Exactly 4 years ago today, I sat in a company-wide meeting with a "crypto expert."

He said Bitcoin was useless beyond being digital gold — and some random altcoin called Polkadot was the future. Everyone thanked him for his wisdom. We were supposed to learn from "industry experts" to keep up with trends as early-stage venture investors.

I started digging deeper into Bitcoin and calling out altcoins as scams.

A senior partner pulled me aside and tore me down:

"Are we done here?"

"You have no track record."

"Your conviction is like a religious belief."

"You're being irrational and ideological."

He laughed when I said maybe the financial system is broken. From his perspective, he couldn’t see it — because he was making a fortune pumping startups that barely existed. The irony was lost on him: the very fact that so much money was being thrown at vaporware proved just how broken the system was.

Another partner called me a spruiker — said I was trying to pump my own Bitcoin bag to get rich and dump it on others.

It was hard to hold steady when surrounded by people who benefit from the status quo.

That day, I wrote in my journal: "As of today, I've decided to leave [this company]."

Four years later, Polkadot is down 90% against Bitcoin. And it’s been the best four years of my life.

(Btw, I use a journalling app called Journey that reminds me of what I wrote x years ago today, it's useful for reflecting)

This is health food!

If you disagree, I'm happy to teach you...

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of the dusty tarps being ripped off money printers around the world.

The big print is coming.

Ha ha ha only on nostr you got to love it

not sure why people are so bearish but imma stay humble and stack sats about it

⚡️📅 TODAY: Exactly 32 years ago, Eric Hughes wrote and shared the Cypherpunk Manifesto.

In it, he describes the main objective of what a cypherpunk should be, namely someone who builds anonymous systems and advocates for privacy and freedom.

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something you don’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something you don’t want anyone to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

The manifesto emphasizes the importance of privacy and confidentiality at the heart of the movement.

"Privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. So far, money has been the primary system of this type. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system allows individuals to reveal their identity when they choose and only when they choose; this is the essence of privacy."

This manifesto is primarily a call to action; creating theories is good, but they must be put into practice and concrete, usable applications must be established immediately.

"We, the Cypherpunks, are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We defend our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail transfer systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money."

⚡️🚨 ALERT: Internal Ripple emails, submitted in the SEC’s lawsuit over unregistered securities sales, reveal the company was behind promoting the “Bitcoin is controlled by China” FUD.

⚡️🚨 In a Google Doc file seized by the court, SBF detailed his options if he got caught during FTX's drift.

One of the proposals was to conduct an interview with Tucker Carlson and claim to be a Republican: done ✅