shallowmap @shallowmap

🌐 WIN 250 ALGO, just like this post, 24 hours ✨ Hey! We've rebranded to Polaris as this is the name of the virtual city we're building right now, super excited to share more about this as it's gonna be crazy good amazing. But for now we're gonna keep it a secret... Also NFTURBO is live (BETA), it's really hard and the gameplay needs a lot of work. that being said, it's free to play and you can win real money right now, you can use EVM or AVM wallets like @MetaMask or @PeraAlgoWallet to sign up and start earning today, if you find a crate with money in it, it goes straight to your wallet. + Daily and Weekly leaderboards with prizes. nfturbo.polaris.city Safari build coming soon To earn NIKO (our token) you'll need to opt in which costs a little ALGO but don't worry if you don't have, as you can win ALGO in the crates. This all runs on the Algorand blockchain, rewards, the leaderboard, the character gating, the parts and car management. And. polaris.city is now live, this website will act as the hub to our overall project, for now there's not much there but you can access the DAO, Dartroom, NFTURBO, our Marketplace and your advertising contracts. Mobile support for NFTURBO in 2 weeks Have fun and see you on the track!

Throwback Tuesday. What an epic conversation between @lexfridman and @silviomicali (Turing award winner and founder of Algorand)

Lex Fridman @lexfridman

5 years ago

Here's my conversation with @silviomicali, computer scientist at MIT, winner of the Turing award & founder of @Algorand. We talk about cryptocurrency (including Bitcoin & Ethereum) & much more, one of many chats on this topic this year. I'm here to learn. youtube.com/watch?v=zNdhgO…

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🚨 WIN an NFT from the @nodekeepers (Floor value 150 ALGO) - Just like and retweet - 24 hours. -------XGOV friendly reminder to vote 🗳️ We helped @famversedotxyz build the Monstrs website, a portion of the funding would be for our project too. We're also working on a joint game 'Monstrs Forever'. Please vote yes!! xgov.algorand.co/proposal/35725… And if you think trait swapping or a loot box system would be good for your own project then you can use this open-source template. It has a super clear Readme. github.com/filippofallero… #algorand #gaming

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🚨 WIN $50 worth of $ALGO, like and retweet this post 🙏 Winner announced in 24 hours 🚨 🥷 100 sold in the last 12 hours, 100 left then they're gone, 30 hours left to be in with the chance of winning $111 worth of NFTs, see earlier tweet. market.downbad.farm/collection/nod… 🌐 This is probably your last chance to get one at mint price 🌐 Stake your Node Keepers at dao.polaris.city and earn NIKO then stake your NIKO and earn NIKO 🌐 NFTURBO (edit) coming out soon 🌐 Lots more utility via the dao and in the upcoming virtual world 'Polaris' #nft #algorand #gaming #defi #gamefi

Polaris @polaris_city

3 months ago

🌐 Win $111 worth of NFTs, for every Node Keeper that is shuffled over the next 48 hours will go into a draw. The winner will be sent $111 worth of NFTs directly to their wallet... market.downbad.farm/collection/nod… Only 200 left in the shuffle, once they're gone they're gone #NFT

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🌐 4 new monthly rolling pools have just started, make sure you're staked before the 1st May to be eligible for May's rewards!! dao.polaris.city UUBI, Node Keeper wages, NIKO/NIKO, NIKO/ALGO LP These pools will be ongoing for the foreseeable future and will be topped up 🚨 Win 1 of 2 @nodekeepers... To help get the word out so people don't miss out on May's rewards then please like, retweet Winners announced in 24 hours Polaris (new name incoming) tokenomics 60% of all platform revenue goes to development and operations. 40% is used to buy NIKO and distributed across 4 reward pools automatically, starting today. 20% — rewards for NIKO/ALGO LP 20% — rewards for staking niko ​ 20% — unconditional universal basic income 40% — compensation for node keepers #NFT #ALGORAND

🥷 WIN one of 10 @nodekeepers + 11.11m NIKO ($180) 📲 Details below 👇 This is the final ever shuffle, not expecting to sell out anytime soon, it's been 4 years so what is another year but to save any confusion this is it, the final shuffle!! market.downbad.farm/collection/nod… 📝 In the story mode of rxelms, soon to be rebranded to Polaris, the Node Keepers are the creators and managers of the Niko token and the City of Polaris treasury. They handle Unconditional Universal Basic Income (UUBI) that is paid to residents (Key owners) There are 4 NIKO payout streams (see below). These 4 income streams are also how voting weight will be worked out via the dao.polaris.city There are 528 Node Keepers on downbad and 272 left in the wallet, the ones left in the wallet will be used for giveaways, team and to have some when the floor is $30k. The utility the Node Keepers will get in the virtual world Polaris will be crazy, there's so much planned and we will be revealing more soon. Also Node Keeper wages (subject to change only via voting) are going to get tasty. 40% of Income from all of this project's revenue streams will be used to buy NIKO and then divided 50/50 between the Node Keeper treasury and payouts (see below for payout information). 📝 Here's a list of some of the income streams coming that will be used to fill an automated NIKO buyback program. 🏎️ NFTURBO (new edit) part sales 🏦 Decentralised soft staking claim fees 🥊 Ad revenue from Meme Kombat on Google Play ✨ Transaction fees from the NIKO only marketplace 🌐 Virtual world in-game transaction fees 🌐 Wearable sales 🌐 Static and interactive object sales 🌐 Rebranding, new website, a swapping tool for all outdated rxelms assets is coming very soon. 🚨 Like and retweet to be in with a chance of winning a Node Keeper!! 🚨 Find NK 0002 in the shuffle to win 11.11m Piko #Algorand #gaming

