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Zcash is winning.
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If you thought Bitcoin was confusing, wait'll you find out how the U.S. Dollar actually works.
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Money is a technology.
Recent events—the protests in Canada and the war in Ukraine, and in cyberspace—have shown that our current monetary tech is an instrument for political power, and it has reminded us that politically neutral money is necessary for democratic societies. …
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Disgusting complicity on the part of the New York Times. He has ruined countless people's lives by theft and fraud, and NYT is now helping him to delay or evade justice by whitewashing him in their prestigious, influential newspaper. I doubt this is just a mistake on their part.
Disgraceful reporting by the
@nytimes
on FTX. It portrays SBF as a charitable entrepreneur who went under and does not mention the words fraud, criminal, substance abuse, friends & family Bahamas KYC racket, hack, stolen funds or wiped servers anywhere.
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Look, I really hate speculating about this spy-vs-spy bullshit, but it is really bothering me to see the great and the good of my tribe (Balaji, Vitalik, Roman Storm, Noelle Acheson, Josh Swihart) treating Pavel Durov as an oppressed hero. Please consider the following facts: ⤵️
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How much to make sure McAfee *doesn't* tweet about your project?
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OMG—everyone who cares about Proof-of-Work mining needs to read the entirety of . There are many major truth bombs in there. This is going to force me to rethink a lot.
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Omg everybody everywhere is talking about cryptocurrency trading and mining, at neighboring tables in restaurants and standing in line at coffeeshops
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Dec 31: Taiwan public health officials warn WHO of potential human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus: . Taiwan mobilizes its national health emergency office.
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I'm naturally a pretty open-minded guy, so it's just dizzying to me to watch in realtime as the most widely-read, prestigious newpapers demonstrate total corruption by participating in whitewashing a politically-connected fraud bigger than any since Madoff.
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I love going to the grocery store and buying whatever I want and not worrying how much it adds up to, even if it is $100. I wish everybody could do that all the time...
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"We don't do politics." is politics. "There's no governance mechanism." is a governance mechanism. "No decisions are made." is a decision.
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I hate "debate". Debate is how to transform the positive-sum game of collaborative thinking into a zero-sum game.
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Proud of my team for once again publicly demonstrating that we don't leak information and we don't take advantage of our privileged access to information by trading on it.
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A bunch of nice-seeming people that I’ve never met keep reaching out to tell me I ought to go on something called “up only”.
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This story went under-reported. The leading cryptocurrency regulator of the United States announced a strong stance in *support* of financial privacy. You read that right. In *support* of.
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Holy shit. I just realized that a "Libra" is an astrological symbol like a "Gemini". Surely nobody inside Facebook was wasting their time trying to taunt the Winklevosses while they were cooking up their branding, right?? 😆
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I hope that when I die, people will just say that I was a good father and a good man.
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Something feels different—it feels like Bitcoin maximalism/fundamentalism has lost control of the narrative.
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Three times, Naval has changed my life. Once by investing in my startup, once by hosting and inviting me to a party, and once by sending me a few simple words of encouragement in an email. ty, Naval.
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I'm told that 9 out of 10 economists agree that BitCoin is doomed. This kind of makes me want to buy a lot of BitCoin.
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Privacy is about consent. It isn’t about minimizing what you share — it’s about choosing what you share, and with whom.
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I just went to buy coffee and the barista asked if I'd heard of the GameStop thing and proudly told me that she'd bought a share of it to try to make the billionaires lose money.
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You know, I really like Gemini and Coinbase. Damn, those are high-quality operations.
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Privacy isn't about isolation — it's about community. But with consent. You get to choose who's watching when you let down your hair. You get to choose who's around the table when you tell your story. Privacy is about consent.
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Resist digital identity. You are not your account. You are not your email address. You are not your public key. Those things are all tools—tools which can either serve you or serve those who would be your masters. Don't let technologists trick you into making those your identity.
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I heard that Sergey Brin said that zk-SNARKs are so new that it is crazy that Zcash has succeeded at deploying them in a real-life application so fast. I agree! Most people don't understand that we compressed the normal timeline by several years.
