John

“If we can’t crack encryption, then people are walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.” - Barack Obama Zcash.

tfw the guys merging the age verification code into open source operating systems are @Microsoft 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

"the cloud" is just someone else's computer

THEY DID IT. The SEC and CFTC just dropped a landmark document that officially classifies crypto assets. They're actually telling us which crypto assets are securities and which ones aren't - by name! THIS IS SOMETHING GENSLER REFUSED TO DO (he focused on prosecuting crypto out of existence) This rule doc gives crypto many of the benefits of the clarity bill - it lifts us out of the gray market - it gives every asset a path. It's almost like the Clarity act just passed by way of regulator. (of course, the actual clarity act will harden all this into legislation and make it irreversible in the event we get another Gensler, we still want it) This rule says there's 5 categories for crypto assets: 1) Digital Commodities - assets tied to a functional, decentralized crypto system (e.g., BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, DOGE). Not securities. (yes, they name them on page 14) 2) Digital Collectibles - NFTs, meme coins, artwork tokens, in-game items. Not securities (fractionalized collectibles may be an exception). 3) Digital Tools - membership tokens, credentials, domain names (e.g., ENS). Not securities. 4) Stablecoins - payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act are not securities. Other stablecoins, it depends. 5) Digital Securities - tokenized versions of traditional securities. Like tokenized stocks. Always securities. Amazing! This makes so much sense I can't believe it's coming from a regulator. No more enforcement threats to Ethereum developers and crypto exchanges. How about the Howey test? More common sense! If an issuer makes specific promises of managerial efforts from which buyers expect profits, the offering is a security until those promises are fulfilled. Then it's a commodity. The asset itself was never the security, the deal around it was. (E.g. XRP was a security pre launch, became a commodity after). How about stuff like staking and mining? Mining? Not a securities transaction. Staking? Also not a securities transaction, that includes custodial and liquid staking even with LSTs! How about wrapping BTC? Not a securities transaction. Airdrops? NOT SECURITIES. NO MORE GEO BANS PROTECTING AMERICANS from free airdrops. Remember this is a joint doc from the SEC and CFTC, They're actually cooperating on this, no internal strife, this is binding to both. SEC regulates $80-100 trillion assets CFTC regulates $5-10 trillion assets Both of the world's largest capital markets are showing us that crypto assets are here to stay and they're welcome alongside traditional assets. Every country will follow. This is the biggest move toward legitimacy I've seen in all my time in crypto. Maybe bigger than the genius act since is covers all crypto assets. Well done @MichaelSelig and @SECPaulSAtkins. And especially well done to the indefatigable @HesterPeirce. Her fingerprints are all over this, couldn't have happened without her eight years of principles-based curiosity.

@dismad8 Zebra-colored ranger is my fav

$ZEC youtu.be/-lhRsFHTvxc

Not your vault, not your gold. Not your barrels, not your oil. Not your keys, not your Zcash. ... good luck with the first two.

It's criminal that Github UI doesn't support vi bindings

On a transparent chain, compliance means censorship based on tx metadata. On an encrypted chain, there is no metadata. Censorship is not possible. Compliance just makes it possible for regulated businesses to adopt. We are still early.

Anecdotally, I met a zcasher, who looked me dead in the eye with 100% confidence, and told me they were prepared to go down with the ship. You just don’t see that belief anymore.

Belief is very hard to buy, and it’s a moat with the right team Tachyon x ZODL App = manifestation

@zooko Yep, exactly... now who is building this? 😅

@nullc0py Because without something like this, you’ll get a phone call every 120 seconds, with a totally credible and terrifying deepfake of your child needing you to send them money or your passwords.

Whenever you see news about Signal users being attacked, think of it as further evidence that Signal is the most secure and the most important comms app, and its users are being targeted by the most sophisticated attackers. Read this thread from the Signal twitter account:

@zooko But that usecase is probably solvable... Maybe an "emergency contact password". Easy for my kids to memorize, hard for an adversary to guess?

@zooko I've thought about this before, but the thing that always catches me up is: what if my wife or kids need to reach me, but they've lost access to their phone? I like the idea that they can borrow a friend's phone and call me by an easy-to-memorize phone number, if needed

@zodl_app Onward.🫡

@cipherscan_app @maxdesalle I've shared with my friend!

@nullc0py @maxdesalle This is the best flow we can do with shopify. Should we make it a go?

I refuse to call it a hardware wallet unless it can show me coin balances. Until then, I shall refer to them as signing devices

Feels like Github goes down daily... I really need to give @radicle a shot.

@GrapheneOS That was NOT on my bingo card... guess my next phone will be a @Moto!

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. motorolanews.com/motorola-three…

@cipherscan_app @maxdesalle Any chance of this being usable as a Shopify plugin? Asking for a friend...

@maxdesalle May i interest you in cipherpay.app ? You can check the flow on this store: 0x00.store We also got a woocommerce plugin 🫡 Feedback welcome 🙏

@bitlarrain @UZH_en Congrats 💪

Today marks a decisive moment in my life. I successfully defended my Master’s thesis. @UZH_en This closes a cycle that began the day my father died in 2015, and marks the beginning of a new chapter. I dedicate this moment to him. 🛡️