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you can fully destroy perfect onchain privacy by leaking metadata (IP, user-agent, timezone, language settings, etc.). using Tor for any onchain interaction is one way but it's very easy to also fingerprint you as Tor user. what Ethereum needs is its own browser that _natively_ embeds Kohaku (as wallet) with the following system invariant: everyone using the same privacy profile (let's call them "Fingerprint Profile") looks exactly the same to websites, because the browser forces all observable behaviour into a small number of _standardised_ (but not Tor-identifieable) patterns. we can only win this if we control the kernel space (i.e. browser) and not only the user space (i.e. extension). also, my current thinking is that a browser is the interface to the internet and if we want to "scale" privacy in some form, a browser is the perfect distribution channel (private OSes will be much harder for example).
Ethereum is inspired by tools that keep the internet open under pressure.
@torproject protects freedom online by routing traffic through distributed relays, reducing tracking, surveillance, and censorship.
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ethereum got flooded by fucking mercenaries pretending to be revolutionaries. everyone talks about decentralisation until there's money on the table, then suddenly compliance, surveillance, business opportunities, and extraction become pragmatic. most of this ecosystem does not give a shit about freedom. they care about pumps, fees, and turning users into fucking exit liquidity. cypherpunk was never about making founders rich. it was about making tyranny obsolete. the grifters will cash out. the cowards will comply. cypherpunks will outlast all of them. principles compound harder than capital. you don't have to believe me. you won't. because you'll be gone while i'm still here.
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i genuinely think everyone in this space should immediately switch to using Vim. DPRK started abusing VS Code hooks that run _automatically_ in the background when you open a folder. ZERO fucking user interaction required _after_ trusting the repo (the trusting part is important here). Yes, read it again. ZERO. INTERACTION. REQUIRED.
so what happens is the following: they (in the usual case the Contagious Interview group, meaning some fake recruiting guy) share GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab repos containing a `.vscode/` subdirectory with malicious hooks. the one example I share here executes a fake font that's actually heavily-obfuscated JS and will absolutely rek you.
all your fancy software that feels "convenient" makes tradeoffs. those tradeoffs are now being abused to silently rek your devices.
use Vim. and use Qubes. Thx.
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folks, real talk now, at least 99% (and I'm being optimistic here) of what's been built on Ethereum (this includes the entire ecosystem) over the last decade is complete fucking bullshit. It's pretty simple: I'm here for the 1% (tbf and to be more realistic, the 0.001%) that matters, the projects that understand why _privacy_ and _principles_ matter, the ones that _empower_ users instead of milking them through fees, metadata, or hidden control. The past decade has shown clearly how reckless (and greedy) society has become. Too few people understand that Cypherpunk saves society from its own retardness by protecting freedom when people are too blind or complacent to defend it themselves. The world has never needed Cypherpunk principles more than now.
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a few things:
1. the ef does this for operating expenses; major upgrades like the merge, pectra and literally everything else that makes ethereum strong does not happen without engineers and researchers.
2. this went to a eth holding company; the microstrategy of eth: basically it went to the most diamond handed buyers possible. that’s quite literally their whole thing; you may as well considered this eth as taken out of the supply/burned.
3. other foundations in crypto are not this transparent and have been dumping 100x this amount all year. ifykyk.
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$5M only paid if you are successful is an awful deal that no competent firm accepts as a fee structure.
How about all of the initial hours you’d have to initially spend upfront?
Basically the victim takes zero risk upfront while the people attempting to help have to risk their time/energy. That does not align.
These vague “bounties” are bad for the industry and only make it look like the team is doing something while not actually incentivizing anyone competent.
A fair compensation structure rewards both time spent by billing for hourly + incentivizes successful outcome with contingency % (how all top firms structure fees).
There’s also a number of factors which show how these bounties are not fair:
How about if the attacker lives in a bad jurisdiction making arrest difficult?
What if law enforcement doesn’t recover all of the funds during arrest?
etc
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Listen guys, many might disagree with me on this, but Ethereum's lasting success is all about its Cypherpunk soul. Real (IMO unconditional) privacy, security, censorship resistance; that's the core and must always remain the core. Folks, honestly, forget the flashy business plans for Ethereum (we do not turn Ethereum into a fucking company). If we start prioritising those over the fundamentals, we're not just selling out; we're turning into muppets of the very mainstream systems we set out to disrupt. Read the last sentence again. Now again. Ethereum's future has to be _radical_ and _bold_, not obedient.
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People are missing the important points in this Solana emergency fork situation
1) Eth has client diversity and a protocol spec steered by a meaningful research community.
The most popular eth client, geth, has at most 41% market share.
Sol has one prod client (just one; don't let them tell you otherwise, it's very easy to check this for yourself)
No Sol client can have less than 50% majority share until they have 3 independent production clients. That's just grade three math. Try to cut something in two pieces and you will have one piece >=50%.
Because of these facts (and the difficulty for Solana's architecture to develop new independent clients which has been documented elsewhere, including by me), Solana will pretty much never have client diversity (again, this is very easy to check for yourself - which 3 clients will share balanced running of sol mainnet, at what tps, on what timeline?)
This means zero day bugs in the single Sol client are de facto protocol bugs. Change the single client program, change the protocol itself. The client is the protocol.
