vitalik says ethereum is turning into something bigger than a blockchain @VitalikButerin ♥ 1.7k · read more
"the cryptographic world computer" is his attempt to say in one frame what everything planned after the hegota fork adds up to. he calls the result a hybrid.
@VitalikButerin · ♥ 1.7k The cryptographic world computer: https://t.co/ueayODeUPo My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blo @DrNickA · ♥ 27 Very much like the direction here and it's true that blockchains have become something much more than Bitcoin. Ethereum will become a generalised surface for private world computation and coordination. The cryptographic world computer. @binji_x · ♥ 46 @VitalikButerin So much bullshit has happened in crypto and we lost many of the people who were first drawn to it along the way. This new vision is a chance to get them back and bring far more people along too. This is so much better, far mbritish police arrested several men with explosives next to a us air base @sentdefender ♥ 3.1k · read more
per @sentdefender, a "major incident" at RAF Fairford, home to US B-52 bombers. the village of whelford was evacuated and the suspect vans sat one street from the perimeter.
@sentdefender · ♥ 3.1k British police have declared a "major incident" near RAF Fairford, the U.S. Air Force base in Gloucestershire, England, after arresting several men on suspicion of offenses under the UK's Explosives Act. Homes in the nearby village of Whelf @sentdefender · ♥ 257 The suspect vans were one street and a field away from the perimeter of RAF Fairford. Authorities are still investigating the incident. @MarioNawfal · ♥ 118 🇬🇧 MASSIVE emergency response continues next to RAF Fairford Dozens of police units, ambulances, and bomb disposal teams are on site following multiple arrests under the Explosives Act Armed police and military forces are maintaining a stzcash hit an all-time high while bitcoin sits at $85,000 @CryptoWendyO ♥ 314 · read more
$ZEC around $1,645, per @inthepixels. @rickmanelius notes zcash is now about 85% of bitcoin's size on coinbase spot markets by dollar volume. it's a rotation, not a selloff.
trump turned down iran's offer of a week-long ceasefire @RyanAFournier ♥ 351 · read more
per @RyanAFournier, iran proposed seven days and wants the strait of hormuz reopened. the blockade stays.
iran reportedly fired missiles at a us navy escort ship @MarioNawfal ♥ 209 · read more
the reported answer to washington announcing its bombing date in advance. former air force officer karen kwiatkowski, relayed by @MarioNawfal, can't see the logic in publishing a calendar.
rubio says iran is wrong to think november's midterms will soften trump @MarioNawfal ♥ 28 · read more
"the iranians misread our system," he said — they're under the illusion democrats winning changes the negotiating position.
bitcoin funds took in $2.39 billion this week, the most since last october @Cointelegraph ♥ 97 · read more
per @Cointelegraph, the biggest weekly net inflow into spot bitcoin etfs since october 2025 — while the price sat in the mid-80s.
95% of the people who traded on fomo lost money or made almost nothing @GoingParabolic ♥ 38 · read more
of 375,740 traders, 357,528 lost money or cleared under $100. only 229 people — 0.06% — made more than $5,000.
@GoingParabolic · ♥ 38 “This is how many people actually make money trading on @fomo > 375,740 people traded on fomo > 357,528 people (95.2%) lost money or made under $100 > 3,504 people (0.9%) made more than $1,000 > 653 people (0.17%) made more than $5,000 > 22 @0xSinaver (from 2026-09-26) This is how many people actually make money trading on @fomo > 375,740 people traded on fomo > 357,528 people (95.2%) los…ens wants to give ai agents names with limited powers @ETHGlobal ♥ 15 · read more
the ENSv2 prize at ethglobal tokyo, $10,000, judged on exactly one question: who can act under your name? scoped identities for apps and agents.
a hackathon team built a service whose customers are ai agents, not people @ETHGlobal · read more
yohaku, from ethglobal tokyo: jev handles the fast machine-side traffic, and only the requests that need a real human get routed to world id-verified people.
ethglobal's tokyo hackathon wrapped up @ETHGlobal · read more
@makoto_inoue had to run three parallel judging streams just for the ens prize. @urbeEth came out of two years of retirement and took a finalist slot plus uniswap's first prize.
@ETHGlobal .@ETHGlobal Tokyo, done 🇯🇵 builders, new ideas, late nights and a lot of great conversations huge thanks to @kartiktalw… @makoto_inoue · ♥ 24 We are now judging @ensdomains prize at @ETHGlobal Tokyo with three judging stream to manage the demand! @urbeEth coming back from retirement after 2 years never felt so good - 🏆 @ETHGlobal finalist - 🦄 @Uniswap 1st prize - 🆔 @ensdomain…builders spent a day throwing everything at jev to see what breaks @devfolio ♥ 18 · read more
devfolio's build jam produced bot detection for x, cheaper llm routing, and video editing that strips out filler words.
when an ai tells you it's 90% sure, nobody checks whether that's true @stskeeps · read more
@stskeeps on jev's confidence scores: is 0.9 actually right nine times out of ten, and what number should you start trusting?
opus 5.5 feels like the old claude again, one researcher says @emollick ♥ 111 · read more
@emollick argues model personality is the thing benchmarks can't measure, and that opus went through a watered-down stretch from 4.7 through 5.
