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SPO @DIGI_StakePool | Cardano Community | USN Senior Chief(ret) | Former Ocean Systems Engineer at Progeny | taco chef d/acc #Cardano 🇺🇸

Virginia, USA
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Cardano has synthetic assets @Indigo_protocol 🔥 #CardanoGirls
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3 years
For USA citizens opposed to the unrealized capital gains tax proposal by Senator @RonWyden , here is an example of a tactful and diplomatic letter template I made. You can use this or make/post your own. It's important to write your elected reps. cc: @JeffBezos @elonmusk
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Cardano moved $14.7 Billion for $7.4 thousand in fees. Ethereum moved $13.48 Billion for $26.35 MILLION in fees. In 24 hours... Ref:
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The Cardano mainnet has been running 600 days since the Shelley launch with ZERO downtime and ZERO chain partitions. 🔥 #Ada #goingfornumber1 🔥
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2 years
I JUST USED THE ERC-20 CONVERTER AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY AND UPGRADED MY ETHEREUM TOKENS TO CARDANO NATIVE ASSETS AND COST ABOUT $60 ON THE ETH SIDE TO DO EVERYTHING BUT ONLY $1.25 ON THE CARDANO SIDE I LOVE THE ERC-20 CONVERTER FU ETH HAHAHAHA OK I FEEL BETTER NOW GOOD NIGHT FAM
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Note to self: Here is a picture of @IOHK_Charles supporting the ENTIRE crypto industry at a Federal US Senate hearing and here is a picture of @RaoulGMI saying "Cardano is a meme coin" on @AltcoinDailyio Pick your team.
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I think @IOHK_Charles would be a good guy to talk to @joerogan about #Cardano . Good idea @lexfridman
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3 years
Get this hashtag trending -> #Tesla4Ada
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Look at all those #Cardano bots 😘
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Cardano has dApps, check this out 🤠
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1 year
Make this egg the most liked post on Twitter. #Cardano
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1 year
Senator Lummis clearly nails the point in this brief clip. Eg: Fraud is Fraud. Money is money. Digital assets are digital assets. Do not conflate fraud with digital assets. #Crypto #Bitcoin #Cardano #Ethereum #Polkadot #Ergo
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I want Cardano 🥰
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Ada is not an alt. Ada is a primary.
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Cardano is approximately 2 years ahead of Ethereum
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3 years
Comparing #Cardano #Ada to #Ethereum activity: Cardano moved $11.96 billion for $41.1 thousand Ethereum moved $7.67 billion for $33.47 million
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Ethereum was Cardano’s test net.
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2 years
#Cardano ERC-20 converter success on test net 👇
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cardistack(CSK) pool **Cardano SPO**
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@IOHK_Charles Works like a charm no issues at all. #AGIX
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Yay! I resigned from my day job to work full-time on Cardano self employed. It was a great company to work for, but time to make the switch. #Cardano #GoingForNumber1
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#DripDropz unleashes the power of eUTXO on #Cardano . I don’t know of any other chain except maybe #Ergo capable of returning 33 different asset deliveries in one transaction, where 3 different users receive 10 tokens each plus 3 Ada change returns only using 50% tx size capacity
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3 years
Correct me if I am wrong, is this the same network that taunted Charles Hoskinson with a $50,000 bet that Cardano would not launch smart contracts by October 1st? Take your time @InputOutputHK take your time.
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Yano 🟪
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The largest DeFi hack in history just took place on the Poly Network. Ethereum – $273M Binance Smart Chain – $253M Polygon – $85M We'll keep you updated as we learn more.
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Hey @IOHK_Charles we are trying our hardest over here to break #Cardano but we have failed. We cannot break it. Your did it! ⭐️ #Cardano #Vasil
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Thanks for helping load up the chain to test #Vasil @DripDropz_io
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2 years
Cardano about to flip Solana. Should be permanent this time.
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3 years
Ada flipped DOGE and so did the hashtag #Tesla4Ada #Cardano #Ada #GoingForNumber1
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This pic below is 1 tx on #Cardano You heard that right. It won't even fit on one page. Just. One. Transaction. With eleven assets total incl/Ada Tx built with @amw Phyrhose on #DripDropz Don't let anyone tell you eUTXO or Cardano is inferior. Top that #Bitcoin or #Ethereum 🔥
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It's been 460 days since the launch of #Cardano Shelley mainnet with no network restarts required and no chain partitions. Well done @InputOutputHK and team #Cardano . #Ada #goingfornumber1
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Hi @elonmusk I think @gofundme can be replaced with Cardano smart contracts.
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3 years
The hashtag #Telsa4Ada is not about pumping the price of Ada. It is about using Cardano where it needs to be used. Tesla is looking for a specific use case which Cardano is perfectly qualified.
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My daughter got married, new family! 😃
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3 years
Less than 50 hours until the Mary hardfork (Cardano Blockchain Upgrade) and native assets deploy. History in the making. Stay positive, ignore the trolls, and ignore the haters. We are going for number one.
