower to use. Because of that they want to turn COTI into a travel app. WTF I also don’t understand how we can provide a serious service without KYC. Why won’t @RobbieVdg explain how he manages to do all this? What happened here? @last_aka @Mila07032022 @DenkTankG @whoistracer @Yan_COTI @Coti_Ship @coti_marc

There's nothing kind about letting good people live in a fantasy world that no longer exists. You have to tell them, even if it hurts. Because the sooner they accept reality, the sooner they can adapt to the future.

Happy Birthday indeed.

~$80 per Tx when you factor in development cost to founding entities

@bigpey the grifter saying this after asking for more than 1 and a half million for his ghost projects, easy to say now.....

we are so back

Hanging out on the 10th floor of the CME cool views 😎

This feels like an exit. I'm out.

I have just been banned from the COTI Telegram for calling out how unprofessional this move looks. Usually not a good sign, but hey... stay COTI.

I think the conflict was more on the IOG/ambassador side regarding catalyst/funding using a treasury meant for cardano stretched across both ada & night (midnight was its own mess both in timing/launch & competing against a still incomplete cardano for users, liquidity, devs, etc., but that would warrant its own separate discussion) I've held iagon since 2021, & watched no one care, everyone fomo in, ppl get frustrated with delays like in any crypto project, & then opened up arguments across FEs/blockfrost vs iagon, which in a way could feel like a self-fulfilling prophecy when everyone dogpiles a project when they struggle price wise, but it isnt as clear cut I deeply condemn charles (all while using his weight as he tries to claw back executive function) attacking projects critical of his own or founding entity leadership, such as Optim or Iagon, and it isnt the first time charles tried to lead the charge to force projects to fold or self-immolate bc they competed against him or his private interests &/or called him out on specific deliverables or leadership (or lack thereof) Imo, I've held before anyone cared before they were even on Cardano (and they were also one of the only projects to ever leave Eth & come to cardano, for better or worse based on failures of the chain to address fundamental industry shortcomings), didnt sell at the peak when everyone else bought, & will continue to hold as I made an investment in a business, and I accept the outcome whether they succeed or not, as opposed to the emotional fallout that wrapped up many in the space across many projects, not just this one

Genius Yield announce they will close community channels on October 15. True to style, they don’t keep their word and scrub everything immediately. CTO @LarsBrunjes 🚩 is seemingly OK with this approach.

so @hoskytoken takes a shot at me and this is how he treats all his supporters, not to mention if I change it to USD its much worse. shameful instead of calling out corruption.

The race-to-the-bottom argument is just a fear of competition TBH. Imagine I wanted to "attack" Starbucks in such a way that I make them go out of business. The idea is to give out free coffee to everyone and steal their business, right? But the problem is that I still have to pay for inventory, labor, etc. So I couldn't keep up the attack for long enough to matter. Unless of course I can actually source same-quality labor and materials for cheaper, in which case I could actually compete with Starbucks, which drives the prices of coffee down. That's an ideal result. Competition is a good thing. But if you instead try to force a minimum price of coffee via government regulation, then your attacker can keep up his attack indefinitely too since you are ensuring he also breaks even. And then he still steals customers AND the price of coffee gets artificially inflated. This is why minPoolCost needs to be lowered and much as possible and removed.

We should program Midnight.city to focus on honesty, right @grok

this is the mindset of hoskeytoken, truth doesnt matter just how many followers the person speaking has... they think they can just mute and block reality

Charles you're an incredible builder, of fantasies in your head. Your entire identity of a capable entrepreneur has been spun out of thin air, tell me what good or service that you've built meaningfully contributes to people's lives, or achieved any kinda of commercial success? Your mouth runs far ahead of your ability to execute and deliver. ADA had momentary success on the charts not because of what you delivered, but for what you promised. When it came time to ship those dreams, gravity and reality caught up with you. The days of any significant number of people trusting you are as gone as the $3 ADA you like to point to so often these days. The people you surround yourself with, who you think still trust you, are using you to enrich themselves. They talk shit about you behind you're back and laugh at you for thinking they care about you. You're as alone now as you were in your darkness treat, but this time no one is coming to let you out of yourself.

if you want to save some time and expense we can go into a dark cave together and see who comes out first.