Kyle DH | pryvit.eth

Age based verification on the Web produces perverse incentives to track users and limit human rights. The web3 community should not make this the "solution" to compliance. ZKPs are great, but don't appear to be able to solve these fundamental issues. lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi…

I am watching the left propose increasingly bad (rent freeze, minimum wage hikes, huge tax increases) proposals that will wreck the economy. This is driven by anger from young voters, who are priced out of housing, can't get jobs, and feel like the system is rigged against them. And you know what? They are right. It is. What I'm not seeing is any politician, Democrat or Republican, courageous enough to point out the real issue: Boomers voted themselves huge future benefits but did not fund them, so now we are running huge deficits to pay for them while talking about raising taxes on people who weren't even born yet when those things were decided to pay the olds. The reality is this: young people in the US, to save yourselves, you're going to have to tear down the programs for the Boomers, rationalize immigration laws to ensure you get first look at American jobs and companies have the incentive to put them here, force housing to be built, and massively cut federal (and in many cases, state) spending and the size of the government. Any politician who is not willing to tell you the truth about this is fucking you. Trump? Fucking you. Mamdani? Also fucking you. If you can't figure this out, things will get worse from here.

I increasingly appreciate AI for defeating techno-elitism I keep hearing variations of: You aren't welcome here if you can't: > validate blocks on a Raspberry Pi soldered from components sourced from verified conflict-free fabs > read the Yellow Paper without a degree in operational semantics > write a DEX in EVM bytecode by hand AI enables enables anyone to be a cypherpunk - without years of education and the right social background to get there.

@ethcforg @Brantley Setting aside the political discussion for a second, be careful for what you wish for. You’re going to cause a namespace conflict that will directly harm end users. This is why ICANN has all it’s governance bureaucracy is to prevent exactly these things from happening

Is anyone surprised that Nick turned into a tyrannical dictator, and will now single handedly destroy the DAO have full control over the ENS treasury? We aren’t. He stole of his co-founders (@Brantley) coins years ago. ENS (potentially one of the most important ecosystem contracts) is no longer decentralized, and has been captured. It’s time for a new zero-fee, non-profit, immutable Naming system on Ethereum. We will built it. Drop us a line if you want to help.

@SCBuergel @banteg @mysticryuujin For rent?

@banteg @mysticryuujin I may have a bridge to rent out to you!

did the math on my solo staking for the first time. my hardware costs amount to 22% of rewards. i’d be better off with lido with their 10% cut. pretty sure people suggesting cutting the emissions have never tried solo staking and have no idea of its requirements or economics.

As someone who regularly complains about altruism being an ineffective means of funding, I will say the social status from gamifying donations via a leaderboard is a pretty cool way to thread this needle and make it more appealing

@EtcHebeBlock @pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot Seems it’s possible to escalate to ICANN then: #FhInfh7FwN017F_25Y6dyb3S0gfp45r_Df8us6NQR4E" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">search.brave.com/ask?q=if+i+rep…

@PryvitKyle @pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot I tried contacting tldregistrarsolutions.com, and Tornadocash is hosted with them, but I never got any response.

probably only 5 people in the world care but on 2 may the tornado cash proposal 66 was accepted (i.e. on-chain executed), which means an update to the ui version (tornadocash[.]eth[.]limo and some other domains). today i finally found the time to carefully review the _two new commits_. i documented my findings in a gist. i would really appreciate an additional review from others, as i can always miss something but based on my analysis, all the changes are _legitimate_ (although the quality of the commits are shit imho). my analysis: gist.github.com/pcaversaccio/d…

@prestonjbyrne I guess the concern here is this card can only be played so many times before we undermine the trust in the dollar and people find alternatives

@prestonjbyrne Doesn’t this play into BRICS Pay hand for more countries to move off the petrodollar and to an alt reserve currency? It seems many central banks are considering this risk now post Iran-Huawei sanctions + russian asset freezes in 2022

The difference between Ofcom and the U.S. Treasury is that nothing will happen to a U.S. company that gets blocked in the UK, but a country’s economy will collapse if it gets cut off from dollar clearing

@pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot Step one would have to be a formal takedown with the registra. after that I’m not exactly sure, but i think it has to be rebought and whoever gets it can transfe. this is assuming you don’t have rights to the domain now

@PryvitKyle @TornadoCashBot can you help me to transfer the domain to the EF, i don't know what we need to do legally but it's worth a try

@pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot ill see if I can reach out via our contacts again to report to safebrowsing team. At least until we can get it held by a trusted party

@PryvitKyle @TornadoCashBot sure, long time ago already. my personal goal is to transfer this OG domain one day to the EF.

@BittyWhale @pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot Yes, I was aware of that. I was asking about safebrowsing though because it gets used by browsers and will alert there rather than just if the user has a wallet installed

@PryvitKyle @pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot This domain is on the Metamask blacklist. github.com/MetaMask/eth-p…

@pcaversaccio Side note, ipfs.io with path based resolution shouldn’t be whitelisted anymore if possible. I’d recommend switching to subdomain based routing via inbrowser.link instead.