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News: I’m stepping down from the role of CEO of the Electric Coin Co, but I’ll never leave Zcash. A brief personal reflection:
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Never ask a lawyer if doing something would be safe, for the answer is always no. Instead ask what is the safest way to do it and what risks would remain. (HT
@nickm_tor
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Telegram isn’t a censorship-resistant platform (like Signal or Zcash), it’s a weapon. Because tricking people into thinking they have privacy while you spy upon them is taking power over them. Power that nation states will then want. 🔚
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Wait come back we're not finished explaining Bitcoin to you yet
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Bought Chipotle with Zcash.
There is no information linking my lunch purchase back to my identity or my personal finances.
You can’t do this with any other cryptocurrency, credit cards, bank accounts, or anything other than paper cash or Zcash. Used the app “SPEDN by Flexa”.
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Vitalik, Karl, and some of the crew at ECC headquarters, scaling some blockchains. 😁
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It’s here!!! Zcashd 5.0.0! If the Zcash users choose to run zcashd 5.0.0, then at the end of this month Zcash Network Upgrade 5 will activate on mainnet. This is an historic step forward for human society.
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I just heard from someone asking how to get access to crypto even though they have zero interest in investment, trading, or saving. Why do they need crypto? Because they regularly donate to SciHub and SciHub can no longer receive donations any other way.
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I love the Libra project. The megacorps are challenging government sovereignty over money. It's not that I want either side to win, it's that I want there to be competition. Competition helps people. Monopoly hurts people. Let's have some competition!
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Yep, Arthur Hayes with the insight that I suspect is very counter-intuitive to most folks: the *absence* of an all-powerful central bank who will rescue the crypto-economy from crises is why the crypto-economy will outperform the legacy economy long-term.
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The consensus opinion among scientists can stay irrational longer than you will live.
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Dear fellow lovers of Bitcoin:
(I am one of its earliest supporters. I wrote the first blog post ever written about Bitcoin, and Satoshi linked to my home page on the original site.)
Information theory cannot be overcome by wishful thinking.
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Folks, you don’t need to stay indoors! You just need to stay away from crowds and close contact with others. Fresh air and exercise is good for your immune system and your lungs. Here’s us in Coronavirus isolation:
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I'm so proud of the Electric Coin Company team today. 11 months ago, we discovered a "Worst Case Scenario" bug—a flaw in the underlying math of the Zero-Knowledge Proofs that prevent counterfeiting. Here's what we found and how we protected users.
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Unpopular opinion: I think the fact that Facebook is working on a crypocurrency is awesome.
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I was just paying for groceries, and remembering what it felt like when doing that was worrying/scary. A lot of people live that way. I think we can make things better.
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SBF: Oh oops, I didn't steal tens of billions of dollars by lying to my customers and partners, I actually just misread a label in my spreadsheet.
NYT: Oh oops, we aren't giving him air cover to delay/evade justice, we just accidentally forgot to use skepticism or fact-checking.
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How to steal a GPG key from the next room: By Eran Tromer () et al.
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Yep just heard about *another* friend hacked by phone number. Please, listen to me. Go remove account recovery by phone from your Gmail.
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All the bad things about the Internet—I don't think they come from people being free to communicate with one another. I think they come from the advertising revenue model.
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About 9.5% of all of the active “Bitcoin Private” (BTCP) coins were secretly generated by the devs, i.e. counterfeit money, effectively stealing from all holders of the coin. discovered the con: Way to go,
@kgannib
etal!
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Thanks to the funding provided by the Zcash community, the Electric Coin Co team has once again moved the frontier of human knowledge outward. We've discovered recursive zero-knowledge proofs with no trusted setup: We call it Halo.
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1. Telegram is built on lies. Its entire brand is freedom, and yet it is deliberately architected to make all of its users subject to the surveillance and control of Durov, while keeping those users in the dark about that. ⤵️
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At a super swanky party with a bunch of billionaires. I don’t know anybody so I’m teaching the serving staff how to Zcash and tipping them in ZEC. 👍 Una propina para usted.
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Goodhart's Law tells us that since we started using "market caps" as a leaderboard for cybercoins, we'll see more and more cybercoins designed to have artificially high "market caps".
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If you have any kind of investment in crypto/blockchain/decentralization — whether financial, or you've been investing your career in it, or you've been investing your emotional, social, political energy — then YOU MUST READ THIS: ...
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I hope more economists and security experts announce that Bitcoin can't work. I want it to be known for having confounded the experts.
