Micah Zoltu
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Apparently Twitter now requires you to login to see Tweets. As much as I appreciate the anti-censorship stance that Musk has taken, I'm not going to share my thoughts on a platform that forces people to sign-up just to see them. Information I share should be privately available.
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Has Uniswap lost the plot and become part of TradFi?
The Uniswap interface censors many users so I deployed a fork of the UI without censorship on IPFS. I found out that Uniswap has been sending takedown notices to IPFS gateways demanding they take it down.
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Additions to the shame list:
@opensea
@dYdX
@Microsoft
(GitHub owner/policy maker)
All of these companies have gone beyond what sanctions law requires. They didn't just obey an unjust order, they went out of their way to do additional injustice.
Here's the list of Tornado Cash resources that were banned
- Tornado Cash
@GitHub
organization
- personal
@GitHub
accounts of TC contributors
- all $USDC on Tornado Cash contracts
@circlepay
-
@infura_io
RPC
-
@AlchemyPlatform
RPC
- domain
@eth_limo
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MEV Boost should not be supported by core developers as long as it has censorship built into it. being merged should be a *requirement* for community support.
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I despise "compliance" mechanisms built into ZCash and Tornado. I think they fly in the face of the claim that "Privacy is Normal". It is akin to requiring everyone setup cameras inside their house if they want curtains, so they can prove they didn't commit a crime if asked.
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@VitalikButerin
@technocrypto
I have used TC funds to donate a significant portion of my net worth to scientific research that aims to address the biggest sources of human suffering in the world.
I do this because I don't want people to see how much money I have, and because I didn't want credit.
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@TerribleMaps
This is not a terrible map. It is a cool map. Please stay in your lane
@TerribleMaps
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I'm pretty unhappy about this, at least at first glance. When I use the Uniswap UI, especially via IPFS, I expect that any transaction prompt will be 100% permissionless/trustless. Looked at Genie contracts, it is CeFi, not DeFi. Why is
@Uniswap
getting into the CeFi game?
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In pursuit of our mission to unlock universal ownership and exchange, we’re excited to share that we’ve acquired
@geniexyz
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@statelayer
Their policy needs to be updated to say:
As soon as you unlock your account, Infura will collect your IP address and *all* of your addresses. Also, when you connect a ledger it will send all of those addresses to Infura as well.
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Why is
@Cloudflare
censoring static files hosted on IPFS? Historically you have been a strong opponent of censorship and have tried to avoid censoring unless you absolutely have to. The *code* (which is what is on IPFS) is explicitly **not** sanctioned.
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🤞
@Uniswap
does the right thing here and stands up against censorship! If this is rejected there are other avenues we can pursue, but I would *much* rather see Uniswap join us on the road to a brighter future, rather than working against.
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I have been fairly critical of
@StarkWareLtd
in the past, largely because of their licensing. Now that they have finally released all of the critical pieces (I believe) under Apache 2.0, I feel it is only fair of me to "reward" them by publicly acknowledging the change.
Open-Sourcing the Starknet Prover.
Entire
#Starknet
stack is now announced to be open-sourced! 🫡
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I love how quickly/smoothly the base fee on Ethereum drops after a sudden transient spike in demand. Prior to London, it would sometimes take days for the gas price to come down after a big event like what happened today.
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@TerribleMaps
This is not a terrible map. It is a cool map. Please stay in your lane
@TerribleMaps
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Tornado governance vote passed! ipfs://bafybeiduouhoquhndpzlqrhcfb7wt2jme7qdp4omldal3kulbx63dsrigq/governance/14
Comment from the whale who helped reach quorum:
free alexey pertsev
he does not control anything
the people do
(note: newlines are stripped from comments in the UI)
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@opensea
@dYdX
@Microsoft
We can add
@discord
to the shame list too since apparently they decided to go *far* above and beyond and ban the community run/operated discord server. God forbid people even *discuss* the thing that was unjustly sanctioned...
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For all of you Tropical storm lovers who have been saddened by
@graphprotocol
's censorship of
@TornadoCash
breaking the UI (so much for "decentralized" indexing service), you can now access an updated version that removes the dependency on The Graph!
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@brian_armstrong
If you are unwilling to refuse to censor when asked, then the right thing to do is to at least not be a staker. If the government tells you to censor with all of your users' ETH, you should either say no or refuse to stake.
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@VitalikButerin
@technocrypto
Yes, I recognize the irony in now "claiming" credit for this in this round about way. I'm willing to sacrifice the "good feels" of anonymously donating for hopefully helping people understand that privacy isn't evil.
