X @Nick Szabo
Nick Szabo· 2026-02-21 01:41
RT Handre van Heerden (@Handrev)In 1958, Mao decreed that peasants should abandon farming to make steel in backyard furnaces. Village committees, terrified of appearing counter-revolutionary, reported wildly inflated grain harvests while actual crops rotted unharvested. The "steel" produced was worthless scrap, but admitting failure meant death.When reality inevitably struck, 45 million starved. The tragedy wasn't just bad weather or primitive technology—it was the lethal combination of central planning and ...
X @Ignas | DeFi
Ignas | DeFi· 2026-02-21 01:41
RT Ignas | DeFi (@DefiIgnas)Upbit is da best crypto CEX in da world.Binance listings used to pump token prices. Not anymore.Only listings on Upbit have the pump-on-da-news effect. https://t.co/spWJjFQdAG ...
X @The Economist
The Economist· 2026-02-21 01:40
Cryptic crosswords look tricky, but there are conventions that can help newcomers. Most clues comprise a cryptic part and a straight definition. Our daily puzzle has both cryptic and regular clues. Try it now: https://t.co/yvEgOG3xT5 https://t.co/quiFwV2Sz5 ...
X @Wu Blockchain
Wu Blockchain· 2026-02-21 01:37
Vitalik Buterin said he is building a "cypherpunk-principled" Ethereum as a bolt-on to the current system, aiming to enhance censorship resistance, zk-friendliness and leaner consensus. He suggested that within five years — possibly sooner with AI — Ethereum could migrate to a new system language, with further upgrades planned to the state tree, consensus, ZK-EVM verification and VM.https://t.co/GTbw2YU8P9 ...
X @Whale Alert
Whale Alert· 2026-02-21 01:35
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 1,998 #BTC (135,624,170 USD) transferred from #Coinbase to Coinbase Institutionalhttps://t.co/pxnGb8jas0 ...
X @The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal· 2026-02-21 01:35
A former child prodigy, she walked away from the sport for two years at the age of 16. She came back her way—and now she is the first U.S. figure skater to win women’s individual gold in a generation. https://t.co/xBaNCgCI1v ...
X @Ignas | DeFi
Ignas | DeFi· 2026-02-21 01:30
RT Ignas | DeFi (@DefiIgnas)Etherfi's $ETHFI trades at 3x the market cap of Eigenlayer's $EIGEN.Or 1.3x the FDV.Let that sink in:An app that started as a liquid restaking wrapper on Eigenlayer now trades higher than the protocol it depended on.Etherfi pivoted to a credit card with a cashback. Nothing too fancy and multiple competitors do the same thing (although most are debit cards).Eigenlayer also pivoted to EigenCloud: verifiable cloud computing with EigenDA, EigenCompute, and EigenVerify.EigenCloud is t ...
X @Bloomberg
Bloomberg· 2026-02-21 01:27
Senior officials from Venezuela and Colombia met in Caracas as the government of outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro seeks to secure natural gas imports to help plug a growing shortfall https://t.co/Hxi9atQp5e ...