1. LFG
2. Since when was EU bigger than US (I must have missed that)
3. Deng had the right idea, Xi went back to communism. Lucky us.
4. ⁠Japan shows us what happens when you hit debt to GDP of 250%

U.S. now doing its best to run the Japan experiment as fast as possible (debt

If the SEC succeeds in designating ether as a security, companies and developers would see years of work squandered and billions of dollars of economic value destroyed that could potentially lead to widespread layoffs of American workers.

For more:
consensys.io/crypto-regulat…

I am very excited to be a badgeholder for the upcoming *Filecoin RetroPGF* (inspired by Optimism!).

I am deep in the woods of Filecoin protocol design that it is so refreshing to see many great projects building important public goods!

See more: fil-retropgf.io/projects?searc…

Tornado, Samourai, and a Warning:

In a surprising and concerning shift, the DOJ has targeted non-custodial crypto wallet developers for unlicensed money transmission, which starkly deviates from longstanding U.S. policy.

This abrupt move, seen in recent charges against

So epic — thank you Consensys 👏🎉

Today, Consensys filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The goal behind this is to ensure that Ethereum remains a vibrant and indispensable blockchain platform and to preserve access for the countless developers, market participants, and institutions

I know ETH is a commodity. You know ETH is a commodity. The CFTC knows ETH is a commodity. It's time for the SEC to admit that it still knows ETH is a commodity too. No more games. Thank you to Consensys for standing up against the SEC's unlawful expansion of authority.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the first Keybase merkle root. Still chugging along. keybase.io/_/api/1.0/merk…

Unpopular opinion: Deflation is actually the natural and healthy state of an economy:

Productivity increases over time, so supply of goods increases relative to constant money supply, and prices naturally drop. This has several obvious benefits:

Shouldn’t aging be part of drug discovery for diseases of aging? gordian.bio/blog/introduci…

Gordian exists to move therapeutic testing from plastic wells and young mice into a living environment with all the complexity present in patients with age-related disease.

We’re now

Epic lineup -- can't wait! ☀️🤩

We’re excited to share a few highlights from the programming calendar of Edge Esmeralda, our popup village in June! 🌞

The programs are diverse, ranging from community health to neurotech to AI and many other topics.

Link to the full calendar below! 👇

Co-organizing a week at Edge Esmeralda in June! I’m super excited for it - basically a summer camp w/ longevity people into the hardcore science part of it, full of thought experiments and doodling tech trees

DM me if you’re interested in coming, w/ an interesting bio thought

Week 2 will be focused on LabWeek, a collab between Protocol Labs, Foresight Institute and Edge City.

We will assemble leaders from frontier fields for a week of progress talks, deep dives, salons, experimental labs & carte blanche, as well as plenty of unconference programming!

Two more privacy developers arrested in the US today.

This time for building a bitcoin privacy service.

Where does it stop?

'The Samourai wallet developers should have known you can't host a centrally operated mixer.'

Ok, well the tornado cash developers deployed privacy as

🚨 Reminder 📣: Nominations to the libp2p rPGF round are still open! Nominate yourself or other projects by April 30th! 🤩

github.com/libp2p/libp2p/…

SO INCREDIBLY PROUD to share 2 HUGE updates:

1) The first baby was born using Orchid technology — and he’s super cute 🥰

2) I tested my own embryos with Orchid — we got SO much information & l feel confident now 🚀

This is the future of how babies will be born!

Announcing: The Edge City Fellowship

For: Ambitious 18 - 21 year olds
What: Spend a month co-living and co-building with the world’s most impactful innovators.

This is bad.

Crypto is not just about trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of protecting freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy.

And these values unfortunately continue to be under attack, globally.

It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10