Hot take (but shouldn't be, duh)
There are a total of zero alt smart contract chains with adoption that allow you to read the balance of your wallet.
Best your wallet does is ask your datacentermaxx caregiver sir how many spendable good boy tokens do I have?
@VitalikButerin Anyone knows how vitalik et al conciliate CROPS with dropping the ability to read your own wallet balance with gas limit increases?
Can't run the node = not CROPS.
The gov't theory in my case isn't about me. It's a template.
Under US v. Storm, "money transmitting" no longer requires custody or control of funds. Publishing code that others use is enough.
Who's in danger:
→ Every maintainer of open-source privacy, messaging, or crypto tools that any bad actor ever touches
→ Every operator of a financial service — DeFi or not — who learns some % of users are illicit and keeps operating. Knowledge alone becomes the crime
→ Every dev of immutable, self-custodial software, held to a duty to "stop" what is technically unstoppable
It's already working as designed. Michael Lewellen finished lawful crowdfunding software and can't publish it. He asked DOJ if he'd be prosecuted. Their answer, in federal court: we "cannot disclaim an intent to prosecute."
Finished code, sitting on a shelf. You don't need to be charged to be silenced.
And SDNY isn't done with me. Prosecutors want to retry me regardless — regardless of the hung counts, regardless of Van Loon, regardless of FinCEN's own guidance.
I've been fighting this for 3+ years. Legal defense at this level costs millions, and I can't do it alone.
If you write code, use privacy tools, or believe publishing software isn't a crime — this is your fight too.
Donate: https://t.co/lx9E4ILDrn
Every retweet helps. Every dollar goes to the defense.
I don't know what anthropic is doing but Opus seems to have gotten a lot dumber .
Maybe they are changing the model to use dumber subagents more extensively, maybe they are just straight up nerfing it.
Sucks.
@zengjiajun_eth A neutral L1 doesn't stop being neutral if the borg decides to become a client.
So long as we defend it, we can always also build a scalable L2 on top of the decentralized L1.
Its a great win if the borg decides to rent Ethereum even while we keep it neutral.
So long as there is one non datacenter L1 with economic security, there is hope.
https://t.co/9T0OcXaLbx
Para as constituições dos Estados Rede do próximo século, podemos usar LLMs para não deixar backdoors como o que afetou a america.
Também não precisamos de pessoas com emoções ou entes queridos no congresso ou legislativo.
É responsabilidade do indivíduo (e não de um terceiro), querer se tornar mais apto a viver em uma civilização (se tornar mais civilizado).
A responsabilidade do estado com detentos na questão da ressocialização é apenas de auditor e não de promotor.
https://t.co/nyyUpEs9rC
As prioridades de um sistema carcerário devem ser, nessa ordem:
1⃣ Manter o criminoso afastado da sociedade, para que ele não possa fazer novas vítimas.
2⃣ Colocar medo em outros possíveis criminosos, para que eles pensem duas vezes antes de cometer crimes.
3⃣ Trazer um sentimento de justiça à vitima do crime, de saber que o criminoso está sendo CASTIGADO.
4⃣ Talvez, quem sabe, se estiver sobrando tempo e dinheiro, APENAS depois que todos os outros estiverem plenamente cumpridos e a sociedade estiver pacífica e segura: pensar no bem-estar e avaliar criteriosamente a possibilidade de ressocialização do criminoso.
A """justiça""" brasileira faz questão de pensar apenas no 4.
Is it though? Hyperliquid is closed source.
What is the difference between having a third party run the opaque CEX in datacenters they rent vs you renting the datacenters and running their opaque CEX?
Either way you can't know if e.g fraud happening.
Swapping REST http for an evm wallet-compatible JSON RPC doesn't change this.
It is open in the sense that it is an open collaboration among dollar based slave traders.
Slave curiosity is not something.
That said it won't go too far as slave traders also compete among themselves for the unit of account used.
https://t.co/9pNFJynHQ8
Its quite hilarious to me that "open standard":
- doesn't have docs describing itself
- doesn't have code publicly accessible for it listed on the website
- asks you to fill out a form to learn more
Libra 2.0
@PGSideris@BrantlyMillegan DNS replacement + handling of other difficult to use content besides IP like
btc,xmr,eth et al addresses,
multihash content addressing
etc
It is critical infrastructure for neutral applications.
Demand will remain and rise. Something will supply it.
1/ Ethereum's state grows far faster than it churns. Most of it goes dormant and never gets used again, while real activity sits on a tiny set of active applications.
Here's a deep dive into what 10 years of mainnet access data shows about how Ethereum's state is actually used. 🧵👇
An unfortunate warning to all cypherpunks.
The path of the light is not enough. Some very close to me know what to build and are great at building but we consistently fail everything else.
I believe this is has been the case of eth in general.
It is not where we dream but its the best by a mile and we fail to communicate even basic values propositions like being able to run @EthereumOnARM or why this is relevant or important at all.
People actually consider slow expensive web2 to be competitors to a credibility scalable neutral web3 and this extends even to leadership inside. Leaders actively dedicating resources into killing basic critical functionality in hopes of turning it into an inferior product that scammers claim is superior.
We have to be better at sales and to our advantage it is easier to sell a good product.
Loopring you guys are proven beasts.
Thanks for who you are and we hope you don’t stop building.
@rostyketh@MKjrstad Someone needs to explain to me why non retail still considers hyperliquid to be a competitor to lighter.
Not only can you not run the node because its a datacenter chain, its not even open source.
Might as well put an evm-like json rpc in front of some SQL db and sell it.
@colludingnode@toghrulmaharram Except why use inefficient blockchains instead of traditional systems besides money extracting?
Feels like we are repeating “why consortium chains suck” classes again.
ENS is a reminder that even beloved projects led by people we trust are in danger.
At a flip of a hat you get all funds going to some opaque f*ckn bank account + blocked replies.