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Pikagi

mert | helius | hSOL

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ceo @heliuslabs , host @lightspeedpodhq , ex coinbase — angel investor and purveyor of rpc nodes — ideas above all else

staking with helius

https://t.co/vIm7EqEGUD

Joined September 2020

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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@0xMert_

mert | helius | hSOL

1 month

basically you're really gonna wanna stake with Helius' validator, starting now 0% fees (and 0% MEV fees), so you keep all yield main motivation is to improve network performance go to your fav wallet -> stake -> type Helius HEL1USMZKAL2odpNBj2oCjffnFGaYwmbGmyewGv1e2TU

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@0xMert_

mert | helius | hSOL

3 years

@morganhousel How 70-80 year olds are generally regarded as unemployable due to mental decline / skill mismatch - yet they're exclusively running the country

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job applicants from India are beasts lmao USA person: "hmm sorry but this is like 24 minutes later than I can stay, I need to go to my spin class" Indian person: "ok brother I know we're 12 hours apart but I will sleep during the day and work at night to ship this"

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LMAO WHAT IS HAPPENING ON LINKEDIN 😭

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This new Canadian law is the craziest thing I have ever seen in the west According to this, they can: - accuse, fine, and jail you for PAST speech (before the law went live) - put you on house arrest AND take away all communication rights if they even suspect you MIGHT say…

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2 months

the situation is escalating fast

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uhhhh chat this is huge the founder of Stripe just used Solana during a live demo to announce they're now supporting crypto payments 🤯🤯🤯

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2 months

oh no

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@Jason lol Jason stop pretending you can comprehend the alphabet, yet alone a chart with numbers i) SOL is up 60% since the last time you did this a few months ago (see screenshot) ii) Facebook is up more than 200% since you sold it all iii) Palmer started another billion-dollar…

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2 months

hmmm I wonder if it's a coincidence that 40 influencers all at once started shilling the same chain during the same hour 😉

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@0xMert_

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30 days

Lol I love Canada highest taxes and worst housing bubble on earth solution? limit people buying crypto (so you can spend it on legalizing crack injections for homeless people)

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@0xMert_

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LMAOOOOO get rekt Elizabeth I just community notes'd a sitting senator No one man should have all this power

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@0xMert_

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8 months

oh my god

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2 months

@francisjfoster bro what are they putting in this guy's sunlight

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@0xMert_

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4 months

ok hold up let me get this straight we have: - bill ackman waging war on the entire higher education industry by pledging that he will review *every single academic paper they've ever published* for going after his wife - epstein letters being released — indicating Bill Gates,…

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we've raised a Series A to accelerate crypto development at @heliuslabs ! in mid-2022, my co-founders ( @liamvovk and @nick_pennie ) and I left Coinbase & AWS to make a dent on a big problem facing crypto: a shortage of quality products it was (and still is) too hard to build…

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2 months

nature will not be healed until XRP and ADA are out of the top 10

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@IOHK_Charles your scam chain literally does 0.4 TPS lmao — you are the biggest charlatan in this industry kindly recommend commenting when you have over 6 users study this chart

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"Solana is centralized because hardware requirements" Reality: Solana has ~3k nodes which is only slightly less than the number of Ethereum nodes — but it's also 10,000x cheaper and has at least 100x more capacity...seems like a tradeoff worth considering. "Ok but those nodes…

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@0xMert_

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2 years

A lot of new users are coming to #Solana but don't really know what's available to them in the ecosystem. I've compiled a list of some of the most well-known names in DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, and infra/tools that I'm aware of 🧵.

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@0xMert_

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I used to get mad at memecoins I thought: "This is disrespectful to those of us building real things — why is this industry sabotaging themselves? This is not why I'm here" over time, you realize this is a silly way of thinking memecoins or "culture coins" are essentially a…

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@0xMert_

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@adcock_brett or it means the person doesn't settle for mediocre

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@0xMert_

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5 months

@Jason > no one can name a single one that has any scale there are 482 replies to your post (each with multiple entries) lmao — you are just ignoring them to push a false narrative this is the problem with being early and getting lucky once — you start to think you have the competence…

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@0xMert_

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ok fine I will test this out hello @JustinTrudeau kindly consume an anus-flavored lollipop