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I was in a room today with 9 other regular people unrelated to crypto. One person described their business and regulation. When the person was done I asked “Does your business accept cryptocurrency payments?” No! (giggle) The entire room laughed at me and some guy went on…
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I fuckin love Cardano
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Ran into this mfr in the trenches on the 34th floor
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I’m a Grandpa now. Yay! 😃
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cult leaders at headquarters during an eclipse to sacrifice a goat 🤣
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Djed needs to be attacked with massive force as soon as it is released on Cardano main net. It needs to prove it is worthy to exist in this environment. We need to find it's strengths and weaknesses early on so we don't have another Luna event.
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BREAKING: Ada is not an alt. Ada is a primary. #Cardano
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Cardano girls v3 just dropped 😍
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2 years
Charles Hoskinson is the most impactful person in blockchain this century next to Satoshi Nakamoto. Period.
@IOHK_Charles
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2 years
I just received a formal invitation to speak before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture about Blockchain and Cryptocurencies. It will be live June 23rd at 10:30 AM EST if anyone wants to watch it over YouTube.
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Ada will flip Eth eventually
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FYI there’s a Djed stable coin research paper that says… hell I have no idea wtf it says 😅😂 #Cardano #Ada #goingfornumber1
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A comparison of #Cardano and #Ethereum 2.0 POS
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My new grandson, daughter, and her husband 🥰
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I just got off the plane from Scotland after 8 hours of cell phone silence. wtf did y’all do? #Cardano
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We are going for number one! ☝️ #Cardano
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3 years
Charles @IOHK_Charles what do we have here? 😁
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Every one still here since yesterday is now an OG 🫡
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Cardano SPOs 8.1.1 has been released for mainnet! 🔥 This update improves node performance at the epoch boundary and corrects previous concerns with P2P/DNS. It also contains all the performance improvements from 8.0.0. Let's rock and roll! #Cardano
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1 year
Last night during the anomaly on the #Cardano network, the entire network did not go down. There was a brief period of degradation. Most nodes impacted had gracefully recovered. No network restart was required.
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Ada is a coin. People can buy Ada. Cardano is not a coin. Cardano is a system. One cannot buy a 'Cardano'. Ada is pronounced 'ay-dah' as it is the proper name for Ada Lovelace. Ada is not pronounced A-D-A spelled out. Ada is a primary, not an alt. Spacecoins are an alt.⭐️
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My goodness @axotrade is absolutely going to storm the DeFi world with programmable swaps and strategy templates. Any big #Ethereum YouTube peeps would be wise to study Axo and make videos. Endless supply of content and strategies
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Cardano's Nakamoto Coefficient is now 38. Is this the highest in all of crypto now? #Cardano
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Ada is a coin. A primary coin. Ada can be purchased, staked, minted, and traded. Cardano is not a coin. Cardano is a system and a protocol. It is free and open source software. One does not buy Cardano, one uses it. Ethereum is garbage. I will try to behave tomorrow, gn fam
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Ada is such a clean and refreshing coin. Feels good to own.
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3 years
Hey @CoinDesk and @davidzmorris check it out! I made an NFT on Cardano. Exactly as researched and designed for the last 5 years. Amazing! 🤩 Shoutout to @Tokhun_io and @pool_pm 🤜🤛 #Cardano #Ada #CNFT #NFTs #DeFi #smartcontracts #goingfornumber1
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@fintechfrank I've seen the research, it's groundbreaking, now only eight months to implement a workaround to an architectural decision made four years ago that makes minting NFTs impossible
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Ethereum was Cardano’s test net.
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RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄
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Bitcoin is for people who haven't discovered Ethereum
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Only $172.4 Billion USD to go for Cardano to overtake Ethereum 🙌 #Cardano #GoingForNumber1
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Good morning. The Cardano treasury is now worth $189 Million USD more than the Ethereum treasury. #Cardano #GoingForNumber1
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I wonder if people in Europe and Asia can sue @GaryGensler and the @SECGov for inaccurate claims about Ada being a security? He spooked Ada holders around the world and couldn’t even answer this Ethereum question👇🤔 #Cardano
@Cointelegraph
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Gary Gensler and Representative McHenry arguing on whether $ETH is a commodity or a security, with Gensler unable to answer the question 👇
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2 years
Hi @PayPal … any plans for users to buy Ada direct on PayPal? It’s a well built blockchain, properly decentralized, with a highly intimate brand. Thx 🤗 #Cardano
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At the moment @SundaeSwap performance on testnet is significantly better than @Uniswap on #Ethereum #Cardano #Ada #goingfornumber1
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Cardano culture has plenty of pretentious nerdiness and moral superiority stank on it, but I think we need to work on being bullish degen mfrs and defi wizards ready to drive this entire fkn thing to the fkn moon 🚀🚀🚀 who's with me? 💪
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I think the Cardano PAB will be released on mainnet by Thursday, November 25. #Cardano #Ada
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The last #ethereum I will ever buy will be to run my $AGIX through the Cardano ERC-20 converter.
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I was taking a picture of this street sign and the moon photobombed me. #Cardano #Ada #goingfornumber1
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3 years
There will never be a Cardano 2.0 because Cardano is being built correctly.
