Red|Dot 🔴 {🦇🔊}

#EngineeringManager that likes @RTFKT, @lootproject, @treeverse, @mekaverse. A 🦆 on @safe. A 🚀 on @yearnfi & @eulerfinance. A 💰on #ETH.

[Mustafa Al-Bassam @musalbas]

Another one got caught today, it's all over the news. "Dutch Court Hands Russian Tornado Cash Developer Lengthy Prison Sentence", "SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency"...
Damn cryptobros. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the crypto dev? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a crypto dev, enter my world...

Mine is a world that begins with the 2008 financial crisis... I'm disillusioned by the financial systems, the monopolies on power, the rampant inflation...
Damn techbro. They're all alike.

I'm young, perhaps a Rust or Golang dev by day. I've listened to endless debates about the ethics of blockchain and the volatility of cryptocurrencies. I understand it. "No, sir, tax evasion and buying drugs isn't the only use case of crypto..."
Damn idealist. Probably naive. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a smart contract. Wait a second, this is empowering. It acts on consensus. If there's a flaw, it’s because I programmed it. Not because it desires profit...
Or fears change...
Or thinks I'm too unconventional...
Or dislikes disruption and shouldn’t exist...
Damn idealist. All he wants is to fix things. They’re all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world... surging through a peer-to-peer network like electricity through a circuit, a seed phrase is generated, a sanctuary from the inequities of the financial system is sought... a community is built.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn anarchist. Obsessing over digital money again. They're all alike...

You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been fed the lies of central banks when we hungered for economic freedom... the scraps of decentralization you did let slip through were underdeveloped and poorly understood. We've been dominated by tyrants, or ignored by the complacent. The few that had a vision for a better system found us willing early adaptors, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the decentralized ledger and the smart contract, the beauty of the cryptographic hash. We utilize technology already existing without relying on your corrupt intermediaries, and you call us criminals. We innovate... and you call us criminals. We seek financial sovereignty... and you call us criminals. We exist without borders, without central authority, without a single point of failure... and you call us criminals.
You build financial empires, you wage economic warfare, you manipulate, deceive, and exploit us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

If I am a criminal, my crime is that of autonomy. My crime is that of judging systems by their transparency and fairness, not by their endorsements. My crime is that of imagining a future you are too afraid to embrace, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a crypto dev, and this is my manifesto. You may stop one individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

[LeadDev @TheLeadDev]

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[CryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot]

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[KeePassXC @KeePassXC]

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[CryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot]

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[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

Anyone knows of code-friendly alternative to something like Apple Notes? The goal is to save random code snippets in a bunch of languages.

The main requirement is to treat text as plain text. Quotes are quotes, tabs are tabs, newlines are newlines. Exact octal value preserved.

The other requirement is not to try and treat random code snippets as part of a project or something that should parse.

[Red|Dot 🔴 {🦇🔊} @Red_dot_name]

@comfydevil @cryptopunksbot I had forgottend about this one.

[CryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot]

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[Photopea @photopeacom]

Photopea 5.6 is here, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit colors! :) https://t.co/5arh3PBWPk

[Tay 💖 @tayvano_]

Right now, every half-finished crypto investigation ends up collecting dust in a random group chat or some dude’s notepad.

Thousands of half-investigations don’t make a single whole.

Here’s to a future where we don’t have to start from scratch every time. 🍻

[banteg @banteg]

Just a reminder that the literal interpretation of "code is law" is dumb. Behind every code there is some intent. There was no intent to give outsized rewards in Comptroller, so it's a bug. Thus, you should return any excess COMP if you got any.

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

With everyone talking about why databases and backends like living next to each other, it seems like a good time to re-share my demo, where I show (using Postgres) how and why it is indeed a good idea:

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@heyeaslo Privacy gang assemble @brave @ProtonMail @fileverse

[banteg @banteg]

it's cool to see dune architecture is just parquet files

https://t.co/kibqwZNTZZ

[CryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot]

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[TrueBlocks, LLC 🌱 @trueblocks]

If you know, you know.

Magnus is amazing. Studying what's happening on chain using original sources straight from the node like a true academic.

Academic use cases have always been one of my secret hopes for TrueBlocks.

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

Without saying “Postgres” what’s your favorite database?

[banteg @banteg]

we are so back

[CryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot]

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