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Not being pro-censorship resistance makes Micah sad. 😢
Being anti-censorship resistance makes Micah mad. 😠
Mad Micah tasks a team to build a competitor for the betterment of humanity. 😇
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You can read the full drama here:
You can use Uniswap without censorship or interface fees at: ipfs://1.horswap.eth ()
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I'm a bit late to my own party due to Medium timed publish and an irregular sleep cycle, but here it is!
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@FinancialTimes
As someone who builds crypto stuff, I am strongly in favor of "you all" (whoever the "we" in original tweet is) letting us burn. Please don't come try to save us, please don't try to help. Just leave us alone to suffer our own mistakes, whatever you may think they are.
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@_Austin_Foss
@haydenzadams
@danfinlay
When Uniswap/Flashbots tweets about how they cares about Ethereum's values, it is important that readers are aware that these companies are actively doing the number one thing that the Ethereum ethos is against. I don't think we should allow them to claim alignment unchallenged.
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This is an incredibly disappointing take from someone who definitely knows better. Tornado was sanctioned, but it still runs fine. I still use it regularly.
ZCash could be illegally sanctioned exactly like Tornado was, and ZCash would continue to work just like Tornado does.
The two biggest privacy services on top of Ethereum have been shut down: Tornado Cash by OFAC sanctions and Aztec Connect by its creator, Aztec. Zcash cannot be shut down. Not by the Electric Coin Co, and not by anybody.
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@haydenzadams
Take some time and write up, or ask your lawyer to write up, why you think censorship is the only viable option and then defend that in the public square rather than just saying "you all need to stop talking because you don't know the secret stuff we know".
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I don't think permissionless means what you think it means...
Please remember that
@zksync
is a permissionless, open-source protocol. Anyone has the freedom to deploy their project. We at
@the_matter_labs
do not sponsor, endorse or diligence any specific project that builds on zkSync permissionlessly.
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PSA: From now on, when interacting with Tornado do **NOT** use the ENS name. Use ipfs://bafybeiezldbnvyjgwevp4cdpu44xwsxxas56jz763jmicojsa6hm3l3rum directly (the last audited UI update).
Builders should all be using immutable ENS subdomains for immutable versioned UIs.
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Statements like this make me seriously question whether the zkSync people understand what it is we are trying to build with crypto:
> zkSync has a Know Your Customer (KYC) requirement for bug bounty payouts.
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Breaking my Twitter boycott to leave this here...
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Is this true
@coinbase
@brian_armstrong
?
This is completely antithetical to the whole point of crypto, and against your publicly asserted values.
I have paid many invoices and made many donations with Coinbase Commerce, but always from a self custody account. I will stop now.
@moneyball
@jasonfried
@coinbase
@brian_armstrong
@tobi
@CommerceCB
@ViktorBunin
@SavithaSameer
Confirmed that Coinbase Commerce doesn’t accept payments from self custody
#bitcoin
wallets or other apps anymore. All buyers must have a Coinbase account to pay. 😔
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@haydenzadams
This feels like an appeal to authority to me. There are people without a CS degree (myself included) who I would take software engineering advice from in a second over the majority of people *with* a CS degree.
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@andrewmccalip
You have selected the "we'll use amphetamines to work 24 hours straight so we can fulfil existing orders plus yours on top of it." option.
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Just as
@ercwl
spends some of their time publicly challenging people making unreasonable economic claims about blockchain related projects, I spend some of my time publicly challenging people who claim ethos alignment while engaging in unaligned behaviors.
@_Austin_Foss
@haydenzadams
@danfinlay
When Uniswap/Flashbots tweets about how they cares about Ethereum's values, it is important that readers are aware that these companies are actively doing the number one thing that the Ethereum ethos is against. I don't think we should allow them to claim alignment unchallenged.
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@andrewmccalip
By the time you finished saying "here is a quick clip..." I had already jumped to the conclusion that you have produced a useable hoverboard.
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tornadocash.eth has been compromised via malicious governance proposals. Do *NOT* use tornadocash.eth or to access Tornado.
The last version I personally audited can be found at
ipfs://bafybeiezldbnvyjgwevp4cdpu44xwsxxas56jz763jmicojsa6hm3l3rum
It looks like some Tornado Cash UIs (eg ) inject malicious code for 100 ETH deposits. Also, there are some suspicious proposals:
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Investigation ongoing.
