I really respect that Zcash cares about full stack privacy Onchain privacy alone isn’t enough. Network level leaks, like exposing your IP address, can still be used to identify you We’re working toward this on Ethereum too. More to share soon :)

Yesterday, @brian_armstrong, @vladtenev, @arjunsethi, @mikebelshe, @SergeyNazarov, @OneMorePeter, @cameron, @tyler, @cdixon, and @alanapalmedo were with President Trump as he claimed his administration had ended the war on crypto Meanwhile, the US government is still prosecuting @rstormsf for developing Tornado Cash, a privacy protocol Many of these same industry leaders now say privacy is one of crypto’s greatest needs. If you have direct access to the president and publicly champion privacy, but refuse to say Roman’s name or speak up for him, your support for privacy is hollow You cannot claim to support privacy while remaining silent as a developer is prosecuted for building it

Ok last time I’ll talk about this (probably not) If you take any sort of objective look at the memecoin landscape, or watch any of the @coffeebreak_YT videos where people literally admit to having multiple computers ready the second a coin launches so they can snipe it and dump on everyone else, it’s hard to come away thinking this was ever a healthy industry My view is the main reason it was able to grow to the size it did was the completely backwards incentives created during operation choke point 2.0. Gensler’s SEC sent wells notices and enforcement threats to legitimate companies trying to build positive sum use cases, while ignoring huge amounts of obvious predatory behavior happening in plain sight When regulators punish people trying to build legitimate products while failing to police actual fraud and manipulation, you shouldn’t be surprised when the industry shifts toward the latter I think this set crypto back years, and we’re still dealing with the effects But we also have agency here. We can actively fight against it by refusing to participate in and normalize negative sum use cases, and instead build and support things that are actually useful /endrant

Tomorrow at 4pm UTC Ethereum Builders Live with @jchaskin22 and @arlery, CMO at @OctantApp We'll explore how Octant funds public goods, its new voting app, past funding epochs, and Epoch 13, a new 100 ETH matching round focused on privacy.

I think “tokenized MLMs” is honestly too generous These launchpads are breeding grounds for insider pump and dumps and snipers. Watch any of the Coffeezilla videos covering this stuff My favorite is the one where he interviews a guy who basically admits on camera to doing exactly this and says he doesn’t care because he knows there won’t be any legal consequences

Free Roman Storm The ENTIRE tech industry (not just crypto) should take a close look at the very unfair case that Roman, an innocent developer, is going through Tech only advances if we PROTECT software developers

Sooooo, the issuance reduction debate… 💠 My journey with this topic started with a “this is dumb” initial reaction back in 2023, and has evolved to “this CAN makes sense” recently. I am still against the proposal, but let me walk you through the thinking process. I think a lot of the actual nuance is buried in a sea of vague arguments. Let’s try to fix it! I am not against capping issuance as such, I recognize the security argument as potentially valid. The app layer stack would be able to take the pain and work with it - if the fix and the arguments seemed more solid. I don't see that being the case right now. ->

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