FC26 wrapped!
Financial Cryptography 2026 in St Kitts brought exceptional talks, valuable connections, a rainforest hike, and lasting memories.
Thanks to @IFCA_Conference
Key moments:
- @AstaLi_ of @privy_io gave a keynote on building user-loved products and the wallet trilemma.
- @msvadari, representing @Ripple, shared standout insights during the conference.
- @el33th4xor, representing @avax, received the Test of Time award for selfish mining in @Bitcoin
- @amitchax and the team presented two research papers from @palliora, covering cryptoeconomic stability and Palliora’s novel concept of computable contracts.
Great connecting with builders and teams across the ecosystem; exciting partnerships ahead.
Thanks to all participants.
More from the conference: https://t.co/oNLWVID0iW
I may have found a way to get an uncensored PDF invitation to an “exclusive event” out of the Epstein files… but I need help and fresh suggestions! Link below.
I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content).
The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies"
I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request.
It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.
Since my previous bad luck in finding a job in a startup/company, I'm happy to announce that I'll be working as a cryptography-research freelancer! 🧑💻
After over a year in the making, the video is complete. Mojang has been caught breaking several European consumer protection laws & contract law that has resulted in thousands to suffer damages.
https://t.co/1Ax43KIqjR
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PS: I published some of the technical assessment too!
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🚨New @PrivacyScaling Learn & Share session!🚨
Today at 2pm CET, @Roberto_par_01 will be giving a tal on "Constant-Size zk-SNARKs in ROM from Falsifiable Assumptions by Roberto Parisella" (https://t.co/fClYAWDRjg) 🤯🤯
Join in the link below 👇👇
https://t.co/jaKUYAPPcT
A great start to 2023 for our researchers: @Charlie_Trip, @Heum and @cryptostam will have their paper "Multi-Instance Secure Public-Key Encryption" presented at #PKC2023 in May in Atlanta...