Neeraj K. Agrawal

comms @coincenter—the cryptocurrency policy think tank | [email protected] | food account/retirement pasture: @neerajkafood

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Non-custodial software devs are the foundation of freedom tech. They are building our way off of the internet's careening surveillance path.

Guidance protecting them has been ignored. They deserve certainty in law. Not promises from one admin that could be easily be flipped by the next.

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

📜Opening brief filed in @LewellenMichael's appeal for declaratory judgement that non-custodial software development is not money transmission and not a crime.

🇺🇸Coin Center supports his fight in the courts because promises from the admin are not enough, because Congress has yet to act (PASS CLARITY WITH THE BRCA!), and America is supposed to be a country of laws not men.

⚖️Lewellen is asking the 5th Circuit to tell us what the law of money transmission is. We should not need to rely on promises or the bad faith prosecutions of Tornado and Samourai devs in the SDNY to discover if software development is a crime.

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

Washington DC during Obama’s second term was the Renaissance Florence of fast casual. We had bowl concepts doing generational work, bowl concepts to make an intern weep, now lost to obscurity because they shared a time and place with Michelangelo (Cava) & Raphael (Sweetgreen)

[Joshua Bailey @JoshuaBailey184]

What's terrifying is eventually all pre-mass surveillance cars will break down, run out of replacement parts, & rust away, & our children & grandchildren will accept cars that constantly tracks you or can be remotely deactivated at a moment's notice as perfectly normal

[Jason Somensatto @jasonsomensatto]

Important to understand that this comes from one of the Senators most pivotal to ensuring the open internet could thrive. @RonWyden demonstrates principles matters more than politics by attempting to ensure open blockchain networks can similarly thrive. Truly impressive.

[Cobalt ☥☥ @cobaltdigital33]

anthropic employees doing mech interp work on mythos 8

[Tom Schmidt ＞|＜ @tomhschmidt]

ah now you've done it

[cat @a_musingcat]

a vc told me startups keep raising because talent is expensive so i asked why talent is expensive and he said everyone has to pay $4,000 rent to live near the office so i asked what happens when rents go up again and he said the startups have to raise another round so i said it sounds like he’s feeding his capital to SF landlords and then he started crying

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

Senator Wyden has always been, and remains, one of the great champions of a free and open Internet. His unwavering support for the principle that developers should be free to publish software—even in the highly charged arena of crypto—is principled, deeply American, and correct.

[Alexander Grieve @AlexanderGrieve]

this was only 2 years ago. you literally can't make this stuff up 😂😂😂

[dani @cutestsmallest]

every time I get on a plane they invent a new boarding group so far back that is for only me

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@nic_carter Tragically I lost that in a boating accident

[nic carter @nic_carter]

This guy bought a tungsten cube in 2021. Today amidst a tungsten shortage, he’s now one of the richest men on the planet

[CR1337 @CR1337]

In order to prevent stores from evading taxes, every receipt in Taiwan is automatically a lottery ticket, too, which can win up to $300k, turning customers into voluntary tax auditors:

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

I don’t get why they should be “checking” the origin. They published the piece cause they thought it was good writing. These editors at literary journals think AI writing is good. It’s that simple.

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

Roman's warning is incredibly valuable. SDNY is not just going after a privacy protocol they are putting the first crack in the dam. The breadth of their legal theories would ultimately allow them to target anyone building freedom tech: from a Bitcoin core dev, to a decentralized AI startup, to basic open source library maintainers.

Either we stand together and fight here or the next 20 years are a war that's harder and harder to win, that bends toward corporate and government consolidation of open technologies to the detriment of freedom, autonomy, and diversity.

[rahul @0interestrates]

guy selling post trained oss models: if you don’t own your models you don’t own anything

guy selling harness on top of models: if you rely on one model you are cooked

guy selling tokens: instead of manually prompting your models just put them in a loop where they prompt themselves

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@laurashin @TuongvyLe12 https://t.co/9g2zKq6SzI

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@valkenburgh talked about this in his speech
"Privacy is Existential."

If transactions are visible it's inevitable that coercion will be applied at pressure points.

Funnily, privacy would also prevent the freeze transactions being seen and front run by bad actors https://t.co/CONjjYmkFr

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@0___________0_v im more responding to the treatment of his segment as a nonsense technobabble rant

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

You either understand what he's saying or you don't

[Michael Eisenberg @mikeeisenberg]

Wow! This is a much watch of Alex Karp.

His comments on LLMs and frontier models resonates

As does “there are three tech centers I the world: The USA, china and Israel.

Watch till the end

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@valkenburgh It starts at 20 mins. Whoops

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

The bit about sanctions and ordering power starts at about 40 mins.

It's scary. What if block builders, or validators, or anyone else in the stack, are forced to order freeze transactions ahead of others in a kind of court ordered MEV?

[Laura Shin @laurashin]

Ordering Power Is Sanctioning Power https://t.co/9UfqIUM5oL

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@valkenburgh talked about this in his speech
"Privacy is Existential."

If transactions are visible it's inevitable that coercion will be applied at pressure points.

Funnily, privacy would also prevent the freeze transactions being seen and front run by bad actors https://t.co/CONjjYmkFr

[Devcon 8 | Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 @EFDevcon]

Watch 'Privacy is Existential' by @valkenburgh.

From the Ethereum Day stage at Devconnect ARG.
https://t.co/hY1mO2yXt4