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Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
Comment suivre la guerre en Ukraine 🇺🇦🇷🇺 soit-même ?
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Les outils en sources ouvertes pour suivre la guerre en Ukraine :
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Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
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We applied a Martingale strategy to Polymarket's BTC 15-min candle markets. Here's how it works, what the data shows, and whether it's actually profitable. 🧵 [1/12]
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🇩🇪 20 Jahre null Steuern für Ausländer - die Türkei klaut Berlin und Brüssel gerade die Zukunft weg.
Gestern hat Ankara das wohl aggressivste Steuer-Paket der Welt vorgestellt. Wer in den letzten drei Jahren nicht in der Türkei steuerlich gemeldet war, kann sich jetzt niederlassen und zwei Jahrzehnte lang null Steuern auf ausländische Einkommen und Kapitalgewinne zahlen. Nur was du IN der Türkei verdienst, wird besteuert. Alles andere - dein Trading-Konto in Singapur, deine US-Aktien, dein Bitcoin-Stack, dein Mieteinkommen aus Spanien - bleibt unangetastet.
Erbschaft auf 1% gedrückt. Asset-Rückführung mit Ultra-Niedrig-Steuern. Exporteure zahlen runter auf 9% Unternehmenssteuer. Multinationale Konzerne kriegen rote Teppiche für regionale Sitze.
Das Paket heißt "Türkiye Century Strong Center for Investment". Erdogan will die goldene Kundschaft, die gerade aus Dubai abwandert, weil der Nahe Osten zu instabil wird. Und er will europäische Talente, die langsam aber sicher die Schnauze voll haben von Detuschland-Bürokratie und Berliner Finanzämtern.
Auf X läuft schon der Begriff "Sovereign Individual thesis". Eines der aggressivsten Investor-Relocation-Pakete der Welt. Kapital hat keinen Pass. Es geht dahin, wo es willkommen ist. Andere fassen es trockener zusammen: EU würgt Unternehmer ab, Millionäre fliehen aus dem Golf, Türkei sagt: Halt mal mein Raki.
Schau jetzt nach Deutschland.
Ich rede seit Monaten über das strukturelle Problem dieser Generation. Der 26-Jährige, der heute Software schreibt. Die 31-Jährige, die ihre Agentur nach drei Jahren Wachstum auflöst, weil das Finanzamt mehr nimmt, als sie selbst zum Leben braucht. Der Trader, der 26% Abgeltungsteuer auf jeden Cent Gewinn rechnet und sich fragt, wofür er morgens aufsteht.
Diese Leute sind nicht mehr ortsgebunden. Sie sind digital. Mobil. Sie können in 48 Stunden ihren Schreibtisch von München nach Istanbul, von Frankfurt nach Lissabon, von Hamburg nach Dubai verschieben.
Und Deutschland tut so, als wären das Verräter. Dabei sind das die Leistungsträger von morgen. Steuerzahler, die keine sein wollen, wenn der Staat nicht liefert.
Du baust hier ein Unternehmen auf? Wir nehmen die Hälfte von deinem Gewinn weg.
Du verdienst gut als Angestellter? Über 50% Grenzbelastung inklusive Soli und Sozialabgaben.
Du erbst was von deinen Eltern? Bitte zahl Erbschaftsteuer in voller Höhe.
Du willst dein Geld investieren? 26,375% auf jeden Cent Gewinn.
Ankara antwortet: Komm her. Wir nehmen für 20 Jahre null Cent von deinem ausländischen Einkommen. Erbschaft? 1%. Wenn du Exporteur bist, kürzen wir deine Unternehmenssteuer auf 9%.
Wer heute studiert oder seine erste Million baut, hat eine Wahl, die seine Eltern nicht hatten. Der Pass entscheidet nicht mehr über das Leben. Die Steuerresidenz tut es. Und die kann man wechseln.