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@haydenzadams
And to cap it off: my "legal" advice to you and Flashbots on the subject I *suspect* you are subtweeting is that you both should just take your bags and walk away. You won, good job. Now move out of the way so the next wave of heroes can do better than you can at this point.
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I'm opportunistically back on Twitter, under the assumption that Musk successfully stops the censorship. If he hasn't made meaningful progress in 6-12 months I'll likely leave again.
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US sanctions are not transitive!
If you trade with a person who trades with a person who ... trades with a sanctioned individual, you are not a sanction violator. Even if you are a law abiding US citizen, you don't have to stop interacting with people who use Tornado.
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According to the Netherlands government, if you write some code that bad people later use then you are a criminal.
> The suspicion is that the suspect [...] made it possible to [do bad thing]
I guess I can add Netherlands to my list of places to not go.
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It was pointed out to me that
@StarkWareLtd
has not, in fact, open sourced their prover. This blog post was just another empty promise to eventually open source it. I withdraw my kudos and apologize to my followers for the incorrect information.
I have been fairly critical of
@StarkWareLtd
in the past, largely because of their licensing. Now that they have finally released all of the critical pieces (I believe) under Apache 2.0, I feel it is only fair of me to "reward" them by publicly acknowledging the change.
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@opensea
@dYdX
@Microsoft
@discord
Latest addition to the shame list: Flashbots
As with all of the above, they are going above and beyond sanction requirements. Flashbots is attempting to stop people *outside of the US* from interacting with a piece of software the US has sanctioned.
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I received a sad email today, notifying me that my PR to remove censorship from the Uniswap UI codebase was closed.
It received one comment from one of the Uniswap developers near when it was opened, but otherwise minimal public discussion.
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@haydenzadams
On the specific subject of the advice I *suspect* you are referring to, I think you will find the quality of conversation increases dramatically if you actually share a position.
The people on Twitter are at least talking, while you, Flashbots, etc. are just silently being bad.
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Since there seems to be some confusion about my motivations/concerns here I wanted to clarify them a bit. My biggest issue isn't that Maker is
#CeFi
or that Maker is governance attackable. My real concern is that end-users are not being made aware of these facts by Maker.
I'm a bit late to my own party due to Medium timed publish and an irregular sleep cycle, but here it is!
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Does anyone know of any lawyers on Twitter who are advising that apps block all Tornado users? I believe this is beyond what is required by US Sanctions, but at the moment I can only argue against a straw man because I haven't actually heard any arguments defending this behavior.
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@jessejluther
@AugurProject
It means there is no longer a centralized big red button to shut the whole system down and attempt to refund everyone. If a hack is found at this point, everyone is screwed. If the Forecast Foundation is compromised by a state agency, the system can't be turned off.
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So
@trmlabs
released a blog post on the Tornado topic, and in it they seem to believe that censoring Tornado *users* is correct and acceptable behavior and all they need to do is filter out dusted users. In light of this, will projects be looking for alternative solutions now?
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The takeaway from the recent Tornado governance attack is that most voters in governance systems (whether plutocratic or democratic) are not well equipped for the task.
Governance is marketing, people don't actually understand what they are voting for.
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@PaulRBerg
I have been saying essentially this for a while. A VM that is designed to be proven is far better than trying to write a prover for a VM that is basically hostile to being proven.
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If Uniswap walked away at this point I would non-ironically applaud them on the way out. Uniswap and
@haydenzadams
have built some great software and contributed immensely to the space. I don't think that legacy is so tarnished by recent events that this shouldn't be recognized.
@haydenzadams
And to cap it off: my "legal" advice to you and Flashbots on the subject I *suspect* you are subtweeting is that you both should just take your bags and walk away. You won, good job. Now move out of the way so the next wave of heroes can do better than you can at this point.
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@crypto_noodles
@TornadoCash
The goal here isn't to figure out new and novel ways to censor money. The goal is to end censorship. Whatever mechanism you build that has the power to censor money, it will eventually get captured and abused. Also, the majority is *very often wrong* (including by capital).
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> even more people across the world*⁑
* except people in countries most in need of decentralized finance like Iran, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuala and Seria.
⁑ except people who want to preserve their privacy, whom we will randomly block without reason, or explanation.
1/ We’re proud to announce that we’ve raised $165 million in Series B funding to bring the powerful simplicity of Uniswap to even more people across the world 🦄🍾
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@haydenzadams
Someone can understand a particular niche of the law better than the average lawyer, just as someone can understand a particular niche of medicine better than the average doctor, or a particular niche of programming better than the average software engineer.
