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cryptographic engineer @TachyonZcash | opinions are my own | ex @JuilliardSchool

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Joined October 2021
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“Obsession” (2026), is an allegory for bad prompting and misaligned AI. If Bear had phrased his One Wish Willow request with proper safety constraints (“while remaining herself, happy, and not a demonic entity”), the whole movie would’ve been a rom-com.
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this is simple. Ethereum's immune system needs to kick into gear and banish things like this before they metastasize
permissionless = freedom censorship layer = authoritarian tool it's really that simple, y'all acting like this is some tough concept to understand, there's so much history that backs this
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take the Xi pill
It’s schizophrenic to say but at this current moment Donald Trump, Jensen Huang, and the People’s Republic of China are the primary advocates for human freedom in the face of a nightmarish totalitarian hellscape advocated for by Dario Amodei and the US MIC.
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disappointed in Aztec for this
Privacy Pools is coming to Aztec. Right now, private assets on Ethereum are limited in what they can do. @0xprivacypools will allow users to bring popular assets directly into private apps on Aztec to put them to use & make them available to builders. aztec.network/blog/privacy-p…
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We're finding out who the unprincipled opportunists are. Not having a real reason to be in crypto, we will see them pivot industries soon. I heard the AI space is ripe.
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you can't give enemies of free speech an inch by legitimizing their hysterical crusade against "criminals". you have to provoke and offend them. another $100B to Kim Jong Un!
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the "bad guys" are the people who tried to place sanctions on a work of speech.
A service that filters transactions would be unheard off and probably denounced a few years ago. Today, the people are sick of the bad guys winning, and want to do more proactive work to help the builders & innocent users stop falling victim to exploits.
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Blatantly centralized and stoppable privacy apps are welcomed at conferences, core devs cheer for the adoption of custodial stablecoins, and L2s remain stage 1 in the age of AI-assisted formal verification. You are delusional if you think Ethereum has too many purity tests
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Someday this tech will be used to censor sub 8 males. You better start looksmaxxing, or better yet, use a privacy protocol.
Today, 1 in 2 Ethereum blocks will be protected. With Phylax, apps can set circuit breakers that Titan Builder enforces at block construction, excluding transactions that violate app-defined rules before settlement. It's a simple idea: hacks should not settle.
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Milady has contributed more to the cypherpunk movement (zero) than non-timelocked DeFi and L2s (negative)
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This user keeps teasing and sharing interesting IRL events. Worth a follow
Let’s say hypothetically I was curating a Swarm Safety Salon in SF next week or 2 and needed a sponsor and or an event space for ~50 for a few hours. Would you hypothetically be interested in providing or attending or know someone who is?
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any sexy Chinese spies who don't understand open source wanna try to seduce me for Zcash shielded protocol secrets?
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I respectfully disagree with many friends on this issue This reads to me as a moral panic from aging millennials who are becoming the new out-of-touch boomers who can't take a joke digital freedom advocacy will be forever entangled with the internet's gritty, edgy underbelly
A complaint filed against the Ethereum Foundation provides insight into the reason for this year's wave of high-profile departures. I wrote about what happened, what the Mandate says EF leadership should have done instead, and what should happen now. reddit.com/r/ethereum/commen…
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So often I tell my story as someone who escaped New England and moved to the big city In reality I split my time for the first few years of it, making frequent trips back and forth, established in social circles in both places. Part of this nostalgia that has been difficult for me to pin down is the feeling of leaving a place and coming back, the feeling of adventure of couch surfing while carrying a small bag with my overnight stuff, the view from the greyhound bus as the sun comes up. Folk punk music used to be my favorite, but it hasn’t sounded the same lately from the coworking space while I eat a slop bowl. But blasting Ramshackle Glory while looking at New England autumn views out the window of a bus on my way to Providence with just a tote bag where I plan on sleeping in a hostel tonight takes me back. I feel some sort of way
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I fine tuned Kimi K3.1 Pro to be 10x more woke, and it’s already invented hundreds of new pronouns 😳
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“there’s no such thing as a NOBUS (no one but us) surveillance capability”
Crypto is speed running the lessons of both finance and cybersecurity. Today’s lesson from the Chainalysis breach: “there’s no such thing as a NOBUS (no one but us) surveillance capability.” Chainalysis is, in effect, the blockchain search engine for banks, police, and spies. It’s used to analyze and annotate what’s on chain. Hard to know what was exposed at this point. Hopefully not much, so this is simply a warning. arstechnica.com/security/202…
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use your own products, test them under realistic loads, try to break them, and iterate
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dreaming of simpler times
🤖 Made with AI
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“Oh husband, you stayed at home vibecoding by yourself instead of attending the localhostai.nyc hackathon in-person, and now we are homeless”
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