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A group photo of me and my besties in 2025 ☺️☺️☺️ @cryptogirls @nounishprof @henry14 @rosekeyes @adrienne

REGULARLY REWATCHING MOVIES HAS BECOME A TRAP FOR ME I’ve noticed a habit of rewatching my favorite movies. Before, I didn’t attach any importance to it. When you feel bad, you just turn on a favorite film to get familiar feelings and emotions. But recently I was sent some interesting materials on near-psychological topics, and I looked at the issue in a new way. I rarely drink alcohol. I definitely haven’t had beer for more than 10 years. And yet this desire to “relieve stress” with alcohol sometimes doesn’t bypass me either 😅 But today I realized that it’s essentially the same scenario, just dressed differently. When we relieve stress with alcohol, we immerse ourselves in sleep while awake. When we rewatch Harry Potter or Lords of the Rings, we fall asleep in exactly the same way. Or, for example, my favorite thing — rewatching my own stories and reels with favorite music from trips. I can get stuck there for an hour, falling asleep while awake. The same goes for music playing on a speaker or in headphones. The same playlist every day? It strongly reminds me of the movie Groundhog Day. In these moments, I clearly see myself from the outside as a character in The Truman Show. It’s the same phenomenon that different authors call patterns, reflexes, imposed motivations, pendulums, scripts, dopamine loops… Besides draining a huge amount of useful time that could be spent on expanding one’s worldview, watching not an old but a new movie or a podcast, you also create positive reinforcement of unpleasant events. I took this concept from psychologist Albert Safin: if you meet friends to drink alcohol because of a problem, you train your body to repeat problems — you positively reinforce problems. Since sweets, alcohol, and endlessly rewatching movies in a loop are all the same dopamine loop, rooted in not accepting the world as it is and not valuing your life enough. As a result, even without consuming alcohol or sweets, I still fall into the same trap and drain my attention away from where my goals are. Managing my attention is what I want to focus on in the coming months. And the first thing I’ll do is stop rewatching what I’ve already seen — with the exception of psychological film analyses and public screenings with feedback.

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My takeaways from the podcast featuring the Liberman brothers, founders of the decentralized AI project Gonka.ai. 1. Bitcoin is the world’s main data center; its total computational power is still larger than all AI data centers combined. 2. According to the Libermans, about 10% of miners will eventually switch to mining Gonka, providing compute for decentralized AI. 3. The efficiency of ASICs used to mine BTC has increased 300x over 13 years. We may see something similar happen with AI chips. 4. Render and Filecoin are real, globally used products—video rendering and cloud storage. But their tokens keep trending down. Why? More on that in the conclusions. 5. Renting GPUs for AI costs around $50 per day. You spend that money and potentially earn mined tokens that might be worth more later… or might not. 😆 6. The initial cost of mining 1 Gonka token was 2 cents. By the time of the podcast, it had risen to 10 cents. 7. In the future, each of us will have personal robots that we can rent out for different types of work—factory jobs, restaurant service, taxi driving (it’ll be cross-platform, not controlled by autonomous-car monopolies), cooking, cleaning someone’s home, and so on. 8. A possible robot-sharing model: 7 hours working at home, 3 hours charging, 7 hours working your job, 7 hours helping society and the government—building roads, placing IV drips, etc. In about 30 years, we may have one robot per person (a bit like Star Wars). Estimated cost of such a robot: about $5,000. 9. In 2001, free Linux held only 1% of the OS market. Today, 80% of servers, networking equipment, and mobile devices (Android) run Linux. The same thing may happen with AI: today 99% is controlled by monopolists, but projects like Gonka may change the landscape. 10. The next generation of Bitcoin ASIC chips will likely support AI computations. 11. Market leaders in decentralized GPU: Bittensor, Render, Akash, Gensyn. 12. Independent countries are very concerned about US/China AI dominance; they want their own sovereign AI as soon as possible. That’s why nations with strong mining infrastructure, like Kazakhstan and Bhutan, are moving into this field. Durov’s interest in Kazakhstan is directly connected to its excess GPU capacity. We should watch these countries closely to see which platforms they choose. CONCLUSIONS We already have Filecoin, Render, Helium. These decentralized systems work, but they lack monetary function. Because of that, they attract mostly industry professionals, and AI tokens like Gonka will likely follow the same path. Bitcoin and Ethereum do have monetary function. Bitcoin is digital gold. Ethereum is digital real estate in a global registry of rights, with the ability to earn yield from ownership. Stake ETH and earn passive income independently of governments. If you want to speculate on Gonka or other decentralized-AI mining projects, don’t invest too much, especially since it’s quite expensive, starting at around $1,500 per month. Following Taleb’s Barbell Strategy, it makes sense to keep 90% in the most reliable assets like BTC and ETH, and the rest in higher-risk plays such as Gonka. I believe in the future of AI, but I’m not convinced that its tokens will outperform BTC and ETH. If I had to choose where to store 100% of my assets for the next 100 years, I’d pick Ethereum. I go to Ethereum conferences every year just to reaffirm that everything is on track. 🤓 P.S. Bitcoin and social capital are also great investments, right alongside Ethereum.