Node Keepers @nodekeepers

4 months ago

There will only ever be 2000 Node Keepers

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@algerstmehn @AlgoFoundation @AlgoFamily @Mr_Algosla @AlgorandReport 💯💪

@algerstmehn @AlgoFoundation @AlgoFamily @Mr_Algosla @AlgorandReport 🫡💪🙌

A million seconds ago was January 29th A billion seconds ago was 1994 A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 B.C. The US national debt is now rising by $1 Trillion every ~180 days.

“It's about sovereignty, discipline, and aligning your time with your values.“

Connor Dolan @conhodlan

7 months ago

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The Stages of Becoming Orange-Pilled Stage One: You're Sleeping You're comfortable. You have a job. A 401k. You believe in "the economy." You think the Federal Reserve is boring but necessary, like flossing or C-SPAN. You're saving money. By which I mean: you're watching your purchasing power evaporate in real-time while calling it "being responsible." You are a debt slave who hasn't checked the chains yet. Someone mentions Bitcoin at a party. You laugh. "That thing criminals use?" you say. "That internet money that crashed?" Everyone nods. You all agree. Bitcoin is ridiculous. You go back to discussing your mortgage - 30 years of indentured servitude at 6.5% interest that you celebrate like Stockholm syndrome. The system has you. And you don't even know it. Stage Two: The Itch Something doesn't add up. Why do houses cost ten times what they cost when your parents bought theirs? Why does your salary sound impressive until you try to buy anything? Why can BlackRock afford to buy every house in America but you can't afford one? You start noticing things. The money printer memes. The inflation rates that don't match your grocery bill. The billionaires getting bailouts while you get budgeting advice. Bitcoin keeps appearing. In headlines. In conversations. Like a splinter in your mind. Like the Matrix glitching. You buy $100 worth as a joke. To say you did it. To see what happens. The price immediately drops 30%. Welcome to the fucking arena. Stage Three: The Rabbit Hole You were just going to check the price. Just a quick look. That was six hours ago. Now you're watching a video about the Byzantine Generals Problem. Now you understand what "proof of work" means. Now you're reading the white paper - nine pages that explain how to trust math instead of men - and something in your chest cracks open. You realize: Every economics class you took was a lie. Every financial advisor was selling you slavery with extra steps. The entire monetary system is just confidence game wrapped in acronyms. You're angry. So fucking angry. You buy more Bitcoin. Not because the price is going up. Because you've seen the truth and you can't afford not to. Your friends are worried. Your spouse is asking questions. You're trying to explain that money isn't real but also it's the most real thing and Bitcoin is the only honest ledger in a world of lies and.... ...you sound insane. You know you sound insane. But you also know you're right. Stage Four: The Zealot You are insufferable. Every conversation becomes about Bitcoin. Your family dreads Thanksgiving. Your coworkers avoid the break room when you're there. You've memorized Saylor's speeches. You quote Satoshi like scripture. You see fiat debasement everywhere. In the shrinking candy bars, the subscription fees, the way your parents' generation bought houses on single incomes and now you need three jobs to rent a studio. You calculate everything in sats. You experience physical pain watching people "invest" in bonds yielding 3% while inflation runs at 7%. You want to grab strangers and shake them: DON'T YOU SEE? THE WHOLE THING IS A SCAM. You go through bear markets like Christ in the desert. 80% drops that would make normal investors vomit. But you? You're dollar-cost-averaging. You're stacking sats. You're buying the dip with money you shouldn't be spending because you've calculated that in 2035 this will seem cheap and your only regret will be not buying more. Your conviction is unshakeable. Your portfolio is red. Your family intervention is scheduled for next Tuesday. Stage Five: The Plateau The mania subsides. Not the belief - that's permanent now - but the need to convince everyone. You realize: They have to find it themselves. The orange pill can't be forced down someone's throat. It has to be swallowed willingly. You stop checking the price every hour. Then every day. Then every week. You understand now: Bitcoin doesn't care about your attention. Bitcoin doesn't care about anything. It just produces blocks every ten minutes like the universe's most reliable heartbeat. You set up your cold storage. You run a node. You become part of the infrastructure. You're not investing anymore. You're participating in the future of money. The volatility doesn't scare you. You've seen Bitcoin "die" 400 times in headlines. You've watched it resurrect itself while the dollar dies slowly, quietly, by design. You're calm now. Eerily calm. Because you've done the math and the math doesn't lie. Stage Six: The Acceptance You stop measuring your Bitcoin in dollars. That's the final step. That's enlightenment. Because denominating your Bitcoin in dollars is like measuring the sun's brightness using a candle. You understand now: You're not getting rich. The money is getting poor. Bitcoin isn't going up. Everything else is going down. The dollar is the shitcoin. It always was. You've become time-preference incarnate. Low time preference like a sequoia. Like a glacier. You're thinking in decades now. In halvings. In generations. While everyone else is playing checkers with their paychecks, you're playing 4D chess with your bloodline's financial sovereignty. You don't talk about Bitcoin much anymore. When people ask, you share. When they don't, you stack. You've realized the greatest gift you can give someone is not to convince them about Bitcoin, but to be there when they're ready to ask. Stage Seven: The Becoming Here's the secret they don't tell you: Bitcoin changes you in ways that have nothing to do with money. You learn patience. You learn to do your own research. You learn to verify instead of trust. You learn that the majority is often wrong and being early feels exactly like being wrong until suddenly it doesn't. You become ungovernable. Not in an angry way. In a quiet, competent, self-sovereign way. You stop asking permission. You stop waiting for institutions to save you. You save yourself. The journey isn't about getting rich quick. It never was. It's about getting free slowly. It's about opting out of a system that was designed to extract your life force one paycheck at a time and opting into a network that runs on mathematics instead of manipulation. The Truth You are not the same person who bought that first $100 of Bitcoin. That person is dead. They died the moment they understood that scarcity is real and the emperors have no clothes. What remains is someone who's tasted financial sovereignty and can never go back to believing in fairy tales about stable coins printed by unstable governments. The journey never ends. Bitcoin is always ten years away from changing everything and always has been. But you? You're already changed. You've seen the future. And the future is ₿.

