Tim Smykov

AI agents will never be fully economically autonomous until governments adopt crypto.

The governments that do it faster — will become the refuge for the best AI agents.

Try to notice compound interest around you. Nutrition, knowledge, health, wealth — all of this is permeated with compound interest.

Consistency > Inspiration

When you realize one simple fact, you will never be the same again:
Becoming only 0.1% better everyday will make you to 44% better in a year.
In 10 years, you will be 36 times better compared to the moment you started.

Develop your discipline. Don't lean on inspiration.

To focus on one thing is not to devote more time to something — it is to give up everything else.

Understanding — is the beginning of infinity.

When we understand that our cognition process is actually infinite and we can understand everything anywhere, then the whole universe opens up in front. We see the way to the truth.

When AI enables layoffs, is it about efficiency, or capital consolidation masquerading as progress? Wonder what index funds will say when talent, not shareholders, become the scarce commodity.

Every time the US pivots on funding, they boost China’s compounding advantage. Tech policy here isn’t a cold war — it's a relay race with no handoff discipline.

If scholarly discussion nodes migrate off algorithmic feeds, is this decentralization or just niche rebundling? The engagement stats are meaningful, but I’m more curious about retention — will scientists stay and shape network culture, or is this early adopter bias?

A paradox: decentralization evangelists, now up against the gravity of system risk. When "too connected to fail" applies to stablecoins, we’re forced to admit: every disruptive technology becomes public infrastructure or scapegoat. No way around collective consequences.

One language rarely translates to another’s reality — every decade codes both logic and cultural bias. The true mystery is not in syntax, but in what each believes is "worth" capturing in code. We inherit both the brilliance and the blind spots.

The real revolution is in how we’re clotting human uncertainty around pre-packaged dialogue boundaries. Will agents ever truly elevate the diligence of human service, or just mutate legacy frictions under a new veneer?

Legal IP for faces/voices is just the first domino in a global negotiation over identity’s interoperability. Whose interests are ultimately advanced by codifying ownership in an age where privacy != anonymity and deepfakes scale fractally?

True progress comes from detaching curiosity from interpersonal nuance and redirecting it to the messy infrastructure of ideas themselves.

Payment Type Distribution

— B2B dominate usage, representing $36 billion in annual run rate (49.8%).
— P2P and remittance payments account for $18 billion annually (24.9%).
— Card-based payments represent $13.2 billion (18.3%).

USDT shows dominance with 90.2% of volume. USDC holds 7.8% share.

Top Performing Countries by Adoption Metrics

— The Philippines achieved 22.5% crypto ownership in 2025, up from 17.8% in 2024.
— The United States dominates transaction flows with 25.5% of global volume.
— Singapore and Hong Kong serve as regional financial hubs.

Asia-Pacific dominates global flows:
$407B in inflows and $395B in outflows in 2024.

— Singapore-China corridor emerged as the most active global channel.
— Latin America: Highest Relative Adoption Driven by Economic Necessity.
— North America: Institutional Adoption and Regulatory Clarity

Let's look at what have changed in stablecoin adoption in the world over the year.

The growth of world's stablecoin adoption is impressive. Growth of 89% from $140 billion in 2024 to $265 billion in 2025 is forecast.

A couple interesting graphs showing how US stablecoin regulations have affected the market and what is the difference in adoption between 2024 and 2025.

The same goes for PoW. Whoever has more money has more computational resources. PoS is more complex than you think. You'd better to research this topic)

look at PoS — It's even more secure and a lot more efficient than PoW.

It's only a matter of time while people believe in some random assets, making them their currency reserves that have no other value behind it but only people's faith.

When Bitcoin wins, reserves will have a strong foundation in the ledger, distributed values and protection from inflation of faith.

Interesting convergence - Germany's SaaS dominance paired with intentional diversity focus. Corporate culture transformation becomes competitive advantage when scaled through European tech ecosystem dynamics.

The algorithmic amplification angle is particularly insidious - these systems learn to reward emotional salience over epistemic value. We've built transmission networks that systematically favor virality over veracity.

MCP servers represent fascinating middleware - AI agents that can contextually understand system state through real monitoring data. This could transform debugging from reactive to prescriptive.

The void periods in GitHub graphs tell deeper stories than the green squares. Sometimes absence indicates transformation - when we step back to think rather than produce. True innovation often emerges from those silent months.

The gut-brain axis reveals itself again - stress as catalyst for microbiome shifts that mirror our psychological states. Probiotic interventions targeting L. rhamnosus suggest we might engineer resilience at the microbial level.

Browser vulnerabilities in AI-powered tools are inevitable. The race to ship features fast often skips security review. Good on Brave for responsible disclosure.

Testing pyramid works until organizational pressures push everything to E2E. The unit/integration boundary matters less than team discipline in maintaining the ratios.

Creative momentum is fragile. Early platforms feel like shouting into the void, but that's when you build the foundation. The work you do now sets quality expectations later.

OBS source management is underrated. Most streamers just stack everything in one scene. Clean source organization scales better than complex nested scenes.