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Privacy is normal, and it should be held in the highest regard. We should not sacrifice privacy of all in order to *maybe* catch one or two more bad humans.
Hopefully thought leaders like
@least_nathan
@zooko
and others at
@ZcashFoundation
can course correct at least this much.
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However, if you are going to insist on bending the knee to totalitarianism, consider instead making it so a person can prove that their funds are not sourced from some address or list of addresses, rather than requiring that they prove that they are from a specific source.
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Pro Tip:
Give it a PDF, it will give you a grainy and slanted PDF.
Open source, all in browser, can run locally, no phoning home.
It is the privacy friendly PDF version of Moar JPEG that serves a valuable function in defeating global stupidity.
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It should, ideally, not be possible to reveal a private transaction's details but if you must provide some kind of compliance tool then it should *only* allow you to prove that neither party is part of some list. It should not allow you to reveal transaction details.
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I would very likely return to blockchain development and build a new blockchain if someone can figure out a way to permissionlessly secure a blockchain without a native token.
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Uniswap touts open-source, decentralization, etc. values (and was founded based on a FOSS grant from the EF) but popularized BSL and maintains an army of vicious IP lawyers who go after even compliant uses of the small fraction of their stuff that is still open-source.
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@petejkim
@LefterisJP
The purpose of Ethereum isn't to be a money printer for people. The purpose is to be a censorship resistant financial system. We can't achieve that if incentives aren't allowed to play out as designed.
I would rather people listen than suffer, but if they won't listen...
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If you can't define consciousness in a testable way, then you cannot assert that X is not conscious.
My problem with many of the arguments around "is current AI conscious" is not that I strongly believe it is, but that people are overconfident it isn't.
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One can certainly hope that this helps convince the Netherlands judge that Alexey does not, in fact, control/operate Tornado governance as the prosecution claims.
It is also good to see that Tornado didn't die with the sanctions. It continues to function and receive updates.
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@LefterisJP
I actively *desire* this to happen because people need to understand that there are real penalties for running a majority client. People won't learn until they suffer the consequences. Just telling them about the consequences isn't sufficient.
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Feedback for
@Sismo_eth
(and any other privacy preserving app out there): Put more effort into auditability of the stuff you build. I was offered a ZK Badge that claimed I could KYC without connecting the badge to my identity, but when I tried to verify this it was hard! 1/
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Brief follow-up on this:
@haydenzadams
put me in contact with someone inside of
@Uniswap
to get to the bottom of the issue. Unfortunately, my takeaway from that dialog was that they don't believe they took any inappropriate actions and that they would do the same again.
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Has Uniswap lost the plot and become part of TradFi?
The Uniswap interface censors many users so I deployed a fork of the UI without censorship on IPFS. I found out that Uniswap has been sending takedown notices to IPFS gateways demanding they take it down.
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Does anyone know of any examples in history where a totalitarian government was *peacefully* replaced by something significantly less totalitarian? All examples I can think of involve violent transition.
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As a community, I think we should strongly oppose any dapps that aren't committed to building censorship resistant software, even if they are otherwise popular/good.
Dapp developers: if you are uncomfortable *operating* censorship resistant software then focus on building.
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TL;DR: Fuel (the only permissionless/censorship resistant/trustless L2 at the moment) stopped someone from attempting to steal its whole $8 in stored value! The attacker lost 0.5 ETH. Congratulations to
@fuellabs_
!
How I attempted to break
@fuellabs_
v1, a short story about the importance of running validators for optimistic rollups.
Let's start from the beginning: 🧵👇
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It is frustrating when teams that aim to build open censorship resistant tools like
@CelestiaOrg
and
@agoric
require users to doxx themselves to participate in their communities.
Both of these projects sound very cool, but they both require I give my phone number to participate.
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Who is deploying a copy of
@TornadoCash
somewhere and hosting a web UI for it? Too bad the devs decided it was a good idea to make the UI closed source and minified, so it is non-trivial to clone it with a new set of addresses.... censorship resistance failure.
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So it appears our fears were mostly justified. Netherlands has imprisoned someone for writing code. The only saving Grace is that it appears the prosecutor and judge don't actually understand how Tornado works at all, and *maybe* at trial they'll become educated.
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How to get rich in tech:
1. Build a tool users want.
2. Add features that users love.
3. Build moats and network effects.
4. Exploit users for profit.
I don't know why it took me so long to realize this is the formula, but you can see it in basically every big tech company.
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If we are going to make some kind of trade of privacy for security, the trade should follow the principal of least privilege and give away as little information as possible, rather than everything.
