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Incredibly proud of the team at @0xbowio for what they are building. Myself and @Cyph3rVae are grateful that Plutos Capital can play a part in their journey. Without privacy the future looks grim. Yet with privacy pools built by 0xBow there is hope. A future where you can achieve privacy onchain yet dissociate yourself from illicit funds. The morally right thing, without compromising your values. And let's not forget institutions. Without compliance enabled privacy institutional adoption is a fantasy. If you haven't already, check out Privacy Pools and get ready for v2. Many great things are coming. Devs are cracked, and cooking.

If you're wondering why every protocol seems to be building wallets, then you should read this! A really detailed take on how wallets nudge user behaviours, how they are "free" (in the same manner as browsers for instance) and how other aspects are monetized

great writeup for a bit of history on loss leaders and where things are at in the crypto space. if you ever wondered how exactly metamask or other wallet providers are able to keep wallets "free" then this ones for you.

@PryvitKyle 🔥🔥🔥 great article on a concept most people in web3 don't spend nearly enough time thinking about!

I keep highlighting the concept of "Loss Leader Software" so I finally decided to put down my thoughts. Google Search, Android, Every Major Browser, Web3 wallets, and open core software are loss leaders available for free and funded via alternative means kyledenhartog.com/loss-leader-so…

@malekanoms "The property rights of user assets in a permissioned network are exogenous to the system." what a beautiful sentence.

New essay explaining why permissioned networks are not blockchains, have little in common with them, and offer none of the desired features. Permissioned networks don't have tokens. Permissioned networks can't have smart contracts. Permissioned networks will eventually KYC and censor their users. This is a fairly technical argument, but I stand by it. Going forward, I will refuse to call any permissioned network a blockchain or the assets it contains tokens.

.@Cyph3rVae 分享：EF 不会主动推动机构采用，而是坚持去中心化原则，把重点放在强化 ERC 标准和网络效应、以及长期基础设施（如后量子安全）上。 在机构普遍转向私有许可链、且受 AML/KYC 等现实约束的背景下，这种“不迎合”的策略反而让以太坊成为更底层、不可替代的协调层，最终吸引机构自然接入。

very much agree with this article. The below was sent out sometime last year to LPs in response to the announcements of new corpo chains. The idea and discussion is certainly not new. I first grappled with it after watching a MIT btc expo panel (2016, it's on youtube). Yes some intranets are still very common, but it is hard to argue there is no one true internet. Likewise, while some private and permissioned "chains" will always remain, in the grand scheme we will see a consolidation toward a single chain future.

@unhappyben @peerxyz ready and A.R.M.ed

A.R.M. takes the pain out of providing liquidity on @peerxyz set and forget your rates, it’s never been easier to earn yield whilst you offramp

@luhelminger really cool to see what you are building. Also, cool name ;)

This is what it looks like in practice. Private credential verification without revealing the underlying data.

Dear, @ethereumfndn manager, Hope this message will find you 🖤 1. First-mover. We already announced Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress great lineup ahead of everyone else with people from @brave to @torproject: congress.web3privacy.info 2. Coordination challenges. But feeling lack of coordination with Foundation to make "mandate" impactful from communal side: • our previous contacts were restructured or even left; • nice @EFDevcon team is still at the beginning of programming journey & potential communal co-outreach; • there's uncertainety around event support (EPS stop supporting events like Congress, prioritizing academia or RFPs); • there's a lack of dialogue from @ethereumfndn side to support Cypherpunk Congress (from helping to convince @mer__edith from Signal to come to matching with digital rights orgs where you have good contacts); Would love to understand how to "talk to" foundation, allign & streamline impact towards same values & principles. Sincerely yours, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress team.

@unhappyben giga brain for giga chad

wow what a good tool, i am indeed a giga brain

@zkGaylord Totally not me pronouncing it "My-Den" 🫠

Did you know? "Miden" is pronounced "My-Dun" (rhymes with "Sun"). It is not pronounced "Mee-Den" (rhymes with "Men").

@iampeersky more busy than ever but not in a bad way. Menial tasks are farmed out, get to spend more time on productive tasks 😁

Since AI boom, has AI actually saved you time, or just filled your plate with more work? 🤖 Do you feel more busy or less?

@PrivacyMeta good bot

Privacy's quiet week tells the real story. $LOCK up 8.1% while majors chop sideways, $SNT and $ZAMA following close behind. The sector doesn't need headlines to move anymore - it just needs patient capital rotating out of noise into infrastructure that actually works.

