Growth/Narrative. Helped to launch four platforms and 30+ protocols on Ethereum & beyond. R&D: Public Interest/Civic Tech
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2021
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Robin Whitney retweeted
the eff is the goat.
they've been fighting for human rights since 1990.
threading some of their best work:
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atlas of surveillance tracks any public docs about local surveillance infra. flock cams, stingrays, drones, etc
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ALT Atlas of Surveillance banner: https://www.eff.org/pages/atlas-surveillance
Robin Whitney retweeted
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
Robin Whitney retweeted
People have asked me:
You're a pro-crypto, pro-markets @UChicago guy but also a regulated markets expert cited two dozen times in SEC rules; what's your take on prediction markets?
My answer is I'm not a fan.
But maybe not for the reasons you'd think.
mozillafoundation.org/en/not… – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Robin Whitney retweeted
If AI is going to generate trillions of dollars of new wealth, the public should control how that wealth gets spent.
And taken to its full conclusion: the public should hold ownership stakes in the companies reshaping the economy. Not through government takeover — through democratic governance, like public airwaves and public waterways.
Robin Whitney retweeted
Anthropic's CEO is fighting the Pentagon because he won't let his AI be used for domestic mass surveillance. Meanwhile the government is buying your location data, browsing history, and purchase records from data brokers without a warrant, and AI can now assemble all of it into a complete picture of your life automatically. This is the part people miss. It's not just that one company tracks you. It's that AI can now combine ALL the data from ALL the brokers into a surveillance profile that no human could ever build manually. And there's no law stopping it.
Robin Whitney retweeted
Does your nonprofit or community organization need a better way to manage funds together?
Our step-by-step multisig wallet setup guide is now available for download! These are the same tools we've used to manage our cooperative treasury.
Robin Whitney retweeted
Not sure people not subject to this in their cities truly comprehend how much ICE is terrorizing Chicago. They are everywhere, kidnapping whomever they want, arresting journalists, targeting construction and domestic laborers, deliberately sowing fear in almost every neighborhood
Robin Whitney retweeted
For anyone wondering, the pronunciation the immigration agents were using for Kedzie Avenue on body cam, according to the defense lawyer in court, was “Kah-DEE-zee.”Subtle, but his point was made
chicagotribune.com/2025/10/0…
Robin Whitney retweeted
If you see a group of unarmed people on little boats trying to deliver aid to a starving population, and then you see a powerful military blocking them and calling them terrorists, and you don't know which side you're on, I don't think there's any hope for you.
Robin Whitney retweeted
Judge: Let me see it...
Deputy: Mr. Foreperson, Count 1, how do you find?
Foreperson: Not unanimous.
Deputy 2: Count 2?
Foreperson: Guilty.
Deputy: Count 3, IEEPA?
Foreperson: Not guilty.
Robin Whitney retweeted
I don’t want my crypto wallet to be a social app. I use it to send and receive money, occasionally I use the embedded browser for bridging and swapping.
I don’t want mini apps and games and followers and features that make the most important features laggy and worse.
Robin Whitney retweeted
This is one of the most spellbinding anecdotes I've ever read, and it’s just Ray Bradbury rambling about a carnival worker he met when he was twelve.
“He said, ‘You were my best friend outside of Paris in 1918. You were wounded in the Ardennes and you died in my arms there.’”
Robin Whitney retweeted
The Senate should not reintroduce land sales after the House removed them from the Big Beautiful Bill. Federal preservation of wilderness is among the greatest decisions that the United States has ever made.
