Alex & Books 📚 If I had to do it over again, I would shelve every other book and just read The Beginning of Infinity as slowly as possible, and listen to Brett Hall ‘s podcast alongside. Start with a solid foundation.

Chamath Palihapitiya (@Chamath) mentioned this transaction where he bought a piece of land in Lake Tahoe for $1.6M worth of BTC in the new #ALLIN Podcast episode with CZ 🔶 BNB. Decided to go and find it.

gov trying to steal my zcash with unrealized capital gains tax

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”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli. Shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million

3 months ago, I quit my job to chase a dream: to build an affordable, convenient, plastic-free coffee maker. Grateful for everyone who has reserved ❤️ puresteelco.com

Yuval Rooz I still face severe prison time for building a privacy protocol. I don’t know how anyone can build privacy tools safely in this environment.

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We just made OpenClaw stupid easy to set up. One command. 60+ open source models. Under 60 seconds. Meet ParaClaw 🧵

You should probably know what information KYC providers collect, and send to the govt... The full teardown is enlightening vmfunc.re/blog/persona Privacy is a right.

Zcash

It's privacy season.

a) what?

A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children, while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer children. 🧵.

Huge launch. Standing on the shoulders of the Zcash giants, NEAR Protocol just debuted Confidential Intents allowing confidential execution for cross-chain transactions. This the way. Privacy first.

Project Tachyon Roadmap is out - Ragu (HALO-like scheme) - Payment Protocol (w/ Post-Quantum Privacy) - Shielded Protocol (leveraging Ragu) won't be surprised if this goes live in 2026. tachyon.z.cash/roadmap/

Robotaxi numbers are crazy. 🤯 It’s 50-80% cheaper than Uber, Lift, Waymo you don’t tip the driver or hope he is not reckless, a weirdo, etc… Real ride example: $3.84 vs. $9.93 Uber (70% off) Robotaxi is the unlock of Tesla, going to he a wild 2026-2027.

The new KPI is not how many Github commit you did this month, it's how much AI compute you've spent this month.

Reading for a second time the beginning of infinity by David Deutsch and took even more notes this time around. Best book I read in a long time.