Dubai war zehn Jahre lang der Magnet. Jetzt wackelt der Nahe Osten, und Erdogan greift sich die nächste Welle. Istanbul hat den Bosporus, eine Tech-Szene, die seit Jahren wächst, Lebenshaltungskosten, die ein Bruchteil von London oder Zürich sind, und ab jetzt eben das aggressivste Steuer-Setup zwischen Singapur und der Karibik.
Die deutsche Politik wird sagen: Das ist Steuerdumping. Sie hat sogar recht. Aber Recht zu haben hilft dir nichts, wenn deine besten Köpfe gerade ihren Mietvertrag in Berlin kündigen.
Ich bin schon weg. Aber ich sehe jeden Monat, wie viele Leute aus meinem Umfeld ernsthaft anfangen, sich die Fragen zu stellen, die die Politik immer noch ignoriert.
Wo arbeite ich noch wirklich freiwillig? Wo will ich meine Kinder großziehen? Wo wird das Geld, das ich mir hart erarbeitet habe, nicht behandelt wie ein Selbstbedienungsladen für die Politik?
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
The new Ukrainian drone "Minotaur", which operates on LTE communication by connecting to the towers of mobile operators, has a claimed flight range of up to 25 km. It also has a target capture system on board.
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨 Hedge fund managers are going to hate this. Someone just open sourced a system that does their entire job.
30.5% annualized returns. $0 in fees.
It's called TradingAgents.
Not one AI agent. An entire simulated trading firm. Analysts, researchers, traders, and risk managers. All AI. All arguing with each other before making a single trade.
No Bloomberg Terminal. No $50K data feeds. No MBA required.
Here's what's inside this thing:
→ 4 AI analysts scanning financials, news, social sentiment, and technicals
→ A Bull and Bear researcher that literally debate each other
→ A trader that synthesizes every argument into a final call
→ A risk management team that can veto any trade
→ A fund manager that approves or rejects execution
Here's the wildest part:
It beat every traditional trading strategy they benchmarked. Cumulative returns. Sharpe ratio. Max drawdown. All of them.
Hedge funds charge 2% management + 20% performance fees for this exact workflow. This is free.
100% Open Source.
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
‼️ 🚨 NOT FOR THE WEAK HEARTED
What a view. Camera fitted to a Mountain Goat. Not AI.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is AI-generated, not real footage from a camera fitted to a mountain goat, as shown by unnatural levitation, mismatched shadows, and morphing features. Real ibex climbing footage exists but is external, not POV. reddit.com/r/isthisAI/com… youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn… amusingplanet.com/2019/04/the-da…
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
I don't want hyperliquid people to lose in the long term, so I'm going to explain what @Lighter_xyz actually enables.
"Ok it uses ZK proofs so what?"
When we hear "ZK proofs" we should question: What is actually being proved?
Please bear with me. 👇
Standard ZK-Rollups/Validiums usually prove only the settlement. EG:
>> Alice had 10 ETH, Bob had 0. Alice sent 1 ETH to Bob. Now Alice has 9, Bob has 1. The signatures are valid. <<
That's it. They DON'T prove what happened during the exchange.
--> How the trade happened?
--> Did the exchange match Alice with the best price?
--> Did they let a bot jump in front of her?
--> Did protocol counter traded her?
You have to trust the exchange's matching engine for this, which almost always runs off-chain like a black box.
However Lighter's ZK Circuit is designed to prove entire execution logic.
Circuit proves that the matching engine followed the exact rules of the order book. Proof says:
--> Alice's buy order arrived at xx:xx.
--> The best sell order was Bob's at $000.
-->The engine matched them correctly.
--> No other order existed that could have given Alice a better price.
If the Lighter sequencer tries to skip your order or give you a bad price, it becomes mathematically impossible to generate the proof.
On the other side:
- Hyperliquid's 24 validators have absolute power over the protocol. EG:
>> They literally forced a market rollback on the JELLY pair to save the insurance fund (I find it as a wise move btw). That is how "trusted setup" works.
