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cryptographic engineer @TachyonZcash | opinions are my own | ex @JuilliardSchool

[c-node @colludingnode]

“Obsession” (2026), is an allegory for bad prompting and misaligned AI.

If Bear had phrased his One Wish Willow request with proper safety constraints (“while remaining herself, happy, and not a demonic entity”), the whole movie would’ve been a rom-com.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@MiladyBonkle @ameensol @Zodomo @satorinakamoto @hanni_abu @devanshmehta @wor @ethereumfndn @0xprivacypools that's not a technicality

it is very intentionally not a person or a person's property. All crypto software that isn't designed this way is fucked.

[Bonkle K. 🌟💼 @MiladyBonkle]

Who decides who's a criminal?

The answer will just roll back around to "the state" and we're back where we started. I agree we're in a temporary chill period and lucky that Tornado Cash is legal on a technicality. Call me crazy but it being legal or not shouldn't bear upon it's existence. Privacy tech should be maximally privacy-protecting. It has a purpose, it should fulfill that purpose. Because, like you say, Congress can just regulate it out of legality or into gimped infectiveness.

Phil Zimmerman said it best: "if privacy is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy." The American move is to chose outlawry over lack of privacy.

And the slavery stuff at the end is such a nonsequitur it's not worth responding to. Unless you want to do the work of actually explaining the relevance

[Sean Bowe @ebfull]

We all just want 50,000 TPS fully-shielded transactions. Nothing else really matters to any of us.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@mert @bajpaiharsh244 @JonWalch @Helius it would probably be fine as long as it's not run as a business, has no central points of failure, and ideally has undoxxed devs

[c-node @colludingnode]

@NullrootZK @hanni_abu don't decentralize that curation, remove it. it's not necessary

[c-node @colludingnode]

Someday this tech will be used to censor sub 8 males.

You better start looksmaxxing, or better yet, use a privacy protocol.

[Phylax Systems @phylaxsystems]

Today, 1 in 2 Ethereum blocks will be protected.

With Phylax, apps can set circuit breakers that Titan Builder enforces at block construction, excluding transactions that violate app-defined rules before settlement.

It's a simple idea: hacks should not settle.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@wrapsynth it's brand new. Personally i'm awaiting for its formal verification

[c-node @colludingnode]

Blatantly centralized and stoppable privacy apps are welcomed at conferences, core devs cheer for the adoption of custodial stablecoins, and L2s remain stage 1 in the age of AI-assisted formal verification.

You are delusional if you think Ethereum has too many purity tests

[c-node @colludingnode]

@NullrootZK @hanni_abu it doesnt' need centralization to remain usable on-chain

[c-node @colludingnode]

@NullrootZK @hanni_abu still beyond unacceptable

[c-node @colludingnode]

@lzrscg No chance, and yes. Like all verifiable computation applications outside blockchains, it’s just a toy.

[c-node @colludingnode]

if Anthropic develops verifiable inference... then how would they continue to serve customers lobotomized versions of Claude 🤔?

[c-node @colludingnode]

@lfod_dintwoe Hahaha

[c-node @colludingnode]

@satorinakamoto @kaereste @stonecoldpat0 it's not that they should've acted differently, it's that they exist at all.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@cptgrumpus @stonecoldpat0 Obviously not what i meant to astute readers, but anyone who will be baited and outraged by it deserves to be.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@hanni_abu unfortunately that rules out a lot of possibilites in the Ethereum ecosystem

[c-node @colludingnode]

@_Enoch a beacon of light in this dark forest that we don't deserve

[c-node @colludingnode]

@cptgrumpus @stonecoldpat0 poor literacy. I said "if that's what it takes". In reality, that's not what it takes.

but if it hypothetically were, then you should agree.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@cptgrumpus @stonecoldpat0 Stop crying about “terrorists and criminals”, save the calories for fighting rogue government agencies at home

[c-node @colludingnode]

Okay great. Lets stop terrorists by discouraging friends and neighbors from

- holding funds on exchanges
- using scams like Axie Infinity
- using custodial “De”Fi like Drift

and not by building and evangelizing censorship layers, which play directly into the hands of enemies at home who can more directly hurt you

[c-node @colludingnode]

@hanni_abu Don’t use anything that would leak enough data about you for a censorship layer to screen.

Find a way to onramp directly to a shielded pool, or get paid directly in a shielded pool for your work.

[c-node @colludingnode]

@tulipking Agree

[c-node @colludingnode]

@cptgrumpus @stonecoldpat0 it is none of our jobs to placate the misplaced hysteria about foreign cybercrime when we have enemies of free speech at home.