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POV: the inside of your airpod

@brevis_zk @UniswapFND No wonder people do not take our industry seriously is your team not embarrassed by the botted engagement?

The future of the Democratic Party is Stavros Halkias

1/ On How Short Life Is A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful. Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?" It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...

1/ As part of my work I like to test out privacy products and figure out what works and what doesn’t so I can abuse any design flaws for my investigations. With the recent hype around Zashi & its Near Intents integration I tested it for Zcash.

6/ I wanted to make this post so more people do not continue the privacy mistake of accidentally revealing their transparent address when bridging with shielded ZEC until a Zashi update is implemented. Should I do more posts like this in the future about how to maintain proper onchain opsec? I am considering to offer a service for individual traders or boutique funds looking to anonymize their activity to reduce the chances of being fingerprinted onchain. If you're potentially interested send me a DM to see how we can work together. Do not contact me if you are a threat actor looking to launder as I will be able to automatically tell. While initially I had concerns about making such posts I am frustrated with the lack of action by industry leaders / law enforcement to help victims and recognize the growing issues around privacy. I think the benefits of such posts may outweigh the cons if nothing is going to change.

I really appreciate both @sandeepnailwal's personal contributions and @0xPolygon's immensely valuable role in the ethereum ecosystem. To recap: * Polygon hosts @Polymarket, which is probably the single most successful example of a "not just boring finance" app that has actually been successful and provided value. * Polygon has also hosted plenty of other applications that have needed high levels of scalability. * Polygon put a lot of resources into ZK-EVM proving early on, both by bringing in Jordi Baylina's team and through other efforts, and greatly helped in moving the space forward. * Polygon has built infrastructure for proof aggregation (AggLayer) and many other things And also: * Sandeep put a lot of his personal effort into @CryptoRelief_, which has made large contributions to biomedical infrastructure and research inside India. * He voluntarily returned $190M of proceeds from the SHIB tokens that I donated to me, which has made the whole Balvi open source anti-airborne-disease biotech program possible, and possibly accelerated our understanding of important anti-pandemic topics like clean indoor air by years. @cz_binance also recently donated $10M in BNB to me to help continue the program, and I've recently added ~$20M of my own funds (no, not from selling ETH 😛) Big appreciation to both for this. Most whales passively think that things like this are cool, but are not willing to get off their butts and personally contribute, unless it's in the form of a company that keeps everything proprietary to become yet another vehicle for personal profit. @sandeepnailwal (and CZ) are special here. On the ZK issue (after all, you do need a proof system to get the full security guarantees that L2s are meant to provide), I can see Polygon's difficult bind: they supported Jordi's team putting their heart and souls into the tech at a time when that tech was still too early for production, and so they contributed to the early and most difficult part of the learning curve, but at that part of the learning curve it was difficult for them themselves to directly benefit from the fruits of their labor. Since then, the market structure has split into L2 teams and ZK teams (eg. @SuccinctLabs, @RiscZero, more recently @brevis_zk, many others) being separate entities, which I think makes more sense than the previous approach of every L2 doing (OP or ZK) proof systems in-house: it's very difficult to be both the best L2 and the best ZK team, the two are very different skill sets. Personally, I hope that at some point soon @0xPolygon can just pick up off the shelf ZK tech that has now gotten quite good and apply it to the PoS chain to get full stage 1 and later stage 2 guarantees from the ethereum L1. Many don't realize just how much ZK tech has improved; proving costs are around $0.0001/tx, and many L2s I talk to are very surprised when I tell them the recent numbers, they're still stuck in the mindset that ZK is maybe ok for ethereum L1-scale chains but unviable for anything hyperscale. The latest ZK-EVMs, and live projects like @Lighter_xyz, show that this is false.

Never trust a bitcoiner who doesnt know what happened in block #91,812

Wow! Antifa snuck onto West Point and installed this plaque. Diabolical!

the chain is not “struggling” — their CEO made $96 million last year. they’re using megacorporation accounting tricks to make it seem like the business is in trouble in order to strategically fire unionized employees illegally

This deserves more visibility. This is nuts

STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!

NEW: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon are all named in Epstein docs released today by Democrats axios.com/2025/09/26/elo…

🚨 NEW: Epstein’s private calendar shows Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and lunch w/ Elon Musk. Prince Andrew was booked on his jet. These files were in the DOJ’s hands for years. They buried it. Release. Every. Damn. Page.

i just feel like we don't need to hear from her ever again

Netanyahu is currently in NYC, staying at Loews Regency. It's a luxury Upper East Side hotel that starts at $1755 per night (excluding tax and fees) for the cheapest room. A single night is more than a month's rent for most Americans. His stay is funded by our tax dollars.

BREAKING: NYPD is MASS ARRESTING protesters outside Netanyahu’s hotel, accusing them of “unreasonable noise.” Netanyahu murdered over 680,000 Palestinians. HE SHOULD BE ARRESTED Cars passing by are honking for Palestine and not letting Netanyahu sleep.

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”