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2 years
Happy Friday! I don't think #Cardano is an #Ethereum killer, I think Cardano will actually help Eth survive by taking some of the load of the eth network, lowering gas fees, and demonstrating some best practices for scaling and bridging. Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄⛪️☃️🎁
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Did they turn #Solana back on yet?
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I ran the @MidnightNtwrk and Kachina documents by @InputOutputHK through GPT-4 and asked it analyze and identify Industries & Use Cases for a privacy preserving blockchain. It identified 14 industries and 28 use cases. Here are the results: "Based on the comprehensive…
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These scam coins are getting crazy. Someone just shilled me: - 34 Trillion supply - No supply cap - 1 node - 1 Trillion more minted every 100 days - 10% of the supply minted in the last 6 months - 1% of holders own 30% Nvm. That's the US dollar 😂
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Cardano needs more YouTubers: Need more videos that explain the how, why, when, benefits, and risks of using all these awesome products emerging on Cardano. Not shills, but educators.
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Can you imagine if regular police officers acted like the SEC chair Gary Gensler? Let’s say you get a ticket for speeding and go into court to dispute it.... Officer: “The defendant was speeding.” Judge: “How fast was he going?” Officer: “I don’t know but he was speeding.” Judge:…
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3 years
Hey Charles @IOHK_Charles congratulations on building the best proof of stake protocol planet Earth has ever seen. You’ve done well brother.
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2 years
Markets are red Hodlers are blue Ada is not an alt It's a primary too #Cardano #Bitcoin
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Where’s those reply guys telling me we don’t need marketing? 🤣🤣🤣
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Cardano literally invented liquid staking, yet so far is losing the narrative to Ethereum. Ethereum's definition is being adopted because the Cardano marketing strategy (or lack of) has failed to penetrate the larger blockchain industry and media. Here's a meme to visualize:
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Once Voltaire is live on Cardano there’s no one to send a Wells notice to, and that’s the point.
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Rick McCracken DIGI
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Imagine #Cardano having: 5 years of research 10 years of lessons learned 128 research papers 130+ community projects 168 researchers 370 engineers 1 million+ delegators And a new speculator shows up today with #Ada at $1.50 and guys like @mikealfred eating paint chips. wagmi
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Mike Alfred
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Imagine being a brand new speculator with a few days of cumulative experience and believing outright scams like Hex, XRP, and Cardano are better long term investments than #Bitcoin
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gm ☕️☀️ Edinburgh in the morning
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Ada is a coin. A primary coin. Ada can be purchased, staked, minted, and traded. Cardano is not a coin. Cardano is a system of software and a protocol. It is free and open source. One does not buy Cardano, one uses it. Cardano is targeting number one in all crypto categories. 🏆
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Clip of over 300 projects built on Cardano in under 100 seconds 😃 Tag @ your favorite projects, founders, and influencers you can spot in the video.
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If Cardano can survive Elon Musk then Cardano is definitely going for number one. Let’s test it! #Tesla4Ada #Cardano #Ada #GoingForNumber1
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Rick McCracken DIGI
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I'm supporting Ledger Live integration for #Cardano in Project Catalyst Fund 7 because I think it is the most important proposal and will lead to Ada and native asset support inside Ledger Live. Plus the guild members backing it are very trustworthy in my humble opinion.
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As the CEO of Ada today, we need to stop fighting with these other blockchains. Makes us look like idiots.
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As the CEO of Ada today I declare a ceasefire with Solana.
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3 years
Can confirm 💯 Colorado is warm and sunny 🌞
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I'm just going to sit here quietly watching the #Bitcoin and #Ethereum maxis rip each other to shreds on Twitter while I'm collecting #Ada and #ERG because #Cardano peeps and #Ergonauts already solved most of the technical, decentralization, and vc/insider problems of BTC & ETH😃
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Rick McCracken DIGI
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well, there we have it folks, pack it up 🤣
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10 months
I will never quit. Period. #Cardano
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2 years
Ada is down 10% Solana is down 20% I think @invest_answers has some explaining to do 😂 #Cardano #goingfornumber1
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Hi @CoinbaseWallet 👋 What needs to happen to get #Cardano Ada and the native assets added to Coinbase wallet?
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Rick McCracken DIGI
3 years
Cardano will run Ethereum better than Ethereum
@InputOutputHK
Input Output
3 years
NEW BLOG: Our incoming ERC20 converter will allow Ethereum-based tokens like $AGI @singularity_net to run on our proof-of-stake blockchain. Coming soon to testnet. Find out more: #Cardano $ADA @Cardano
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Markets are red, holders are blue $Ada is sweet and $HOSKY is poo 🌹💙 ₳ 🐶💩
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Rick McCracken DIGI
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Huge thanks to @snekcoinada and @BankercoinAda along with @TapTools info battle-testing the #Cardano network. My confidence is rock solid now with the network holding up under sustained heavy traffic. Well done 🏆 #Cardano #goingfornumber1
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Rick McCracken DIGI
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Dear Charles and KtorZ, We tried our best to break the Cardano blockchain. We failed. Love, DripDropz 💙
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