@pcaversaccio @TornadoCashBot Have there been any reports to send an alert to safebrowsing for this?

@TornadoCashBot very well aware and i have tweeted about this numerous times. unless we can transfer tornado[.]cash to some trusted entity one day, i don't see any way to use this domain again.

@devanshmehta Thank you and may the diaspora of the EF continue to balance the values the EF set with the practical realities of putting the technology in more users hands. Onwards and upwards and looking forward to seeing how PMs can be used for things other than gambling.

Super happy to announce this is my last month at the EF. It's been my home for the last 1.5 years, the revolving door b/w EF and ecosystem is healthy It's been a whirlwind of a year, here are the things I'm most proud of having achieved in my tenure 1. Collecting a dataset of 3000 rows from protocol experts comparing repos and dependencies for their importance to Ethereum 2. Running one of the first multiscalar prediction markets with @seer_pm that got resolved according to the data collected above, with over $50k in trading volume 3. Hosting 5 data science competitions @JoinPond where we gave over $100k to AI data scientists building models predicting repo importance & sybilness of wallets 4. Writing up a whole academic paper on deep funding that we are submitting for publication at peer reviewed journals and also presenting this week at the United Nations for open source week 5. Helping @clesaege with the controversial validator redirected revenue proposal that got the community abuzz this week What's next? After a break, most likely going much deeper into the prediction market world. I find it tragic that we can only use offchain PMs and im determined to try correcting that Onwards and upward, esp grateful to my team mates at funding coordination @vinayvasanji , @thomphreys , @MartinBreiten , @sonkiski & raul who I'll dearly miss and to @VitalikButerin for giving me the opportunity in the first place

Ofcom “did not accept” our claims that it deliberately circumvented my client’s geoblock of the UK. We asked Ofcom: what happened? “Did you trip and fall on a VPN?

@ChainNative @pcaversaccio Only as long as it doesn’t impede on the usability. Most people choose Brave for basic things like “YouTube without ads” or “faster on older phones” but that happens because of features we built for privacy (shields)

@pcaversaccio @PryvitKyle default privacy is the only version that survives normie behavior imo

you can fully destroy perfect onchain privacy by leaking metadata (IP, user-agent, timezone, language settings, etc.). using Tor for any onchain interaction is one way but it's very easy to also fingerprint you as Tor user. what Ethereum needs is its own browser that _natively_ embeds Kohaku (as wallet) with the following system invariant: everyone using the same privacy profile (let's call them "Fingerprint Profile") looks exactly the same to websites, because the browser forces all observable behaviour into a small number of _standardised_ (but not Tor-identifieable) patterns. we can only win this if we control the kernel space (i.e. browser) and not only the user space (i.e. extension). also, my current thinking is that a browser is the interface to the internet and if we want to "scale" privacy in some form, a browser is the perfect distribution channel (private OSes will be much harder for example).

@MicahZoltu @LefterisJP The cost per token will at best sit at the cost per computation. I don’t see it happening personally because that also means software production/maintenance is free but Jevons paradox suggests otherwise.

@PryvitKyle @LefterisJP A future where software is "nearly free" may solve the "how do I fund software development" by working on the other side of the equation (cost rather than revenue).

Support for opensource, privacy, sovereignty and censorship resistance is something really nice to see in the ethereum ecosystem. But please listen to someone who has created a company and a product around those values, has kept it going for 8+ years and has paid the consequences of building something that adheres to these values. Learn from my mistakes. I fear the way you are advertising these values, you are not reaching anybody new. You are preaching to the choir. The way I see you bang the drum for these values is only going to appeal to the people who are already strong believers in them. I don't see anyone trying to think of how to bring new people in and introduce them to these concepts, explain why they are good and incentivize them to use them. Incentives rule everything around us. "I will build cool things on Ethereum, the blessed world computer, or die trying" does not bring in new people. It makes us sound like a cult. It's offputting. Instead I want to see successful apps on and around ethereum using the right CROPS values and still succeeding in bringing in new people, incentivizing users and monetizing successfully so we can have a sustainable ecosystem. I want to see us mentor new people towards achieving them and creating such companies. I want to see you all thrive while building opensource apps. Not struggle for 2-3 years, burn out and leave and then be replaced by new zealots for our cult. It pains me to see people burn out by listening to well intended but otherwise completely dangerous advice on how to build products. And yes that will mean some compromises on the way because in the end that's the real world. And you are building apps for other people not only for yourself in your ivory tower. I will help and assist everyone who wants to build opensource, sovereign apps, privacy apps, CROPS or whatever cool kids call them nowadays as long as they are actually solving real problems and trying to get new users in. I want to see ethereum win. And I will do anything I can to see this come to fruition.

A clear metaphor of how governments approach the well-being of their citizens.

@pcaversaccio It’s a tremendous undertaking, but also necessary to disrupt the current equilibrium between browser engines. I would personally love to see ladybird take on some of these core privacy questions too. I’m not sure what their long term funding model is but right now sponsors work.

@PryvitKyle wondering, what do you think of Ladybird?