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We did it!! Oh my God, we did it!!!
As I write this, citizens across Russia are using ZKPs to vote in a surveillance-free referendum and safely challenge the Kremlin
Some reflections on privacy as freedom, incognito voting, and trustless social apps
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Don’t be fooled by dreams of solving KYC privacy issues with ZK
Vendors are legally required to store a copy of user data. This renders ZK solutions non-compliant dead ends
Much better to experiment with using ZK for social apps or non-KYC-related verification (e.g. voting)
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@VeraJourova
tell me you don't understand encryption without telling me you don't understand encryption
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SO excited to see
@VitalikButerin
discuss how
@Rarimo_protocol
tackles the privacy & verifiability tradeoff
Privacy struggles to scale b/c in most interactions we need to verify something about ourselves
FreedomTool brought anonymous verifiability to voting & is just the start
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ETH CC takeaway
There is a cohort of projects building truly (and sometimes subtly) revolutionary tech. Until Brussels, I didn’t fully grasp how strong and active this corner of Web3 is!
Rarimo is unbelievably proud to have unlocked surveillance-free voting (subtle brag!) but
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@venturetwins
'her hands were placed in the pockets...in the style of no particular artist' is also an amazing way to contextualise body language 😂
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Say goodbye to brat summer and hello to using-ZKPs-to-fuck-over-regimes-and-combat-rising-authoritarianism fall 🫡
What use cases is Rarimo building?
The Rarimo community focuses on building civic tech that improves democracy, combats authoritarianism and supports free speech
Let's dive into some of the Rarimo-powered apps that do this 👇
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Our team built Freedom Tool in Kyiv during the war
We view it as defense technology
Totalitarianism does not arise in a vacuum, but from the slow erosion of personal freedoms such as the right to freely vote, protest, & organize
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Me when I log into X and see
@Rarimo_protocol
all over the feed
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a while — scanning a passport and producing a zk proof of identity in under a minute 🤯
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prepping my talk for
@hyle_org
and
@aztecnetwork
’s Trust Infrastructure day and naturally consulting the bible beforehand
@ystrickler
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ZK-SNARKs had their first real use case
@zcash
only 7 years ago
Now they’re used for anonymous voting
@Rarimo_protocol
, email-based account recovery
@zkemail
, event ticketing
@zupass
& more
When they hit maturity the cambrian explosion of privacy-first apps is going to be epic
@zengjiajun_eth
@arbitrum
If I had to pick a
#2
and
#3
, it would be:
2. ZK-SNARKs being finally on the cusp of maturity, along with use cases (zupass, railway, 0xbow, rarimo....)
3. Account abstraction
ZK-email (and similar zk-wrappers of centralized ID) is particularly important, and bridges those two.
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Always an honour to feature in
@__zkhack__
! This talk covers how Rarimo works & what we’ve done this year:
- Unlocked passport ZKPs
- Provided dissidents in Russia & Iran with anonymous voting
- Built a ZK social graph to unleash private, mass scale coordination
watch:
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This leap forward for social recovery is massive!
Can’t wait to see how
@zkemail
continues to progress.
Email-based identity verification has the potential to solve so many critical problems not only in Web3 but in everyday life!
Excited to support wallet teams with their account recovery! It's a big step to start seeing it hit production, many audits later :)
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Look Mom,
@Rarimo
’s Freedom Tool and I are in the
@BoysClubWorld
newsletter!!
Freedom Tool uses blockchain & ZKs to help people living under regimes safely vote, and protest!
Thank you
@natashaghoskins
and
@medeana
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The Kremlin was not happy with Vote2024 & the prospect of surveillance-free voting
In their latest attempt to derail the app, they sent bots & state-sponsored reviewers to tank its rating
This message (translation👇) from one of the reviewers is a reminder of why privacy
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Will be exploring the glories of ZKPs on behalf of
@Rarimo_protocol
alongside
@anoma
@nethermindeth
and
@MidnightNtwrk
tomorrow
DM if you’d like to join
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This was the third real-world voting app to launch on Rarimo in 7 months
and voting is only one of many verticals that Rarimo unlocks
ZK identity is ready. It's making real differences in real people’s lives. This is only just the start
Breaking news!
