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1/9) The bull market has arrived, here is what you need to know: ๐ŸŽ“

Out of the top 30 by market cap; the majority are scams or make ZERO sense!

Distracting good people from the crypto revolution's gems

No shill! I cannot tell you what to buy; only what features to look for: ๐Ÿงต
2/9) Scalability:

Without scalability, real adoption & growth are impossible!

There is no point to chains that do not scale...

Capacity is measured in "Transactions Per Second"

Scalability is about getting the most TPS for the smallest possible validator (node) requirements;
3/9) Decentralization:

More than only a buzzword; it is the reason why crypto has any value in the first place

Measuring decentralization has to be done holistically, taking multiple metrics into account;

Validator counts/caps, stake distribution, client diversity & politics!
4/9) Governance:

Another often overlooked decentralization metric, in the long run: This can make or break a cryptocurrency

To avoid the inevitable capture & perversion of centralized governance

Formalized on-chain stakeholder (decentralized) governance must be set up! โœŠ
5/9) Economics:

The ideal economic design for an L1 blockchain is; a small tail inflation combined with a fee burn

Sustainable no matter what, while being more scarce in a favorable scenario; it is superior under all circumstances!

Both ETH & SOL got this right, unlike BTC...
6/9) Programmability & Consensus:

Programmability is a must-have feature, this has to take the form of a "Virtual Machine"

For example; ETH's EVM or SOL's SVM

Proof of Stake (PoS) is another must-have, the efficiencies gained are undeniable; more secure & more decentralized!
7/9) Conclusion:

This only scratches the surface of what a fundamental approach to crypto does

Many will disagree with my conclusions, so think for yourself!

Crypto is full of tribalism & quasi-religious cults; people lose themselves

Fundamental analysis can be our north star
8/9) Be the contrarian & join me in speaking the truth; that the top two chains are total nonsense

As they fail the criteria we set out here

Without stakeholder governance or scalability, they are neither decentralized nor useful!

Anything below a few thousand TPS is a joke!
9/9) There lies a golden opportunity, as we can touch that future now! ๐Ÿช™

The more irrational the market, the greater the opportunity a value investor sees

So diversify your portfolio & your mind, question everything from first principles &;

Whatever you do, resist the cult ๐Ÿ™

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Oct 28
1/9) Ethereum is cooked

Corrupted by L2 VC funding & tokens, nobody is scaling ETH's L1 anymore; they will not allow it!

That is why there is no hope left for ETH anymore

Following the bitcoiners into irrelevance with quasi-religious word salads justifying their mediocrity: ๐Ÿงต
2/9) A sad end for such a beautiful chain that once promised to change the world

Today ETH could not be further away from that original cypherpunk dream, as L1 capacity is so limited

While all major L2s can steal, censor & freeze user funds, where did they expect users to go?
3/9) Users are far worse off in fragmented & centralized L2s (ETH)

That is why SOL exceeds ETH & all L2s combined on usage on most days

Anyone who both values real usage & decentralization is clearly way better off on SOL!

At least SOL cannot steal, censor & freeze user funds!
Read 9 tweets
Oct 27
1/9) BTC is a dinosaur; the technology is ridiculously out-of-date

At an embarrassing 7-13 max Transaction-Per-Second, it is in a position to disrupt nothing

All while being the most inefficient possible, as it excels at nothing

From utility to economics, BTC is a failure: ๐Ÿงต
2/9) As an experiment, BTC was a great success, paving the way for better blockchains

Instead of 10-60min, competitors have a finality of 1-6sec

Instead of a TPS of 13, competitors have capacities exceeding 100k

The alternatives are also more programmable & economically sound!
3/9) The reason why BTC cannot keep up is governance:

Theoretically, BTC could adopt the best tech, but in practice, that is not true

In reality, BTC has been captured by a small group

Bitcoiners are not only to blame, as it is a systemic flaw in BTC's governance design!
Read 9 tweets
Sep 23
1/9) NEAR has finally implemented sharding!

The holy grail of blockchain scaling, solving the blockchain trilemma once & for all

Stateless validation was the last missing piece of the puzzle

Giving us massive capacity without sacrificing decentralization, the future is now! ๐Ÿงต
2/9) Horizontal scaling is the name of the game

Instead of all nodes verifying all state, a fundamentally unscalable paradigm; quadratic growth

Sharding breaks up the workload between groupings of nodes (shards); linear growth

Allowing for unbounded scalability; Ad Astra!
3/9) Explaining why ETH pursued this tech for the majority of its developmental history

Before it gave up by 2022, settling for "L2 scaling" instead, as sharding was "too hard"

The twist in the story is that competing chains have now succeeded in implementing sharding instead!
Read 9 tweets
Sep 20
1/9) Frankendancer was announced to be live on SOL mainnet today!

A massive leap in scalability, reliability & decentralization

Putting SOL in the August ranks of chains with client diversity, as they can be counted on one hand

Let's break down why this changes everything: ๐Ÿงต
2/9) Starting with Decentralization:

Multiple client implementations are critical for achieving true decentralization over the long term!

Without client diversity, blockchains are reduced to single-party systems

As a stakeholder vote, without any real choice, is meaningless!
3/9) This is why I refer to BTC as a "GitHub dictatorship"

As Core was able to consolidate power by pushing out opposing clients

If you want to learn more about this history, read @rogerkver's "Hijacking Bitcoin"

Or study my political theory in "Theory on Bitcoin governance"
Read 9 tweets
Sep 14
1/17) Tether is a 118 billion dollar scam; bigger than FTX & Bernie Madoff combined!

No proof of reserves & an audit has never been done; USDT is printing counterfeit money (fraud)

Caught falsifying documents, obscuring identities & lying about reserves

Stop using USDT now! ๐Ÿงต
2/17) The potential for collapse here is greater than Terra Luna!

Making it one of the biggest existential threats to crypto as a whole

As we have to trust they hold $118B in collateral without proof!

Even after the CFTC fined Tether for lying about their reserves in 2021... Image
3/17) There has never been an audit of USDT, despite promising to do so since 2015

This means we have to take their word for the vast majority of reserves, as they cannot be independently verified

The first firm to attempt an audit even got fired for being too thorough in 2018! Image
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Sep 5
1/12) Most L2s will never decentralize!

All of the proposed solutions require L2s to sacrifice sequencer revenue...

This is a fantasy, as for-profit companies do not act against their own financial incentives, nor should they

The fault lies with ETH for not scaling the L1! ๐Ÿงต
2/12) L2s are not "extensions" of Ethereum, as they do not inherit its qualities at all

All major L2s can steal & censor user funds; that is not decentralized, so that is not ETH!

It is a lie perpetuated by L2s who are parasitically leeching off ETH for their own selfish profit
3/12) Based roll-ups & sequencing might have worked

However, ETH has gone too far down the L2 road

Where return is now likely impossible, as ETH has crossed the Rubicon (a fallen republic)

Because scaling the L1 would now destroy billions of dollars in L2 equity & token value!
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