СЛУЧАЙНАЯ ФРАЗА. BACK THE WRONG HORSE 4️⃣1️⃣ 🐴 Сделать неправильный выбор; поставить не на ту лошадь {идиома}. > To support a person or an effort that ultimately proves to be unsuccessful, problematic, troublesome, or incorrect. A reference to betting on horse races. 〰️ You really backed the wrong horse when you picked that swimmer to win the race — he didn't even get a medal! 〰️ Politicians who backed the wrong horse in the election are now trying to curry favor with the winning candidate — without much success...

Jesse Pollak, the creator of the Ethereum layer-2 network Base, announced he is stepping back from leadership of the Base App, admitting his bet on social-driven crypto adoption was “definitively wrong.” In a post on X, Pollak stated that while the chain initially concentrated on creator apps, content, and messaging, the market for those services “disintegrated completely,” leaving Base trailing in key areas like prediction markets and perpetual futures (perps). According to Pollak, Base had developed perps and prediction market products, but they lagged behind more scaled competitors...