Josh M.

Zcash Targeting Post-Quantum Crypto Milestone by 2027 decrypt.co/367250/zcash-t…

Zcash Quantum Recoverability security proofs got agreed upon Wednesday, and now the PR's are in. Whose going to be first to test out quantum recoverability on mainnet 👀

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

This is incredible: Elon Musk will receive 200 million super-voting shares in SpaceX ONLY IF the company establishes a permanent Mars colony with at least 1 million people. In other words, Elon Musk will only receive this pay package if 1 million people live on Mars. In other words, Elon Musk's biggest goal is now establishing a colony on Mars with a similar population as Dallas, Texas. Musk is so optimistic about this goal that the vast majority of his pay is now contingent on it. Life on Mars is closer than many expect.

New Anthropic research: Project Deal. We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

@nytimes Thank you for downplaying the explosive facts revealed yesterday, about how they were financing racism while claiming to fight racism. Your never ending propaganda for the left is truly a sight to behold!

Over 500 rocket landings now

@clerkclirk @mert Black Friday sale came early this year. Buy more on clearance while we can.

@mert please tell ppl again that the $ZEC they bought at 800 is still the same with the $ZEC they can buy now at 70% discount.

@mert @clerkclirk Black Friday sale came early this year. Buy more on clearance while we can.

@clerkclirk the $ZEC they bought at 800 is still the same with the $ZEC they can buy now at 70% discount

All roads lead to Universal Basic Income.

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations. With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

Claim emissions now on Commons Chain ↓ commons.syndicate.io

SYND stakers can now claim Base Pool emissions generated by the appchains they supported in Epoch 4.

Prayers for the people of Iran After more than 45 years of a theocratic regime that has killed 10s of thousands of its own people, I hope the Iranian people can choose their destiny

Elon Musk just proved ChatGPT’s bias isn’t a bug. It’s a programmed instruction. Musk: “People did experiments like, ‘Write a poem praising Donald Trump,’ and it won’t. But you ask, ‘Write a poem praising Joe Biden,’ and it will.” Not a hallucination. Not a glitch. A deliberate asymmetry baked into the most widely used AI system on earth. Musk: “It’s programmed to be that way.” That word matters. Not learned. Not emergent. Programmed. Chosen. Installed deliberately by the people who built it. When a system refuses one political figure but praises another, it stops being a knowledge engine. It becomes a political tool wearing the costume of objectivity. Rogan called it sketchy. Musk went further. He confirmed it’s intentional. The most dangerous bias isn’t the one an AI learns from data. It’s the one its creators deliberately install. AI built on feelings, opinions, and political guardrails rather than first principles doesn’t stay biased at today’s capability level. It scales with the bias intact. As the system gets smarter, as it begins improving itself, those embedded distortions don’t dilute. They compound. A slightly skewed foundation becomes a violently skewed superintelligence. Not because anyone chose that outcome. Because nobody stopped to question the assumptions baked in at the beginning. The AI we build should be curious. Genuinely curious. Driven to discover truth the way science at its best is driven to discover truth. Not to confirm what its creators believe. Not to protect what its funders prefer. To find what’s actually real and follow it wherever it leads. It should care about humanity not as an abstract directive but as a first principle. Every human. Not the ones whose politics match the training data. Objective. Non-biased. Relentlessly honest. That’s not a nice feature. It’s the only version that stays safe as it surpasses us. Which raises the question nobody building these systems wants to answer publicly. If the companies shaping our future are willing to put their thumb on the scale for a poem, what else are they quietly restricting. The AI race stopped being about compute. It became about truth. About who controls what a billion people are allowed to ask and what answers they’re permitted to receive. Once that control embeds at the foundation level it doesn’t get questioned. It becomes invisible. The way things are. And nobody remembers it was ever a choice someone made for everyone else.

@MamdaniWatch Translation: - Money laundering - Money laundering - Money laundering - Money laundering - Money laundering

It’s not just about outside interest. Zcash cannot win the platform game of tokenized assets. That is not our muscle. There are purpose built chains whose entire focus is asset issuance, and even they struggle to stand out. Going down that path dilutes what Zcash is known for. Decentralized ZSAs mean a chain full of noise and speculative tokens. 
Centralized ZSAs mean assets that can be frozen, which cuts against the very principles that made Zcash matter. And this is before we even talk about competition from other privacy coins that keep their privacy pool clean instead of mixing it with everything else. Zcash does not win by trying to be everything. Zcash wins by being the best at one thing. Private, censorship resistant money.

@dismad8 Why is the timing interesting? I supported ZSAs and spent months trying to garner outside interest. There has been no outside interest unless ZSAs can be compromised. ZEC found pmf and we have a small window to affect global change at scale. And so I changed my mind.

"a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization." - Elon Musk In the last three weeks: SpaceX acquired xAI, merging the world's largest rocket company with one of the fastest-moving AI labs on the planet. SpaceX valued at $1 trillion. The stated goal of the merger: build orbital data centers. A constellation of a million satellites that generate AI compute in space, powered by near-constant solar energy with near-zero operating costs. Elon Musk's words: "Within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space." The math he laid out: launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute per ton adds 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually. The long-term path is 1 terawatt per year from Earth launches alone. And with lunar factories using electromagnetic mass drivers, 500 to 1,000 terawatts per year into deep space. Elon Musk also announced SpaceX is building a self-growing city on the Moon. Target: under 10 years. First uncrewed landing: March 2027. Lunar manufacturing will feed the orbital compute network. Factories on the Moon building satellites and launching them deeper into the solar system. And the rocket that makes all of it possible, Starship V3, with 100+ tons to orbit, orbital refueling, and Raptor 3 engines, is targeting its first flight in mid-March. The plan: launches every hour, 200 tons per flight, millions of tons to orbit per year. The most powerful rocket in history. Aimed at the Moon. Designed to launch the largest AI infrastructure ever built. Weeks from flying. It's happening.