due to current market conditions, I will now tell people I work in the non-profit technology sector

Aztec Testnet Validators Increasing Rapidly 📈🤯 In less than a day, the validator set increased by almost 20% to: ◈ Active Validators: 1,422 ◈ Queued Validators: 6,100 dashtec.xyz Become a validator & increase censorship resistance: testnet.aztec.network

A special day in Warsaw, my hometown. Some historical facts: - Russian forces deliberately withheld aid, they were on the eastern bank of the Vistula River in Warsaw, watching from across the river as the Germans systematically destroyed the entire city and crushed the Polish

No one: All the three letter agencies: Every breath you take And every tx you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watchin' you...

Louder, for the people in the back. Dystopia.

◈ In 2023, the UK passed the Online Safety Act ◈ Instead, progressive crypto legislation should have been passed during the Biden era window (2021-2024) ◈ The legislative mental model needs to shift from obstruction to innovation

Cybersecurity law by the Burmese military came into fully activated on July 30. Basically, they have absolute authority to check your phone on the street, and they will arrest you if you use VPN and use so-called illegal social media (X , Facebook , YouTube, etc). Yesterday, 4

REPEAL THE ONLINE SAFETY ACT

"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing" -- Herodotus, 430–420 BCE Goes hard because it's still true today.

we all wonder what a post-AGI world will look like but what about a post-surveillance world?

magnificent.

"Remember this moment... Look at us. Unloved, hunted. Cannon fodder Yet...here we are Where are you?" The war isn't over, the battle isn't lost. Fight. Develop and deploy censorship resistant privacy systems.

Privacy continues pushing full steam ahead. With new funding, high-stakes court cases, and technical milestones, our industry is recommitting to onchain privacy as a first principle. One of the longest-running efforts is Aztec, which just launched its "Adversarial Testnet" — a

We DeFi Education Fund will continue to support Roman as he fights the conviction on Section 1960, a fundamentally flawed charge from the start, and appeals it to the Second Circuit. This charge was the most technical and legally nuanced, and probably the most confusing for the jury. It

This is why I was so angry last Winter. The court's legal reasoning to deny the motion to dismiss at the time basically said that money transmission includes anyone who facilitates the movement of tokens on chain, and that the FinCEN guidance for who must license is irrelevant.

I still can't believe judge Failla and her clerk made Mos Eisley jokes about Tornado Cash - unprofessional and signalling bias at the very least.

"you can indict a ham sandwich" - attributed to Sol Wachtler, who was the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals in the 1980s and early 1990s

lawyers are cooked guys.