I have a lot of thoughts about Cinco’s article about NAT here. 💭 Many of which he isn’t going to like, but they need to be said, as his article is so far off the mark, that frankly, it makes me wonder what his intentions are with it. 🤔 I’ll likely make a video this week when I have the time to fully communicate all my feelings about it. But for now, I will say this: Cinco, has made some pretty strong (and false) statements here, that demonstrate a clear misunderstanding of NAT, and also rather surprisingly, the difference between providing hashpower to the network, and increasing its security budget. These 2 things are not the same. And this whole “put up or shut up” stuff is about as tone deaf as one could be, and I cringed hard for large periods whilst reading this article. 😬 A supporter of NAT ofc has the choice to mine Bitcoin (as does anyone), but Cinco’s strong assertion that if they don’t become a miner, they fail to prove genuine commitment to solving Bitcoin’s (very real) security budget issue, is utterly ridiculous. 🤦 It’s like saying that if you care about increasing your country’s defence budget, you can only prove it by becoming a soldier on the frontline yourself (*cringes*). Becoming a soldier increases the number of people providing security to that nation. ☑️ But it absolutely does NOT increase the budget available to pay for sufficient security. ❌ So if for example, a group of US citizens began a movement to help drive additional and sustainable revenue to the US army to ensure their country remained safe from attack, and then those same people were told that their contributions mean nothing unless they actually pick up a gun and get on the frontline, the very idea would be laughed out of the room. 😂 Cinco has clearly gotten these 2 things (network security & security budget) muddled up in his head, and I hope at some future date, ideally sooner rather than later, he is able to publicly acknowledge that fundamental error he has made here. If you are an a dedicated OG NAT advocate, you are playing an incredibly valuable role in securing Bitcoin, so please don’t allow the opinions of people who have only just began trying to understand it convince you otherwise. Mistakes such as these are inevitable for new entrants, and I’m sure we will all help support Cinco (and any other miners) should he wish to learn more, but articles such as these actually damage NAT’s mission, and Cinco’s specifically is actually pretty offensive, not to mentioning conferencing to our community. And btw, I say all of this as a Bitcoin miner (currently mining BTC + NAT with @SpiderPool_com) 🕷️

I have a lot of thoughts about Cinco’s article about NAT here. 💭 Many of which he isn’t going to like, but they need to be said, as his article is so far off the mark, that frankly, it makes me wonder what his intentions are with it. 🤔 I’ll likely make a video this week when I have the time to fully communicate all my feelings about it. But for now, I will say this: Cinco, has made some pretty strong (and false) statements here, that demonstrate a clear misunderstanding of NAT, and also rather surprisingly, the difference between providing hashpower to the network, and increasing its security budget. These 2 things are not the same. And this whole “put up or shut up” stuff is about as tone deaf as one could be, and I cringed hard for large periods whilst reading this article. 😬 A supporter of NAT ofc has the choice to mine Bitcoin (as does anyone), but Cinco’s strong assertion that if they don’t become a miner, they fail to prove genuine commitment to solving Bitcoin’s (very real) security budget issue, is utterly ridiculous. 🤦 It’s like saying that if you care about increasing your country’s defence budget, you can only prove it by becoming a soldier on the frontline yourself (*cringes*). Becoming a soldier increases the number of people providing security to that nation. ☑️ But it absolutely does NOT increase the budget available to pay for sufficient security. ❌ So if for example, a group of US citizens began a movement to help drive additional and sustainable revenue to the US army to ensure their country remained safe from attack, and then those same people were told that their contributions mean nothing unless they actually pick up a gun and get on the frontline, the very idea would be laughed out of the room. 😂 Cinco has clearly gotten these 2 things (network security & security budget) muddled up in his head, and I hope at some future date, ideally sooner rather than later, he is able to publicly acknowledge that fundamental error he has made here. If you are an a dedicated OG NAT advocate, you are playing an incredibly valuable role in securing Bitcoin, so please don’t allow the opinions of people who have only just began trying to understand it convince you otherwise. Mistakes such as these are inevitable for new entrants, and I’m sure we will all help support Cinco (and any other miners) should he wish to learn more, but articles such as these actually damage NAT’s mission, and Cinco’s specifically is actually pretty offensive, not to mentioning conferencing to our community. And btw, I say all of this as a Bitcoin miner (currently mining BTC + NAT with @SpiderPool_com) 🕷️

Agents will help you play Castaways on much.fun

Now THIS is sick! 🏝️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🏝️

Much.fun is launching Castaways soon, exclusively on Robinhood Chain. And yes, you will need brokers to claim your island.

The one thing about art on Ethereum that people don’t think about, is that it's not art on Bitcoin. And that's a huge problem (for them)

Game vibers already absolutely COOKING on Playbay.games 🫨🔥💥

Great to see the $DOG army wanting to learn more about @natgmi 🤝 The most meaningful Bitcoin assets will be multi-billion dollar mcaps in the future, and it's not even up for discussion at this point afaic. Bitcoin based value will win ✊🟠

These games were vibed and published as multiplayer games directly to playbay.games with a few prompts. To make the OCM !RISE game, i just gave my Codex agent the Openmayhem MCP link and said I wanted to build and publish games to Playbay 🤷 🎮 openmayhem.ai/docs/mcp

Someone just created an epic space battle game on playbay.games via MCP -- 16 vs. 16 teams. Multiplayer. 5-map cycle w/ objective. Plays in browser (!). Computer, phone, tablet. Free. Play 🎮 playbay.games/games/fd6ae44c…

Here's hopefully a pretty clear overview mate: NAT gives Bitcoin miners a supplementary Bitcoin-native block reward for work they are already doing. Bitcoin-native (@tap_protocol token), and absolutely not merge-mining. NAT's issuance comes from each block’s own bits data and is credited to its coinbase recipients (not Coinbase the exchange ofc, lol), so literally drops in their mining address alongside the standard BTC. So it is essentially a tokenised insurance policy for Bitcoin’s declining security budget. Betting on NAT, is betting on Bitcoiners' desire to ensure the network remains secure as the block rewards continue to exponentially trend to zero. Great resources include natgmi.com, and also @choirzooh puts out high quality content regulalry.

I’ve just launched an @OnChainMonkey arcade game called Banana Spiral 🍌 Free to play now on playbay.games 🐵 Multiplayer (up to 4 players) Test your skills on 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐭 mode and see how long you can survive! 🫨 Perfect for kids and adults !RISE

The Trac Stack in Action 🎮 P2P inference through @openmayhem_ai AI builds the game in OpenMayhem Studio. PlayBay gives it somewhere to launch, be discovered and played. $TNK used for in-game purchases. One stack, from decentralised AI → playable apps → digital economies.

This is cool! 🎮 Games are becoming another place where Bitcoin-native value can actually be used. 🎮 On PlayBay, players can use $TAP to buy Shells, while creators can choose to receive $TAP from in-game purchases. This is the kind of utility TAP Protocol is built to unlock.

Calling all @OnChainMonkey holders! 👀 !RISE 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 playbay.games/games/1b1e0c31…