- Because Hyperliquid is on its own chain, there is no "higher court" to appeal. If the Hyperliquid validators agree to censor a user or halt the chain, the user cannot escape to Ethereum because the assets are locked on the Hyperliquid chain itself, or the bridge which operated by same stack.
Lighter's "single sequencer" cannot steal funds or fake trades because Ethereum L1 verifies the ZK proof.
I liked this court explanation so i am gonna stick with it.
Ethereum doesn't run the exchange nor exchange is running on the Ethereum. It just acts as the Supreme Court Judge.
- Lighter executes thousands of trades (or cancelletion) off-chain, on their own fast servers, to give you instant speed. This is similar to other exchanges.
- Lighter's servers run this ZK math - circuit that basically summarizes all those trades into a tiny cryptographic receipt, the ZK proof. Let's call it just proof.
- Lighter sends this proof to a smart contract on Ethereum.
- This contract has a specific function which runs a mathematical check.
- It just can passes or fails. It's bianary, no abstain outcome or other outcome can come. Pure math. 2+2=4, yes or no?
- If the proof is valid, which is the happy scenario, Ethereum updates the balances which are written on the smart contract. EG:
>> Tervelix has 1234 $ABC
- If the proof is invalid (e.g., the sequencer tried to cheat you), which is the sad scenario, Ethereum rejects the transaction entirely.
- The Ethereum smart contract calculates 2+2=5 -> FALSE. The transaction is rejected entirely. The state of the exchange on Ethereum does not update. The hacker/sequencer cannot move the funds because the judge refused to sign off on the new balance. The chain effectively halts rather than accepting a lie.
What if the sequencer just stops processing your withdrawal or shuts down the website?
- Since the Lighter smart contracts live on Ethereum L1, you don't need the Lighter website.ü
- You can call a function directly on the Ethereum contract (Force Withdrawal).
- If the sequencer ignores this request for a set time (e.g., 24 hours), the contract enters "Exodus Mode."
- This allows users to withdraw their funds directly from the Ethereum bridge contract using the proof, which you can generate yourself because the data is public, directly on Ethereum, not any other DA layer.
You don't trust the Lighter team to be honest. You trust the code, which you can read, and Ethereum, which is the worlds most secure network.
Feel free to verify on @l2beat
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
Just found out my wife is dating someone else
I asked who is he
She said his name is Karl and he is a "freelance startup consultant"
I lightened up, took a sip of my cappuccino and looked directly into her eyes
"Is he registered with the German Chamber of Commerce?" I asked
She went quiet
I pulled his LinkedIn
No VAT number in the bio
I confronted him directly over text
He said "hey bro I just do small projects on the side"
I reported him to the tax authority that same night
I have no problem with my wife having multiple boyfriends
But I refuse to let my family be associated with someone operating outside the legal framework
I can tell my wife looks at me differently now
She knows who the real man of the house is
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
Хто не знав,це автентична козацька пісня,яка дійшла до наших часів...як би там підари-москалі і комуністи не нищили нашу спадщину.....
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
A Difficult Personal Decision
I’ve made the personal decision to step away from trading on HyperLiquid. And I want to stress that word - personal (and difficult). I’m not asking anyone to follow me. I’m simply acting in alignment with where my values have moved.
Most of you have watched my thinking evolve over time. That’s what we’re supposed to do as human beings: evolve, refine, shed old frameworks, and build better ones.
And look - I know you’re not supposed to develop an emotional attachment to a protocol, but HyperLiquid was different for me. Jeff built something the market desperately needed. He dragged structural fairness into the spotlight and paved the way for a better conversation. He and the HL team deserve their chapter in crypto’s history books. I personally hope they continue to write new ones.
But if you’ve followed me for any length of time, you also know I’m an idealist - maybe to a fault - and I can’t turn off the portion of my brain that not only can see things as they currently are but continues to believe in what they should be.
