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Today we release our open source Proof of Innocence protocol that allows you to prove that your withdrawals on Tornado Cash are not from bad actors, while still maintaining your anonymity. 🔥🖥️⛓️

Ordinal Gigabrain Thread When SegWit was proposed in 2015/16 by Bitcoin Core, one of the efficiency gains described was that for nodes that are not interested in witness data, they don’t have to validate it. In fact, they don’t even have to *download* it. bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/…

How much would it cost to build and launch a balloon that reaches the stratosphere and flys across the ocean? (Asking for a friend)

If you think hyper-smart machines will eventually be invented, do you think they will most likely:

Both sides of SO MANY controversies argue over false dichotomys. Are we collectively too dumb to process a statement like “masking seems to reduce r0 by about 20%” ?

I have no idea what this is, but they’re tagging me to try to leverage my reputation for their own gain. So they’re very likely some flavor of scam.

Phone screen glass has improved so much! I remember when dropping your phone was a death sentence We don't give phone makers enough credit, since the absence of a problem is harder to see than a problem It's especially laudable because it's in their short-term interest for the

Remember net neutrality? And how the entire internet was up in arms that if we didn’t pass net neutrality laws the internet was going to get slower for some websites for some reason?

It’s time to scrap AML / KYC entirely. The idea that politicians should know how citizens spend their money is a new and deeply flawed idea. An entire generation has been fooled into thinking this is a necessary part of finance and the world continues to double down on an

The system we put together with Harberger taxes and auctions linked together seems to really be working Explainer: 1. Creator sells the Orb through an auction 2. Winner (keeper) sets a sales price 3. Keeper pays an ongoing tax—a % of the sales price they set (tax goes to the

This Giving Tuesday, I’m asking readers to consider an idea whose power comes from its simplicity — what if we who live in the richest countries in human history simply gave some of our money to people living in dire poverty? slowboring.com/p/cash-transfe…

Announcing Venice Today, we launch private, permissionless AI for the purpose of unfettered civilizational advancement: Venice.ai Full announcement: moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separ… @TryVenice A thread... 1/17

Fighting for our freedom is very costly, and I am severely underfunded for my legal defense. If you can spread the word and help, I would greatly appreciate it. x.com/freealexeyroma…

So U.S. uses backdoors in it's own Internet providers to spy on it's citizens. China says "don't mind if we do" and backdoors the backdoors. They sat for months undetected on the U.S. wiretap system for Verizon, AT&T, and more...

🚨Bitcoin Faucet History Someone has made the first transfer of 0.05 BTC he/she received from Gavin Andresen legendary Bitcoin Faucet in 2010. How cool is that...🎉

1M BTC is now enough to close the global extreme poverty gap! And if you want to start with 1 BTC, it’s enough to give life-changing cash to an entire village: givedirectly.org/crypto

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While rational optimism is the more realistic viewpoint to hold about the world, maintaining that perspective is a constant uphill struggle. Here is our latest contribution to that endeavor: a list of all the good news we could round up in 2024. humanprogress.org/1066-good-news…

Why I support privacy: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0…

Happy Halving Day everybody! #bitcoin