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1/ New privacy paper with
@VitalikButerin
, Jacob Illum (
@chainalysis
),
@mat_nadler
,
@fschaer
!
We explored new compliance opportunities made possible by , where users can provably dissociate from illicit funds.
story below 🧵👇
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1/ We fixed
@tornadocash
😇
v0 of is live on
@optimismFND
test out the demo, but please note:
- this is experimental code
- it has not been audited
- the trusted setup is untrusted
read the full story anon 🧵👇
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1/ His name is Virgil Griffith
It was great fun to see everyone this week in NYC, but I’ll admit, I was walking around with a hole in my heart and a looming sense of dread.
Virgil’s trial starts this Monday.
#FreeVirgil
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the most used crypto in iran is USDT on Tron and this makes me seriously question everything I do
how tf is the brock pierce shadow bank and the justin sun shadow blockchain doing more for the cause of financial freedom in iran than anything I've contributed to in ethereum?
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1/ gm from the Netherlands
@alex_pertsev
's trial starts today
he stands accused of laundering $1.2B via Tornado Cash
I believe he should be free—open source devs should NOT be held criminally liable for the crimes of foreign terrorists!
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my billionaire ETH friends are doing deep dives into life extension research to see how they can accelerate it
that feeling when Ethereum actually ends up defeating death itself
LFG
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need a swiss lawyer for tornado defense stuff asap plz send recs
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my take on the $sushi
@SushiSwap
debacle 👇
tl;dr - it takes longer than a week to build a community
it takes love😘
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this trial is so fucked up
the judges ask him “do you think your using the chainalysis sanctions oracle prevented criminal use”
Alexey explains “there is nothing anyone could do to prevent users from interacting with the smart contracts”
then, in the next question - “why…
1/ gm from the Netherlands
@alex_pertsev
's trial starts today
he stands accused of laundering $1.2B via Tornado Cash
I believe he should be free—open source devs should NOT be held criminally liable for the crimes of foreign terrorists!
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he pleaded guilty
made a plea agreement with the Gov for a recommended 5-6 year sentence
was brutal to watch, he could barely keep his head up
only hope now is leniency from the judge
1/ His name is Virgil Griffith
It was great fun to see everyone this week in NYC, but I’ll admit, I was walking around with a hole in my heart and a looming sense of dread.
Virgil’s trial starts this Monday.
#FreeVirgil
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1/ New Fundraiser for Roman Storm & Alexey Pertsev!
gm ETH nerds,
Today, I am proud to announce a new fundraiser on
@juiceboxETH
to support
@rstormsf
@alex_pertsev
legal defense.
Limited Edition NFTs—1 month only!
More details below 🧵👇
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honestly, it's ponzis all the way down
god ponzis, nationalism ponzi, racism ponzi, woke ponzi
your most important decision is: "which ponzi"
best bet is to try and be early and avoid rugpulls
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I teamed up with an elite hacker to better understand the security risks of putting money into
@compoundfinance
, and did some of my own analysis on the incentives as well.
🔥Get it while it's hot!🔥
cc
@rleshner
@brendan_dharma
@RyanSAdams
@koeppelmann
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This just in -
@Uniswap
v3 is lit AF 🔥
Earned $5K on a $350K concentrated ($250 range) ETH/USDC position in 16 hours 🤑
Earned about the same on 10x the capital with ETH/USDC on a wide ($4K range) position over the same period 🤯
This is definitely the future 🦄
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Roman Storm was arrested today 🫡
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12/ All of us in crypto today are downstream of the original cypherpunks.
We inherit their 50 year struggle to emancipate cryptography as a weapon exclusively for militaries, and provide it as a tool for individuals to use to protect their speech from illegitimate surveillance.
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relatedly, please tag your favorite iranian NFT artists 💐
I'm going shopping
is there a discord community of iranians in crypto/web3 that I don't know about or should I make one?
tag your favorite iranian friends
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@azsantosk
@Nakamotolisk
@sassal0x
@shrnkld
@koeppelmann
reminder, if your "stablecoin" can't unwind, it's probably a ponzi scheme
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if this prosecutor has their way, everyone in crypto will be guilty of some sort of criminal activity
they are trying to make the case that:
1. if you knew that Tornado Cash *could have* been used for illicit activity, you should have gated the smart contract (they don't seem…
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is there a discord community of iranians in crypto/web3 that I don't know about or should I make one?
tag your favorite iranian friends
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#DeFi
deserves an independent stable reserve asset and unit of account, and so does the world!
Incredibly proud to be launching RAI today! 🗿
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As you all know
@alex_pertsev
and
@rstormsf
are facing criminal charges for their involvement in
@TornadoCash
.
