I’ll probably write an article or maybe host a space on why so-called “opt-in” privacy features are largely a mirage. Leakage is inevitable when privacy is bolted on as an optional mode, especially in architectures leaning on TEEs. Without cryptographic end-to-end guarantees,

think zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ mentioned this on a podcast with Arjun Khemani on how DEXs enabling Zcash trading inevitably leak privacy when you’re going through something like a BTC/ZEC pair. the only real fix? a DEX that’s private by default, where every hop, order placement, matching,

lucid.⛩️

Institutional momentum for ZK is insane right now - White House endorses it for private KYC - Coinbase CLO wants to fix the Bank Secrecy Act with it - Google Wallet uses it for age verification The TAM of proving isn't just crypto. It's every government and Fortune 500.

It’s 3 AM again and every genius squatting in my head just woke up. whipping up flowcharts, documenting in ddocs, interrogating GPT-5, and committing high-verbosity code felonies in rust and solidity. countdown to the midcurve reset: T-minus a few hours.

took some week off the gym and 50kg dumbbells currently feels like I’m tryna lift a house… yeah this sucks way more than a break up

my ex-girlfriend’s ledger wbu

i am inside octra

💯💯💯 Most people want at least the privacy they’re used to in tradfi Most people don’t want cypherpunk/illegal privacy + shit UX (realistically most current privacy tech) This is a huge difference that lots of crypto people conflate imo then think privacy doesn’t matter

long fucking touchgrass break over and I’m hearing rumours privacy doesn’t have PMF but centralized commie surveillance data harvesting, MEV and frontrunning landmine with dox your entire financial life history over a $5 mojito bill split infrastructure is the way to go, gg

seems the entire CT is suddenly bullish prediction markets… what prediction market can I use to short prediction markets?

*me figuring out problems interesting, I think I might have solved… although it does open up a problem… hmm unless… but what if… although if putting in consideration… I suppose I could… *great idea I should put on pants

Myth #2: The internet works fine without privacy

yeahhh right, and quantum mechanics was invented by starbucks to sell more coffee.

“but institutions are already using DeFi on public blockchains”

I’m out of tweet ideas for the day you’re just gonna have to imagine this one’s a banger

by 2032, your grocery delivery app will leak your late-night ice cream orders to a credit oracle, which downgrades your health risk score then auto-liquidates your staked life policy to cover impulse snacking risk on a DeFi insurance protocol. and thats why we need privacy.

we don’t see as many whitepapers as before i use to love seeing why I never stayed studying theoretical physics after seeing implementations of said whitepapers

eating salad right in front of my plants to assert dominance

sometimes it hurts a little that the goal and mission of ethereum was initially to decentralise the internet hence “web3” but we found solace, money and “pmf” in decentralizing finance and the term “web3” became cringey… technical improvements and infrastructure has since