Law enforcement has proven incapable of making a meaningful dent in online crime, for example, 1.8 million users, only 78 arrests. europol.europa.eu/media-press/ne… This is the biggest challenge of today, how to get to the real criminals, not just terrorize CEOs of legitimate products.

Update on Roman Storm Trial Unlicensed Money Transmitter: Guilty (max 5 years) Sanctions Evasion: Not guilty Money Laundering (max 20 years): Hung Jury, possible retrial All Ethereum protocols are now effectively MTs. It doesn't get more absurd than this.

For those that don't get how significant this Roman case is, the precedent is set that it's now illegal to write smart contracts that manages crypto, paving the way for the incumbents to take over and fortify their historical moat. Anonymous devs up next. Popcorn.

This Roman verdict also puts nearly every single protocol developer globally within the jurisdiction of the US DoJ. The implications are terrifying.

💼 The idea that artificial intelligence will create jobs is “100% crap,” - ex-Google ex exec Mo Gawdat. He says even executive roles face automation risk as toolchains take over more work. He gives some examples, an app at his startup was built by 3 people using AI tools,

For posterity to really REALLY frame just how fucking absurd this entire Roman conviction conspiracy is: x.com/NateGeraci/sta…

If ever you want to understand why Gary Gensler was so elusive and nonsensically classifying everything as a security in order to crush the evolving crypto industry... here it is in black and white. We are at war with the bank cartels. x.com/Cointelegraph/…

UBI is inevitable and coming fast. The ensuing transition to AI automation may be excruciating, rapid, disproportionate, unfair, and will probably rewrite most of our value system, but we want this. Humanity's great enslavement era is coming to an end.

Sunil Sharma A very common false equivalency. AI is not just a tool any more than someone else taking your job is. Make the perspective shift that robots will soon be able to do your job much better and faster than you ever could, at a fraction of the cost. We will lose that competition.

You wouldn't believe how much I've accomplished since the day I started telling Grok to treat me like a little bitch.

Hang in there folks. You'll have to start over many times in life. It's not the end.

Hopefully this doesn't come across as morbid, but maybe there's some slight comfort knowing how other's fared. How did this flash crash affect you?