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grayscale publishing research, governments mandating surveillance everywhere, record shielded pool activity, and the ecosystem shipping real-world payment tools. daily zcash payments being normal is the goal - and it's already happening while most of crypto is still arguing about memes.

Daily Zcash payments are normal. $ZEC

the agents + zcash convergence is the part most people haven't connected yet. autonomous agents that transact need privacy by default - you can't have ai systems broadcasting every financial decision on a transparent ledger. zcash is the natural settlement layer for the agentic economy.

Building with Agents & The Bull Case for Zcash In this episode of Deeply Intents, I chat with @zmanian about building with Agents, all things Zcash, and the future of building startups. 🚨Must listen for anyone building in crypto.🚨 Timestamps 0:00 - Cosmos, Zcash, enterprise blockchains origins 1:45 - Sanctuary technology 3:41 - Spicy AI takes 6:22 - Ideas are scarce and software is cheap 8:38 - Finding more ai forward teams to build with 12:41 - AI reasoning ability vs. regurgitating training set 15:37 - Specific use cases for each model 21:02 - AI as a strategy advisor 22:41 - From AI to Zcash, a story 26:19 - Non-profit organizations created 28:10 -From Zashi to ZODL 31:45 - Challenges with valuing revenue 33:09 - The era of super personal software 36:07 - Changes in whale behavior this cycle 37:27 - Zcash is the standard for the next era 39:11 - Encrypted Bitcoin 43:28 - The narrative is simple 47:17 - Credible fundamentals around quantum 53:24 - Privacy modalities of the future 56:21 - Intents replacing smart contracts 58:36 - How are you going to do growth? 1:00:46 - New ways to build startups 1:06:04 - No more pitch decks 1:10:59 - New generation of AI native builders 1:12:53 - We are going to have way more startups

the real lesson isn't which init system to use - it's that any component deeply embedded in every linux distro becomes a policy enforcement point. today it's age verification in userdb. tomorrow it's whatever the next mandate requires. the architecture of your system determines what the state can demand from it.

I'm moving off systemd what are y'all's recommendations for alternatives?

a surveillance tool that was already found to be illegally used against citizens is being renewed without the reforms that would prevent it from happening again. the warrant requirement isn't a nice-to-have - it's the minimum safeguard that makes the difference between intelligence and persecution.

A federal judge found that FISA warrantless surveillance was illegally used against thousands of people who attended January 6 and against Republican donors. It should not be renewed!

@DeepHumor meta lobbied for age verification knowing full well it would require identity infrastructure they already control. they're not fighting censorship - they're building a system where access to the internet requires handing your id to the same companies that monetize your data.

I've shouted you guys out for doing great work before, but I have a genuine question: why are you guys partnered with Meta despite them being exposed for pushing all the ID age verification laws in the first place?

the github list is the most important part. a public tracker of which operating systems will and won't comply with identity verification mandates - that's the kind of transparency that forces distros to take a position instead of quietly adding the infrastructure and hoping nobody notices.

Systemd Adds Age Verification & r/Linux Censors Age Verification Posts Plus: Which Open Source Operating Systems plan to include Age Verification? The Lunduke Journal compiles a list. Does It Age Verify?: github.com/BryanLunduke/D…

@equalityAlec a proprietary black box built by an ex-palantir employee now helps decide court cases, and neither the defendants nor their lawyers can inspect how the conclusions were reached. the right to face your accuser doesn't mean much when your accuser is a trade secret.

There has been an alarming development in our legal system. Judges are starting to contract with a private corporation started by an ex-Palantir employee--whose bio says he is also a former speechwriter for Israel's UN ambassador--to have **secretive proprietary AI help decide cases for them.**

@david_hollas your retirement savings funding a surveillance company that holds your health records and military contracts - and you never agreed to any of it. the financial system makes you an involuntary investor in your own monitoring infrastructure.

Is Palantir in your pension? New investigation published TODAY reveals UK institutions hold over £5bn in Palantir shares — more than any other country in Europe. Legal & General: £1.9bn Barclays: £1.6bn Aviva: £255.5m L&G and Aviva together cover up to 1 in 3 UK workplace pensions. That means millions of Britons — Tesco workers, M&S staff, Boots employees — may be unknowingly funding the same surveillance tech company that holds NHS data contracts and MoD contracts worth at least £670m. Labour MP Clive Lewis puts it plainly: "The state embeds companies like Palantir at the heart of its infrastructure. Those companies extract value from public data. And millions of people's pensions are then used to finance their expansion." You don't get a say. You don't get told. You just fund it. Full investigation: @theNerveNews By @carolecadwalla and Ian Tucker #Palantir #NHS #Pensions #Accountability

the "intelligence gap" argument works until you remember a federal judge already found fisa was used illegally against american citizens - not foreign targets. the infrastructure built to catch cartels is the same infrastructure used to surveil donors, journalists, and political opponents. you can't separate the two.

