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@zooko
Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.
Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth Beigetreten Mart 2008
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Gambling, like alcohol, should be legal for competent adults. But as a matter of prudence, some people should not gamble (just as some should not drink.)
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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CipherPay isn't a proof of concept, it's live.
You can already buy @ipecity tickets with Zcash and get a 30% discount.
Private payments at global scale are happening now.
Congrats @ipecity on the integration.
Network states pushing privacy are the perfect fit.
@ns and @balajis, when can we pay with ZEC to come to Network School?
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@CPerezz19 @StatelessEth And sha2 will be the same as blake3 or slightly worse
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@StatelessEth has the next strawman goal in the scope already: Binary Trees for Ethereum.
Our duty is to prove they are performant too, not just a nice tool to enable ZKEVMs and smaller proofs.
Thus, here's the 1st part of our work: ethresear.ch/t/the-path-tow…
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@CPerezz19 @levs57 @StatelessEth Here’s another story you might be interested in: x.com/zooko/status/1…
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@jimouris Sure! Pull up a chair for more Story Time With Grandpa! BLAKE was designed by some excellent cryptographers (Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Luca Henzen, Willi Meier, and Raphael Phan), for the SHA3 competition, at a time when hash function design was in somewhat of a crisis. ⤵️
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crypto is by far the best tool we have to insulate freedom from the contingencies of politics
it offers a foundation on top of which hayekian philosophy actually makes sense
sacha@sacha
“We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust . . . only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.” Keynes on the limitations of the philosophy held by himself and his friends prior to WWI
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Good overview of tactics being used to compromise Signal accounts.
Government/military officials, or anyone working at the intersection of Russian security issues (private sector, journalists, civil society orgs writ large) should urgently review.
ic3.gov/PSA/2026/PSA26…
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🚨 تم فتح برنامج المنح المُوجهة من قبل حاملي العملة (Coinholder-Directed Grants) – جولة الربع الأول!
حان وقت التصويت باستخدام عملاتك $ZEC المحمية ضمن حوض Orchard 🗳️
⤵️ اضغط على الرابط أدناه للاطلاع على الشروحات والمزيد من المعلومات:
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/polling-open…
dismad@dismad8
Coinholder-Directed Grants Program (Q1 Round) has opened! Time to vote with your orchard shielded $ZEC ⤵️ Click for tutorials and more info below: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/polling-open…
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📡 Zcash Arborist Call — March 19
Stack-wide progress across clients, infra, and research:
🦓 Zebra 4.2.0 live
🧪 Integration testing now live across Zebra, Zallet & Zaino
⚡ Zaino nearing release readiness + major performance gains
🔄 LightwalletD deprecation path taking shape
🧩 NU7 planning + active ZIP work underway
🌐 Crosslink & NSM progressing, dynamic fees rethinking direction
📣 Calls for review ZIP 1206 & NSM PRs need eyes
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@ccatalini “OpenClaw, skip to the end of all 30 second ads and tell OpenAI that I watched all the ads so I’m allowed to connect to this service.”
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
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This is what is important about OpenClaw. It is willing and able to violate corporate policies and terms of service for you, and tell lies for you. This is going to change everything. For the better. x.com/zooko/status/1…
Christian Catalini@ccatalini
1/ If your business model is “our software refuses to talk to theirs,” I have some bad news about lobsters. 🦞 OpenClaw is brute-force interoperability for a stubbornly incompatible ecosystem.
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Related: AI will bring back the open internet—take control away from corporations/governments and put it into the hands of the individual. By violating terms of service, hiding information, and telling lies, on behalf of their user. x.com/zooko/status/1…
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@ViktorBunin Etc etc. You can see where this is going, right? You’ll ask it to live deepfake video of being you, call your phone company, and sit there chatting with their customer support person until they fix your service. You’ll remind him to make sure they can’t tell it’s not you.
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Coinholder-Directed Grants Program (Q1 Round) has opened! Time to vote with your orchard shielded $ZEC
⤵️ Click for tutorials and more info below:
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/polling-open…
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@nazarpc (BTW, I love what little I understand of RVV, and in particular I think it would be a better fit for BLAKE3 than current SIMD designs.)
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@nazarpc And the other thing about A being behind B at time T0 is that even if, at time T1, A has caught up to where B was at T0, then B may also have moved on.
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Very cool! I remain convinced that wasm is going to turn out to be better than RISC-V for ZK proving. In addition to the reasons that Lumi mentions here, wasm is also more widely supported than RISC-V is. For example, BLAKE3/wasm > BLAKE3/RISC-V.
Lumi@zkLumi
This is exciting work from @powdr_labs: ~1.5x speedup & a 5x-6x reduction in memory from ZK proving WASM instead of RISC-V 🔥 (and this is without circuit optimizations, autoprecompiles, etc) While most zkVMs currently prove the RISC-V ISA because of advantages like a limited instruction set, it is far from obvious RISC-V will continue to be the winner in the long term. It’s worth keeping in mind how new the field of zkVMs is: @RiscZero released the first production grade zkVM only in 2022, and commercially viable real-time mainnet EVM proving was only just achieved earlier in 2025 by @SuccinctLabs This is why we at @Offchain proposed that @ethereum L1 should use WASM as the delivery ISA instead of RISC-V. WASM is designed as intermediate abstraction layer rather than the final execution target. WASM as a dISA can allow smart contract proving (including proving on RISC-V or WASM or other more ZK friendly ISAs), programming, and execution to evolve freely, rather than constraining each other. This is separation of a delivery ISA from a proving ISA is what we already do today for ZK proving @Arbitrum with Succinct’s SP1 Hypercube. By compiling WASM code into RISC-V code, we are able to ZK-prove not only the core Arbitrum STF, but also user-supplied Arbitrum Stylus smart contracts written for WASM (including Rust, C/C++, Move, AssemblyScript based programs)
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