Tony T retweeted
Crypto treated complexity like a mandatory entry fee for too long.
We set out to change that.
Here's the first look at how TARA was built to feel simple, and why a design jury took notice.
blog.tara.com/tara-wins-ux-d…
Tony T retweeted
Crypto is built on the principle of being permissionless; it's supposed to be a disruptive force to Tradfi. I believe in this mission. In many ways, Tradfi needs to be disrupted.
This is why I bristled against **TradFi / Boomer Adoption** narrative. Asking permission from Larry Fink, Jay Powell (or Donald Trump) is everything crypto is NOT supposed to be. Thankfully this "asking permission" narrative died in November 2024 (see post below).
The next leg won’t come from more suits blessing $BTC and telling tradfi to buy.
I believe it should come from building systems that replace tradfi, and forcing them to join in or lose.
Stop rationalizing why Boomers are not selling, or will buy again. Get back to building the altenative financial system. Take it away from BlackRock, not waiting for them to bless you.
Do this, and $BTC can go to $1M. Until then, winter will continue.
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The Bitcoin "Boomer Adoption" Trade is Dead
Markets are discounting mechanisms. They price the narrative long before the event occurs.
The "TradFi" narrative drove $BTC up 400% ($25k → $106k) from BlackRock’s filing to Trump’s victory.
But that engine is now out of fuel🧵
Tony T retweeted
I got tired of confusing, half-true crypto rankings, so I built this:
Real Market Cap
Crypto ranked with less smoke & mirrors - FDV first, useful filters and transparent data
My first time vibe coding, pls be kind, would love any suggestions & feedback
realmarketcap.vercel.app/
Tony T retweeted
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.
Yo @coingecko, maybe change the default way to show the Top 100 and exclude pegged tokens.
Otherwise soon it'll just be BTC, ETH and a bunch of stablecoins, staked and wrapped tokens.
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After last night's event
The only acceptable course of action
Is for @elonmusk to reinstate @retardiosolana account
#FreeRetardio
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Tony T retweeted
Bitcoin should be ripping. But now it’s anchored. Not talking just this week, but sniffing it out for months. This should be a character defining moment. Remember “the chancellor on the brink”.
But we abandoned the core cypherpunk principles. We embraced mass tradfi custody. We welcomed the financialization of Bitcoin through paper claims. We cheered corporations hoarding BTC funded by debt. We backed government involvement and adoption, just because it made the number go up faster. We stopped pushing for self-custody and real onchain peer-to-peer use.
The Bitcoin that drew me in was defiant. It said no to tradfi, no to government. It was FU money. FU to all dependencies.
Reply guy will say “Bitcoin doesn’t care, it’s still that.” But it’s not. Bitcoin is what its community believes and practices. It’s a mindset. Its consensus. That consensus will be needed in the future, as attacks will come. The community will be meek.
Tradfi was always going to come. Inevitable, it’s an open protocol. But why support it out of greed. Why encourage it and why adopt it.
Bitcoin will eventually rip higher, price will go up, probably a lot. My point is dependency and correlation. The community is selling its soul.
Tony T retweeted
Yep 2025 will be a good one. Congrats to all for sticking this out with us over many years.
The plan will continue to work while normies pray for a wage increase of 5% every year. NGMI.
Tony T retweeted
Masks are off
Absolutely love it that the masks are off and memes rule supreme.
No longer a need to pretend that alts actually achieve something, it is just a degen casino, as it has always been
Best of all is that all the fancy VC-funds, fund-managers, all the blablabla blockchain/utility/ecosystem talkers are all left behind with their fancy bullshit coins and l1´s with large unlocks etc. Meanwhile the masses going insane on memes and no need to pretend anymore
Love it
Worst are the people that think they are ´serious´ in crypto (the specialists/analysts) that are sour and miserable because others did kill it with memes.
Also super happy people make great $ on it, honestly do not care if one makes money with bitcoin, trading, memes, or being lucky, it is all one big game anyway.