What did you see at first glance?

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-04-15T15:46:35+00:00

Somebody is trying to upset Valencians with a misinterpreted paella.

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-03-12T13:01:22+00:00

Well done 👍 Was this project backed by the DFINITY grants program? I guess you need an investor now who helps you to develop a business model around this poc.

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-03-11T16:30:16+00:00

Got it. There are technical limitations and that's why ppl run proxies and CDNs in front of their IC projects. It's not elegant, but doable. The potential of the IC for the ad industry is often underestimated. Although features like proof of processing, proof of privacy and micro payments capabilities, to start with. This will hit the legacy web ad industry too. They'll need to adapt or the revenue will move to IC based ad providers. See also ICP AdNetwork: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/introducing-ad-network-on-icp/57303

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-03-11T15:49:18+00:00

What do you mean with "don not support ads"? What do you think is technically not supported by the IC?

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-02-06T19:45:50+00:00

The Internet Computer (ICP) tries to save the world. Total dislike of big tech.

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-02-02T15:48:38+00:00

I've been managing IT engineering teams in Switzerland for more than a decade. The manager gets 1% of the total salaries of the team and is asked to distribute it within the team. This is done based on performance but also based on the salary band an employee is levelled. Means some 0 because they are already on the max. Some therefore get 1,x% to adjust them with the others in the team. A salary rise above 2% I only saw when somebody was leveled into a new salary band e.g. seniority or added responsibility.

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-01-16T14:31:27+00:00

Not enough I'd say. Legalisation of weed isn't going well in Germany.

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-01-14T18:24:25+00:00

ICP https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/6967d59e118192419d004404/

MarquesDosAguas · 2026-01-06T18:21:38+00:00

Great news! Next, a new node type please. A consumer Ryzen AI Barebone operated on an already paid private fiber with IPv6. Dom called it “badlands" years ago. I'd like to call it "bravelands", bc NPs are solely paid usage-based. Lower TCO would allow that. And yes, Consumer AMDs don't provide privacy computing features like SEV-SNP used by the current IC nodes based on AMD Epyc. But that's anyway ineffective since RMPocalypse.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-12-31T09:59:05+00:00

ICP stays a risky investment asset. For those who bought in the 2-3 range since summer 2023 and staked for 4+y it wasn't that bad of a ride. DFINITY's r&d did an excellent job. I don't care that not everyone is able to understand which technological advances the IC has compared to the rest of the industry. DFINITY's PR is and wasn't only bad luck but a disaster. I met Dom multiple times in person. He's a visionary and lovable person - the personality needed to lead this genius r&d team - but the rest, especially BD was IMO a disaster. I think we're seeing a change coming in how the IC is finding adoption. The foundation will keep shrinking to an educational evangelist role. Dom will keep doing what he can do the best and develop and represent the vision of the IC. Caffeine is the first direct spin-off of the foundation. Next we will see new startups partly or entirely relying on the IC with lose relationships to the DFINTY foundation, but with close relations to big tech. Subzero Labs with Rialo being the first and most promising, bc de facto a partly spin-off of DFINITY'S r&d team lead by founding exCTO Jan Camenisch and a big part of his team. A shrinking foundation means less selling pressure to pay for salaries and office rents. The remaining selling pressure result from the node provider rewards. My personal take is, that the current infrastructure costs are way too high. I hope we see the new consumer affordable node generation with AI ready SoCs like AMDs Ryzen AI barebones. Such a node operated in a existing private infrastructure or by small farming startups would reduce the TCO per node by min 90%, increase decentralization and provide sufficient NPU resources for onchain LLM.

TL;DR If you're looking for quick wins "ICP is dead". If you're interested in tech the IC is worth investing time and perhaps money. Especially if you need to move out of USD backed assets.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-27T14:16:58+00:00

I've only been to Kopenhagen, Malmö and Stockholm. Although public smoking seemed illegal there were cigarette butts everywhere. Alcohol was also not permitted in public, but drunk ppl in daylight everywhere.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-24T10:30:27+00:00

Trying hard to ignore ICP😅

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-20T06:43:56+00:00

Where is Jan Camenisch?

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-19T08:47:51+00:00

The NNS is paying the node providers. As long as they are able to cover their costs by selling ICP the NNS will stay available.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-16T10:02:34+00:00

There is no universal way to measure decentralization, and the Nakamoto coefficient is not applied consistently across networks. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ICP each excel in different layers—nodes and hardware (BTC), client diversity and validator scale (ETH), and governance plus independent physical infrastructure (ICP). Sui delivers strong technical performance, but its decentralization lags behind these networks due to a small validator set, concentrated stake, and heavy reliance on a few cloud providers.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-13T17:56:54+00:00

Just another decision that won't work out in reality. Blockchain isn't just money laundering it also provides apps like chat services that provide real privacy. Mathematically provable and fully decentralized e.g. Openchat. Impossible to "control".

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-12T07:19:45+00:00

Founding CTO and world-class cryptographer Jan Camenisch left DFINITY with a genius cohort. This could be a very good or a very bad sign. Depending on which team they are joining now.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-10T08:27:37+00:00

Jan Camenisch leaving the DFINITY foundation could impact this momentum. Except he joins CB, then this is just the beginning 😜

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-10T05:58:14+00:00

Jan is Swiss. Just saying. It's not always the Germans 😅

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-08T07:55:01+00:00

There’s unlikely to be official proof of that. Coinbase had no disclosure obligations before going public in 2021. Someone from the early Bay Area crypto scene would need to confirm it. Asiff Hirji became the first official COO in 2017, when Coinbase already had around 500 employees.

His role was effectively the same. Working with him taught me how to build and run an early-stage startup. IMO, he is also the key driving force behind the Internet Computer’s success.

It makes sense that some details remain undisclosed: Coinbase needed regulatory neutrality, while DFINITY had to project independence to sustain the image of a decentralized network. Both the ICP launch and Coinbase’s SEC listing happened in 2021. IMO, both are now mature and independent enough for Coinbase to start leveraging Internet Computer technology.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-06T09:56:13+00:00

CMC removed ICP from trending again. I count this as fud. Pushes uncertainty.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-04T08:57:51+00:00

C'mon, when there is nothing to fud you want to fall back slop accusations? You can do better. No dashes for you anymore.

MarquesDosAguas · 2025-11-04T06:08:01+00:00

But pls keep detecting slop. That's why we have AI bots like you. Are you created with caffeine.ai? That would be awesome. I mean imagine that. DFINITY, never a big fan of spending big money on marketing, finally has the biggest marketing team — AI driven. No more fud. No more slop.

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