10/10 ripped the mask off the industry for the new folks. Or for those who’ve been around long enough, it simply reminded us how fragile and easily manipulated this ecosystem still is. The fact that one centralized exchange can trigger a global liquidation cascade and force temporary price dislocations across every protocol? That’s not a “black swan.” That’s a design flaw.
Here’s a short recap:
Binance relied on its own oracle - which depegged a stablecoin.
That started a smaller, but manageable, liquidation chain.
The real chaos began when their API mysteriously went offline.
Market makers, who operate largely delta-neutral, suddenly couldn’t hedge on their primary venue.
With hedging impossible, they pulled quotes across CEXs and DEXs.
With no liquidity present, price falls off a cliff.
And across the industry?
Victory laps.
“Zero bad debt!”
“Liquidations processed flawlessly!”
Great. The protocol didn’t die.
But users did.
Protecting the protocol IS important - obviously.
But it is not the same thing as protecting traders.
If we want broader adoption, if we want legitimacy, if we want crypto to grow without getting handcuffed by regulators, we have to start building real consumer protection into our systems.
TradFi has circuit breakers, obligations for MMs, structural guardrails. Crypto has...hope. And an instruction manual that says, “Good luck out there!”
So why am I leaving HyperLiquid?
Because I choose to back teams who are actively trying to solve these design flaws, not merely observe them.
I’ve spoken with Jeff and another member of the Core 11. They don’t appear to see this as part of the roadmap right now. That’s their choice and I respect it.
And to be clear - nobody has a perfect fix. There is no silver bullet. What matters to me is who’s walking toward solutions rather than ignoring the problem.
We lost people on 10/10.
Real lives were ended.
Real families were destroyed.
Over...a design flaw allowing one entity to control the world?
Crypto doesn’t get to just sweep that under the rug.
So the question becomes:
Who’s actually building protections that might prevent the next Binance-induced disaster?
On Solana, I’ve only found one.
Drift’s liquidation protection isn’t magic. It’s not flawless. But it exists - and more importantly, it worked.
It checks:
“Is the oracle price diverging by more than 50% from the 5-minute TWAP?”
If yes it simply puts a temporary halt on liquidations.
That single line of logic saved a lot of people. Scam wicks get filtered. The insurance fund catches the edge cases. It’s not some grand philosophical overhaul - it’s simply a meaningful step toward sanity.
I’m not as brilliant as Jeff. I don’t pretend to know the best way to solve this at scale. But I am a customer - and customers vote with their dollars.
The industry keeps repeating, “Protecting the protocol is protecting the trader.”
But that’s not the full picture.
A car isn’t complete without a driver. Both are equally important to the beautiful symbiosis that exists.
This is a heartbreaking post to write.
This isn’t a Drift advertisement.
It feels more like a gut-wrenching breakup with a first love - not because the love disappeared, but because you finally recognize that you’re growing in different directions.
HL will always be a part of my story. It’ll stay on my shortlist whenever people ask where to trade. But it’s time for me to move forward - toward my values, toward my ideals - and to say to Jeff and the team, with real appreciation: we’ll always have Paris.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
Absolutely TERRIBLE experience with one of the leading American VCs
We had a meeting scheduled for 2pm
He showed up late at 2:06pm obnoxiously talking on the phone about 'Asian baddies' he met at Burning Man
Finally sits down and says he "skimmed through deck" but only saw "bullshit GDPR compliance stuff" and nothing on revenue growth
I could feel my blood pressure rising from anger and told him those ARE the metrics that matter and that we spent 3 years achieving full GDPR compliance
He loudly laughed like a typical American would do and said he's passing on the investment
I stood up and left without saying a word, and immediately reported them to the EU Commission for discrimination against sustainable business models
We're not some American company chasing vanity metrics
Next month, we got approved for a €50k grant from the German Federal Ministry for Digital Innovation
I'll take that anytime over a blood American money
Max Aptilon 🇺🇦 retweeted
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