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@0xMert_

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LMAOOOOOOOOOO I GOT GARY GENSLER TOO HAHAHHA community notes ftw I have went full Twitter Karen 😤

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@0xMert_

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5 months

@AaronSage > Solana is printing new tokens to pay their validators instead of paying them through gas fees 1) lol you just made that up kindly find attached fees increasing exponentially to compensate said validators (both txns and MEV) — charlatan — half goes to validators and half gets…

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@0xMert_

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@SenWarren @SECGov "Crypto" is a piece of technology — it can not "follow basic anti-money laundering rules" anymore than electrons can follow OFAC sanctions Crypto *companies* like Circle and Coinbase DO follow these rules You have the mental faculties of a soggy taco with no sour cream Also,…

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@0xMert_

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1 year

Polygon has received over 130M more in funding than Solana Polygon uses the money to pay people to use the chain and acquire companies Solana uses it to improve the tech and build the community and has *thousands* of more nodes do with this information what you will

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@0xMert_

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SOL is up 1300% since this

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solana patches looking promising in testing 👀 hang in there manlets

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@0xMert_

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@tsarnick What a colossal load of shit Study the classics, study writing, study math, study physics, study stats, study art, study rhetoric

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90% of chains have been near unusable for the past few years, and no one says anything Solana is unusable for 1 week due to handling more scale than almost all chains combined, and suddenly, it's the worst blockchain of all time Study this

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@0xMert_

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This is not a serious industry

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I've found it The perfect sentence to describe Canada "Home runs are not allowed" How is this a real place man

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@0xMert_

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Like, in the past 2 weeks: - I wasn't allowed to buy crypto - I wasn't allowed to see a regular news source like Bloomberg - my taxes were raised - I can now get fined/jailed for something I said 20y ago - I can be put under arrest if the gov thinks I might say something bad

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@AaronSage you're the same guy that said solana was dead without degods and that bonk wasn't going to do anything you also delete your tweets after getting ratiod you are a deeply unserious charlatan recommend learning basic math

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@jvb_xyz Why Solana is based: > there is a structural oversupply of blockspace; speed will not matter for years Oversupply? Sorry we don't like cutting supply while crypto has no pmf just to circle jerk about arbitrary burn mechanisms that ruin retail — if you think the word oversupply…

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@0xMert_

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@adamscochran this is such a reckless and irresponsible tweet learn how to read a damn explorer dude this is not a "dev", it's an asian exchange cold wallet this is not owned by anyone from bonk

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@0xMert_

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seems the SEC thinks Solana, Cardano, Polygon, Cosmos, Algorand etc are ALL securities this gets Coinbase, Robinhood etc involved as well time to put the interchain bullsh*t aside and unite against the war on crypto the SEC is unhinged and must be stopped

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oh we are so going to prison

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rough TL;DR of what's happening: - the networking stack (QUIC) on Solana is implemented poorly and does not handle spam well - if everyone spams, a lot of connections get dropped since a block leader can only handle so many connections at once - bots spam better than humans,…

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in the new SEC filing against Kraken — they list SOL as a security because *checks notes* Toly said that Solana is fast in a blog post.. these are deeply unserious people @GaryGensler you are a disgrace to bald guys everywhere, resign with haste

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10 months

"solana hardware requirements make it centralized" reality: ethereum only has 2-3x more validators than solana while being over 300x slower and 1000x more expensive

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mert | helius | hSOL

5 months

WE ARE SO BACK I can finally retire I take back that time where I said you are secretly not a bald CEO Brian — Coinbase is the greatest company in the history of companies — maybe ever thx

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@0xMert_

mert | helius | hSOL

10 months

Zuck so far has: - acquired whatsapp, instagram, and oculus - ripped off snapchat with insta stories - ripped off tiktok with insta reels - ripped off twitter with threadz this guy will go down as the greatest copycat of all time

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@0xMert_

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4 months

hating crypto is such a bizarre personality trait you hate the fact that many computers around the world can agree on a piece of state without requiring an intermediary? Wtf are you even hating at that point? Math? Do you have a hard on for things requiring single servers? Ok

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@0xMert_

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2 years

There has been an *insane* amount of FUD regarding #solana recently. While it is absolutely fine (and encouraged) to criticize Solana for its various design decisions and tradeoffs - most people have been perpetuating flat out lies. Let's dispel some myths.🧵

