Deborah Simpier

Co-founder @altheanetwork ✨️ |
CEO @hawk_networks 📡 |
Contributor @gravity_bridge 🌉 |
Ham Radio operator KG7NLA 🎙 |

[Jesse Walden @jessewldn]

Many people in crypto have forgotten that decentralized networks are not companies, they are non-sovereign stores of value.

Not all crypto networks optimize for decentralization, which is pragmatic. Those are/should be valued like companies.

[Nym @nym]

This week

🇷🇺Putin banned VPNs again. Still won't work.
🇩🇪Germany wants a state-approved feed. Called it Public Value.
🇬🇧UK asked 80,000 people. Ignored them anyway.
🇮🇷 Iran opened the internet, a little bit

Iran opened the internet a little.
That's the best news this week.
That's where we are.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

@Icebergy One built for utilities, devices, and connected machines - the Althea L1 chain. @AltheaNetwork

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

I love @AltheaNetwork and what it makes possible.
Resilient, Sovereign Networks. Community integrated value. Connected people.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

We have to build a more resilient and open internet, and it has to start at infrastructure.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⌚️ #Iran's internet blackout has just entered its 84th day with international networks largely cut off for over 1992 hours.

Each passing hour widens social and economic divides as any contact with the outside world is gated by status, compliance and privilege.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

It's important for human rights that we build infrastructure that is resilient to this level of control. Access to information and association is critical to what defines freedom.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

😶 Metrics show that #Iran's internet blackout is ongoing into its 79th day in its twelfth week. The mass-censorship measure has reshaped the nature of civic participation with information controls being used to relegate the general public to mere observers in their own country.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

These guys are the real deal of why blockchain matters, why decentralization matters, and the resileince and sovereignty that comes from building solid infrastructure. Much respect

[Citizen Web3 @citizen_web3]

https://t.co/RNdq7rex2D

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

In Arizona and New Mexico over the next few weeks supporting @Hawk_Networks broadband builds, built on the @AltheaNetwork platfrom. Happy to grab ☕️ and talk all things sovereign, resilient networks if you are in the area!

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

Resilient and sovereign infrastructure protects access to information and resources globally.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

🎓 The #Iran internet blackout has entered its 62nd consecutive day after 1464 hours, with the general public broadly cut off from the world.

Beyond human rights and economic impacts, the measure severely hinders schooling and higher education by decimating access to knowledge.

[Citizen Web3 @citizen_web3]

Attention anyone staking @namada @aztecnetwork @cosmos @_atomone @cyber_devs @oraichain @gravity_bridge @AltheaNetwork cashback is here! Tonight we make the first snapshot. Harvest next month! 2% if your old or new and 5% if you redelegate!

[defiprime @defiprime]

@DeborahSimpier @AltheaNetwork settlement as an ISP primitive is underrated. not DeFi exactly, but sovereign infra starts to matter when payments get embedded

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

Doesn't look like much, but this is an Arizona ISP purely built on the @AltheaNetwork with the L1 blockchain settlement - built to be flexible, performant and resilient.
Built to be sovereign.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

@Melt_Dem In telecom, alot of that happens efficiently with OTA for military/gov contracts for financing.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

🗓️ The internet blackout in #Iran is now on its 55th consecutive day as connectivity flatlines at 2% of ordinary levels after 1296 hours.

Restrictions on global network access continue to hinder online commerce, payment systems and digitally dependent sectors of the economy.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

@RoboMcGobo This. I think the rise of build fast with little regard for user, perpetuated by VC culture, drove this consternation to something unseen in most technical communities.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

I think this is actually the salient take away, until the industry itself creates standards bodies and peer review nothing will change.

[RoboMcGobo @RoboMcGobo]

Nearly everyone working in interop knew about Layer Zero's 1/1 and 2/2 DVN configs and warned about them for years

But they got tired of being openly mocked and harassed by Bryan and the L0 army so they just.... stopped talking about it.

Lots of people vindicated this weekend.

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

The internet is more than hardware. Glass to your door or satellites in the sky do not guarantee connectivity and access.
Build sovereign, resilient networks. Build decentralized, build global.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

🗓️ #Iran has now been isolated from the global internet for seven weeks with the digital blackout entering its 50th day after 1176 hours.

Metrics show the measure, unprecedented for a connected society, continues to the detriment of most Iranians' livelihoods and human rights.

[Citizen Web3 @citizen_web3]

From CW3, with 🫶🫶🫶

[Deborah Simpier @DeborahSimpier]

@defiprime @gravity_bridge @CosmostationVD @theNode75 @BlockscapeLab @0baseVC @citizen_web3 @encapHQ I continue to be impressed that 25 of them are genesis validators too - these are the real deal of blockchain operators here. Rock solid group.

[Gravity Bridge @gravity_bridge]

Gravity Bridge is fully decentralized and supported by an amazing group of 37 validators.
Bridging infrastructure for production blockchains, since 2021.