Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️

la revolución pacífica del sistema financiero está armada con zk-SNARK, blockchain, SHA256, & PoW/S 🌌

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

#Zcash @signalapp

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@NullFUD It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

There: I said it! I don't like comparing Zcash to Bitcoin. Zcash is way better than that. 😂 https://t.co/CbdzBXuIon

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@ZakuraZcash @MariusMargulus @zkDragon 👏

[Grayscale @Grayscale]

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[Paul Brigner 🛡️ @paulbrigner]

‼️Zcash mentioned a few moments ago at the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting by @tyler 🛡️

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@cypherpunk Cyberspace is the new frontier. AI roams it like the machines from The Matrix. Where people go, governments follow, and money is what they follow hardest. Zcash just makes digital money as private as cash always was.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@yoshi_v1 ZODL

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@perfilcom @maxifirtman Trituran los libros, sellan los archivos, y consultamos oráculos sin fuente. Lo peor no es lo que perdemos. Lo peor es que nos vamos acostumbrando. Y nada de esto pasó solo. Las empresas de IA decidieron comprar, escanear, triturar. Y un juez en California firmó que era legal.

[Perfil.com @perfilcom]

A velocidad de ciencia ficción, sin cinturón.

✍️ @maxifirtman.

https://t.co/WEkeWz6bCk

[Oswaldo ⓩ 🛡️ @Cesar_Oswi]

@charliedbecker Steven Pinker came as close as anyone has to a unified meaning for human life: "The … ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order."

https://t.co/aqUstbCoJV

[Will McEvoy @will__mcevoy]

https://t.co/XbBhN2PxgZ

[Will McEvoy @will__mcevoy]

https://t.co/XbBhN2PxgZ

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[Paul Brigner 🛡️ @paulbrigner]

https://t.co/ymz10qFNBr

[Project Tachyon @TachyonZcash]

We're excited to announce a machine-checked proof, written in Lean, that Zcash's new Ironwood pool cannot contain undetectable counterfeiting bugs.

https://t.co/rkZV7rZrnJ

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

Historic moment.

The first live, unstoppable money protocol with a machine-checkable proof that there are no gaps between the spec and the crypto that could allow undetectable counterfeiting. Also the first major combo of *crypto proofs* with *software proofs*.

[Zcash 🛡️ @Zcash]

Ironwood. 🥳 $ZEC

[Josh Swihart 🛡 @jswihart]

What is often lost in the noise is that there are people working relentlessly to push Zcash forward.

Private, trusted, hard money.

On the "inside," I get to see it every day. But you can verify it all.

The Orchard soundness vulnerability was disclosed to our engineers at 11:53 PM on Friday, May 29.

It was fixed in 5 days, requiring both a soft fork and a hard fork. That speed was only possible because the process was already there. Disclosure procedures and coordination channels were already in place. We were prepared.

Then we built the new pool, independently audited, with 60 pull requests of machine-checked proofs. We retired zcashd after a decade and rebuilt the stack:

Zallet, the new wallet, went from alpha to beta. 146 PRs
Zebra was hardened. 296 PRs
Zakura was brought to life. 442 PRs
librustzcash and the mobile SDKs updated. 460 PRs
Indexers were rebuilt.
Zodl rebuilt on top. 238 PRs across iOS and Android

And not just code. Comms. Coordination. Miner and exchange outreach.

To date:

51 people wrote code
1,391 pull requests merged
60 days
No weekends

Wartime mode.

14 of those 51 are ZODL engineers. They authored half the merged changes and 82% of the changes in the protocol and wallet repos.

Every consensus node has moved to zebrad or Zakura. The wallets have not. Some run on a bridge Valar built to buy time. There is still work to be done.

Orchard was fixed in 5 days and replaced in 60.

Ironwood activates in less than 36 hours. Track the migration: https://t.co/jLqaAbMmvl

Many people are working not for personal glory or price charts, but because this work is so important.

Freedom isn't free; it must be built.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

Welcome to the world’s newest Zcasher, Jim who works on Bluesky.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇺🇸 HUGE: The U.S. State Department partnered with Palantir, Anduril, and the Bitcoin Policy Institute on digital freedom and AI.