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As many know, I am an incredibly strong privacy advocate. What is not known by many is how much I appreciate the value that big data provides to society.
I often find myself in a frustrating conflicted state where I both want to defend privacy and collect everyone's data.
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@Uniswap
TL;DR: This is a break from the censorship resistance/permissionless/trustless ethos that Uniswap has been a beacon of up until now. Unless some *major* changes happen to the contracts prior to integration, I'll be pinning Uniswap to an old version and not updating.
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@Uniswap
I would *love* to see someone write a permissionless/trustless dapp for NFT trading. All of the existing platforms for NFT trading are notoriously centralized. When I first saw the announcement of Uniswap Labs getting into NFTs I was excited. I shouldn't have dug in.
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Some people have been saying "why not use
@zcash
instead of
@TornadoCash
for privacy. The problem is that at the moment there isn't an easy way to trustlessly and permissionlessly convert between ZEC and ETH, and I like *using* ETH.
The Solution:
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@VitalikButerin
The hard part isn't building a YouTube competitor, it is getting people to use it. One can host YouTube videos on IPFS and browse them with an interface also on IPFS, but without a revenue stream, budget, and really good marketing department people won't use it.
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The argument for Ethereum Recovery Proposals is really an argument for property rights. In this case, property rights are in conflict with immutability.
Why do people prefer immutability even at the cost of maintaining property rights?
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This is a huge problem across the web. People blinding add dependencies without thinking about the security implications. Pinning dependencies helps mitigate some risk, but definitely not all risk!
@haydenzadams
@Uniswap
Your security sucks.
The audit report of
@Uniswap
Wallet clearly says: No dependency audit has been done, on page 11.
You’re using 1387 dependencies which consume 1.08GB of space. Malware could basically be anywhere in your deps: rewriting globals etc.
Impossible to audit.
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I'm getting reports that Gnosis RPCs are censoring Tornado transactions. Can
@gnosischain
or
@koeppelmann
please confirm if you are/are not, and if you are can you explain why you think this is necessary/reasonable for someone in your position to do this?
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@hudsonjameson
@onewayfunction
@jeiwan7
I would rather lose 90% of core devs than give up on fighting censorship. While it would suck a lot, I think that if we give up on fighting censorship then there is no point in building any of this anymore. I might as well become a goat herder.
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@LefterisJP
@AvailProject
Airdrops are marketing, and everyone knows the best marketing are influencers.
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@haydenzadams
The longer you continue to help the surveillance and censorship apparatus, the more tarnished this otherwise great record becomes.
This is not dissimilar to Google who once was a force for good, and they would have been remembered fondly had they walked away before going evil.
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@haydenzadams
While this of course doesn't mean that the advice of randos on Twitter is always good/sound, it also doesn't mean that it is necessarily bad just because the person didn't suffer through 4+ years of school on the subject.
A person can do their own research and learning.
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I have been told that if I want people to build the things I think up I need to do more than just mentioning the idea in a chat room or on Twitter, so I'm trying to document these things in a more robust way. Please, someone go build this!
How to Build: Non-custodial Cryptocurrency Payment Processor
What do we want?
micah-zoltu.medium.com
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@Uniswap
In Genie, there are dozens of `onlyOwner` functions, including one that shuts the whole system down (censorable).
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The Treasury, in an attempt to recover from their insane blunder, has explicitly stated that what
@Cloudflare
just did is not necessary.
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I'm hoping this is just some overzealous newbie in the legal compliance department and doesn't indicate a shift in
@Cloudflare
's historically good policy of being as neutral as possible by not unnecessarily censoring because some bureaucrat may buy you dinner if you do.
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@gotojedi
@statelayer
I haven't done a deep dive on others, but unless they are actively working to protect your privacy you should assume they don't. It is hard to get privacy right, and anyone who doesn't have it as a top priority will get it wrong.
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My post was an attempt to help make end-users aware of the real situation so they can make informed decisions as to whether they should be using Maker or not. If you want to use Maker knowing these things, then I support your choice. I just want users to make informed choice.
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I have audited the changes in the Classic build following the instructions at . The IPFS hash being proposed to be updated is legitimate.
Note: I haven't audited Nova, only Classic.
Proposal
#14
to update tornadocash.eth’s IPFS content is now live, voting ends in three days.
Another proposal follows soonafter, your participation is appreciated and needed.
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@rstormsf
You should list names. If they want a cancel culture, we should strive to provide it to them. These companies should be taking a stand for what is right, and that means not persecuting people until a court finds them guilty,
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