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@alpinechicken @AlanaDLevin It doesn't seem like the "Because" in your tweet fits. Why would it being a terrible idea cause it to be less common? :-)

@AlanaDLevin Because they are almost always a terrible idea. A sovereign wealth fund is just overtaxing and using the proceeds to bet on the stock market.

Why aren’t there more sovereign wealth funds?

@XinWu2024 @mycousiinvinny_ Not you, I'm guessing someone is trying to trick you.

@XinWu2024 @mycousiinvinny_ I'm guessing someone who holds a competing crypto investment is trying to trick people into thinking that I can force Zcash holders to do things they don't want to do.

Folks selling their zcash based on what zooko is typing on Twitter? You should probably just log off.

Fil-C release 0.680! - Memory safe inline assembly - Full AVX512 masked/compress/expand load/store intrinsic support - OpenSSL 3.5.7, OpenSSH with mlkem+nistp support - And more! github.com/pizlonator/fil…

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@nate_zec @sacha @grok Bitcoin, 15 years: x.com/intangiblecoin…

@sacha @zooko - gold holdings > some threshold are captured by Breton-Woods / Nixon bankruptcy. (Are there any > $100M gold holdings of few accounts physically outside the US? @grok Few accts to exclude long tail of jewelry/coin holders.) - what other SoV is self-sovereign long time scale?

What kind of expectations should the Zcash social contract give to someone who puts their Zcash coins into a self-custody wallet today and then doesn’t look at them again for 10 years? forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-sentimen…

암호화폐 역사에서 지캐시(Zcash, $ZEC) 개발팀의 보안 취약점 대처 방식은 가장 진실된 기술적인 마케팅 방법이었습니다.

yeah, I am concenred about 128 bit security on a 100 year timeframe. Bitcoin network has done over 2^100 SHA2 hashes (I'd have to do some napkin math for exact, but I think its like 2^106) Whats the cost of a million-X increase in global asic budget? Its probably a napkin math session away from me being convinced that the PQ pool after Tachyon needs to be 140 bit minimum.

I printed a custom t-shirt that's an ode to @simonw's Pelican benchmark. My partner says he doesn't get it. But y'all get it, right? RIGHT!?

@the_big_tweeter @jflexington6 @zectrillionaire Ok, those are good points.

@zooko @jflexington6 @zectrillionaire You can be transparent without feeding the uncertainty and losing investor confidence in2026. I can tell by watching you that code is more your forte rather than PR. I'm just saying to consider that you are playing both roles. You can critique and give confidence at the same time

Patch the Planet is our joint initiative with @OpenAI to help maintainers strengthen critical open-source software. In one week, we used Codex and GPT-5.5-Cyber to find hundreds of bugs inside OSS like cURL, Python, and the Go project. 37 patches merged, with more in flight. 🧵

@the_big_tweeter @jflexington6 @zectrillionaire I believe honesty and transparency are what earn trust *long-term*. I’m not going to avoid scary subjects or mince my words to protect the *short-term* price of ZEC. Sorry. That’s just not me. My goal is to make Zcash trustworthy to the most people in 2036.

@zooko @jflexington6 @zectrillionaire Since you have all your posts closed to friends only and for some reason I can comment here, I wanted to take the opportunity to ask you to think before you click the post or reply button. A filter if youwill, "could this simple statement damage $ZEC " if the answer isyes, reword

@zkDragon @Zpartan @sacha I don’t think that’s all correct, but let’s take it off-line. In any case, in the context of this discussion, it seems like debating by how many inches did the bullet miss us.

Not quite that bad. These were detectable bugs, only present in Zcashd. Every wallet's UI layer is backed by Zebrad, because all publicly used lightwalletd's index off of Zebra. Furthermore, its hard for an attacker to guarantee the turnstile disabling against every node including miners. Its a p2p bug. So they'd have to pull this off via getting to a super majority of miners (think 80% plus) at the same time. Otherwise it'd be a chain split, and exchanges all have configuration to just halt in these chain splits. Some exchanges even wait 100 blocks to prevent edge cases like this back in the viaBTC dominance era. Any network split would've immediately been noticed, which leads to exchanges halting deposits relatively quickly. Recall in the Litecoin incident, no CEX reporting serious double spends.

@michael2xl @nym Awesome work! How did you find using the Nym SDK and mixnet performance? We do have stress-testing and optimisations coming soon for the mixnet.

This has been a rough month for the free internet in America: * Court losses in the Fifth and Sixth Circuits over age-verification laws * A renewed push in Congress to restrict internet access * Internet companies retreating from the fight, e.g., Meta on KOSA * Growing public support for regulating the internet and AI Much of this energy is ostensibly aimed at protecting kids. But the net effect will be to restrict and chill internet access for adults, too. If lawmakers get their way, the internet could soon become a veritable fortress, where everyone has to verify their identity multiple times before accessing lawful content: first through their operating system, then when downloading apps, and then again when using those apps. That would have profound consequences for privacy and free speech. I don’t think people appreciate how dramatically this could change their online experience, or the risks it poses to their civil liberties. The internet’s early defenders — EFF, the Cypherpunks, and many others — fought to keep this medium from becoming a permissioned space controlled by governments and gatekeepers. Thirty years later, that fight is back with a vengeance.

@zkDragon @sacha (Fun historical footnote: Daira-Emma Hopwood has recently been mentioning some ideas about a Zcash Long-Term Storage Pool. Ze and I also collaborated on web.archive.org/web/2013082605…, which led to SPHINCS/SLH-DSA.)

@zkDragon @sacha By the way, this whole conversation is really reinvigorating my interest in a “long-term storage pool”. What technologies and tradeoffs would make me comfortable telling someone they could save their seed words for 20, 50, or 100 years!?

True, though its probably right now that all of software has this one-time "Mythos Great Filter" to overcome. After that, we enter regimes of provable code guarantees. Formal Verification for our undetectable bugs, armies of AI for fuzzing and correctness-up-to Compiler/OS/HW issues detectable side.