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cofounder @nillion // building the Blind Computer for private inference, storage, and compute // opinions my own and don’t represent anyone else etc etc
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suppressing freedom fails eventually. when agency is blocked, life routes around it—through new social systems and technologies. Bitcoin emerged as a reaction to the broken social contract of money. Nillion is laying the same groundwork for privacy.
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welcome to ethereum, nillion. having spoken to the team lately, i have gained some interesting insights on their “WHY ETHEREUM” will share more over the coming weeks (:
Nillion ➡️ Ethereum A new chapter for Nillion begins today. We’re bringing the Blind Computer to Ethereum. More below 👇
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Listened to a webinar on law & AI just now. It’s crazy how deeply “privacy by legal contract” is (still) embedded in the system and how little that seems to be shifting. Comments like (paraphrased) “Using OpenAI directly might be risky, but if you go through a third party with
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when ppl ask, "why is privacy a thing again?" this is why they think they own you, your thoughts, and your choices and soon your money
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the Blind Computer would never do this to you
A Figma sales rep was trying to get us to upgrade. We did a meeting but decided no, so he wrote this back (see photo). Excuse me, what? “I don’t like your answer so I went digging through your data to find info to help me make a sale”. I’m not okay with that.
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(pls do ask these question and become better informed about trust assumptions!) run local if you can, if you can't then pick a stack that can solve your problems with a trust, performance, and cost tradeoff you find acceptable simple as
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in crypto don't ask FHE ppl where the decryption key is don't ask MPC ppl how big the cluster is and how strong the anti-collusion incentives are don't ask ZK ppl how to do anything other than prove don't ask TEE ppl what happens if they have physical access
There's no such thing as Fully-Homomorphic Decryption. Anytime you see a system using FHE to compute on your sensitive data, remember: someone has the key. If its not you, do you trust them?
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Learn all about nilCC in less than a minute 👇
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spent 48h integrating @nillion's stack to bring user-owned storage to our testers loved every second of it, it really is beautiful
Mass surveillance is an offense to liberty. We build with @nillion to protect you and your close ones with the best-in-class product. Privacy is blind 💙 We will win!
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it's crazy to think this year's EthOnline marks 4 years since I dipped my toes into the ethereum builder space at my 1st @ETHGlobal hackathon 🥺 for EthOnline 2025 I built 🌒 Eclipse, a private data marketplace where AI verifies encrypted content so you can buy products with
ethglobal.com
private data marketplace where AI verifies encrypted content so you can buy with confidence
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TLDR; all of this newer AI stuff (AI web browsers, pendants, etc) are spyware unless they are designed as private-by-design from the ground up
🚨 The friend pendant is not your friend Someone reverse-engineered the device, exposing lack of basic security: - Anyone can connect via Bluetooth and hear the microphone's recordings - Friend's audio is unencrypted. - Audio can be accessed on non onboarded devices as well
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Private genomics, running on privacy-preserving AI. Gnillion ⚔️
Monadic DNA Explorer now uses @nillion's nilAI mainnet instance. ⚡️LLM analyses run much faster now. 🤖 gpt-oss-20b provides more intelligent commentary on genetic traits
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just support privacy in all ecosystem
privacy is the last remaining 1,000x in crypto we got adoption, we got scale, we got trading but we all slept on the core ideal of the cypherpunks, and we're gonna bring it back, while institutions are sidelined idgaf what coin you buy, just support privacy in all ecosystems
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MAKE PRIVACY SO EASY THEY CAN'T REFUSE
how do we put nilai into the hands of more devs? make it work with the tools they already use. with 3.69M downloads a week on npm, @aisdk is the de facto standard for building ai apps. I built a custom provider that plugs nilAI (privacy-preserving LLMs in TEEs) straight into
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privacy is personal vote with your usage. if you think encrypted communication is important, get your friends on @signalapp. if you think private money is important, use @RAILGUN_Project & @Zcash if you want privacy to be more than a meta then use and value private solutions.
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you deserve that world too anon
Your child deserves to grow up without being tracked, tagged, and profiled before they can speak. We owe them a better digital world.
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crypto is a much more exciting place to work when ideology is back on the feed instead of just pure mimetics privacy is good
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