Patrick Saegesser

So this account got suspended for inauthentic behaviour (wtf, barely used it). Thankfully it got unsuspended but while I'm still following 980 accounts, I have 0 followers now. Make it make sense.

@anant_tap @ercwl How can you deny that it's not only bitcoin if virtually every link posted in the thread has crypto in the headline?

@ercwl You mean bitcoin 👍🏽

This is the moment crypto leaves the basement and clashes with the real world. This is it, right here, today.

@miemo @smdiehl sure. but same goes for "gardening", "crossfit" or "existentialist philosophy". anything that constitutes a shared interest with a sense of community, really. guess everyone is free to use the term cult as they see fit, but it loses its meaning at some point.

@smdiehl Yup, exchange "Crypto/web3" in the original tweet with "QAnon", "Anti-vaxx" or "Flat earth" and it would still sound spot on tone-wise.

People keep talking about this phenomenon in increasingly cult-like language.

Facebook and Meta are ruthless. A few weeks ago, we built a product to automatically delete FB accounts under the California Consumer Privacy Act. In retaliation, they blocked DoNotPay’s domain from being shared on any Insta, FB and Oculus story, post and even message (try it!).

instead of 2x-ing block size to reduce fees ethtards chose instead to work on bls, zkevm, eip1559, STARKs, 250k-validator pos, interactive proofs, erigon, snap sync, zk-transpilers, permissionless staking, commitment schemes, statelessness, public goods funding... ugh, fkn idiots

The most powerful paradoxes of life:

A nicely illustrated thread on how the gold standard worked under the hood. I.e. that all the participating countries would keep the gold at the same place, shuffling bars from crib to crib to settle scores.

@DinaPomeranz All while operating with financial stakes high enough to make decisions matter. And sorry for this outburst. Still a bit salty that no econ/finance professor wanted to supervise a master's thesis on bitcoin back in ~2010.

@DinaPomeranz In addition, it provides the rather unique possibility to fork the state of a project/ecosystem to resolve major disagreements. I.e. creating parallel universes where both/all possible solutions get implemented and their outcomes can be studied down the road.

I received $30 in bitcoin today. What should I do with it?

@ChrisBlec @MetaMask Attacking scammers sounds great. What are possible measures MM could take (other than playing whack a mole with all the scammer accounts)? Seems to me that twitter would have substantially more leverage (if they cared).

🦊@MetaMask should be putting tremendous resources into battling the epidemic of seed phrase phishing attacks happening on Twitter. Metamask regularly generates over $1m PER DAY in swap fees. It owes it to the $ETH DeFi community to spend time & money attacking this problem.

@PrestonkirkKirk @ChrisBlec @MetaMask Check the current replies to your tweet for good examples. Basically pretending to be MM support, linking to an online form which then asks for your seed phrase. Simple rule: never share your seed phrase with anyone and immediately distrust everyone who asks for it.

@ChrisBlec @MetaMask How do the attacks work? Just so I know what to look out for?

@SilvermanJacob @count3rmeasure Guess it depends on what you pay attention to. Should have been hard to miss while looking into the "madness of crypto", though. It's been around at least since the inception of ethereum (and widely used in that space since then).

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Yes, moderation is going to be harder in end-to-end encrypted spaces. You know what else is going to be harder? Algorithm-driven content amplification. And trust me, one of these things is doing way more damage.

An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google @Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December. Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted. Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights. 1/?