Georgian MPs have brought national IDs on-chain
This is a world first for Web3. Their United Space app lets citizens anonymously vote, access state services, & receive state enterprise shares
At the heart of this is Rarimo’s ZK identity registry
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The
@encodeclub
&
@ETHLDN
hackathon starts this weekend
Swing by from 27th - 29th Oct & catch me talking about
@Rarimo_protocol
's Proof-of-Humanity plug-in on the 28th
The talk is intended to be catnip for anyone who loves ZKs & hate bots!!⛓️🐈⬛
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The magic of Rarimo’s ZK passport tech is that it’s fuelling on-chain registries of national IDs. This unlocks mass-scale coordination across entire nations
Anonymous voting was just the start. Our next use case is a truly novel experiment in digital democracy & governance
Rarimo lets citizens put their IDs on-chain. So far, this has helped protesters cast anonymous votes
Now, politicians are about to use it for something else entirely. Stay tuned…
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Look Mom, I'm on
@BBCRadio4
!!!
13 mins of me explaining crypto, blockchain, & web3 for newcomers to the space
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@winnyeth
A lot of projects struggle to distinguish between what the web3 community & everyday users want
The general public is typically uninterested in the underlying tech behind ANY product
Centring comms on blockchain is often like trying to sell iphones by promoting semiconductors
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Lying awake at night craving more Rarimo intel? This thread covers all the basics
Why building a ZK social graph is so critical, how the hell we got rid of third-party attestors, & which regions we’ve deployed surveillance-free voting in
At
@aztecnetwork
&
@hyle_org
's Trust Infra day
@Kitty__Jenny
outlined what Rarimo is, & how it’s apps work, including:
🔹Freedom Tool, our surveillance-free voting solution used by activists in Russia & Iran
🔸RariMe, our identity wallet for generating passport ZKPs
Summary👇
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Gassed to see
@shumochu
shout out
@Rarimo_protocol
for making real changes to people’s every day lives!
@nebrazkp
’s proof day was a real conference highlight!
My ETHCC observation:
1. People started to care about more real world adoptions, some highlights:
-
@proofpassio
ticketing app powered by
@nebrazkp
and
@GalxeIdentity
at proof day
- many applications that changes people's life demonstrated at proof day, such as
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The ‘Attract, Extract’ model, is insidious for obvious reasons
[Attract, Extract is when social platforms shift from attracting users by offering good terms and services, to exploitatively extracting revenue from them (e.g. via invasive data practices) once network effect makes
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Will be a good one! See you there
Join us tomorrow for the AB2 Spotlight X Space session 🎙️
We will be joined by
@Kitty__Jenny
from
@Rarimo_protocol
to discuss the most recent Alpha Build 2 and talk about private identity and social.
🗓️ Join us tomorrow at 11am ET
🔗
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One of the perks of working in Web3 is using terms like ‘the Baby Jubjub keypair’ in total earnestness
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Banger! ❤️
@TACEO_IO
This week,
@luhelminger
and I had the honor to join
@AnnaRRose
and
@nico_mnbl
on the Zero Knowledge podcast to talk about coSNARKs, the
@TACEO_IO
origins, and privacy-preserving tech in general.
ty
@zeroknowledgefm
for such a great experience!
Ep is here:
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Behold our trip to Tskaltubo, the former Soviet spa town. Workers were sent here during state allocated holidays for two weeks of splendour before being retuned to the factories.
Time is a merciless hammer. Happy Sunday!
