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Scurry around the blockchains, sniffing out stories, creating art and such.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”

Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

@arbadacarbaYK Saving to watch later!

[Nuclear for Australia @nuclearforaus]

Australia's nuclear ban makes no sense.

It's illegal for nuclear reactors to produce electricity, but legal for reactors to power submarines and produce nuclear medicines.

Australia is the only Top 20 economy with a ban on nuclear power.

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[Wojciech Pawelczyk @WojPawelczyk]

Earlier today, the Polish parliament observed a moment of silence in memory of the murdered Henry Nowak and all victims of anti-white racism.

You can always count on Poland.

[blockchainbadge.crypto @BlockchainBadge]

@cohler All models are wrong; Some are useful.

[big z @zectrillionaire]

Coin maximalism is a form of mental disease.

There's no reason for there to be a single cryptocurrency.

That doesn't mean there needs to be infinity shitcoins as well.

Murray Rothbard and Milton Friedman both said in the future there would be multiple competing free-market currencies.

[blockchainbadge.crypto @BlockchainBadge]

A wise precaution for everyone. Actually, Badgers don't even get issued ID - we don't need it. The one solution that I would adopt is zero-knowledge (ZK) identity authentication. We have this technology now - no reason not to use it!

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

I'm telling you right now, I'm not uploading my fucking ID to use social media and neither should you

We need to force this fascist government to throw these authoritarian bills in the trash

If they cared about kids, they'd ban GenAI everywhere. Instead they push it in schools

[Bitcoin Core Project @bitcoincoreorg]

We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1.

[blockchainbadge.crypto @BlockchainBadge]

@japan_nobunaga @Grok what is the benefit of 'premium' X?

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

When Zcash Ironwood activates, you will *immediately*, on Day 1 of Ironwood, gain trustless verification from your own full node that the actual supply of Zcash is correct (16M ZEC now, 21M ZEC eventually).

https://t.co/knfgEVEFBL

[blockchainbadge.crypto @BlockchainBadge]

A talented team

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

In the long run, civilizations are built by people who create new knowledge.

Zcash keeps attracting them.

Over the past decade the project has quietly assembled one of the strongest cryptographic teams in the world. The people who actually move the field forward keep ending up here.

A few of them:

Sean Bowe (@ebfull) has been a principal cryptographic engineer of Zcash since day 1. He invented Halo, the breakthrough that eliminated trusted setups in zero-knowledge proofs and changed how the whole industry builds them. He's a high-school dropout and self taught cryptographer who fundamentally advanced the field of cryptography. Not only Zcash but also the world wouldn't be the same without his discoveries.

Dev Ojha (@zkDragon) is best known as a cofounder of Osmosis, one of the most successful blockchains in the Cosmos ecosystem. He's also a world class cryptographer who studied at UC Berkeley under Alessandro Chiesa, one of the foremost zero-knowledge researchers in the world.

Before Osmosis, he was part of the launch and a core contributor to both Tendermint and the Cosmos SDK. In cryptography, he coauthored Fractal, the world's first post-quantum recursive proof system, and contributed substantively to Aurora and Marlin, two foundational papers in the ZK canon. His code lives in production ZK libraries used across the industry.

After helping build a multibillion dollar protocol, he turned his attention to one of the hardest open problems in the field: how to scale encrypted money to billions of users. His work goes straight at the bottlenecks that have kept private payments from reaching global scale, including private information retrieval, eliminating shielded sync, and post-quantum privacy.

Tal Derei (@mariusmargulus) is one of the core engineers and cryptographers building Tachyon alongside Sean. He comes to it from Penumbra, one of the most ambitious privacy projects in all of Cosmos, while doing zero-knowledge research at Lehigh. He won a ZPrize for making client-side proving dramatically faster on the GPU, cracking one of the exact bottlenecks that decides whether billions of people can generate private proofs on a phone instead of renting a data center. That single problem sits between encrypted money and the entire planet.

And Tachyon is where that firepower gets pointed. The bar is almost absurdly high: make fully encrypted money scale by orders of magnitude while making privacy stronger and validators lighter. Most teams would kill to land even one of those. Tachyon is chasing all three at once.

The proposed upgrade cuts transaction costs by roughly two orders of magnitude, ends runaway state growth, enables oblivious synchronization, and charts a path toward full post-quantum privacy. These are the people who ship what everyone else calls impossible.

That's before the wider ecosystem of protocol engineers, researchers, auditors, and contributors who've spent years pushing zero-knowledge cryptography forward.

These names matter for one reason: they keep producing original advances that the rest of the industry later adopts.

Zcash shipped the first production zk-SNARKs.
Zcash researchers helped eliminate trusted setups.

Right now the team is building Ironwood, a near-term upgrade that uses formal verification and independent audits to harden the protocol and let anyone verify the circulating supply for themselves. A perfect shielded pool.

Ironwood also makes Zcash post-quantum recoverable, building on Dev's work: if a quantum computer ever breaks today's cryptography, your funds can still be moved to safety.

Next comes Tachyon, a new architecture for private payments designed to scale while keeping privacy intact. Tachyon takes the harder step to full post-quantum privacy, so shielded transactions stay private even against a future quantum computer.

Backing Zcash is a bet on something larger than encrypted money. It's a bet that some of the best cryptographic talent on Earth keeps doing what it's done for a decade: creating new knowledge.

Historically, betting against the people who create new knowledge has not been a winning strategy.

[blockchainbadge.crypto @BlockchainBadge]

So impressed with Zcash's response to this - the second security-driven protocol upgrade in Zcash history since its launch in 2016!

[Zcash Open Development Lab @zodl_co]

https://t.co/oRMstGLqp5

[BitcoinSapiens ⚡️ @BitcoinSapiens]

Austrian Economist Friedrich Hayek describing Bitcoin before it existed:

"I don't believe we shall have good money until we take it from the government. All we can do is, by a sly, roundabout way, introduce something they can't stop."

[Jim Penman @Thejimpenman]

People retire at 65 because someone arbitrary decided 65 was the number.

Then they get demoralised.

They lose energy.

Their mind slows.

Their health drops.

The dementia comes earlier.

I am 74. I run a research lab, write books, raise a young son, and run a business.

The plan is to die at my desk.

We were not built to be idle.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Cypherpunk ($CYPH) @cypherpunk]

Regular reminder that @zooko wrote the first blog post about Bitcoin, back in 2009.

He is an OG cypherpunk 🫡

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

😂😂

[Ricardo Martinez @ricardoXMR]

Monero is about to be in even more demand

[conspiracybot @conspiracyb0t]

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits to pulling over 1 million COVID videos to silence anti vaxxers

People died because of this evil woman