I completely agree. But people should also understand where Kaspa’s founder, Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky (@hashdag), comes from. His grandfather, Professor David Sompolinsky, was a distinguished microbiologist at Bar-Ilan University and a Holocaust hero who helped rescue hundreds of Danish Jews from Nazi persecution. His father, Professor Haim Sompolinsky, is a pioneering physicist and theoretical neuroscientist affiliated with Harvard and the Hebrew University. He won the 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize and shared the 2024 Brain Prize, one of neuroscience’s highest honors. Now comes Yonatan Sompolinsky: Kaspa’s founder, a Harvard postdoctoral researcher, and a co-creator of GHOST and GHOSTDAG. Three generations of extraordinary scientific accomplishment. This man comes from a family that knows what it means to achieve. To me, he is a once-in-a-generation mind—the kind of talent you associate with a Leonardo da Vinci or an Einstein within his field. He is driving what I consider the best research and development team in cryptocurrency, pushing the boundaries of distributed consensus, transaction speed, scalability, and proof-of-work security. They are tackling the fundamental challenge of how fast a decentralized monetary network can operate while remaining secure. It’s beyond my understanding why more people aren’t buying at these prices and buckling up for an extremely enjoyable, exciting ride of discovery and accomplishment in proof-of-work cryptographic programmability. Bitcoin opened the door. That contribution is historic. Kaspa’s ambition is to carry that breakthrough forward and build the infrastructure for the financial and cryptographic demands of the next several decades. That is the magnitude of what I believe we’re watching.

I consolidated everything I had into KAS in 2023. Never sold any. Now I’m down $190K. The biggest financial mistake I ever made. I just emotionally accepted, in the past few weeks, that I may never see an ROI or even get the principal back. KAS is building tech that is pushing known boundaries, not what the market is asking for… and absolutely ZERO commercialization efforts, no go-to-market strategy. “Build it and they will come” is the core approach. Time will tell. I fell out of love with KAS, but the technology is and will be the pinnacle of PoW cryptography and digital programmability. BUT monetization is a totally different discipline, which I have not seen demonstrated. KAS is a paradox… the absolute best and most notable and capable development team and founder in all of crypto, building products like pure futurists, but with no business acumen whatsoever. The only reason I don’t dump my KAS right now is because I’m waiting for DAGKnight and Vprogs. But a few months after that, if I see no movement, I’m out.

***Community Call to Arms**** $KAS community - here’s an initiative worth getting behind. @KaspaDollar, led by core developer @asaefstroem, is building a decentralized dollar on Kaspa, with a published roadmap, an independent audit planned, and technical support pledged by @michaelsuttonil. The fundraising target: 5,000,000 KAS. kaspa:qpy0rvs9mkfa66vnhre4dwsc4c0nu8jhvk0jlfzvq7x8pejjezpujpyrwecl6 #KASPA has ~500,000 wallets as an illustrative base: Participation | Contributors | KAS 100% | 500,000 | 10 KAS 75% | 375,000 | 13.34 KAS 50% | 250,000 | 20 KAS 20% | 100,000 | 50 KAS 2027 targets: build January–April → testnet May → audit June–August → mainnet September. Builders need funding to turn capabilities into usable products. A named developer, a defined objective, and published milestones give us something concrete to support and follow. Read the roadmap and donation/refund terms. Contribute if you can; share if you can’t. kaspadollar.com/docs @KaspaKii @ZETAlliance - why don’t you work with all your big Middle Eastern billionaire organizations, entities, and individuals and orchestrate a 5 million KAS donation for this initiative? You say you facilitate.

Exactly right, and you've seen it firsthand. A payment facilitator (Stripe, Square, Toast) or a processor like Fiserv plugs into our API. When a refund is issued, it gets an immediate, tamper-proof settlement record on Kaspa that the merchant, PayFac, card issuer and customer can all verify. It doesn't make ACH or card settlement faster. What it does is give everyone a final, shared proof the refund was committed. That lets the PayFac or issuer credit the customer instantly, within their own risk limits, instead of making them wait 3–5 days. It eliminates refund-related disputes and mistaken chargebacks: "I never got my refund," duplicate refunds, and chargebacks filed after a refund already went out. Whoever fronts the instant credit is protected by the record, which is what makes it safe to do. It's a natural premium card perk too. Amex is both the network and the issuer, so it could roll out instant refunds to Platinum members on its own. Those customers feel the wait most and carry the lowest risk. The same play works for Sapphire Reserve or Venture X. There's no shared settlement record for refunds today. That's the gap we're closing.