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First earthquakes in NFT NYC, now floods in Dubai. Web3 has angered the Gods, and I, for one, blame meme coins
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First, we had Romeo and Juliet, now we have Bob and Alice
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Making voting systems digital also makes them cheaper
This means we can build more democratic communities
Instead of voting just once every 4 years in national elections, we can, for example, vote continuously on new legislation, having more of a say in how our lives are run
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Sat by a group of American students. One telling the others she tried to order a pizza slice only to discover that in the UK, we do not serve by the slice
Group, horrified. One wants to go home. Are pizza distribution methods the new metric system? A sad day for UK/US relations
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There is a distinction between what we want to happen & what we think will happen
Growing increasingly interested in how the two intersect to shape political outcomes
and what tools we can build to prevent the influence of the latter from inhibiting the pursuit of the former🤔
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Allowing users to not only privately store identity credentials, but interactions, networks, reputations etc cracks open a whole new suite of social apps
gassed to be working on it
The more users, the more attestation types
The more attestation types, the more use cases
The more use cases, the more users
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@TheDevanshMehta
@VitalikButerin
@ray_svitla
Thanks for your write up, glad you enjoyed the event! There seems to be some crossed wires here however, so wanted to correct a couple points
1) A ‘dictionary attack’ is actually when a government runs a check to see which passports are registered and therebye figures out who’s
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Building a voting system that guarantees eligibility, anonymity & uniqueness all at once was a colossal challenge
@olkurbatov
breaks down how we did it & what’s next for
@Rarimo_protocol
's passport ZKs: an incognito network with multiple use cases🧂
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Democracy should go beyond periodic elections, and software design should seed self-governance into our everyday lives
Gassed to see
@VitalikButerin
highlight
@Rarimo_protocol
's ZK voting tools during his predictions on the next 10 years
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On Sat, I’m speaking at Future State in Berlin about
@Rarimo_protocol
’s privacy-first social apps
Will cover surveillance-free voting Freedom Tool, how it’s currently being used in Russia, and its upcoming implementations
Swing bye!
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The
@Rarimo_protocol
community built Freedom Tool because digital voting urgently needed privacy
Until Freedom Tool, and passport ZKPs there was no way of verifying voter eligibility that also prevented tracing. For people living in regimes, this was a disaster
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Will be slightly harder to get passport ZKPs rolling for this one, but I’m sure we can make it work
The Imperial passport of Kublai Khan, circa 1240 AD. “I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die.”
They really don't make travel documents the way they used to.
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Making passports the basis of
@Rarimo_protocol
’s identity model allowed us to buck the trend, and build a framework with no third party attester!!
Instead, Rarimo lets you self-issue your own identity!
Very proud of this! Full deets on how it works below
Almost all pre-existing identity frameworks share the same point of weakness: third party attesters
Rarimo does not. It is the only framework that lets you issue your own identity
This protects you and your data from hacks, leaks, and regulatory interference
How does Rarimo
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Loved this convo! Shumo really dug into the nuances of passport ZKs
My fave part was talking about the beauty of using a state-issued document to challenge the state
Passports are such essential identity infrastructure, no government wants to take them down
(Although of
EP3 of
@0xXyzPod
: Onchain Privacy with
@Kitty__Jenny
(
@Rarimo_protocol
) and
@tsu_kareta
(
@RAILGUN_Project
). The end game of crypto is vampire attacking governments. And that is exactly what
@Rarimo_protocol
and
@RAILGUN_Project
are about!
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It’s true
Recorded a epic episode with
@tsu_kareta
from
@RAILGUN_Project
and
@Kitty__Jenny
from
@Rarimo_protocol
. Privacy is taking over the onchain world, in case you haven't noticed yet.
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Creating a prediction market for citizens who can verify they’re Georgian and politically active is a next-level use of Rarimo’s reputation system
The power of ZKs to unlock hyper-specific social filters is so underrated
Can’t wait to see how this unfolds!🇬🇪
First, Georgian MPs launched a ZK identity super app, United Space
Now, devs have built Moxdeba, a prediction market changing the game for sentiment tracking
Only verified Georgian citizens can use it & they bet with social points from United Space
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Niche for now, but who knows where else this solution can be applied. Big up
@RiscZero
Big News!
To ensure governments can’t work out which citizens registered to vote, Freedom Tool lets passports repeat register then removes duplicate votes from the count
Before, we used Circom ZKPs. Now with
@RiscZero
Freedom Tool has a trustless set-up
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@ameensol
Freedom Tool! We (Rarimo) used passport ZKPs to build an anonymous voting solution. It’s currently being used by Russian opposition to challenge Putin
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ZK voting implementations, you say...
for anyone curious about this, check out
@Rarimo_protocol
's Freedom Tool. It's currently being used by Russian Opposition to challenge Putin
@TheStalwart
We're still here! And a lot of that idealistic open internet stuff has actually moved forward quite a bit, eg. we have farcaster and lens, quadratic and retroactive funding, zupass, privacy-preserving ways to send ETH, ZK voting implementations...
