@JacobRobinsonJD do you think there'll be a tipping point where legal systems update to be more compatible with alegal digital infra? or too radical?
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Gavin Birch 🏴
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Gavin Birch 🏴
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don't hate the selfish actor, make a more beautiful game @vKnowable @ship_armada 🚢
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@Ether_Gavin RWAs bring legal benefits and responsibilities, which DeFi will need to grapple with
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i've appreciated the luxury of using stablecoins from reputable, regulated issuers for years, but things are gonna start getting complicated
Jacob Robinson@JacobRobinsonJD
My conversation with Austin Campbell (@austincampbell) on when Circle must freeze USDC and why they probably should've after the Drift exploit. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Freeze of USDC in 16 wallets 4:31 How bank freezes work 7:27 Circle's obligation to freeze 9:40 Does Circle's terms of service even apply? 11:24 The privity problem 13:20 The five-piece legal framework that functions like a safe harbor for institutions freezing assets 16:43 DeFi's second-order exposure to asset freezes 18:29 Can DeFi adapt? 21:03 Circle's response to the Drift exploit 22:34 DeFi and the legal system 24:27 Bitcoin as an alternative 28:18 Why people like intermediaries 31:04 The Drift exploit: why Circle should have frozen USDC 36:34 The difficult line between exploit and protocol use 38:27 Real world assets on chain: the DeFi trilemma Includes paid partnership with our sponsor, @DayOneLaw. Nothing in this podcast is legal or investment advice.
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Gavin Birch 🏴 已转推
Can you launch a token in Canada? The final part of my 26000 word series explains why the answer is far more often yes than no.
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@Romy_Holland this is 1000000% not comforting whatsoever i think id kms. i barely survive off 15 min less sleep than my baseline
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this is actually not that much? that’s like one hour a day, but most of it is super front loaded so 6 months in you’re basically back to normal.
World of Statistics@stats_feed
A new baby usually deprives each of it’s parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year.
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@tbpn @cz_binance beyond gambling on tokens, no discerning org will adopt blockchain tech until their transaction data's secure (private)
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Binance CEO @cz_binance says the crypto industry is too transparent:
"I think right now the crypto industry is too transparent. It's actually extremely easy to track crypto funds. The blockchain is a public ledger. If you couple that with a few centralized exchanges, KYC information, you can track most of the transactions pretty accurately. So I think right now there's a lack of preserving of privacy."
"For example, if your company pays everybody in crypto and if you get one payment today on the blockchain, you can just trace to the address that paid you and see how many addresses that address paid in the last week, then you can figure out everybody's salary. That's a privacy issue."
"Another example, if you pay for a hotel [in crypto], then people will know that you're going to stay at that hotel, which for some people may create security issues. So there's little problems like those that are not solved yet."
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That’s why Telegram Secret Chats never show message content in push notifications. Since 2013, Secret Chats have remained the most secure usable way to communicate. US gov funded Signal has too many questionable dependencies on other US companies (AWS, MS, Intel SGX…)
International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone via notification storage, the place where all your notifications are stored for up to one month. Notification storage stores data from all messaging apps, it's a big flaw in iOS. But there's a way to turn it off...
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gotta respect this
btw, @dguido's a great follow
Trail of Bits@trailofbits
In 8 weeks we went from 5% to 67% Claude Code co-authorship on merged PRs across 59 contributors and 35 repos, from security engineers to PMs to sales. All through systematized adoption any exec can copy. blog.trailofbits.com/2026/03/31/how…
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I'm very worried that there are effectively no politically pluralistic online platforms left. Everyone goes deeper and deeper into their filter bubbles. No one tries to understand the other. Loneliness, cynicism, and xenophobia win the day. Civility, we hardly knew thee, adieu.
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Is there an alternative to the EFF that actually values freedom? Asking on behalf of many, I think.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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Gavin Birch 🏴 已转推
Leaving the hearing on @rstormsf's motion for acquittal, the only thing that was clear to me is that the government still does not understand the tech at issue. The lack of nuance, the misrepresentations about how a UI functions, and the equivocation between different technologies is really disheartening at this point in the case. The arguments SDNY advanced at this hearing on the application of Section 1960 are limitless and dangerous for all software developers.
It was good to see the judge digging in and asking detailed questions, but there is no way to predict how she will rule on Storm's motion. Given that she was focused on dates for retrial at end of 2026, I think we can expect to see the case continue.
DeFi Education Fund@fund_defi
DOJ is pushing forward with its case in U.S. v. Storm, continuing to test the limits of how criminal law applies to software developers. Our latest blog breaks down what’s changed, what arguments are being made, and what’s at stake 👇 defieducationfund.org/u-s-v-storm-20…
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@EliBenSasson as a last resort
if even half of the BTC supply can be stolen, how valuable will your quantum-safe btc be worth?