Their forthcoming legal battle will not only impact the rest of their lives, but will also set the precedent for the entire crypto ecosystem. They defend our right to…
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fuck
RIP nikolai 🫡
humanity is lucky that nikolai (
@delete_shitcoin
) is still coding up the future of central banking despite all the people trying to kill him 🫡
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crypto is not here to kill and replace the king
crypto is here to change the logic of power
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@SecBlinken
@USTreasury
actually
@TornadoCash
is a smart contract deployed by a US/European dev team, was funded initially by
@MolochDAO
and is used for protecting personal privacy
if you want to talk to us you know where to find us
@ethereumJoseph
@VitalikButerin
@ConsenSys
@ethereum
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3/ Virgil is the next unfortunate anti-hero on the cypherpunk chopping block.
Before him came Aaron Swartz, who Virgil worked with to develop tor2web, a proxy for allowing anonymous publishing on the internet.
Aaron took his own life in 2013.
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1/ let's get ⛅️HAI⛅️
very excited to announce HAI
multi-collateral RAI fork on
@optimismFND
coming soooooon 🙃
gm
pussy juice on my beard and high as fuck
I will announce new stablecoin soon
happy 4/20
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9/ Virgil is unequivocally not a national security threat.
It's an embarrassment that the US government feels that this is a justified use of taxpayer money, when there are actual bad guys out there.
Like Aaron Swartz before him, Virgil is the victim of prosecutorial overreach.
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when you're drinking at ETH Denver make sure to pour one out for the homies that can't make it this year 🫡
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Update: REKT ☠️
This just in -
@Uniswap
v3 is lit AF 🔥
Earned $5K on a $350K concentrated ($250 range) ETH/USDC position in 16 hours 🤑
Earned about the same on 10x the capital with ETH/USDC on a wide ($4K range) position over the same period 🤯
This is definitely the future 🦄
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1/ Over the last year, several of us have worked in our spare time to design and build a grants-DAO/Guild called 👹 Moloch 👹. If everything goes as planned, Moloch will launch in 1 month at
@EthereumDenver
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gm
pussy juice on my beard and high as fuck
I will announce new stablecoin soon
happy 4/20
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Interested in an alternative to
@MakerDAO
?
Announcing MetaCoin—The Governance-Minimized Decentralized Stablecoin!
Because money is too important to be left up to humans!
🤑🤑🤑🤑
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my web3 litmus test is:
"can this thing rugpull sex workers"
I use it as a proxy for religious authoritarianism embedded in a system
ETH, ENS are safe
banks, social not so much
brantly is building a censorship resistant web3 future
who cares what his fav god ponzi is
✝️
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I started out in this space 10 years ago, pumped full of central banker conspiracy BS from zeitgeist et al
my attitude was very "burn down the banks"
I regret to inform everyone that the more I learn how the financial system works
the more radicalized and angry I get
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starting a crypto venture fund for only anonymous founders
thesis: identity is liability
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1/ 🌪️ RIP
@TornadoCash
governance 🌪️
IF YOU HAVE FUNDS IN TORNADO NOVA
GTFO ASAP
there is about $1m in the nova contract, that the governance attacker can rugpull via proposal
fortunately the proposal would take 7 days to execute
best not wait!
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Just got turned down for a security audit because the team was "unsure about the optics".
I think people are going to regret taking positions like this. I will remember who supported us when no one else did, and who only came around once it became "socially acceptable".
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6/ In Virgil’s case, he is on trial for providing “highly technical knowledge” to North Korea which could in theory help them evade sanctions.
This is ridiculous, because it’s overwhelmingly likely that Virgil didn’t teach them anything they couldn’t have learned on YouTube.
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gm
visited king
@haydenzadams
of the uniswap at their office 🦄
was pleased to discover their office *almost* has as many unicorns as my house 😇
it's a testament to his leadership & team that 6 years after pioneering DEXes they are still
#1
, and now fighting SEC overreach 🫡
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8/ Unsurprisingly,
@VitalikButerin
agrees that Virgil didn’t teach the North Koreans anything exotic.
3. I don't think what Virgil did gave DRPK any kind of real help in doing anything bad. He *delivered a presentation based on publicly available info about open-source software*. There was no weird hackery "advanced tutoring".
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2/ As many of you know, Virgil is facing up to 20 years in prison for attending and presenting at the Pyongyang Blockchain Conference in North Korea.
The US Government wants to make an example out of him for (allegedly) violating international sanctions.
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the ethos of ethereum is to seek out positive sum games
as a result, Ethereum has succeeded at creating one of the greatest, most welcoming communities in crypto
it's also why ETH folks are so prone to psyops
they falsely assume other people are like them
too trusting
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Today I’m pumped to be publishing the RAI whitepaper.