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No, I’m not at ZK summit. Yes, I have terrible fomo
The good news however is that Vlad is there. If you want to have in-person Rarimo chats, ping me and I’ll connect you
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My granny (who must be protected at all costs) planted these petunias for me because they’re bred to look like galaxies, and I work in tech
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Congrats
@worldcoin
on the Word ID 2.0 launch
World ID users can now claim
@Rarimo_protocol
's verified human credentials via apps
This work is needed because when the internet was first developed, it was designed to help machines, not humans share info🧵
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A talk so nice I watched it twice!!
A new generation of social apps that nurture connection without impinging on our privacy are already on the horizon!! Exciting stuff!!
ZK Summit 11 was a blast! Watch
@nico_mnbl
present Arke (joint work with
@alberto_sonnino
@Daeinar
@kobigurk
) a privacy-preserving contact discovery scheme, and much beyond! This talk also serves as a gentle introduction to identity-based cryptography
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As well as providing safe voting platforms, however, applications built on Freedom Tool can double as incognito digital town squares
Users who’ve verified their engagement with particular causes can safely organize and connect
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The first of my bi-monthly articles on NFTs for
@institutco
gallery is out 🔥🔥🔥
We look at how artistic masterpieces have been valued over time & how NFTs finally allow digital art to compete with other mediums
Written to help you help your mum understand this crazy jpeg hype
“No matter how many ‘right-click, saves’ take place, authenticity is not compromised [and] digital art can participate in markets it has long been excluded from.”
📖“The Value of NFTS: Authenticity over Inimitability” written by
@Kitty__Jenny
👉
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@omniharmonic
@RobertKennedyJr
@0xHolonym
We (
@Rarimo_protocol
) specialise in privacy-first ID. We built Freedom Tool, an anonymous ID & voting solution.
It's currently being used by Russian opposition to challenge Putin, and by Iranian NGOs to challenge the regime there too.
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Being featured in
@__zkhack__
's newsletter again was almost the best thing that happened this weekend
Some great reads in here!
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This trade-off between privacy and reputation is one of the biggest reasons that privacy struggles to scale
Thankfully,
@Rarimo_protocol
is building to fix this. You will no longer have to choose between anonymity and social context
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The Kremlin created fake sites that posed as Western news outlets but hosted misinformation, & directed Americans to them via X ads
Regulation alone can’t tackle this. It’s symptomatic of a bigger problem. We need new digital infrastructure & new ways of verifying information
My colleague
@markscott82
on the difference between US & EU re countering Russian interference: "Washington succeeded where Brussels — and its new social media rulebook — has not because it targeted the cause, not the symptom, of foreign interference." 1/2
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To see the first implementation of Freedom Tool take place in Russia where dissidents are so fiercely persecuted and oppressed brings me enormous hope
It is a testament to the power of privacy and Zero-Knowledge to truly impact people’s lives
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It’s easy to grow complacent about privacy & freedom of speech
but if you’ve lived alongside autocracy, you know these rights form the barrier between freedom & oppression
The Foreign Agents law allows government to monitor & persecute supporters of ‘pseudo-liberal ideology'
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One of the happiest side effects of privacy and the cypher punk promise will be that online life is much more fun when you're not being surveilled
how much genuine connection can you foster with another human if you're afraid that everything you say is being recorded?
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This highlights a second, often overlooked, property that ZK unlocks and brings to online communities: trustlessness
It’s currently exceedingly difficult for digital spaces to filter members effectively without resorting to closed ‘friends-of-friends’ systems
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Drawbacks to X making likes private
- w/out knowing where likes on a post come from (bots?) trust plummets
- w/out knowing what a person likes, connecting w them is 5x harder
For privacy in social settings to work, there needs to be elements of verifiability & customization
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Fantastic exploration by
@eliza_oak
,
@ahall_research
and
@a16zcrypto
of the power of decentralised governance to impact the ‘real world’
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Absolutely massive news!!
gm gang, we've been hard at work building the Aztec L2 and I want to give an update!
We're building a full end-to-end testnet and we're close to completing this breakthrough technology
It will be the world's 1st decentralized, privacy-first programmable L2. Kind of a big deal.
