"Alice, your Uber Prime has arrived." #37c3 #thc

Been a season of narrative games (making and playing) - A workshop in a film about conjuring Alice and Bob as cryptography deities - A dialectical scenario at NPC Day about AI and UN policy - And now I get to roll with SDP, famous for the CTF games at Devcon and CCC

Declaring you are a super app is like declaring you’re a schelling point. The declaration isn’t what matters it’s the facts.

🔴 Attention Optimists 🔴 I'm going to explain the current state of Retro PGF in numbers 📈📉 Context: We're 1 day away from polls closing and 69% 😏 of projects haven't reached the 17 votes quorum‼️ read more 👇

Hey Web3 Devs, looking for some testnet tokens? I made a list of (likely all available) Faucets out there! If you know about any faucets not on my list drop the link below! github.com/anettrolikova/…

DYOR

I don't know why this is not a common practice. But please consider including your security contact as top comment for your deployed contracts. This would easily allow anyone to reach out to you if they find something severe. Many times, it's not clear from a single contract

The stability of RAI vs major fiat currencies 🗿

Crypto key management sucks. Why do we always need to sacrifice security or good experience, often both? This article explores the maze of #passkey, #webAuthn, #AA and #MPC. Combing together, an optimal solution may pop up to save our desperate souls. mirror.xyz/sevenxventures…

🤚 raise your hand if you sysoped or couriered a BBS

If Alexey Pertsev is convicted, authorities around the world might crack down on developers of privacy-enhancing tech, EFF’s Aaron Mackey told DL News. “We’re going to see a lot of potential chilling effects.” dlnews.com/articles/regul…

Decisions, decisions... 🤔💭 'Useful Not True' checkout daring me to choose wisely. Seriously, I love the Sivers-brand of roll-your-own, homemade app. Even the bugs have heart.

Nice provocations for addressing our biases generally

Wrote a (very short) story about Bulgaria. Early feedback: people take very different things from it. Started it 3 years ago, and it stuck with me all that time. Finished it last week. salimvirani.com/samo-aleko/

Maker is doubling down on SubDAOs to address core issues in typical DAO structures: shadow hierarchies that stall progress, costly proposals, and endless meetings. SubDAOs focus on team-driven decision-making. Background: daoistry.com/practices/squa…

Days are long. Years are short.

I noticed something about successful non-technical SaaS co-founders. They don’t delegate boring or time consuming tasks like testing. They don’t complain about doing customer support. They don’t push technical founders to ship faster. They pull the product forward every week.

You make knives. You are aware knives can be weapons, but you make cooking knives. You make them for disadvantaged people to cook, though many live in high-crime places. You are now facing prison because others committed crimes with your knives. Should you go to prison?

Cryptocurrency as a community is divided, and I'm glad. At the center are a group of altruistic programmer-types, the same ethos as who made the open internet. The immediate circle around them are opportunists: scammers, shillers, dealers. But the heart is still gold.