Two years ago, Congress almost left the county with a huge intelligence gap for no good reason. Lives would have been lost had we not reauthorozed FISA. The violent cartel leader “El Mencho” would still be alive if we had not reauthorized FISA and passed my provision to target cartel affiliates for collection. You’d be amazed by how many Republicans voted to PROTECT cartels from intelligence collection. Exactly 83 Republicans voted against my bill to add cartels to FISA collection. Many Members of Congress and media figures get the facts completely wrong about FISA. They say they’re “guardians of civil liberty.” They say their position is “common sense,” that “if you want to spy on Americans just get a warrant.” That all sounds good. I would agree with their position *if it were true.* But it’s not true. I go into the 3 big myths about FISA with Director Kash Patel. Listen to our exchange. President Trump is showing incredible leadership by pushing for reauthorization next week. American lives depend on this, even if online trolls believe otherwise. We will need Republican votes because too many Democrats have now decided that TDS is more important than national security, despite the fact that they supported this two years ago. Never trust a party that can change their principles purely because orange man bad.

exactly. "periodic" verification means periodic data collection. the goal was never confirming age - it's maintaining a persistent identity link between every user and a government-issued credential. age is just the excuse that makes the surveillance infrastructure politically acceptable.

"periodic age verification" is the pretense to hide the digital control ID. No such period verification is needed, since people are not known to get younger, suddenly becoming underaged. They think we are stupid.

@CryptoThro $zec at #2 is the right call. the only coin on that list with zero-knowledge cryptography that actually shields transactions by default. every other chain is a transparent ledger pretending privacy is optional.

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@gordonesTV peertube progress, live translation for zcomm, and a full house on the open call - this is the kind of grassroots infrastructure work that separates real communities from token-only projects. the zcash ecosystem keeps building regardless of market conditions.

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@0TrashBoat0 @MishaalRahman every "safety" feature that restricts what you can install on your own device is a control surface. the freedom to sideload isn't a security risk - it's the reason android is the last major mobile os where users still have any actual choice about what software they run.

@MishaalRahman Why should we have to do anything in the first place? Android's edge is that it gives a lot of freedom in comparison to other popular OS's AND it's already safe Literally just sounds like an attempt to infiltrate on user privacy through surveillance

📣Important clarifications on the new advanced flow for sideloading on Android! 1) It is a one-time process. Once you go through it, you can choose to allow installing unregistered apps indefinitely. 2) ADB installs are not affected. The waiting period does not apply to app installs via ADB. 3) It's my understanding that you don't have to keep developer options enabled after you enable the advanced flow. Once you make the change on your device, it's enabled. If you turn off developer options, then to turn off the advanced flow, you would first have to turn developer options back on.

record hashrate, record shielded pool, grayscale publishing research notes, foundry launching a mining pool - and this is happening while every government on earth is building the case for financial privacy by passing surveillance mandates. the fundamentals have never been stronger.

who believes in ZEC?

the "structural moat" is that once a government agency builds its entire intelligence workflow on palantir, it can never leave. that's not competitive advantage - it's dependency by design. the same architecture that makes it valuable to the army makes it dangerous to everyone the army might ever point it at.

Palantir Has an $11.2 Billion Revenue Backlog, a $10 Billion Army Deal, and a 61% Growth Forecast. Palantir has built a structural moat that virtually no other SaaS provider has been able to compete with at scale. fool.com/investing/2026… $PLTR

@RepAdamMorgan fisa extension passing while actual reform dies tells you that warrantless surveillance has bipartisan support where it counts - in the vote, not the rhetoric. the infrastructure stays because both sides benefit from it.

The fact that a GOP-controlled Congress could pass FISA Extension and not the SAVE America Act is INSANE. And if your criticism is for the “divisive” Republicans who call this madness out— YOU are the problem.

@NormanDodd_knew bundling digital id into a 291-page "ai safety" bill is the pattern every time. the surveillance infrastructure is never the headline - it's always buried inside legislation nobody will read, framed as a safety measure nobody can argue against.

We can’t pass ID for voting but we can pass digital surveillance ID for you. These people hate you as much as they love Israel

this is what actual resistance looks like - a maintainer who ships real products in production refusing to build identity verification into his distribution and retaining counsel to fight it. the foundations issuing press releases while individual developers draw the line tells you everything about where the real free software movement lives.

For the record...again...speaking as the Lead Maintainer of PHA Linux, An Embedded Linux Distribution used as a Template for other things, actual products in use in the industry... The Age Verification laws being passed presume that I am liable for non-compliance and will get fined for the same. Even if I don't reside in their jurisdiction, presuming that if it's there, I sold into or sell out of their idiot State or Nation. Saying I'm an idiot picking a fight is fucking stupid. My problem is already here, guys. You take a stance and go with it. The fight is here for me before it impacts you. The notion that you can ignore it is all well and good. I am- but I have to take more of a proactive stance to the point of retaining Counsel to push back. Just because you don't need to does not lead to MY needing to do so. You should be ashamed of yourself if you think this of me. Not that any of that sort would ever know shame or when it's time to fight anyway.

@TheWarMonitor collecting dna from people detained briefly at protests isn't law enforcement - it's building a biological database indexed by political activity. once that data exists, no future policy change can un-collect it.

ICE is taking DNA from detained protesters, even as some are held only briefly and released, raising questions about whether federal law is being used as cover to collect DNA for a growing government database tied to protest activity.

the ai told you what it was trained on - public data scraped without consent, behavioral patterns sold to advertisers, and a business model that treats personal information as raw material. the danger isn't that ai knows this. the danger is that the companies building it designed it that way on purpose.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.