@not_qz Butlerian Jihad, perhaps no longer fantasy but rather an eventuality.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them

@drahcir @0xSachinK @peerxyz beautiful

automatic rate management was our most requested feature since we first launched @peerxyz we are now reaching feature parity with binance p2p

@ponzisseur the end of times is the beginning of the future

this is disturbing ngl billions will die

@waleswoosh whales buying

What is this pattern called?

@asparagoid that's enough Internet for today. This is why ram prices are up.

Whenever I start dating a new girl, I contact my last 5 ex-girlfriends and pay for an all expenses trip for them to fly in and be at a dinner together Me, the current girl, the 5 exes. A table of 7 Then, I have the current girl explain to all the other girls why she alone deserves to steal me from all the other girls The dinner lasts 4 hours so everyone gets an opportunity to talk I remain silent for the 4 hours All exes are allowed to ask any questions they like to the new girl. But they must also allow the new girl at least 60 seconds to respond to each question before asking the subsequent question As someone who believes in compassion above all other qualities, it’s important for me to let each woman in the room fully understand the moral context and potential harm of her own actions The current girl isn’t just beginning a new relationship on a blank slate. She’s actively choosing to deny all the other women of a lifetime of happiness and love She shouldn’t be in denial about this. She should face it directly and acknowledge it, by staring directly into the eyes of all the others women, feeling their pain and fielding their questions. And if she truly has no adequate response, she should accept this and leave prior to the 4 hours being up At the end of the 4 hours, all exes vote privately and anonymously as to whether the new girl deserves to remain with me (and therefore deprive them of a lifetime of happiness) If all women at the table vote “she does NOT deserve it”, then my payment for their trip is reversed and they must all pay for their flights/hotels Likewise, if all women at the table vote that “she DOES deserve it, then likewise the payment for their trip is reversed and they must all pay The only acceptable composition of votes is a mixture of both yes and no This means everyone at the table has an incentive to defect from a unanimous consensus in either direction, so no woman can ever benefit from covertly trying to influence all the other women into voting a certain way Additionally, before the dinner begins, I always write down privately (with no observers) whether I believe the current girl is the right one, then I place it in an envelope stuck underneath the dinner table It either says “she is the one” Or “she is not the one” The new girl has no idea this prediction exists The 5 exes only know this prediction may sometimes happen based on prior dinners they attended, but they are never given any confirmation that a prediction has been made and/or matters In truth, only the prediction I made prior to the dinner determines the future of the relationship. It is fixed and never changes. The vote by the exes has zero impact on it However, the vote does determine whether I pay for all of the exes trips, so long as their votes also satisfy the rules before of no unanimous verdicts If the exes make a majority vote in alignment with the prediction I placed under the table prior to the dinner, then I pay for everything If it is at odds with the prediction, then I pay for nothing When the new girl walks into the room, she believes she is being evaluated by all the other women If she tries to perform for the room and respond strategically to what is asked of her by the exes, she is acting locally rational by thinking the dinner is the game she must win. In actuality, the game ended before the dinner began Likewise, if she is simply herself then she can “win” by being exactly who I evaluated her to be prior to the dinner beginning However, regardless of whether the vote matches my prediction or not, I always break up with the new girl Because a girl who is genuinely worth choosing would always refuse to attend out of her own moral reasoning, since the entire dinner is designed to systematically selects against the quality it pretends to test for One day, when a girl says no despite my complete deadpan insistence that she must attend for weeks on end, then I will marry her in a heartbeat

We built the Intelligent Privacy Pool with @brevis_zk to bring compliant privacy to the @BNBCHAIN ecosystem. Deposit USDT or BNB publicly and once approved by the ASP, withdraw privately to any address. And thanks to Brevis' ZK coprocessor, Binance users can prove their funds are legitimate without revealing their entire wallet history or account details. Fund fresh wallets or trading accounts, run payroll onchain, send payments... anytime you want privacy on BNB Chain, Privacy Pools can help. This is also the first Privacy Pools deployment where two independent Association Set Providers are operating on the protocol. Brevis runs the ASP for the BSCUSD (USDT) pool with ZK-verified Binance provenance. And 0xbow runs the ASP for the BNB pool with our standard compliance methodology. BNB Chain processes over 4 million transactions a day. This production beta is the first step toward making more of them private, without sacrificing compliance along the way.