Ethereum has never had a protocol (spec level) bug that required an emergency hard fork.
Ethereum has never had any downtime.
2) Eth doesn't do irregular app state transitions. These are centralized af.
An irregular state transition is when you hard fork a blockchain to rewrite what's supposed to be immutable history.
This is basically the number one thing you're never supposed to do because, if you do it, it demonstrates to your users that maybe you'll do it again in the future, and perhaps next time it'll harm the property rights of users.
Every irregular state transition is effectively a practice session for the terrible one that might occur in the future.
What happens when a government tries to lean on Solana to seize another government's or person's assets onchain?
Governments already know it's possible to get Solana to do a rapid unplanned irregular state transition - it happened twice in the past ~year. It's just a question of what the contents of that rapid change actually is, and how it's verified or accepted. How many guns to how many heads?
Ethereum has already defended against a nation state level attack from the United States of America. Tornado Cah stayed operational while it was sanctioned. Ethereum stayed live the whole time. The net effect was that tornado cash users had to wait about 60 seconds for a transaction confirmation instead of 15 seconds. I'd call that a great defense.
The point here - and the many institutions who are coming onchain now and do serious diligence are discovering this point for themselves, because it's not complicated - is that only Ethereum provides institutional grade risk minimization.
Solana is effectively a retail chain, uncompetitive for significant institutional investment, and more like a direct competitor to Base, World Chain, or Arbitrum.
Eth (L1 and L2) is, by far, the best choice for long-term large investment from the world's corps, institutions, and governments - it's not even close. Capital flows reflect this.
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Here's my stance :)
We can scale the canonical L1 EVM by 1,000x—from 10 TPS to 10K TPS—using zkVMs. The core idea: validators verify a SNARK for every EVM block, instead of re-executing it.
I'll discuss this on @eth_proofs call #1, Fri Apr 25 at 2pm UTC. The founders of 17 zkVMs snarkifying the EVM will share updates. If there's one white-hot corner of crypto right now, it's zkVMs. The pace of progress is mind-blowing. DM me or @corcoranwill for a calendar invite to Ethproofs call #1.
That said, most users will still live on L2s. Why? Because L2s will offer a combined 10M TPS—100x from rollups, 100x from Danksharding, 100x from a decade of Nielsen's law. So the L1 EVM only gets 10K / 10M = 0.1% of activity, and that's perfectly fine.
The key to graceful horizontal scaling is preserving Ethereum-wide network effects:
→ native rollups = shared security
→ based rollups = shared composability
→ pristine ETH = shared money
Ethereum's future is incredibly bright. Believe in something :)
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Honestly, the CZ shit is way worse than you guys can imagine.
I'm not even "against" CZ - it is what it is.
But vibes won't get any better when someone of that stature has so much influence over crypto as a whole.
Firstly, CZ's dog was NEVER called Broccoli.
His dog is called Brownie.
He purposely said his dog was called Broccoli [made up name], in order to kill off the memecoin that was made a day prior.
Why?
To weed out rats from his clique.
He did not want people close to him, leaking personal information and profiting from it.
So to teach them a lesson, he made his "tokenized dog" into supreme PvP, all on purpose.
Secondly, CZ did not help out Bybit post-hack.
"Binance" as an entity DID NOT transfer over ETH to assist Bybit.
It was a bunch of 'anonymous' stakeholders/those who had equity in Bybit, who were on Binance, that transferred THEIR OWN ETH to Bybit, in order to help.
So when you saw onchain "whale" notifications of "XXX ETH from Binance transferred to Bybit" -
You thought it was CZ helping out Ben.
Incorrect.
He took the free PR and Ben didn't speak out against it either.
I know A LOT of shit about A LOT of things, I just don't always speak on it.
But I will end it on this:
CZ is no friend of anyone in this game.
~ Dr. Axius.
Retar Dio.
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In response to the the WazirX, Radiant, and Bybit exploits, @pcaversaccio developed the Safe Hash Preview script, helping users to verify Safe transactions before signing.
We’ve just launched a user-friendly interface to make it easily accessible: safeutils.openzeppelin.com/
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The @Bybit_Official hackers are not going to use Monero to move funds, as their need for vast and immediate liquidity far outweighs their need for privacy.
They know that they will be surveilled at every step of the way, but it doesn't matter for them because they're a nation-state actor and have ways to sell tainted Bitcoin for fiat that us normies do not have access to.
Other big takeaways for me:
1. This proves Bitcoin can still be useful as freedom money, and that broad censorship is not yet possible.
2. This could easily be spun into an OFAC-compliant mining push on pools, and we should keep an eye out for that.
3. The govs approach of silently destroying Monero on/off-ramps via Operation Chokepoint over the years has been effective in neutering Monero's usefulness for state actors, but hasn't stopped its usefulness for individuals.
4. The ability for all of us to watch the flow of funds live together and know exactly where funds are coming from and going to should be terrifying, not voyeuristic fun. We do not have the same privileges as individuals that state-sponsored hackers have, and this lack of privacy can easily doom us.
5. Sad to see so many using this as an opportunity to dunk on Ethereum instead of focusing on how we can make Bitcoin even more private and censorship-resistant.
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