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Muito difícil escrever-te uma despedida nestes termos. Nada soa como deve ser, nem consegue transmitir o que fizeste por nós ou por mim, enquanto país, cidadãos ou jogadores/desportistas. Muito menos agradecer-te da forma devida.
É me inconcebível deixar-te ir assim e dizer apenas «vais fazer muita falta» ou “foste enorme, vamos ter muitas saudades”. Quando, na verdade, ganhaste o direito de continuar a fazer o que mais gostas, por quem gostas, onde gostas e durante quanto tempo quiseres.
Mas, claro está, não te posso deixar de dedicar algumas palavras num momento em que te despedes de uma carreira ao nível das seleções, onde vivi, provavelmente, um dos maiores prazeres da minha vida.
Para ser sincero, não sei o que será mais significativo para mim: ter representado Portugal ou ter partilhado contigo o balneário e tantos outros momentos.
Pode parecer excessivo, mas é esta a grandeza que vejo em ti. Porquê?
Talvez porque, quando cheguei ao Sporting (porque também tu foste lá formado, escolhido a dedo pelo Sr Aurélio Pereira), ainda miúdo, eras tu quem estava nas bocas do mundo, fosse no United ou já no Euro 2004. Tinha eu 9 anos!!!
Talvez porque, quando cheguei a profissional, no mesmo clube que tu, depois de 10/11 anos a ouvir falar de ti e a beber daquilo que tu bebeste, enquanto conquistavas inúmeros troféus individuais e coletivos, como infinitas Bolas de Ouro e Champions, percebi o quão difícil e incrível era chegar onde eu tinha chegado.
Talvez porque, quando te conheci, ao contrário do que acontece com muita gente, percebi o quão inteligente, ambicioso, humildade q.b. e diferente és. E aceitei perfeitamente isso, assim como todos os teus defeitos. Defeitos esses que também te ajudaram a ser o melhor de sempre.
Talvez porque começaste a jogar futebol antes de mim, eu já estou nos 30’s e tu continuas a jogar, a um nível incrivelmente bom. E mais de metade do mundo não faz ideia da dificuldade que isso representa e do que exige.
Talvez porque aquilo que fizeste e conquistaste nunca tinha sido visto por nenhum ser humano no mundo, muito menos por um português.
E, há pouco, falei de Bolas de Ouro e Champions com uma leviandade e normalidade que não são, nunca foram, supostas ou sequer reais. Com isso, fizeste-me a mim e a milhões de portugueses falar, acreditar e viver o futebol e a vida de uma forma completamente distinta de tudo o que, até então, tinha sido possível.
Fizeste-nos sonhar com coisas desde o teu primeiro Europeu com a Seleção. Tinha eu 9 anos!!!!! Como é possível sequer?
E, novamente, talvez porque, ano após ano, sendo ora o 1.º, ora o 2.º melhor do mundo, estiveste sempre lá em cima, sustentado pela tua disciplina, arrogância necessária, crença e fé. Características com as quais me identifico bastante.
Por estes poucos “talvez”, agradeço-te muito por ter partilhado tantos momentos contigo, dentro e fora do campo! Por teres sido quem foste e és! E por me teres inspirado a ser melhor durante toda a minha vida.
Será sempre pouco dizer que vou sentir a tua falta dentro das quatro linhas… Mas, novamente, sou grato por ter vivido na mesma era que tu!
E, como tu dizias, daqui a 20/30 anos vou estar numa taberna qualquer a falar de ti e daquilo que te vi fazer. Com todo o gosto.
Obrigado Bicho ❤️
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Ronaldo lost his father and still chose to remain at the Portuguese camp.
He survived a life-threatening car crash and went straight back to training.
He lost his child and still found the strength to step onto the pitch for Manchester United.
The world mocked him after Portugal’s World Cup exit, yet he returned to represent his country at the next World Cup.
I watched him win the Champions League back to back to back. I watched him crash out of the World Cup in tears. Somehow, through all those moments, he took me along on his journey through life.
