Spono

Smart contract dev, DeFi user, mostly in the $ETH ecosystem.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@trent_vanepps @hanni_abu Nobody wants this bullshit. You’re just trying to muddy the waters because you want to impose what you want, and you don’t give a shit about consensus. You’re trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@DCinvestor @dapplion Also, seeing that the devs are actually pursuing this stakers-hostile stuff is very unpleasant for people who have put in the effort and spent time maintaining the network and didn't get rewarded a lot.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@DCinvestor @dapplion This adds a mechanism that would make them unprofitable by raising a theoretical issue that is unlikely to materialize. The incentive is basically to say, “fuck it all,” and just use liquid staking: far less effort for a similar return, with fewer tax complications.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@thomasoncrypto It's still better than the actual one

[Spono @spono_eth]

@Blank_JustBlank How can I downvote this?

[Spono @spono_eth]

@linuxuser1996 I reviewed them negatively when they stopped supporting GrapheneOS while claiming it was about security. Google immediately removed the review for policy violation, this is the first time it happened in my life.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@jjshredit @DonAlt @inversebrah Good at masking it? Are we talking about the same person?

[Spono @spono_eth]

The censors, ops, "trusted flaggers" doing their job.

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU.

This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU.

@puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.

Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.

This makes it troublesome.

Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.

Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.

You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify.

Spotify link https://t.co/lw249mESyf

Dysfunctional YouTube link https://t.co/1kYDSECM5l

[SaturaDev @saturadev]

@claudeai

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇪🇺 The European Parliament lets #ChatControl 1.0 go through despite a majority voting against it (314:276) – allowing mass scanning of private chats until 2028. Survivors are warning. My analysis and why this is the wrong approach 👇

https://t.co/kcvgTfW8HY

#DemocracyFail

[Spono @spono_eth]

@MarinaMarkezic I know you guys have been working hard to try to limit the craziness and hostility toward blockchains and freedom in general coming from the EU. Unfortunately, this feels like fighting a losing battle. They do not care and will do whatever they want.

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

The compliance-industrial complex of the EU described in one sentence (translated from French, warning AI-generated translation)

"The sequence already includes: the transposition of the DSA into French law (law of 21 May 2024 known as SREN), the Miller bill on the verification of the age of minors, the deployment of the EUDI Wallet of European digital identity, the ongoing revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (announced for the second half of 2026), the Democracy Shield project announced by the Commission, the negotiations on Chat Control in the Council of the Union, and the ongoing revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (announced for the second half of 2026), the Democracy Shield project announced by the Commission, the negotiations on Chat Control in the Council of the Union Each of these pieces is aimed at a circumscribed object.

But their stack, observed from the citizen, draws a coherent architecture: the continuous identification of the author, the continuous identification of the reader, the administrative arrow of what can be said and what can be seen, and the transfer of the sanction of the judge to the administrative authority."

https://t.co/XDqSAGW6rL

From @j_bg

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

We are now in a position where a tiny proportion of the population uses Fable or soon GPT-5.6, while everyone else's experience of AI is 8-30b-model level - Google's AI Overviews, Meta AI, ChatGPT free tier, maybe MS Copilot at best. People outside of tech must be completely baffled how this is supposed to take their job, and annoyed that hundreds of billions are being poured into it.

[Spono @spono_eth]

Chat Control is back

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

In a step that diplomats deem “without precedent,” the top EU politician has asked member countries in the Council to approve a bill that her own Parliament shot down in a plenary vote in March.
https://t.co/9al2Y1tD4P

[Spono @spono_eth]

@clesaege It's been dropping more than BTC for the last 5 years.

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

European Commission seeks to regulate DeFi; developers, i.e. kill all crypto development.

If you do not want this to happen, contact https://t.co/bCEVs35ZbP @EuEthInstitute how to help.

From Cahill.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@clesaege @JoestarCrypto You can do that indirectly, and you have pensioners constantly voting for groups of power that benefit them at the expense of everyone else. You are trying to recreate a similar system where a group of power will be able to redirect the tax money paid by others who cannot opt out

[Spono @spono_eth]

@devanshmehta @JoestarCrypto This is a misrepresentation, we all read the proposal and this is a tax.

No, validators cannot opt out if the majority decided they have to pay, just as in any political system taxes can theoretically be lowered but people cannot individually decide to opt out.

[Spono @spono_eth]

@devanshmehta @banteg My point was that most people are already delegating to exchanges or intermediaries like Lido, and people in general don't vote. Most of the voting power is captured and if not by delegation it will remain controlled by influencers and such. You cannot get neutrality with this.