nullifier pruner & transaction aggregator @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/E6ZRLE9LeX | opinions are my own | ex @JuilliardSchool

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Joined October 2021
“Obsession” (2026), is an allegory for bad prompting and misaligned AI. If Bear had phrased his One Wish Willow request with proper safety constraints (“while remaining herself, happy, and not a demonic entity”), the whole movie would’ve been a rom-com.
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My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.
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A couple months ago I went to a gun show in my home town. Gun shows in the US are cool bc you DON’T need a background check when buying a gun from a private party. Similar to buying gold in the US with a private party, you don’t need to fill out any KYC docs. With the tech privacy chains bring, I see similar types of in person meetups happening for P2P transfers in the future (5-10 years out)
Guns and Zcash are all you need. 🇺🇸
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Perhaps one of the last protocols fully implemented by a Natural Intelligence (me)
Excited to open-source Argo! The most practical trust-minimized Bitcoin bridging: • Setup time: ~100ms • Offchain cost: ~10MB • Onchain cost: ~$8 🤖 Throw your clankers at it and help us harden it github.com/idealgroup/argo?_
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Raising $100M for a startup that turns litecoin into bitcoin through a series of tractable engineering problems
Replying to @MarathonFusion
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production. And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025. We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.
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Agree
fwiw, i think cyber risk is going to be lower in ~2030 than it was in 2022
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As the Internet gets compromised and tries to figure out where all their servers are… It’s nice to know that decentralized consensus is very resilient to this… Working code means running blockchain, so patches happen fast and completely. Zcash did this.
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If it can be shut down it was never a protocol anyways
Compiled a list of protocols that have shut down in 2026. 82 protocols year-to-date. I've never seen anything like this before.
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c-node retweeted
Waka waka, middlemen. 🟡 Read Zcash straight from the source: grants, treasuries, governance and on-chain data, all openzcash!
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there's no way they got our goat. just a purge tactic. he'll come back on some "rumors of my death were greatly exagerated" type shit
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Almost looks like brain scans of severe dementia
Detroit, like most cities, was decimated by "urban renewal" demolitions. What was built after was far less dense and walkable.
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the L2beatdowns will continue until decentralization improves
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TIL i was born the same week as P-256
P-256 was born Friday, August 15th, 1997 at 9:52PM Fort Meade time.
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Jemima "Charlie" Kirke
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TLDR for crypto people: > Be me > Ran ETH validator while I lived on Wall Street > Get call from federal prosecutor 3 years later > HIM: "We're prosecuting hacker of Uranium Finance" > HIM: "Need you to come testify that you ran a node for proof of Venue, its a law that requires crimes are tried where they are committed" > Law doesn't make sense when applied to crypto, but whatever > Me: "ok, how did you find me?" > HIM: "Matching Etherscan and Verizon IP records" > Fly to NYC > Take oath and tesify > HIM: "Cool thx bro" > Post story on X > Avi Eisenberg replies > Avi's convictions were thrown out, not because he didn't do it, but because they couldn't prove it happened in the district he was tried > Realize I'm the fix > Realize everyone who runs a node is a witness to all crimes that occur on that blockchain State of modern crypto law
I had to testify in a trial I wasn't involved in. Here's my story:
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c-node retweeted
Zakura's wallet and cryptography support libraries are integrating @ValarGroup's PIR-based tech that Tachyon depends on for its payment protocol, and some of it is immediately useful today! Any wallet can use or even fork this code: it's free, open-source, and permissionless.
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one of the best things about working with zcash-ers is the relentless pursuit of SoTA privacy AND best in class UX life is so short, and engineering is time consuming might as well go HAM amirite
How we’re making Zcash quantum unlinkable through the use of one-time IVKs! In this video, I talk about how sharing your shielded address opens you up to a specific quantum attack, and how we solved this linkage for a common feature you probably exposed yourself to already.
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colluding HUSSEIN node
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Do they release rainbow colored smoke when a UU church appoints a new minister?
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I hate Bushwick Halloween. wtf you mean you’re “bi-curious George”?
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