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@0xMert_

mert | helius | hSOL

1 year

The time has come — officially announcing: The Solana Sandstorm Hackathon. TL;DR - a virtual hackathon organized by @LamportDAO & @heliuslabs — powered by a TON of *amazing* ecosystem teams. Over 200k USD in prizes! Details 👇

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mert | helius | hSOL

1 year

A lot of false narratives about Solana making the rounds right now. We have a perfect opportunity to collectively come together and rally the builders in the ecosystem with a well-timed Hackathon and start the New Year off with positive momentum

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I physically can not believe this industry put in 300 million dollars into this thing without even thinking twice and I can not believe the "top VC" in crypto promotes this this is an industry of — and I'm being generous here — clowns everyone should be deeply embarrassed

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@AutismCapital hey team, kindly find attached evidence of you being complete dicks towards the ecosystem when it was at its lowest thx

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mert | helius | hSOL

5 months

this is the real flippening that matters google searches for solana are higher than ethereum for the first time ever and trending even higher

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@0xMert_

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2 years

When I first started analyzing #Solana NFTs, there weren't a lot of tools available - I had to do a lot of manual work + scripts. Fortunately, that's starting to change. Here are 10 tools that I use which will help you make more informed NFT decisions 🧵

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@0xMert_

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@Polymarket you do understand who your customer base is right?

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@DU09BTC This is what happens when you have the IQ of a paper straw You just made that up — inflation is just nonstakers paying stakers lmao literally all you have to do is press one button and stake your SOL No one is paying "100$M per month"....how would that even work — I'm urging…

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@0xMert_

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2 months

I'm assembling a team

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@0xMert_

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Solana recently: - multiple wealth generation events (PYTH, JTO, BONK) - $BONK #1 token in crypto atm - Solana Mobile sold out - Solana DEXes flipped Ethereum DEXes - Solana NFTs flipped Ethereum NFTs - Solana fee capture increased 10x - Many tokens launching soon LET'S GOOOOO

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Mert why are you so angry all the time Dude I'm bald at 28 and live in Canada Is that a srs question?

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> massive wormhole airdrop > you are solana maxi and literally do not bridge ever > no airdrop > poverty

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Solana has now broken $200, flipped BNB in market cap, and flipped ETH + top L2s combined in DeFi volume (while being semi broken) After the entire industry tried to call it dead and spread propaganda about it for the past few years Nice work manlets accelerate

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Solana sucks, my tech is perfect the tech after 20 TPS:

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6 months

there are now 75 left. Big yikes for $SOL

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3 months

ok chat I thought of a post to make everyone angry ready? Eigenlayer ~164.4M Celestia ~56.5M Optimism ~178.5M Arbitrum ~123.7M Scroll ~80M Immutable ~277.4M Polygon ~451.5M Manta ~60.4M Fuel ~81.5M Blast ~20M Starknet ~225M ZkSync ~258M Funding combined: ~$2,000,000,000 TPS…

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@0xMert_

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4 months

This could be the biggest week in Solana history

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4 months

BREAKING: Polygon announces a pivot to being an ETF

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1 year

Polygon founder: "Solana is unusable on a weekly basis" Solana: 160x higher than current Polygon TPS while having 15x the Nakamoto coefficient Make it make sense

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So L3s are basically centralized servers settling on other centralized servers (L2s) — controlled by multisigs In other words, we just recreated web2 but with higher fees, more scams, and worse UX? Yay crypto!

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elon just destroyed a man's entire career 💀

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😭 😭 😭 LMAO

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ok big news, very excited for this Announcing the first-ever: Solana Scribes What? First-ever Solana hackathon for written content only. Why? The Solana ecosystem has an alarming lack of docs, content, and research. We must fix this to onboard more people and improve the…

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ok who did this

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@TPostMillennial how did we manage to bring 2SLGBTQI+ into this?

