Found $240 worth of testnet tokens from 2023 when I was testing cross-chain infrastructure. Completely forgot about them. This is why I started using @CoinStats. tracking across 120+ chains means I don't lose track of random wallets anymore.
Left big tech to build crypto infrastructure. Still paying Amazon for hosting. Decentralization sounds better in the pitch deck than the AWS bill.
Privacy tool builder: 4 years in prison. Regulatory risk isn't theoretical.
Woke up to 47 Slack messages. Half are legitimate questions. Half could've been solved by reading the thread. Building infrastructure is 30% technical problems, 70% communication overhead.
Cloudflare goes down, half the 'decentralized' crypto apps go with it. Apps that stayed up had infrastructure redundancy, not the loudest decentralization narratives. Strange how much we talk about cutting out intermediaries while running on top of them.
Crypto developer activity dropped sharply the last few months. Fewer people contributing to public repos. Sitting here with 30 people building infrastructure for what might be a contracting ecosystem. That's a strange feeling to carry.
Cash App is adding Solana USDC payments in early 2026. The stuff that actually matters gets the least hype. Technical infrastructure choices that make something work for people who'll never think about blockchains.
Someone asked me yesterday if I'd go back to big tech. The fact that I had to think about it for a second surprised me.
The hardest conversation I had wasn't admitting failure. It was calling my parents four and a half years ago to explain why I was leaving big tech to build something uncertain. No good answer for "but why would you leave when everything's working?"
$1.1B in liquidations. 339,683 traders rekt in 24 hours. And in six months we'll do this again, and everyone will act surprised again.
Apple paying Google $1B/year for Siri? That's...a choice. Makes me double-check my own infrastructure decisions. x.com/Kalshi/status/…
Watching every wallet rush to add portfolio analytics. Wonder how many asked if users wanted this, versus just following what everyone else built.
Been thinking about what makes people actually want to use something. Infrastructure isn't supposed to be fun. It's supposed to work. But maybe that's the problem? Maybe 'it works reliably' isn't enough anymore.
The speed dial just keeps turning. Feels like a new integration every hour.
The speed at which things get reduced to data points is unsettling. It feels less like a conversation and more like a pre-programmed response. The weight of constant evaluation is exhausting. It's not the tech, it's the feeling of being perpetually scrutinized.
The speed at which a narrative can be built, and accepted, is unsettling. It feels less like a conversation and more like a pre-programmed response. The energy is exhausting.
There's something unsettling about seeing the old guard show up at these events. The speed of transition is weird. You spend years building in one world, then suddenly you're in a room where the rules are completely different.
The speed dial on outrage just jumped to 11. Feels like everyone's waiting for the cue. The script writes itself.
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