As I have been repeating over and over: these insane KYC requirements are the by far biggest threat to privacy. Anyone who has been victim of identity theft and had their life ruined as a consequence can tell you. Governments are putting billions of people at risk for zero

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As much as I like to dunk on Europe myself, this is misleading for several reasons: - AI devs in France take home around 100k euros *after* income and all other taxes, which is about 115k USD - France collects health insurance, unemployment insurance, retirement etc before paying

Imaginez un monde dans lequel, pour accéder à n’importe quel site internet, il faudrait faire vérifier son identité. Un monde dans lequel l’État pourrait surveiller, restreindre et contrôler votre internet. J’ai décidé de vous montrer à quoi cela ressemblera. THREAD (0/10)👇

I have a suggestion to make it even better: use FHE / Zama to enable confidential deposits / withdrawals and position settlement onchain, while keeping order book execution offchain as suggested. This gives you end to end confidentiality. Integration cost would be

Good opportunity to join us!

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered an amazing speech today on financial privacy, which included references to Phil Zimmermann’s Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Eric Hughes’ A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto. She stated: “Rather than something to be feared, we should embrace these

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People know Zama for FHE, but there are other components that make up our protocol, including a custom ZK scheme to prove encryptions are done correctly. Why a custom scheme? Because existing ones were too slow, taking tens of seconds to generate a proof in a browser. Ours

Bullish

One thing Europe is undeniably good at is cryptography. And yet, EU politicians are doing everything they can to ban it.

Can anyone help?

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Easy: ask AI to implement cryptography. It will simply refuse.

There is always at least 2 main flavor of any technology: windows vs linux, android vs ios, etc. No reason why we can’t have both EVM and SVM thriving. As long as the pie gets bigger, you will be right no matter which one you pick.

Excellent talk by Kyle O'Brien on how we can run countries onchain

DOJ just took a solid step to fix the mess that it made by prosecuting software developers under Section 1960. Criminal Division head Matt Galeotti: "Developers of neutral tools, with no criminal intent, should not be held responsible for someone else's misuse of those tools."

I’m hosting the very first Zama Dev Office Hours - Zama this Thursday at 5pm CET 🎉 We’ll talk about the ⭐️Zama Dev program ⭐️dive into the github.com/zama-ai/fhevm-… ⭐️and hang out for an AMA If you're building with FHE or just curious — come by! Live on Discord 👾

.Jack Niewold 🫡 is a great host, this was a nice conversation! We talk about AI, crypto, investing and how Zama will change onchain confidentiality forever ;)