He taught me, time and time again, that it’s never okay to give up.
He makes you appreciate both the highs and the lows. He reminds you that it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be angry, it’s okay to be sad, but it’s never okay to give up.
I remember the last trophy he won with Portugal, the Nations League. When almost every odd was against him, he found a way to rise again. He reminded me, one more time, of exactly who he was.
He lives life on his own terms and accepts the consequences of his decisions with his full chest. He speaks his mind, whether you agree with him or not. He walks away when he feels disrespected. He stands firm on his principles, believes in fair competition and remains loyal to those who have shown him loyalty.
He came from nothing and built a legacy that will outlive him.
Heavily misunderstood, but never doubted. He has been called a narcissist, an egotist and everything in between, but never a cheat. Everything he has achieved, he has earned. Every record, every trophy, every accolade. He did it on the pitch.
“Ronaldo is old. He needs to retire.”
“He’s slowing the team down.”
“His goals are hurting the team.”
And so much more.
The very metrics used to celebrate others are often the same ones used to discredit him. But perhaps that’s understandable. The umbrella becomes a burden when it stops raining.
That’s the legacy of this man.
What I feel for Ronaldo goes far beyond football. He embodies what a role model should be. Strip away the goals, the awards, the records and the trophies, and there will still be something worth admiring.
I have watched the highs, the lows, the tears, the celebrations, the criticism and the comebacks. Through it all, he has reminded me that greatness isn’t just about how high you rise, but how many times you find the strength to rise again.
Thank you for being part of my story. Thank you for the memories, the lessons and for showing me what resilience looks like.
That’s why he is my number one.
The greatest there is, the greatest there was, and the greatest there will ever be.
In this life and the next. Always. ❤️🐐👑
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El mundo entero eligió a Cristiano Ronaldo como el ídolo de todo un planeta.
Nunca habrá nadie como él 🐐
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No olviden nunca que cada vez que Portugal se jugaba la vida para entrar en un Mundial o una Euro, porque sí.. ese era el drama de esa selección en cada eliminatoria, Cristiano prime jugaba el partido de su vida y los clasificaba.
CR los llevó a donde por nivel no podían.
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❤️🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo’s full letter to Portuguese fans.
“To the Portuguese people,
The day has come to hand back the shirt and the captain's armband of the national team that belongs to all of us.
I never felt that it was exclusively mine, but for 23 years, I had the privilege and responsibility of wearing it, defending it, and carrying it with me to stadiums all around the world.
Today, the moment has come to pass it on to the future.
It was not an easy decision, because some decisions are not made with the head alone. They are also made with the heart.
I am bringing to an end a journey that began in August 2003 and changed my life forever.
When I look back and think about everything I experienced with the national team, I don't just see matches, goals, records, or trophies. I see people.
I see immigrants who, for 90 minutes, felt a little closer to Portugal. I see millions of Portuguese people whom I never met personally, but who became part of my life.
Because, at the end of the day, football is much bigger than a game. Football is about people.
Throughout my entire career with the national team, I always tried to push beyond my limits. I wanted to win, I wanted to be the best, I wanted to make history.
I was always demanding of myself. I always wanted more. I always believed we could go further, and I gave everything I had for this shirt.
There were perfect afternoons and nights. There were victories I will never forget. There were defeats that still hurt to remember today.
I also failed. I also suffered. There were moments when I couldn't give the Portuguese people what they wanted so badly. But I never gave up.
And above all, I never stopped feeling proud to represent Portugal.
Over these years, I learned some very simple things: goals come and go, trophies end up in museums, records are eventually broken, but there is something that time can never erase.
The place I hold in people's hearts.
If I ever made you happy, if one of my goals ever made you hug someone, forget a worry, or feel proud of our country, then it was all worth it.
Because being Portuguese is also about that.
We suffer together. We get back up together. We believe again.
Portugal will always need young people who dream, players who never give up, and new generations who believe it is possible to reach places no one has reached before.
Because a country that continues to create new heroes is a country that never stops believing in itself.
