BlocksAdvisorⓩ🦓🛡❤️

The Truth Has No Defense Against a Fool Determined to Believe a Lie (Mark Twain). Global Macro, MIT Blockchain Technologies. 👀 @ #CryptoAssets. #Zcash

[BlocksAdvisorⓩ🦓🛡❤️ @BlocksAdvisors]

The problem with the #Bitcoin Culture is that it already claims to have Solved Everything.
We prefer the #Zcash, @ElectricCoinCo & @zooko Culture which is on a Never Ending Mission to Solve Everything. $ZEC

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

#Bitcoin is scarce understood.

[LØCI @lociwear]

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[UPPFIRST @UPPFIRST]

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[Chris Burniske @cburniske]

I'm wrong all the time, but I do get some big things right from time to time and that's all that matters as a long-term investor, if you get your sizing right 🫡

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

is anyone out there working on peer-to-peer cash without mining/staking/consensus?

[BlocksAdvisorⓩ🦓🛡❤️ @BlocksAdvisors]

@valkenburgh Zcash

[John Authers @johnauthers]

The Fed #FOMC might well just have pivoted - and if not, the bond market has pivoted for it. This is the 10-year real yield since the peak of "higher for longer" in October:

[Taylor Hornby 🛡❤️ @DefuseSec]

As critical as I am of Zcash's broader-term strategy and recent politics, NU5 was a world-class cryptographic engineering effort and it deserves to be recognized as such. Please think hard and bring your best ideas forward for the retrospective!

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

Today I learned that the big new job of the future is likely to be “prompt engineer”, which as far as I can determine is indistinguishable to being a witch that can cast effective spells.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Data is currency. And the price of privacy is often overlooked.

It's time to reevaluate the value we place on our personal information and demand greater transparency and control.

[⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker]

private, scalable, and interoperable ecash is an urgently needed public good

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

The Treasury Dept has recommended a massive expansion of warrantless surveillance and power to sanction open-source software.

They are asking to expand the definition of "financial institution" to include:

- Virtual asset wallet providers
- Blockchain validator nodes
- Decentralized finance services

Many of the entities that could get captured by this are engaged merely in the publication of software and are not in any trusted or agency-like relationship with the users of their software

- Non-custodial wallet providers may simply be publishing wallet software.
- “DeFi service providers” may be merely publishing smart contracts and websites.
- Miners and validators are merely relaying transaction messages and republishing them into blocks.

None of these activities involve a legal or regulated relationship between the publisher of the software or data and the user of that software or data.

[Roberto Rios @peruvian_bull]

Looks like some #BTC miners may be filtering transactions for the Treasury.

NOT GOOD.

https://t.co/7ZW4Bbk2iO

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

@hexidethmal End-to-end encryption and zero-knowledge proofs can do a better job at securing most — but not all — of the things that people are currently trying to use cryptoeconomic incentives to secure.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

@adrianbrink Maybe ZKP can be a more trustworthy building block than any consensus algorithm — PoW, PoS, multisig, etc.

https://t.co/pa6JhX512E

[battbot🛡️ @in4crypto]

So basically everything that @zooko said will happen in this thread is unfolding before our eyes at this very moment.

[BlocksAdvisorⓩ🦓🛡❤️ @BlocksAdvisors]

@TheDesertLynx @iansagstette Layer cakes are expensive & unhealthy.

[battbot🛡️ @in4crypto]

Turns out privacy on blockchains isn’t just a feature but a prerequisite for permissionlessness.

Very interesting.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

@niemerg @BenDiFrancesco @keatingDev @wildmolasses Privacy is not about hiding—it is about consent. You can see my frog if I choose to show you my frog, but not if I don't. Frogs are private.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Privacy is normal and good.

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

“Wednesday represents a unique moment in market history. First time that I am comfortable saying that trading the refunding announcement is going to trump trading the Fed decision. Because all that matters at this moment is supply.” https://t.co/Krfh4TyMwC