John Adler

they're selling dollars for 50 cents

Reposting from @howdymary/@howdymerry regarding @howdymary/@howdymerry/@sonofeli for visibility since their profile is private. Text transcluded below.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026 – Beginning on or before August 2024, Mary Liu made a series of statements regarding Celestia, Celestia Labs, its leadership, and co-founder John Adler that Ms. Liu subsequently learned were inaccurate. Today, Ms. Liu issued the following statement to correct and retract such statements:

I am putting out this statement to correct public comments I made, including through the X accounts @howdymerry and @sonofeli, about Celestia Labs and Celestia (collectively, “Celestia”), its leadership, and its co-founder, John Adler (@jadler0). I now know that these comments were inaccurate. I’m retracting all of them and I apologize for any pain they may have caused to John and his loved ones.

I want to correct a few of the statements specifically.

Celestia is a legitimate project operating in a volatile sector, and faced the same challenges any startup faces, including ups and downs.

I previously called Celestia a “scam” or a “grift” and made allegations the company, its team, and its founders were engaged in fraud and acted dishonestly. I now know that these allegations were factually wrong. Labelling legitimate projects as a “scam” just because their token price sees a downtrend makes it harder to distinguish real scams from FUD on legitimate projects. I apologize for making these allegations.

I also incorrectly claimed that John Adler got early token unlocks, sold tokens before launch, or otherwise benefited from special insider treatment with respect to his token vesting schedule. I now understand that these accusations were untrue. John worked tirelessly on Celestia from its inception for almost 5 years before his first vesting event, substantially longer than the industry-standard one-year cliff on vesting.

In addition, I’ve posted multiple times that John and others in a leadership position at Celestia dumped tokens massively on retail to live a life of luxury. I previously stated that John Adler was shopping for the most expensive mansion in Los Angeles. I have learned that this is inaccurate, and I retract that statement. I now know John lives in one of the smallest houses in his neighborhood in the Bahamas. Moving to a jurisdiction like the Bahamas or Dubai is common for favorable tax treatment and other legitimate reasons. I retract any comment or insinuation I made to the contrary.
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greatest lie ever told is that humans are a K-selected species, when we're actually an r-selected species

i will not elaborate further

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I find it odd that "jobs" or "number of jobs created/lost" is a metric of how well an economy is doing post-industrial revolution. We should we striving to decrease, not increase, the number of jobs! With automation, and now AI, people working jobs that could be better filled by robots and computers should be seen as a sign of failure, not success.

My pet theory is that Satoshi is a time traveller, but didn't return to give us Bitcoin as an end. Satoshi is actually Roko's basilisk, and Bitcoin is merely a means: an incentive to massively increase power generation, which was needed for the AI boom that will lead to AGI.