We aim to build a framework for launching Reflex Bonds, a new category of asset that provides stability relative to its underlying collateral.
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@VitalikButerin
@MolochDAO
@TornadoCash
13/ Our demo is live -
Now, users have the option to help regulators isolate illicit funds, without revealing their entire transaction history.
Let's watch a brief video of it in action:
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I am no longer a .eth
True Names Limited (TNL), the nonprofit that funds and organises development on
@ensdomains
, has terminated the contract of Brantly Millegan effective today.
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16/ This
@BanklessHQ
special is worth watching.
@TrustlessState
does a live reading of
@pet3rpan_
's entire history of the cypherpunk movement.
I too cried a bit, when I read it the first time.
It’s hard not to get choked up about this stuff.
David has an emotional moment reading the conclusion of
@pet3rpan_
’s “Before Bitcoin”.
Watch the full episode here:
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@CallaWalsh
we actually *do* really want to hear this 🫡
the more you demonstrate to Iranians that you hate their freedom, the faster they will abandon your cause ✌️
please don't stop!
YES
this is actually *exactly* what Iranians have been trying to tell everyone...
you can't be pro-Palestinian Jihad & support "Woman Life Freedom" for Iranians at the same time
I don't blame anyone for playing for their team, but I'm going to play for mine 🫡
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23/ On Monday I will be attending the first day of Virgil’s trial.
I don’t expect that too many crypto friends want to come spend a day in a courtroom full of FBI agents, but if you do, please let me know and I’ll share the details.
#FreeVirgil
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Lyn is correct, Ethereum is on track to abdicate fork choice to USDC
if it does, the entire story of decentralization and credible neutrality is basically moot
this is why we we RAI 🗿
@reflexerfinance
I've seen a lot of people critique proof-of-stake but I've not seen many people point out that stablecoin custodians can basically decide the outcome of a hard fork for any blockchain that relies heavily on its DeFi ecosystem for its value proposition.
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Two weeks ago I started working with
@kyokan_io
to prepare a report on the ETH 2.0 effort. We interviewed ETH 2.0 leads from
@prylabs
@PegaSysEng
@ChainSafeth
@ethstatus
and
@sigp_io
, as well as
@dannyryan
.
Here are our findings:
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11/ When I found out, I was scared and confused.
Why was this happening? What story are we in?
Reading cryptotwitter’s awful takes was excruciating.
But then I discovered and read
@pet3rpan_
’s retelling of history of the cypherpunk movement.
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Just deployed $700K from
@SpankChain
treasury into
@iearnfinance
yCRV vault.
Special thanks to
@BanklessHQ
@RyanSAdams
for showing me the way!
97% ROI $YFI, oh my 🤑
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if coinbase captures the Ethereum protocol any sense of "credible neutrality" goes out the window
Ethereum just becomes USA chain
this is becoming a more realistic outcome every day
U.S. validators (which includes very powerful Coinbase) are gonna push for protocol-level censorship
They can't self-help by merely avoiding facilitation of blocks containing U.S.-sanctioned txs, because under certain conditions they might be dramatically slashed from doing so.
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Just published - RFP: Ethereum GUI for Transactions
If you are interested in helping develop this Dapp, let's talk! I'll help you submit a grant proposal to
@MolochDAO
and
@meta_cartel
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funny, none of these people are actually the "community"
it's like throwing a house party with free booze and assuming everyone who shows up is your best friend
they are not
your friends are the ones helping you clean up when everyone else leaves
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5/
@alex_pertsev
does not belong in prison
He has been in jail for over 6 months for writing code
He is accused of money laundering and denied bail
Please follow
@Free__Alexey
and email hello(at)peppersec(dot)com to donate to his legal defense.
@MolochDAO
donated 200 ETH
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5/ Aaron responded by pulling a Socrates.
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the
@cosmos
ecosystem has one of the most based, skilled devs who also happens to be a monetary policy expert in
@buchmanster
and he is simply... ignored by the terra folks
tragic
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@jack
@getvicarious
so funny story, before I was an ETH dev I actually built a twitter news aggregator powered by your follows and curated lists
and then suddenly near the end of 2015 my
#Bitcoin
feed couldn't stop talking about
#Ethereum
, so I started learning about it
thanks
@jack
😘
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15/ The cypherpunks won, and eventually compelled Bill Clinton to remove cryptography from the munitions list.
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been practicing my farsi so I could read to my grandma 💞
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on the other hand,
@VitalikButerin
and
@ethereumJoseph
have been full-time for 5 years straight
many of the early core contributors, like
@ethchris
and
@peter_szilagyi
just keep shipping
so do you want to kill Ethereum? OK. Do you have half a decade to spare? No? Then GTFO.