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THIS IS HUGE. Bitcoin is Quantum-Safe TODAY.
Even if a quantum computer appeared, one that breaks the conventional Bitcion signatures, it shows a practical way to create safe Bitcoin transactions. WITH NO CHANGE TO BITCOIN PROTOCOL!!!
Avihu Levy ✨🐺@avihu28
Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transactions Without Softforks github.com/avihu28/Quantu…
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@DaveShapi sorry for your loss
open.spotify.com/track/6XGKlssG…
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My high school girlfriend died a couple years ago. We hadn't seen each other in like twenty years but we reconnected a couple times here and there.
It still feels kinda surreal. Like, she could have lived for decades longer. And it kinda makes me miss her more. Before she died, it was still like "hey this cool person is still out there, having a life, hope she's doing well"
But now her journey is fully over. I'm not going to say something cliché like "death is what gives life meaning" but it does serve as a definitive bookend.
She was the one who introduced me to stuff like Ghost in the Shell, which has had a huge impact on my writing, and other parts of my work.
Miss you Becca.
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@ChainLinkGod @DeFi_EzR3aL @chaoslabs from the outside it seemed like Labs pushed out the service providers and took control of the DAO, so i've it helpful to have a bit of additional context surfaced
esp as a builder who plans to use Aave v4. thanks!
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This goes beyond simple mistakes and poor comms, Chaos Labs has shown a pattern of toxic behavior in actively undermining their partners and clients
Why should Chaos be free to gaslight people about their intentions toward Aave and attack/undermine Chainlink repeatedly, but I can’t call attention to that behavior?
I don’t see these behaviors as equivalent at all, it’s worthy a couple tweets talking about it, especially since Chaos purposely helped fuel the public dogpile on Aave to save face
And def not saying Chainlink is perfect either, there are always improvements to be made and mistakes to learn from, but what I’m highlighting is that Chaos has shown themselves to be an unreliable partner
A warning that people can choose to listen to or to ignore
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So let me get this straight
@chaoslabs screws up a risk oracle CAPO config for Aave and causes $25M (10,938 wstETH) in false liquidations
Then Chaos goes to Aave and asks for $8M and to become the exclusive price oracle provider (push out Chainlink), the exclusive risk manager (push out LlamaRisk), and the exclusive vault provider
Aave says no but offers a ~2x budget increase to $5M anyways to cover their work for the new V4 markets
Chaos says no and decides to walk away as they were leaving the risk business anyways
But not before making a dramatic public exit saying they’re leaving Aave based on “principles” and torching the relationship in the most unrecoverable manner as possible
Genuinely, why would anyone want to work with this company after seeing how horribly they treat their clients and partners?
Not the first time they’ve tried to rewrite history or undermine Chainlink like this btw
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@L0laL33tz do you think Iran will stop accepting btc if the US sanctions on Iran are lifted?
but yeah, agree. it's too easy for assets on transparent ledgers to become socially non-fungible
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Iran demanding payment in bitcoin in the Strait of Hormuz is not the win you think it is.
"Terrorist financing" is the one major concern that will push CLARITY Act DeFi discussions on KYC/AML over the edge. And the biggest terrorist there is, according to the US, is the very country now demanding payment in BTC – explicitly to bypass sanctions and confiscation.
If you KYC every endpoint, BTC can be confiscated just as well as any other asset on earth: through the threat of force and violence. Ensuring freedom of transaction in the US (and arguably anywhere else) just became a hell of a lot harder.
Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine
BREAKING: 🇮🇷 Iran is accepting bitcoin for transit toll payments — Financial Times
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so the thing about evolution is that the architecture feels vibecoded even tho it isn't
James Prestwich@_prestwich
so the thing about Ethereum is that the architecture feels vibecoded even tho it isn't two binaries to run a 32-byte stack machine with an MPT trie and two incompatible homebrewed serialization schemes is the most "junior engineer with unlimited Claude" I've ever seen
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@AragonProject we will attempt to do this better w @ship_armada
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Gavin Birch 🏴 已转推
Thrilled to jam with this all-star cast in upcoming episodes of Law of Code. What would you like to hear from them?
@valkenburgh on Lewellen appeal
@SH_Brennan on control framework
@jchervinsky on developer protections
@austincampbell on freezing USDC
@mikekatz29 on AI & privilege
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ethereum
Wintermute@wintermute_t
The cypherpunk dream has nowhere to go, except maybe Ethereum Our CEO @EvgenyGaevoy on why @ethereumfndn is ahead of the curve for the first time, and why @ethereum might be the only blockchain still publicly committing to its cypherpunk origins His opinions with @_choppingblock ↓
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