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So, look, I hate censorship as much (or more!) than you do, but when I see you leaping to Durov’s defense, I just think you’re getting played. That isn’t what is going on here. This is some spy-vs-spy bulkshit. ⤵️
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Privacy technology (such as Zcash) doesn't *just* protect Americans from their own government (in accordance with quintessentially American values such the Fourth Amendment). Perhaps more importantly, it protects Americans from *enemy governments*.
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Announcing the Zcash project:
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When/if you see USA suffering vastly more covid-19 deaths than similarly wealthy countries, remember how USA's vast army of skilled experts was *banned* from taking action to protect us by CDC and FDA:
#BureaucracyKills
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A list of 15 money laundering operations that have come to light. And no—none of them have anything to do with cybercoins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Zcash. “Shady transactions continue to reach as much as $2 trillion a year”— HT
@lbxsocial
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Don’t read any of those newspaper articles about Edward Snowden helping with the Zcash cryptographic ceremony. Watch this video:
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This is a remarkable post. It really feels like Jesse woke up on the wrong side of the bed, said "Fuck it, I'm going to tell them how I really feel" and then typed this in and clicked "post". Awesome.
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Just about nothing makes me angrier than people attacking the character of scientists when they don't like the implications of what those scientists have discovered.
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I used to think the villains in "Atlas Shrugged" were unrealistic.
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Ahhhh… good times. Anybody else remember the MtGox collapse? :-) Where my OG cypherpunk revolutionaries at? We're not going anywhere.
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Here’s to everyone in the crypto space who *didn’t* post a hot take on Virgil Griffith’s arrest, because they know that they’ve only heard one side of the story, and they take pride in not running their mouth off until they have the facts.
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Please pass a new law: “Science papers which are publicly funded are required to be made available to the public free of charge.”
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New profile text: “I use the block button liberally, even accounts that seem sincere but just not great. This is to respect the time of my followers.”
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I’m learning more and more that things I think are obvious to everyone and don’t need to be said actually aren’t obvious and need to be said.
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So I decided to watch the round-table video that had been censored by Google. It's 1h45m. I thought it was an interesting, reasonable, evidence-based discussion, and the fact that it is being targeted for censorship scares me.
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Ya know, the “zero-knowledge” in “zero-knowledge proof” is about privacy/confidentiality, but the “proof” is about integrity. I think the power of this technology is still quite underrated.
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I believe—because of cryptography and computer science—that in the digital realm it is possible to make armor stronger than any weapon.
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Medium's new policy of taking down posts which they think undermine that Health Authorities or their preferred political positions is wrong and dangerous. It threatens not only public health but also democracy.
I'm concerned about the recent trend of tech overlords like Google, Twitter, and Medium censoring what they call "misinformation".
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But wait, if Pavel Durov is in favor of free speech, then why aren’t Telegram messages end-to-end-encrypted?
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As a kid, I was awed by the story of the loss of The Library of Alexandria. The Library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed all at once. Instead it was a series of fires, wars, political changes, and social unrest that destroyed it over time.
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My friends and family are migrating from Signal to Wire. Like Signal it's secure/private, but unlike Signal it doesn't expose your phone number to other people, and the group chat mode is more reliable than Signal's.
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Hello, anti-censorship crypto frens. By far the best—and possibly the only—defense against consensus-layer censorship is end-to-end encryption on L1. Fortunately for future generations, end-to-end encryption has already been deployed, battle-tested, and upgraded…on Zcash.
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Sigh... Just got off the phone with yet another person who was in danger of being robbed and extorted by coin thieves because of phone-number-based-account-recovery, and who thought they were safe from it because they had TOTP-2FA (Google Authenticator) turned on.
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I like to follow tweeps who are merciless to ideas but empathetic to people.
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Got a new book in the mail. And what a sweet inscription in the front from the brothers Winklevoss! ♥️
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Welp, this review by Vitalik of a book by Balaji is totally blowing my mind. 🤯
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I've been through a lot of crypto crashes and bear markets. I'm used to everyone getting anxious and depressed. But this time around the Zcash community seems to be more positive and energised than ever! It's interesting.
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Novice engineers have not yet grokked this: the number of modes or options in your system is the *exponent* in how hard it is to maintain.
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