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Blockchain and Protocol Research @SqrrCrypto

[Tharanga 🌐 @Thara_SL]

https://t.co/cnrelW5p4j

[SQRR.xyz @SqrrCrypto]

1/3 Our Stamps Protocol Update [December Release] is available on our website now. We hope you enjoy the previous month's performance in chart visualizations.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Google Chrome to kill uBlock Origin for good 🚨🚨

Time to switch to #private #browser #alternatives

Which one do you use? 👇

- Mozilla Firefox
- Brave Browser
- DuckDuckGo Browser
- Mullvad Browser
- Zen Firefox
- Waterfox
- Pale Moon

Recommendation by the Tuta Team: https://t.co/pDehHWgye5

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Looks like the options thing is happening already!

See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: https://t.co/gFNEvCbHct

Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or https://t.co/OMFlWRqJda folks ( @Fricoben) can help!

(Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles)
https://t.co/j1dxLV4Pn4

[Bitcoin Optech @bitcoinoptech]

Welcome to our live show! https://t.co/m7sLdO5G7Q

[Laz @LazPieper]

Coin Center has filed a response to FinCEN and OFAC concerning AML/CFT programs and sanctions compliance for stablecoin issuers. We urge the agencies to do the following:

1. Recognize that overcollection of sensitive customer information can increase cybercrime, fraud, and downstream money laundering risks, undermining AML/CFT efforts and Americans’ privacy and security.
2. Permit issuers to use privacy-preserving digital identity tools where they produce auditable compliance outputs while minimizing data collection from direct customer onboarding.
3. Preserve the boundary between primary-market activity and secondary-market P2P transfers such that AML/CFT obligations do not go so far as to require public blockchain surveillance or the construction of identity-linked transaction dossiers, nor require issuers to independently adjudicate and freeze assets based on probabilistic analysis.
4. Use the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to guide the final rule in avoiding warrantless surveillance and the deprivation of Americans’ property without due process.

https://t.co/vebfRJsnGJ

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

The GENIUS AML rulemaking sits at a dangerous crossroads.

Stablecoins can become a freer, faster, more open form of digital money, or they can become the backbone of an identity-linked financial surveillance system more comprehensive than anything possible in traditional banking. https://t.co/ZPsC0Uj46O

[Monero (XMR) @monero]

The Monero Research Lab has started AI assisted audits of the Monero codebase, with several audits successfully completed!

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

An unfortunate example of why I've long said not to expect Bitcoin to implement strong cryptographic privacy at the base layer.

Doing so greatly increases risk of undetectable monetary supply inflation. Few folks value privacy more than supply integrity.

https://t.co/fv3LioJXW9

[Kevin Duffy | The Coffee Can Portfolio @kevinduffy1929]

Yes, nation-states act in their own self-interest, but it is the ruling class within those nation-states that benefit, at the expense of the people. In fact, since trade is win-win and China is becoming increasingly productive and innovative, interfering with China trade, e.g. U.S. banning imports of BYD EVs or Li Ning athletic footwear, harms American consumers.

At some point, the people in the West will realize their government is the problem, not the Chinese. That's when the old imperial, mercantilist order comes crashing down.

[Bitcoin Optech @bitcoinoptech]

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #408 is here:

- summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure
- describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets
- links to a CTV-only vault proof of concept
- outlines points from a post-quantum Lightning thread
- summarizes a quantum attack game theory post
- points to discussion of 64-byte transactions and potential uses
- Optech Newsletter #408 Podcast

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

https://t.co/v7BiOdzU9E

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

People don't want AI forced on them. DuckDuckGo lets you choose.

The result? Since Google's AI overhaul, our U.S. installs peaked yesterday at 76% above the pre-announcement average, and we broke our single-day search record. 🔥

It's not a blip, it's a movement. Fire Google.

[Monero (XMR) @monero]

Jamtis-PQ is a proposed upgrade to Monero's addressing protocol for post-quantum encryption!

'Jamtis-PQ allows for post-quantum forward secret transactions that can't be decrypted even if the address is publicly known and the elliptic curve discrete logarithm (ECDLP) is broken.'

[L2BEAT 💗 @l2beat]

After the @KelpDAO hack, many projects decided to migrate their cross-chain infrastructure from @LayerZero_Core to @chainlink's CCIP, hoping to improve security for their users.

We decided to study if this is indeed a significant upgrade 👇

[Marhelm @MarhelmData]

The crisis is certain

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising!

Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images.

[Bitcoin Optech @bitcoinoptech]

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #407 is here:

- announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes
- links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting
- Optech Newsletter #407 Podcast
https://t.co/3ogDsjf0Yp

[Bisq @bisq_network]

Bisq v2.1.11 released.

Main focus of this release:
• Major security and hardening improvements
• Stronger release verification and update protection
• Better Tor reliability and macOS Apple Silicon support

Please update as soon as possible!

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

People aren’t just complaining about Google's AI search overhaul, they’re leaving.

Yesterday alone, our week over week installs surged 30% in the U.S. 🚀

Momentum is growing. It’s time to Fire Google.