Zatoshi
@Zac_Aztec
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Co-founder of Aztec Network. Building the Private World Computer. Cryptographer, software engineer, ex-particle physicist. Plonk co-author. Huff inventor.
Joined July 2018
Crypto has memes, markets, and mania, but almost no memory. So I wrote our missing memory. This is The Blockchain Canon: the ideas that built us, the myths that divide us, and the primitives that, one day, may reunite us. Remember where we came from.
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Aztec is fully decentralized and permissionless, with privacy enforced by cryptography, not trust. @jaosef and @Zac_Aztec on @Unchained_pod
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Underrated fact: Aztec's launch was a walk away test. Still no infra run by insiders.
The walkaway test is now visible as an icon for all Stage1 rollups. Should this be a requirement, meaning that all systems that fail this test will be downgraded to Stage0 ? Have your say at the forum
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The last Aztec Network Privacy Rabbit Hole™️ was today Thank you all for showing up! See you all in the New Year ❤️ (We gonna cook)
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It looks like, based on these criteria, I'm in an abusive relationship with my own government.
Monitoring her location. Restricting her from going online. Isolating her from loved ones. These are not signs of love – they are abuse. See it for what it is: https://t.co/z9ESHmyW7E
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Wonderland is a great team, this is a huge opportunity for good solidity devs
My startup, @Wonderland, is hiring 10 Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. There’s no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me, you won't regret it! RTs appreciated for reach.
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My startup, @Wonderland, is hiring 10 Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. There’s no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me, you won't regret it! RTs appreciated for reach.
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future historians may look back on this as THE TRUE moment when Western civilization began to collapse
Paul King (‘Paddington’) is set to direct the ‘LABUBU’ movie for Sony (Source: https://t.co/gEAWgEoG9m)
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What's Noir-lang? and What does Stellar have to do with this? Thank you so much about time and energy guys! @StellarOrg @NoirLang @aztecnetwork @Savio_Sou_ @bajpaiharsh244 @tomerweller @PamphileRoy @anke_g_liu @CarstenJacobsen
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This is a brilliant reflection on Vitalik's attempts to breathe life into the idea of network states What he is describing will, in time, be seen as an origin point for a movement that allows communities to innovate on culture without today's gruelling culture war melodrama
My latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://t.co/g0kIWwiV59
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These men created tools of freedom and financial independence. They wrote code and ran businesses. They are good people. They were rewarded with federal prison sentences. Keonne Rodriguez William Hill Ian Freeman Roman Sterlingov Roman Storm Free the crypto prisoners.
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There is an oversupply of transparent, undifferentiated, and boring blockspace. Why build 100k TPS if there is demand for only 10 TPS on your chain?? 2026 is the era of purpose-specific chains.
Following the death of Linea, Mode, Taiko, OP Mainnet, Sonic, Aptos, Celo, Scroll, Zksync era, Fuel, Soneium, Metis, Fantom, Harmony and more.. Can we all just agree that we don't need more chains and just build some consumer apps?
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fam today I learned I was quoted by @PatrickMcGee_ in his lastest epilogue and also got a mention in today’s @FT Alphaville in the “best of further reading” section
"Younger Americans no longer see China as a rival to be contained. They see it as simply part of the landscape, a sovereign fact of their world. They came of age after the 2008 financial crisis, after Iraq, after the chaos of January 6, and in an era when American infrastructure
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I'm very excited that we now have results from an almost two-year randomized controlled trial that we ran across thousands of businesses on Stripe: those that accepted a loan from @Stripe Capital grew annual revenue around 27% faster. (Two years isn't that long in the scheme of
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Totally agree with the core thesis here, and I think it gets even more important once you look at how crypto is actually evolving in practice High performance is becoming table stakes. Every new chain shows up with the same pitch: faster blocks, cheaper fees, better throughput.
Privacy will be the most important moat in crypto. Why? Because secrets are hard to migrate. Everyone is launching a new "high performance" blockchain lately. But these chains are hardly different from one another. Blockspace is functionally the same everywhere. And with
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I have always said that the most challenging aspect of getting a pardon for me and Bill would be getting the attention of @realDonaldTrump. He is very busy with many people competing for his attention. Today, thanks to the journalist at Decrypt, the President is aware of our
Trump Says He Will 'Look At' Pardon for Samourai Bitcoin App Dev ► https://t.co/oPLPTV69d5
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Let's imagine crypto in reverse… where all financial technology is decentralized and we are all able to move assets permissionlessly on a single global ledger And then a rogue COBOL engineer comes along and says "I've got a better idea right it's massively complicated - every
if you were designing money from scratch today, you’d get crypto.
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If $ZEC is encrypted Bitcoin, $AZTEC has the potential to become encrypted Ethereum. By solving the critical challenge of "private composability" through its custom language (Noir) and launching as a decentralized Stage 2 rollup from day one, @aztecnetwork is building a private
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