Code Is Law: The Movie

People often ask why I care so much about local first, privacy preserving tools. Here's one reason: My own @rotkiapp DB still contains the transactions from the 2016 DAO whitehat rescue. Back then we pulled ~71% of the DAO's funds by performing the recursive attack on the DAO using ETH borrowed from friendly whales! Nine years later, that history is still mine. It lives locally on my machine and is backed up fully encrypted in the cloud, unreadable to anyone but me thanks to rotki premium. As old Ethereum history becomes harder to query, APIs shut down, and centralized indexers limit access, having your own complete onchain ledger becomes extremely valuable. Your financial history should belong to you, not some SaaS backend that can shut down, or lock down your access at any point for no reason. One day soon, you may not be able to query Ethereum’s early years at all unless you kept your own records. You should care about data sovereignty. You should use rotki.

Organizing your day? Check out the highlights of today's Cinema Stage ↓ ✦ Code Is Law by @CodeIsLawFilm - 17:00hs ✦ Ethereum Stories by @EthStoriesETH - 16:00hs ✦ Money and Debt and Digital Contracts by Brewster Kahle (Devcon5) - 15:30hs by @brewster_kahle ✦ Anarchy, Truth and Justice by @edmundedgar at @ETHBerlin - 12:25hs ✦ (mis)adventures in governance by Wassim Z. Alsindi @protocol_berg - 11:30hs 📍 At the Entertainment Stage

"It's impossible to write perfect code. Everyone can read it. Your attack scenario is immense." - @ChrJentzsch, creator of The DAO 🎬 Watch Code is Law now and see his story on screen for the first time: journeyman.tv/film/8785