@emollick · ♥ 111 Model personality matters in a way that benchmarks can't capture. Opus models went through a rough patch from around 4.7 to 5 where they just didn't feel "Claude-y" anymore, more like an watered-down Fable (hmmm, teacher models?). Opus 5.5 @emollick · ♥ 22 Also please feel free to fight in the comments about "pure LLMs" versus multimodal LLMs versus multimodal LLMs with tool use or whatever. I totally get all the caveats, but you get what I mean.a builder says claude's design work is miles ahead of astra's @apoorveth ♥ 11 · read more
@apoorveth posted the comparison and the replies are all people asking which skill or setup he used.
there is no magic prompt, the work is the engineering around the model @GeoffreyHuntley ♥ 120 · read more
@GeoffreyHuntley keeps getting asked what prompts he uses and the answer disappoints people: do the hard engineering on how you apply the thing, and the craft compounds fast.
brute-forcing bigger models won't get you to agi @alessandrod ♥ 3 · read more
@alessandrod's line: john the ripper didn't lead to agi either.
language models turned out to solve problems nobody thought were language problems @nickryg · read more
asking an ai for shorter answers can make them harder to read @abarmat · read more
@abarmat pushed for brevity and got jargon instead. a longer reply written cleanly moved more into his head than a compressed one.
openai may be building its own version of grok's chat bot @eeelistar ♥ 36 · read more
spotted by @eeelistar — unconfirmed, but the everyone-ships-an-agent race now includes the biggest lab.
there's still no good open-source way to train a model from scratch @willdepue ♥ 1 · read more
@willdepue points out that reinforcement learning has decent open tooling and pretraining doesn't — if tinker shipped a pretraining api it would sell.
claude code's terminal login keeps expiring and killing people's remote setups @jackfriks ♥ 14 · read more
@jackfriks got a working remote-control rig and it dies every one to two weeks when the login drops, which makes leaving a pc at home as a server useless.
today's ai agents are basically irc bots that can spend your money @liran_tal ♥ 1 · read more
@liran_tal's framing: instinct, hermes, openclaw and grok bot are eggdrops with the added ability to act on your behalf.
somebody tweeted at a bot and it launched them a token @0FJAKE ♥ 71 · read more
@0FJAKE asked @bankrbot for a coin called investment banker, paired against $BNKR on base, image attached. that's the whole process now.
two coins listed by coinbase the same day, only one got verified @MLeeJr ♥ 59 · read more
@MLeeJr says he submitted the applications and followed the process, and the verified one is the one a top fomo trader is promoting.
someone traced 137 stolen nfts to a single buyer's wallet @AFuckingNobody ♥ 2 · read more
the forensic thread names emirates.eth as the largest recipient of the stolen inventory, and notes the victim and the buyer were already in overlapping nft circles.
@AFuckingNobody · ♥ 2 POST 2/4 — WHO IS THE WALLET THAT RECEIVED 137 STOLEN NFTs? The largest recipient of the stolen inventory was: emirates.eth / @James07570 0xbbf693704fc6ddd06da136aff9398d23d6b37898 A second publicly associated wallet is: COLLECTOR-2 / @Jame @AFuckingNobody · ♥ 1 POST 3/4 — THE VICTIM AND THE LARGEST BUYER WERE ALREADY IN AN OVERLAPPING NFT NETWORK There is no direct ETH or NFT transfer in our dataset from: mrdigital-gaming.eth 0xDDF2163205e63C5B17c81647Be1b73f918535d38 directly to: James / emiratesnfts have as many people around as 2020 and still can't hold a price @redlioneye ♥ 12 · read more
@redlioneye's question for the room: if the crowd never left, where did the believers go?
blacklight's node operators are packing up and moving to ethereum mainnet @thatmarkmac · read more
per @thatmarkmac, the migration started september 26.
a dev reminded everyone that most layer 2s are still just a multisig @donnoh_eth ♥ 2 · read more
@donnoh_eth: people think it's a joke when we say it.
validators say a chain called giwa took their setup deposits and went quiet @ohdatskate ♥ 5 · read more
@ohdatskate says his team got node setup guides with minimum deposit requirements, then the project stopped answering and its own announcements were deleted.
you can now sell a tokenized stock's dividends and keep the stock @notorious_d_e_v ♥ 19 · read more
dividendx splits an xStocks position in two — the share itself and this year's payouts, cashable for usdc today. live on solana's devnet.
one payments design gives every single transaction its own throwaway address @MonkeyMeaning ♥ 1 · read more
the address is a contract that doesn't exist yet, hardcoded to route your funds exactly one way — deposit and it deploys and does the thing.
someone's ai agent worked out how to spend stablecoins in japan @kleffew94 · read more
the bbc is urgently reviewing its own count of journalists killed @ATabarrok · read more
per @ATabarrok, the review follows questions about 53 people the broadcaster reported as its own journalists killed.
australia may let its own government run fake accounts online @jgarzik · read more
@jgarzik is sounding the alarm on a proposed law that would let the state create sock puppet accounts to influence conversations.
trump says america has the best financial numbers it has ever had @Polymarket ♥ 342 · read more
the keystone xl pipeline has now been flipped four times by three presidents @ATabarrok · read more
delayed by obama, restarted by trump, cancelled by biden, restarted again by trump — @ATabarrok's point is that energy policy now resets every four years.
zelensky wants china, india and brazil to stop sitting on the fence @MarioNawfal ♥ 20 · read more
"each of these countries has influence over russia and can help make peace a reality" — he says the global south's silence is doing work.
peter todd says russia is starving a ukrainian town on purpose @peterktodd ♥ 42 · read more
his read on oleshky: the starvation is the point, because keeping those people alive drains resources ukraine doesn't have.
ireland is still selling russia the raw material aluminum is made from @peterktodd ♥ 19 · read more
@peterktodd's example of the whole problem: the west thought trade restrained aggression, russia thought trade restrained any response to it.
one trader thinks bitcoin will never fall more than half again @CloutedMind ♥ 11 · read more
@CloutedMind's takeaway from this drawdown: maybe -60% on a bad day, but anything 50% under a price bitcoin has already touched is now a buy.