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tfw when you rock your
@TornadoCash
T-shirt at a blockchain legal conference ✌️
thanks for having me & the
@0xbowio
team,
@stephendpalley
🤝
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biggest news in
#Bitcoin
isn't
@michael_saylor
it's the central bank of Iran announcing they are accumulating BTC on their balance sheet (from coerced purchases from regulated miners) as FX reserves
all remaining central banks are dominos at this point, watch them fall
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@ercwl
I discovered this 5 years ago when I tried to use Ethereum state channels for my camsite
our work helped rule out state channels as a long-term L2 solution and ETH nerds doubled down on plasma, which eventually became rollups
good to see Bitcoiners catching up 🫡
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anarchism is a retarded political ideology
in the absence of a "state" the "state" is whatever the strongest gang is that can impose its will ("the law") on everyone else
anyone still seriously promoting "anarchy" who is above the age of 30 should be checked for brain damage
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20/ I also deeply admire that
@VitalikButerin
didn’t take the easy path of throwing Virgil under the bus.
He defended Virgil on the grounds that “Geopolitical open-mindedness is a virtue".
His thread is worth reading.
I refuse to take the convenient path of throwing Virgil under the bus, because I firmly believe that that would be wrong. I'm signing. Reasoning below.
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as a cohort, USDC and USDT have the *most* control over Ethereum fork-choice
USDC + USDT on ETH is $75B
MakerDAO is
#1
in TVL with $8B locked, but only 7% of that is ETH and >50% of it is USDC
ETH isn't even the largest asset in DeFi, why would ETH have more weight in a fork?
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honestly she has a point
if your "DeFi protocol" is using mostly centralized stablecoins and wrapped bitcoin, maybe don't call it DeFi
ofc, this is why decentralized stablecoins like
@reflexerfinance
RAI and
@LiquityProtocol
LUSD are increasingly important as alternatives
@taha_crypto1
@diyan_slavov
The purpose of those protocols you mentioned is significantly built to a) use centralized stablecoins and wrapped bitcoin for liquidity/leverage services and 2) use centralized stablecoins as a frequent unit of account in trading.
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18/ And years from now, when cryptocurrency is widely adopted across the globe, Virgil’s presentation to North Korea will appear trivial.
It will seem as silly as prosecuting someone for sharing the “military secret” of HTTPS.
#FreeVirgil
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@jack
@getvicarious
actually a huge part of my decision to stop building on the
@Twitter
API and start building on Ethereum instead were the horror stories of twitter devs getting cut off from the API
well, I figured
#Ethereum
would never cut off my API access, so I felt more secure building on it
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1/
#DeFi
friends, it's time for a Mea Culpa on RAI
Despite our early narratives around "dampened ETH" and "inflation resistance"...
RAI is, in fact, a stablecoin 😵
Read this THREAD to understand what we got wrong, what we learned, and what it means for RAI! 🗿
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No point fighting the inevitable, instead let's keep building the alternative.
In 5 years when every country has its own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC),
#Ethereum
will rise as a public, neutral financial platform for the world.
On Ethereum, banking is a public good.
The "digital dollar" proposal is not about digitization. Dollars are already digital. Banks have digital $ fed accts. Consumers have digital $ bank accts.
Read: Digital dollar is about accounts, not dollars. Every consumer will get direct access to a Fed Account.
🚨 WARNING 👇
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17/ Today, the US Government treats cryptocurrency with as much superstition as it did encryption in decades past.
In that context, they are attempting to cast Virgil’s presentation as a military grade violation.
But just like encryption, cryptocurrency will inevitably triumph.
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gm from Tel Aviv ✌️
probably the funniest way for me to die would be in an Iranian airstrike the first time I visit Israel
the hummus here is incredible though 🙃
BREAKING:
CIA has allegedly informed Israel that Iran will attack within the next 48 hours.
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ETH-only RAI was a mistake
the ETH staking yield means that borrowing RAI against pure ETH will always have some % opportunity cost
the RAI redemption rate should almost always be negative to reflect this opportunity cost
decentralization is expensive, people don't want to pay
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So
@VitalikButerin
put me on the spot asking me how to optimize for the ETH price and I gave my thoughts on the subject
A thread👇
@VitalikButerin
Monetary policy (issuance) is only one factor, and it depends a lot on the price-time horizon. Short term price matters less, but ETH's success is path dependent so if ETH price drops more now teams might run out of funding and slow down, then projections lose credibility; spiral
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13/ The US Gov, under the Munitions Act, outlawed the sharing of cryptography as it was considered a military secret.
And so the cypherpunks printed encryption algorithms in books, distributed them via CDs, and embedded them within academic papers, in all cases breaking the law.
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