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This is very, very cool 🔥
In collaboration with
@zkv_xyz
, Cursive will be demoing at ZK Summit 12 next Tuesday! All attendees will receive an NFC card, enabling them to build a private social graph and try out ZK & MPC experiences focused on human connection 🧵
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These results, showing UBI spurs entrepreneurship, better health etc. highlight how worthwhile such experiments are
One of the issues that makes UBI so controversial is the question of how it’s funded, but as
@worldcoin
demonstrates, Web3 offers entirely new models for this
the openresearch team releases the first result from their UBI study:
great, diligent work over the past few years. proud of the team!
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With so many amazing projects scaling ZK tech, there is so much more to come
A new generation of privacy-first social apps is on the horizon. Freedom Tool & Russia2024 is just the start
Thank you so much to all the teams & people who supported & contributed to Freedom Tool!
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Great piece from
@jonrussell
&
@garyliu
Captures how
@Rarimo_protocol
's tech, particularly RariMe, is transcending voting
We are laying the foundations for multiple forms of censorship-free communication!
Speaking your mind online, or even indicating a preference, can be costly in some countries.
@garyliu
and
@jonrussell
explore how companies like
@Rarimo_protocol
will impact
#freespeech
online in this week's issue of
#SOWHAT
:
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@ninabambysheva
Welcome to Georgia! The
@Rarimo_protocol
team will also be in Tbilisi during those dates, as we're working with local politicians on a blockchain-powered tool. Have DM’d you
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When crypto twitter helps facilitate democracy
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I still reflexively thank cash machines, &, (when i'm in SF), driverless, AI-driven taxis
Our lizard brains aren't good at distinguishing between humans & machines
It's important to design tech to elicit compassionate behaviour. It seeps back out into how we treat other humans
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Everyone talks about the risk of AI eliminating humanity, but nobody talks about the risk of humanity eliminating AI 😢💔
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@Rachelwolf00
.
@Rarimo_protocol
. Latest solution, Freedom Tool, uses passport ZKPs for surveillance-free elections. It’s currently being used by Russian Opposition to safely challenge Putin
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@British_Airways
Still pursuing a refund for 2 cancelled BA flights this summer. Customer service comically atrocious. No response, email boxes 'too full' etc
BA has a legal obligation to reimburse me (& other customers),yet it appears to be impossible to pursue our refunds. My ref no: 23754381
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The EU has proposed the mandatory scanning of all photos and videos sent via messaging apps
They've branded it 'moderation' but make no mistake, this is mass surveillance
The European Council may reach a final negotiating position on the proposed regulation this week.
Leaked document suggests users of E2EE messaging services could opt-out of "upload moderation" by not being able to send images or URLs.
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Reviewing technical documents while listening to back-to-back Julia Fox interviews.
The seeds for all kinds of gloriously deranged ZK social apps are being planted.
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Social media is moving away from showing us content based on our social connections. Instead AI selects it for us based on our viewing behaviour (thanks TikTok)
It’s more global, but it’s less intimate. Feeling some nostalgia towards the cosier times, today.
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This one is actually my fave pic from the whole expedition, but Elon is being mean to me and won’t let me upload more than four at once
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More and more projects are starting to recognise the power of Passport ZKPs
The new World ID 3.0 features World ID Credentials, a way for even more people to participate in & benefit from World Network using things like an NFC-enabled passport.
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My birthday was so much fun, I don’t need another one for at least another year
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This has a pernicious effect on all digital subcultures and social movements. Civil activism is no exception
Holding a dissident view but being unable to find or connect with people who share your sentiments seriously impedes action
ZKs and private but verifiable
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thank you for all the congratulations (and the one very undeserved gift) but i did NOT get married last weekend, I was a bridesmaid at my sisters wedding 🤣
(but please do feel free to continue sending gifts anyway)
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But the importance and value of privacy is not just restricted to the more obvious use cases like voting
To flourish, humans need to be able to communicate, play, explore ideas, organize, the whole shebang, without fearing surveillance from the state or falling prey to the
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🔥
Introducing the ZK Market Map! We’ve charted 250+ crypto projects advancing zero knowledge (ZK) tech.
This detailed map is an extension of our Crypto Market Map meant to showcase the differences between projects within ZK subsectors.
Why did we make this and why does ZK matter?
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Privacy is not an abstract concept, & software design is not removed from the real world
Technology is man's most powerful tool for both liberation & oppression
Applied correctly, the cypherpunk vision can bring survival, peace, & freedom
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@lex_frl
And we have live use cases - surveillance free voting for dissidents in Russia and Iran
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