To my national team teammates, I want to leave a special message.
Thank you for every run, every hug, every argument, every moment of silence before stepping onto the pitch, every victory we celebrated together, and every defeat that made us stronger.
I had the privilege of being your captain, but no captain walks alone, and you are all part of my story.
To all the coaches, directors, doctors, physiotherapists, kit managers, staff members, and the many people who worked with me throughout these years, thank you.
Many of you never appeared in the photographs, but without you, none of those photographs would have been possible.
To my family, thank you for sharing this dream with me.
Thank you for understanding the absences, the sacrifices, and the moments when the national team had to take up a space that also belonged to you.
If I made it this far, it was because we always walked hand in hand.
And to the Portuguese people, to every Portuguese person around the world, I want to tell you one last thing.
There is an image that I will always carry with me.
A moment when the national anthem begins.
I look around me. I see my teammates. I see the stands.
I see children, mothers, fathers, and grandparents. I see Portuguese people who travelled from so far away just to be there.
And during those moments, we stop being different.
There are no clubs. There are no colors. There are no classes. There are no professions. There are no opinions.
There is only one passion: Portugal”.
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Tether froze more than 1.567B USDT related to a potential Binance exchange hack.
Protecting the industry and our partners is our main priority.
Stay safe everyone.
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i’m giving one of you a fucking ROLEX
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Your parents may not have given you everything you wanted.
But they probably gave you everything they had.
Make sure they know how grateful you are.
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Tony Robbins literally explained why you have been angry at people who never wronged you, afraid of outcomes that never arrived, and hurt by events that never happened. It is not anxiety. It is not overthinking. It is that your brain cannot tell the difference between what you focus on and what occurs.
Someone tells you a good friend said something terrible about you. You feel the betrayal. You build a case. You confront them. Then you find out they never said it. Every emotion was real. The event was not.
Focus equals reality to the individual even when it is not reality in actuality.
People check their phones 58 times a day. Two and a half hours on social media. That is 67 hours a month inside someone else’s life measuring yours against a highlight reel.
He said if you have a billion dollars, three children, and a partner who adores you but every morning you focus on what is missing, your life is worry. It does not matter what you have. It matters where your attention lives.
What is wrong is always available. So is what is right. Most people let their phone decide which wins.
Wealth is not an account balance. It is a focus decision made 58 times a day. The person who sees what they built feels rich at any number. The person who sees what they lack feels broke at any number.
The full interview is free. It will outlast almost everything else in your feed today.
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I’m not talented. I’m obsessed.
They see the walkouts and the knockouts. They don’t see the work — the early mornings, the setbacks, the decision to show up when quitting would have been easier.
I didn’t wait to feel ready. I decided to become ready.
Back yourself. Do the work. Be obsessed.
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The reason you're not creative. Not motivated. Not focused.
AKA the stuff that came easy to you as a kid.
Is that every form of "relaxing" in our society is SMASHING our minds with serotonin and dopamine.
TikTok. Video games. Drinking. WATCHING sports.
If you're doing these to relax, your mind is never at rest.
Like a dude spending every waking minute in a strip club. You'll become numb to things that used to drive you wild. Your motivation to chase plummets.
When you relax, you have to actually relax and empty the mental bucket.
Drop it all. Read. Pick up an instrument. Lift. Keep your phone in a drawer far away from you. DEPRIVE yourself of the easy serotonin and dopamine.
All that gusto you used to have as a kid will come right back. Then USE the drive on what matters. AKA the thing, the work. Then ACTUALLY relax again.
99% of people are on a treadmill. They do low-focus, low-creativity, ass work... Then get home and scroll, eat sugar, play video games/scroll/watch Fox News/CNN, wank, binge Netflix and repeat.
Like the guy in the strip club, they can no longer enjoy the "curves" of life because they're in overdrive... staring at ass and tits 24/7.
You're not getting old or dull or necessarily suffering from ADHD.
Your brain just hasn't had a breather in years.
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.