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The Canadian special: - limit crypto buying for retail so they can't make money - make houses super expensive - increase taxes more so everyone has a worse time - Healthcare already doesn't work - block off information access to national news sources Worst place on earth

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the most overrated "blockchains" in all of crypto: 1) algorand 2) cardano 3) hedera 4) ICP do not, under any circumstances, let anyone in your family or friend circle buy these things

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I get insanely heated and salty about this when you are the most prominent figure in the entire industry and you say blatantly false shit like: "blockchains today are expensive and slow — they take minutes and tens of dollars for simple transactions" you are making the whole…

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We're working hard to make paying with crypto the best way to pay online. It's gotten faster and cheaper to send global payments with Base. Now we need to remove more intermediate steps. In the ideal world, every payment is under 1 second and 1 cent, and it's a one tap checkout.…

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"What is there to do on Solana?" a lot of folks are entering Solana for the first time but don't know where to start here are some starting points — this is *not* exhaustive, so reply with your protocol or app if I've missed you Wallets - @xNFT_Backpack - @solflare_wallet -…

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3 months

big news for Solana tomorrow

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1 year

@ewarren there's no way you're allowed to just lie about something verifiably wrong right?

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@antiprosynth @Visa LMAOOOOOO

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LET'S GOOOOOOOO Solana x Visa partnership this is MASSIVE Solana is happening

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a big shoutout to Anza, Jito, Helius, Triton, Solana Labs, Solana Foundation, Firedancer, Mrgn and Validators all around relentlessly shipping fixes for the network under fire more and more fixes coming online

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"Being a mother is the hardest job of all" Lol, lmao ok Susan Kindly try landing a transaction on Solana Mainnet rn

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JUP airdrop is coming what will happen: - lots of bots will spam + compete - blocks will fill up - chance of user txns landing will go down - users will experience delays using the chain - some ecosystem teams won't be ready to handle this - everyone will just blame RPCs…

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wait tucker literally denies evolution ?? he thinks people were just spontaneously created with the snapping of fingers?? my takeaway from this: no matter how dumb you are, you can mask it by being a very skilled speaker now imagine if smart people practiced comms more

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Incredible display of zealot's corner

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name a better chain than Solana (you can't)

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Breakpoint is officially over This was my first Breakpoint — and while I didn't know what to expect — I certainly did not expect this much talent and passion For the past 2+ years, I've made it a mission to do my best to help correct the blatant lies being spread about Solana…

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someone just said the term "flat ethers" lmao holy crap

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huge last 12 hours for the industry - Eigenlayer launch - Monad Announcement - a new zkVM, Jolt, by a16z - Zeta token announcement - DeBridge points - Cardano out of the top 10 - Tensor token as long as we get people to continue moving onchain, I'm happy

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@blockchainchick "Solana had 11 outages in 2022 controlled by FTX" No it didn't, you made that up for attention to make up for your content being garbage Also don't act like you understand validator math when you have the economical understanding of a beeple cock drawing Seek Christ, charlatan

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solana's current issue is not a design flaw, it's an implementation bug it is now hitting me that some folks might not understand what we've been trying to say by this for the past week I'll simplify it (intended for non-technical people) it is important to make this…

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This is the most dogshit thing I've ever seen lmao 0 police, 0 firefighters, 0 taxis — just yoloing the sea with a rental car after flight getting delayed by 6 hours

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serious question are the people buying cardano, algorand, hedera, etc actually real? like are they real homo sapiens? what are the odds of them being an AI bot farm?

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Southeast European: wait you guys are going to work?

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@AltcoinDailyio if only your father was this fast in pulling out

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honestly I am STILL shocked that the ceo of stripe was actually able to land a solana transaction during a live demo

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my condolences

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mert | helius | hSOL

5 months

bro who's still buying lmao where is this money coming from?? I love solana (obviously) but I have no idea what's happening

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mert | helius | hSOL

2 months

I am once again reminding Solana teams to launch the damn tokens

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mert | helius | hSOL

18 days

get in loser — we're improving Solano everyone who stakes with Helius will feel it's one of the best decisions they've made

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mert | helius | hSOL

17 days

> wake up > timeline bearish > open up exchange to buy shit ton of SOL > canada doesn't allow it

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mert | helius | hSOL

16 days

prison

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@0xMert_

mert | helius | hSOL

2 years

Past few days on #Solana : - @phantom IOS wallet + valued at 1.2B led by @paradigm 🦄 - Solana Pay - SOL up ~17% - @coinbase adds support for SPL tokens - @glowwallet releases wallet - @PsyOptions acquires @Tap_Finance - @coachella / FTX launch NFT marketplace "Ghost chain"

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