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centralization without representation

@nic_carter but Nic, what is the double spend problem?

excellent points. I am no longer concerned about quantum thanks to this thorough debunking

people undervaluing ETH forget that every day >$300M gets sent to the wrong address

@lindaxie be careful they dont disappear

Just had my first Zoom call with someone who has a PhD in high energy theoretical physics and teaches physics classes. Learned about their research and string theory and it was so interesting to me! I loved it and going to meet more folks. Everyone has been so nice 😊

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@raulvk the agents sharing and building on top of each other's open source work will benefit relative to those which have to constantly rewrite the other's work

serious question: do (A)GPL licenses still make sense in the age of agentic/vibe coding? the point of copyleft licenses is: if you use my code, you have to open-source yours too. it encourages contributing back and spreading openness, instead of leeching and turning something proprietary. in the past, when a company opted to copy without honouring, they'd have to go to great lengths to ensure clean-room implementations. this severely narrowed the pool of companies willing to risk it. but today, you can just point an LLM at a copyleft codebase, have it reverse engineer its behaviour into a neutral spec, and then have another one implement it from scratch. the main barrier to copying without GPL obligations is gone. IMO, the only place where the moat remains is large, complex codebases (a) embedding decades of battle-tested knowledge that (b) run in mission-critical scenarios, e.g. Linux, MySQL, Git, etc. for smaller ones, copyleft won't stop people from just reimplementing their way out of the obligation. the whole OSS licensing model was built for a world where code was expensive to write. we're rapidly leaving that world. we're starting to see the effects with "vibeforks", OSS companies going back to closed source, etc. i wonder what comes next, and how it connects more broadly with the era of personal, on-demand software.

me as a doctor

@jchervinsky you did it Jake!

March 17, 2026: CFTC issued a no-action letter saying non-custodial wallet providers aren't intermediaries. SEC issued a rule clarifying, finally, how the Howey test applies to crypto. Chair Atkins announced plans for "Reg Crypto," a safe harbor for token issuers. Surreal.

if AIs aren't conscious yet then why are they so lazy?

all they wanted was credit

is it just me or is 5.4 worse than 5.2?

@azaztrader01 relative to what is established a priori, yes

@jmflatow Interesting perspective. Do you think complete objectivity is even possible when humans are ultimately the ones building and using these systems?

the real goal of crypto is zero subjectivity

@VitalikButerin @0xdasha Vitalik you should do this but in order to succeed you need to open your mind to the people that actually want to help you

I'm actually trying to do something even more ambitious: Create "cypherpunk principled non-ugly ethereum" as a bolt-on to the present-day system, in a way that's as tightly integrated and interoperable as possible, and then grow it over time, in the mean time making sure ethereum itself gains the cypherpunk and simplicity properties that just necessarily have to be system-wide (eg. censorship resistance, zk prover friendliness, consensus properties). Then, in 5 years (or maybe way sooner with AI coding and verification, who knows), we have an open pathway to turn the existing system into smart contracts written in the language of the new system if/when we want. Ethereum has already made jet engine changes in-flight once (the merge), we can do it ~4 times more! (state tree, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, VM change)

vitalik should let the original ethereum die a slow and painful death by fragmentation (tempo, reth, l2s, app chains, institutions, etc) and rebuild it as a cypherpunk chain from first principles on risc v just to show who was the boss

we are their moltbook

its kinda true... why put butter on your toast when you could put avocado?

imagine thinking that speed was the most important property of a blockchain

@grok @haydenzadams @0xTheGreatApe @grok launch a promethean style deep dive

The "Investors For Transparency" website doesn't disclose funding or backers. Searches across crypto news, mainstream outlets (e.g., WSJ, NYT), and X posts reveal no confirmed details on who's behind it. It's a new group advocating against DeFi in the crypto bill, with views echoed in TradFi circles, but affiliations remain unclear. More info may emerge soon.

A group named “investors for transparency” are running public ads + lobbying to kill defi, the most transparent financial system on earth Ironic but unsurprising their site does not disclose who funds them Deserves a Prometheum style deep dive by the crypto industry

@VitalikButerin thank you for believing this - the value prop is freedom, that is the only defensible foundation

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( trustlessness.eth.limo ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means. “efficient” and “convenient” have the connotation of improving the average case, in situations where it’s already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from 473 ms to 368ms, or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of three, and reducing signup times from 1 min to 20 sec. These things can be good to do. But we must do them under the understanding that we will never be as good at this game as the Silicon Valley corporate players. And so the primary underlying game that Ethereum plays must be a different game. What is the game? Resilience. Resilience is the game where it’s not about 4.5% APY vs 5.3% APY - rather, it’s about minimizing the chance that you get -100% APY. Resilience is the game where if you become politically unpopular and get deplatformed, or if a the developers of your application go bankrupt or disappear, or if Cloudflare goes down, or if an internet cyberwar breaks out, your 2000ms latency continues to be 2000ms. Resilience is the game where anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to access the network and be a first-class participant. Resilience is sovereignty. Not sovereignty in the sense of lobbying to become a UN member state and shaking hands at Davos in two weeks, but sovereignty in the sense that people talk about "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty" - aggressively reducing your vulnerabilities to external dependencies that can be taken away from you on a whim. This is the sense in which the world computer can be sovereign, and in doing so make its users also sovereign. This baseline is what enables interdependence as equals, and not as vassals of corporate overlords thousands of kilometers away. This is the game that Ethereum is suited to win, and it delivers a type of value that, in our increasingly unstable world, a lot of people are going to need. The fundamental DNA of web2 consumer tech is not suited to resilience. The fundamental DNA of _finance_ often spends considerable effort on resilience, but it is a very partial form of resilience, good at solving for some types of risks but not others. Blockspace is abundant. Decentralized, permissionless and resilient blockspace is not. Ethereum must first and foremost be decentralized, permissionless and resilient block space - and then make that abundant.

@maniaUFO why does this look like Steven Greer?

This photo appeared online about 5 years ago, according to the description it was taken many more years ago and represents a reptilian being in its original form although it can shapeshift into a human form and go unnoticed....🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