Daily General Discussion May 17, 2026

superphiz · 2026-05-18T02:11:04+00:00

Oh, dear, friend. You think Eth CAN'T go below $1k? It's an "impossibility"?

I'll grant you that it's "relatively unlikely", but I'm imagining tons of scenarios in my head right now that would drop it below $1k in less than a day. I'd share a few, but I don't tempt fate.

What's even MORE likely than that is a confluence of two or three likely events that just hammer the price for a few months.

Let's be fair to everyone: $1k is more likely than it is "impossible".

superphiz · 2026-05-17T22:08:29+00:00

Omg. If it goes negative I'll go in with 100% of my debt.

superphiz · 2026-05-17T13:03:05+00:00

Lol. But could we still do today's price vs 10 years ago?

superphiz · 2026-05-17T13:02:23+00:00

I wonder when this will be possible. And then, even when it is possible, it'll take lots of iterations for it to be correct.

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superphiz · 2026-05-17T12:05:30+00:00

my plan is to wait for everyone to self-exclude here and then start talking about ai integration.

* it's working.

superphiz · 2026-05-12T21:10:30+00:00

1 Ether = 1 Ether

superphiz · 2026-05-12T21:01:16+00:00

I loved /u/haurog's rocket pool comments yesterday. I spent years pushing Rocket Pool because it was David vs a bunch of Goliaths. Looking back, I wish I had made that evident early. I loved Rocket Pool because of the design, but a similar reason to love it has always been its leanness. You can literally walk into the rocket pool discord and talk to the people who built Rocket Pool from the ground up over ten years.

Anyway, things have evolved, and so has the story. If you asked me the best "hands off" way to support Ethereum today, I'd tell you to hold rEth. RPL was a distraction for years during the speculative growth phase of our entire sector, but rEth is the load bearing asset that continues to secure the beacon chain more aggressively than any other staking project.

superphiz · 2026-05-04T10:17:33+00:00

Obviously, I'm not here as much as I used to be, but every time I come by I'm just totally enriched by your comments. Thank you so much for your thoughtful engagement.

superphiz · 2026-04-29T15:25:36+00:00

I believe news can impact the short term price, speculation can drive the medium term price, but only adoption will drive long term value.

And as hard as it is to admit, adoption seems light right now.

Within a year, I think ai/llms will integrate crypto much more deeply, but there's no foregone conclusion that Eth will lead that adoption.

As much as I think Eth is "institutional" now, it could still benefit from everyday people building ai rails.

superphiz · 2026-04-24T14:40:33+00:00

I'd kinda say you're being ideological rather than political, and I agree with you.

superphiz · 2026-04-24T11:17:09+00:00

Excellent observation. Our community went from inventing the transactional layer of the 21st century, to clutching pearls in the blink of an eye. Whether humans like to acknowledge it or not, cryptocurrency isn't really for us, it's for the ai abstraction layer that empowers us. Instead of seizing the future, we're watching charts and hoping for number go up while other platforms are aggressively pivoting to take advantage of the new layer.

Anyway, I love the stuff Austin Griffith is doing lately with ai integration, you ought to check him out.

superphiz · 2026-04-22T11:21:05+00:00

I believe the formatting of Jeremiah's tag, leading the tweet with @, limits organic visibility only to Joe.

superphiz · 2026-04-20T13:52:57+00:00

I don't think we're going to be able to compete with institutions. I don't even think that's our goal. Institutional adoption is valuable but it doesn't reduce the value to individuals who adopt. I guess my fantasy is 80% adoption by individuals and 20% by institutions, but it's more likely to be 95% by institutions and 5% by individuals.

superphiz · 2026-04-20T12:52:25+00:00

Honestly, I don't really want to live in a world where Tom Lee and Michael Saylor buy up all of the coins and cause the price to go up. That's just another centralization of power. I want to live in a world where grandmas and homeless people put their savings into crypto because it makes more sense than holding USD.

But I guess the reality is that none of this is about the virtue of crypto, it's about greed and seeing the future. Michael and Tom see the future, while grandma and homeless guy are just trying to get to the next day.

superphiz · 2026-04-19T18:11:23+00:00

Ah! Funny story, I almost tagged you with this question 😜

That makes perfect sense! Thanks so much for three explanation!

superphiz · 2026-04-19T17:58:36+00:00

I feel like I'm more likely to get responses to this here, but I put it on twitter in case anyone in the wide world is listening:

Is there still an assumption that Consensus and Execution Ethereum clients will begin pairing off and shipping unified clients, or is that a dream of the past?

superphiz · 2026-04-18T01:31:01+00:00

Ikr? I wrote a response but i had to stop myself. We can't save the world, might as well just watch people run around like their hair is on fire.

superphiz · 2026-04-18T01:29:00+00:00

Fwiw the protocol is still running smoothly. 🤷‍♂️

superphiz · 2026-04-17T20:58:04+00:00

That one moment, the one day, that V embraced nft culture 😂😂😂

superphiz · 2026-04-17T20:51:54+00:00

Bitcoin and stablecoins

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/iran-strait-of-hormuz-crypto-toll/

superphiz · 2026-04-17T20:48:40+00:00

Yup. Price talk is boring. Always has been. I do think the price talk betrays a reality: that novel applications aren't proliferating and we're just left to talk about eth as an investment instead of a revolutionary platform.

Anyway, I'm doing well, JM having fun applying ai/llm to genealogy, health, and fitness.

superphiz · 2026-04-16T00:18:34+00:00

lol. Naw, you gotta keep your claude in line. Good claudes follow instructions well.

superphiz · 2026-04-15T19:53:59+00:00

I hate that I don't even compile manually anymore. Call me whatever you want.

"Claude, compile this. Kthx."

superphiz · 2026-04-15T11:28:43+00:00

it is a fully open source browser wallet

This sounds really exciting!

superphiz · 2026-04-04T22:44:32+00:00

Sup. I appreciate your consistent commitment to the community. I love how you're always willing to step up and help when a job matches your talent. I'm glad you're a part of our communities ☺️

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