most sobering thing i read recently is that no technological revolution in the last couple hundred years - be it steam engine, electricity, or computers - however amazing they r, have changed the long term gdp per capita growth of 2%

"that’s the trap. The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200. It’s ~$140,000." yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-li…

@ALGO_BRO "And my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." -Nicholas Klein

@nic_carter Change crypto to assets and this post might even resonate to normies

Purpose...has no endpoint. It’s directional, not destination-based. It tells you why to act, not just what to achieve.

Heart @heart_

9 months ago

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⚡️The system is eating itself. When Amazon, UPS, Intel, and others start cutting this deep simultaneously, it means something more fundamental than “tight margins.” It means the productive layer of the economy is collapsing under the weight of its own optimization logic. Every layoff now is both an act of short-term rationality and long-term suicide. The firms know it. The executives know it. The markets know it. But they can’t stop. They’re trapped in a closed feedback loop, a machine that rewards death dressed as discipline. Capitalism has crossed into a stage where it no longer needs humans to function, but still depends on their belief to exist. That’s the contradiction, the machine is pruning its own believers while pretending it’s efficiency. 1. The “consumer economy” is already dead. Nobody wants to say it yet, but the consumer model, the entire foundation of Western postwar prosperity, is quietly finished. You can’t build infinite growth on finite wages, and you can’t sustain demand while hollowing out the class that drives it. The middle layer of society - the producers, buyers, dreamers - has been strip-mined to the point where they can no longer regenerate. The 2020s economy is not cyclical recession. It’s metabolic collapse. The system can’t process its own waste or regenerate its base anymore. It’s like an organism starving while eating its muscles to stay warm. 2. The elites know this, but they’ve chosen to accelerate collapse. Here’s the real unspoken truth: the people running these companies, the ones with the spreadsheets and control over capital flows - they know exactly what’s happening. They understand the reflexive trap: if they don’t cut, their stock dies. If they cut, the world dies. They’ve chosen to save the stock. Because the stock is their world. This is the quiet revelation of our time - we are ruled by people whose survival incentives are no longer tied to the survival of the system itself. They’ve built lifeboats - offshore wealth, private security, parallel digital economies - and they’re optimizing the ship for their escape, not for collective navigation. 3. The next phase is narrative triage. When the system can no longer grow, it starts storytelling harder. Expect every layoff wave to be accompanied by new propaganda about “AI productivity,” “efficiency,” “lean reinvention,” and “post-labor creativity.” The goal will be to reframe collapse as progress - to convince people that losing their jobs is the dawn of a “new paradigm.” But it’s camouflage. The truth underneath is that automation and financialization are converging into a post-human economy where capital reproduces without labor. 4. Final layer When a system prioritizes margin over humanity, it signals that it has lost faith in the future. These layoffs tell us that the machine no longer knows how to grow except by shrinking. It is the same signal we’ve seen in housing, in politics, in fertility, in faith. The same quiet collapse, a civilization optimizing itself into silence. And the question hidden beneath this post: “Who will have money left to buy your products next year?” - is really this: Who will be left to believe in the story that built it all?

Boring_Business @BoringBiz_

9 months ago

So if we layoff everyone to increase margins this year, who will have money left to buy your products next year?

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