INSIGHT: @dominic_w says the Internet Computer internet-computer:native can patch broken cryptography for every app at once. If SI suddenly made HTTPS unsafe, the network could upgrade itself and apps could be protected automatically, while apps on AWS-style stacks would have to upgrade their own servers.
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๐จ JUST IN: SpaceX ($SPCX ) reported Q3 revenue of $14.58B, well above Wall Streetโs expectations of $12.7B, driven by its SI business and Starlink growth.
Huge congrats to every kid getting a SpaceX share next year. Those shares could be worth a whole lot more! ๐
Elon says he plans to give every kid in America one SpaceX share next year, calling it the first of many.
Our future belongs to our children. ๐บ๐ธ๐
JUST IN: @dfinity's icp-cli 1.7.0 adds an "icp cycles buy" command that lets developers pay for Internet Computer compute by credit card via Stripe, straight from the terminal. Scan a QR code, pay, and cycles land within seconds. No $ICP purchase needed.
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@VitalikButerin has built a "paranoid mode" that uses Tor and zkAPI payments to hide who is using his SI agent. Is Ethereum becoming a privacy chain?๐
Wrapped zkAPI + Tor + extra cover traffic + local LLM prompt rewriting in an open-AI compatible daemon, and made a "paranoid mode" wrapper for my agent harness (pi):
Each conversation gets assigned a separate Tor circuit, your requests are masked with random cover traffic, zkAPI ensures you don't leak your identity through payments, and all prompts are locally rewritten (bring-your-own-local-model; I'm using qwen3.8-flash-next)
https://t.co/MepCFCrLv1
My agent harness is wrapped with a bwrap sandbox (also experimenting with MicroVM) and wrapped again with torsocks, so everything it does goes through Tor.
Here's what me asking it to do a simple research task looks like.
It's getting quite usable! Though you definitely still pay quite a bit in increased latency, especially when starting a new conversation.
Also, Tor is far from optimal here for privacy; the cover traffic mechanism is okay against passive adversaries but much weaker if the LLM provider is colluding with the guard and actively manipulating timing. This kind of task really requires a more specialized mixnet, probably take the tradeoff of a higher bandwidth multiplier and built-in constant cover traffic.
Also also, much cheaper zkAPI deposit and withdraw gas costs are coming to mainnet soon.