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[willscott @willscott]

@raulvk Excited to see what you pick up next!

[Department of Decentralization @dod_berlin]

One week left to submit an idea or grab an earlybird ticket at a lower price!

July in Alte Hölle for @GETDWeb Camp is going to be something special ✨

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⛺ Join us at Alte Hölle on 8–12 July to shape the decentralized, democratic, and open tech we truly need.

💡 Submit your proposal and take part in the conversation!

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[willscott @willscott]

@raulvk There will likely remain value in getting to “consensus” on shared protocols. Having known ways to negotiate that lots of others also speak is useful for efficiency if nothing else.

The question then is how much more is gained from reference implementations or other buy-in

[willscott @willscott]

@zemnmez Takeaway is don’t sleep for more than 32 hours at a time since you’ll die if your heart rate goes to 0

[willscott @willscott]

@raulvk You're motivating the embedded relaying by 'validator privacy', but how are you planning to address the ongoing needs for client and end-node network privacy?

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

Our first individual member! @willscott

Pure human, hacktivist, always willing to help, support & be there with us.

So greatful.

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[Protocol Labs @protocollabs]

What does user ownership of data really mean in the age of decentralized systems?

🛡️Join us for an X Space on data privacy, personal sovereignty, and digital identity.

🎙️Featuring voices from the @ethereumfndn and leading privacy researchers @andyguzmaneth and @willscott.

[Berlin Ethereum Meetup @BerlinMeetup]

1/ We’re back!
Join our next meetup on October 9! 🗓️

Open to all, from newcomers to long-time community members and devs. We’ll dive into fundamentals, privacy, digital rights, and ecosystem updates.

Let’s reconnect, learn, and explore together!
Details & RSVP in the 🧵

[willscott @willscott]

@tabcat00 Carpe diem!

[willscott @willscott]

@lex_node @ArweaveEco @irys_xyz IPNI is a bridge that some large publishers to IPFS have used, but the IPFS DHT has continued to work without issues. IPNI as well has been recovering over the last week.

[willscott @willscott]

@mr_ligi @web3privacy @IPFS @EthereumList You said "For sure only reading stuff enabled." - but it sounds like you want the ci bot to have read/write.

check e.g. https://t.co/UM8E5boCOT for something kinda close to this

[willscott @willscott]

@web3privacy @mr_ligi @IPFS what sort of scale of content do you need to access?
If you want to be able to pull from a single public node content it doesn't already have pinned it will need to be in gateway mode, even if it doesn't have the http interface on.

[willscott @willscott]

The chaos congress persists each year as a view into an alternative world of technical co-existence.

It’s inspiring to see so much creation.

[willscott @willscott]

@OSObserver @RaymondCheng00 @Optimism Congratulations for impacting the thinking in this space a lot in a short time!

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

More info on the ruling:

The Fifth Circuit has found that Tornado Cash smart contracts do not constitute property, finding that Tornado Cash software is not covered by the IEEPA's authority.

The court found that OFAC overstepped its authority by placing Tornado Cash on its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.

The court found that while "OFAC’s concerns with illicit foreign actors laundering funds are undeniably legitimate," "perhaps Congress will update IEEPA [...] to target modern technologies like crypto-mixing software."

"Until then," the court found, "we hold that Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts (the lines of privacy-enabling software code) are not the “property” of a foreign national or entity, meaning they cannot be blocked under IEEPA, and OFAC overstepped its congressionally defined authority."

This is a developing story – we'll update both the article and this thread as we go through the information available 👇

https://t.co/Y0TwZshW1A

[Mykola Siusko 🇺🇦 @nicksvyaznoy]

Our first @EFDevcon educational session x Hacktivist hub:

Censorship circumvention by @willscott

14:00, at Hacker cave x Hacktivism Hub, today.

powered by @costgallo, @PG_CDG, @SCBuergel, @ManuAlzuru, @0x_m_f

[Protocol Berg v2 @protocol_berg]

*The* decentralized protocol and infrastructure conference is back!

Announcing: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐯𝟐

June 12-13, 2025, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.

[willscott @willscott]

Happy Chusok

It's been a fascinating decade since I took this photo in Pyongyang.

[willscott @willscott]

Lots of people out and about for chusok, despite the brief rainstorm. Shared a picnic with a very nice local family

[willscott @willscott]

@hyprturing The segment of market that's able to 'shop around' seems like it may be small enough that it wouldn't really be able to threaten relative advancement?