Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.
Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth
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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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OMG—everyone who cares about Proof-of-Work mining needs to read the entirety of blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-c…. 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: amp.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-…. 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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Your society has a problem. You ask the government to fix it. Now you have two problems.
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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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Binance, you’re considering delisting Zcash!?
What kind of world are you creating? Do you want your children to grow up in peace and prosperity, or a Black Mirror episode?
@_RichardTeng, Privacy is normal! Support privacy by supporting Zcash, like Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken!
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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. coincenter.org/link/the-new-…
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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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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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Daira-Emma is a *great* dev. Co-author of many excellent ideas and many more to come. And ze’s a lovely and sincere person who I’ve had the pleasure to know and collaborate with for I think about 20 years now. It’s good for freedom that ze’s a Zcasher.
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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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Something feels different—it feels like Bitcoin maximalism/fundamentalism has lost control of the narrative.
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12% of the new coin issuance in every new Zcash block goes into a community-controlled “lockbox” for funding Zcash development. It currently contains 75,000 ZEC, worth $40M. zecstats.info/
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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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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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Shielded Burritos acquired.
No information on any blockchain linking these burritos to my personal assets and financial history. Only with Zcash.
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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: medium.com/@zooko/a-new-era-…
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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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I don’t know why the Zcash price has been skyrocketing. And I don’t know if it is going to go back down. But what I do know is that the “it is a coordinated pump” counter-narrative is just more cynical propaganda from people who can’t believe in anything good and real.
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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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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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Tyler Winklevoss just said something awesome about "Separating Money and State". Something like "Have we really done that? And the answer is no, unless you're using Zcash". 👍👍
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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.
electriccoin.co/blog/new-rel…
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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. entrepreneurshandbook.co/spe…
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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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The pool of the hardest money in existence now contains $1.8 billion worth. This is $1.8 billion that can’t be tracked, can’t be seized, and can’t be debased. The owners of this money have a superpower.
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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 bitcoin.org 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. z.cash/blog/zcash-counterfei…
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Unpopular opinion: I think the fact that Facebook is working on a crypocurrency is awesome.
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One year ago today, Zcash was born: z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.htm…
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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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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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How to steal a GPG key from the next room: eprint.iacr.org/2016/129 By Eran Tromer (z.cash/team.html#scientists) et al.
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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. Coinmetrics.io discovered the con: coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-priva… 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: electriccoin.co/blog/halo-re… We call it Halo.
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“If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.”—Satoshi Nakamoto, August 2010: bitcointalk.org/index.php?to…
Four months later, Satoshi vanished from the internet. Three years after that, a solution was found.
#zcash
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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".
Why market cap is a bad metric to use in #crypto and what works better: forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/201…
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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: avc.com/2018/11/what-bear-ma… ...
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Somebody asked me in person “Why is Zcash going up so much?”. I said, because people care about unstoppable private money.
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The Total Addressable Market of buying illegal drugs on the Internet is big, but the Total Addressable Market of all normal activity is much bigger. Privacy is normal.
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Just bought this coffee drink at the Starbucks in this Barnes and Noble. Paid with Zcash. This revealed zero information about my crypto holdings and my other transactions. As of today, only Zcash can do 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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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”—bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-… HT @lbxsocial
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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: washingtonpost.com/investiga… #BureaucracyKills
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Cryptocurrency has blessed some people by allowing them to live their dreams. I'm even more blessed than that — it has allowed me to live my mission. #Zcash
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Whoa! Batches of Bitcoin, 50 at a time, that were mined within a month of Bitcoin's launch are moving!
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This is a remarkable post. blog.kraken.com/post/1561/kr… 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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Don’t read any of those newspaper articles about Edward Snowden helping with the Zcash cryptographic ceremony. Watch this video: piped.video/8qSA29vWWds
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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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Just got another one of these. This is from a Bitcoin OG who started an important Bitcoin company 15 years ago. If someone tells you Zcash is undergoing a coordinated pump and dump, you should really learn not to trust that person’s information. It’s on you, not on them. Learn!
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