This Christmas tree is 38 years old. I inherited it from my grandmother, who lived to be 94 and with whom I spent almost all of the happiest moments of my childhood during school holidays. All the ornaments on it are very old — most likely even older than the tree itself. Many of you probably remember those glass cones, balls, little houses, and figurines made in the 80s. The chocolate Russian Santa have been its constant companions since the mid-90s. I wonder if the chocolate is still edible or not 😆

WHAT MY DIVORCE TAUGHT ME I try to find positive moments in any, even the most unpleasant, event. The divorce that suddenly happened about a year ago taught me to understand myself much better. And I consider this the main goal in life — to know oneself. And the divorce definitely brought me closer to this goal. The main advantage was the expansion of my social circle. As a result, I got acquainted with a large number of ideas and viewpoints that changed — and continue to change — my habits. THE HABITS OF YOUR FUTURE SELF These habits are close to my target image of myself. The version of me who is not limited by anything and “lives his ideal life.” One of these habits is living as if in a hotel. I usually cook only breakfast at home. After breakfast I work and then go to a shopping mall, where I spend about 2–3 hours in the gym, the pool, and the food court. After that, I feel a boost of good mood for the entire day. The second habit is the topics of conversations with people. The longer I live, the more I understand the depth of Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous saying: “Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.” GOSSIP AND NEWS — INTO THE TRASH It is absolutely pointless to discuss other people. First, it is the act of putting subjective labels on them; second, it will not change anything in life — it’s just empty chatter that drains time and energy. The same goes for events. 99% of news is information noise that will lose any meaning within a week. Therefore, if we read the news for half an hour every day or watch event-driven reels for hours, we are draining 99% of potentially useful time. That is exactly why I recently deleted Instagram and other event-based platforms from my personal phone, leaving them only on my work phone. CONCLUSIONS I am glad that over this past year I realized that I choose to live every day as if I were staying at a hotel. And I am proud that I made the decision to try not to discuss with people the everyday problems of others or random daily news. It is much better to discuss dreams and life goals. For example, where you will go on your next vacation and what you want to get out of that trip.

Just won… just scored the most points among the adults in a VR shooter at my son’s birthday party😅

GN

Iguazu. Day 2. View from the Brazilian side.

First day at Iguazu☺️

Bebop jazz club in Buenos Aires is awesome

Goes out to my dear @tatiansa.eth from /nouns crew. Farcaster meetup by @limone.eth in Buenos Aires. The one & only /castout king @toadyhawk.eth

/gmfarcaster with @adrienne comin’ at ya!

@warpletsai by @sayangel meets @cryptowenmoon.eth @unun at Farcaster booth☺️

@bankless summit is the best side event at @devcon Amazing talks by Danny Ryan and Marce Cavazzoli from Lemon app. P.S. The food was also the best of any Devcon /Devconnect I’ve been to. Thx @trustlessstate

Sunset in Buenos Aires near the River Plate stadium

A short live report from the Ethereum World’s Fair

Hola! Today is my first day at Devconnect in BA. In addition to exploring the Ethereum World’s Fair, I will be helping onboard people to Farcaster. And this morning I wrote a text for myself about why I’m doing this at all, and why I’ve focused specifically on Farcaster. Short videos (Reels/Shorts) have consumed almost all attention in the world. And images have become a “gallery,” not the primary object. Twitter remains the home for text. Instagram/TikTok/YouTube — the home for video. And there are almost no platforms where images are the main format. In regular social networks, an image is a trash, devalued format that doesn’t belong to the author. But on Farcaster, every image or post can be an NFT or a digital object that can be bought/sold/collected. And this creates a new “social mechanic”: — collecting posts — owning art — valuing visual content It’s like Instagram in 2012, but with an ownership economy. A photo, AI generation, or a meme with a short sentence is the best packaging for thoughts that doesn’t require reading or watching a video. Historically, people have loved collecting rare things and taking part in speculation. Farcaster combines these two niches, allowing NFTs and memecoins to be embedded into the design of the social network itself and tying this to your social graph. Aesthetic and visual meaning are the key to the future ownership economy built on Farcaster and Ethereum.

Thx to @manu for an awesome rave @blockravers in BA

¡Hola, Buenos Aires!