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We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, act on principles. We fucking care about privacy. We fucking care about security. We fucking care about censorship resistance. And we will always fucking defend these core principles. I wrote the Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto because this shit matters. If you're butthurt, go touch some grass and get a reality check. We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, stand united in our pursuit of a more private, secure, and censorship-resistant future. Like it or not. @pcaversaccio/the-ethereum-cypherpunk-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/…

Ethereum community, I’ve been digesting a lot of what has been said from everyone these past couple of days/weeks, wanted to say a few words. If you don’t know me, I’ve been a long time builder in Ethereum almost since inception. I built some of the first apps on Ethereum, some of the first tools, SDKs and the first stage-2 rollup Fuel V1. Ethereum was and still is completely different from any other human project on planet earth. It took me three days to even understand what it was in the old days, I had to watch grainy videos of Vitalik in dark rooms explaining how it worked. At that point it was unintelligible even for most in the space. What drew me to Ethereum was a few things: - a love for building things in a decentralized way (getting rid of single points of failure and middle men) - a desire for building a new internet - a principled leader who didn’t seem like a grifter business guy Vitalik was not a normal “leader” in any sense. Nerdy, unapproachable, and in his own head. But he had something most others didn’t, he was not in it for the money or business . He just loved the build and research. This is what made me pick Ethereum. It was the love for building things and changing the world. Yes, the power of capitalism makes the system run, but it’s a component of a larger whole. A flow that makes the turbines work, not the turbine itself. Ethereum and the foundation was never run like a business. This was intentional for regulatory reasons at the time, but also spiritual, in the sense that corporate practices is what got us into the mess of needing Ethereum in the first place. Repeating those patterns always felt wrong. The foundation was always designed to be somewhat removed from marketing, and even the build of many tools. The community had to do almost everything. Only Solditiy and client development was covered. I loved and hated this. In one scene, it was more decentralized. In another, it held back development of things like the language and tooling for years. People who should not have been building tooling ended up doing it. It slowed the space and project down significantly. In retrospect, this should have been done by a single focused entity like a business. What made Ethereum become the force of nature it was not the foundation but companies like Consensys. Joe, had a deep sense about institutions and marketing that the foundation lacked. At the time it gave Ethereum a more decentralized source of marketing. The foundation just had to focus on DevCon and other major events. I think this relationship worked really well in the early days and drove Ethereum to the success we see today. Of course now the world is different. Projects like Solana run things far more like a business, even at the foundation level (at least from my perspective), it’s basically American Ethereum. I don’t believe this is right for the EF to follow and it goes against the spirit of the project in the first place. Many of the really good engineers were drawn to Ethereum specifically because it wasn’t run like an American company, but instead as a global project to change the world. Call it idealistic, but it’s true. I’m really happy Solana exists to explore what that side of the field can produce, and I think it’s helped accelerate the space tremendously, but this vibe/approach is not the spirit of Ethereum for me. Ethereum and its foundation needs to retain its ethos of being a neutral zone of blockchain research and development. It’s not a company, it’s not a product creator, it’s a lot more than all those things combined. That being said, the EF should listen to our new customers more: rollup teams (more blobs and fix bridging, then do fancy things later) and to market Ethereum to the masses. I’m very proud of being a part of Ethereum in the small way I have over the years. Many do not have the context or the history to understand what it means for humanity and I’m very excited for its future despite what others say.

What an incredible update here from the Tornado Cash OFAC sanctions case. This an absolute win. A win for unstoppable applications. A win for online financial privacy. A win for decentralization. A win for Ethereum.

@evan_van_ness @laurashin I wonder where this falls on a Venn diagram of "engagement farming" and "good-faith discourse"?

Should I go on @laurashin to talk about Ethereum and EF? I will abide by the results of this poll

@JimmyRagosa It's telling that you didn't include a vote for Vitalik.

Not bad for day 1! votedannyryan.com 25,466 ETH ($83M) signalling their support for Danny Ryan as sole Ethereum Foundation ED. (More and more types of tokenized/staked ETH are progressively being supported)

31 years ago the Cypherpunk manifesto was published. I wrote this manifesto with great concern that we are losing the principles that brought us here. This is an attempt to reunite. To refocus on what is really important. Let's get back to the roots. @pcaversaccio/the-ethereum-cypherpunk-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/…

they oversee war crimes, prosecute whistleblowers and journalists to an inch of their lives, enact secret mass illegal surveillance, and undermine democratic norms at every turn and they want you to believe that the way to 'protect democracy' is to ban technology they don't like

By trying to regulate both cefi and defi all at once, we’ve delayed some of the most necessary and obvious cefi regulations that COULD have and SHOULD have easily passed by now, and would have prevented or mitigated some of the blowups that have occurred this year. Some examples:

Fuck this stupid system that invites lobbyists to shape policy in direct opposition to what the public wants. Why is a corporation in the Bahamas that's only there to dodge taxes and regulation steering US crypto policy?

@apoorvlathey Great milestone, great extension, congrats! :)

Has OFAC violated your rights? You may be entitled to decentralization .............. Introducing Dappnet 🍸

Why is @Cloudflare censoring static files hosted on IPFS? Historically you have been a strong opponent of censorship and have tried to avoid censoring unless you absolutely have to. The *code* (which is what is on IPFS) is explicitly **not** sanctioned.

@apoorvlathey Nice work!

@z0r0zzz Too many people seem to be interpreting this as requiring additional payment for deployment as opposed to using it for gas savings (I'm assuming this is being asked in terms of saving gas?).

payable constructors *at least* for reference contracts

@pcaversaccio @geek_sg True, would also be nice if the contract made use of something like Chainlink VRF instead of using block.timestamp or block.blockhash, but I understand this was just a quick idea for a simple game and it would become a bit more lengthly to integrate that into the system.

@JayBWelsh @geek_sg actually, to prevent such contracts to call the game I could simply add `require(msg.sender == tx.origin)`

Is anyone interested in such a simple on-chain game lmfaoo? PS: I'm aware of the fact that this can be manipulated using PBS. So it's more just for fun :-D

@pcaversaccio @geek_sg Don't think there's a reentrancy vector, but, one could probably make a contract that only calls DoubleOrNothing when `(block.timestamp % 2) == 0`, i.e. a contract that only calls DoubleOrNothing when you will win.

@geek_sg how do you want to re-enter here? I don't hand over the execution flow in this case to the `msg.sender` (remember that transfer is protected from reentrancy and the amount of gas forwarded is fixed at 2300)?

"The merge will reduce worldwide electricity consumption by 0.2%" - @drakefjustin

@PeterMcCormack Because it's not a circular argument, it's a spiral argument. People with coins at time T secure the transactions at time T+1. Spiral arguments and circular arguments sometimes look similar to untrained observers, but they are fundamentally different.

@danielvf What would the recommended mitigation be? Using the address as the key in the mapping?

Here’s how signature malleability attacks work. Two attacks. If a user signs the same message multiple times, they get a different signature each time. If your code uses a signature as an identifier for blocking actions, users can repeat that action. 1/3