Ameen Soleimani
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coordination arms dealer @unchainiran @0xbowio https://t.co/mH2RCmSK73 @letsgethai @reflexerfinance @molochdao
Joined August 2013
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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one of my more controversial opinions is that I don't believe everyone should have a vote. one objective criteria for voting rights I like is that you earn a vote only when your tax contribution to society exceeds your public goods consumption - in other words, when your net
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Vitalik . doesn't call out the Biden admin for:. - arresting Roman Storm at gunpoint at his house in front of his daughter.- SEC going after Hayden Adams for Uniswap .- operation chokepoint 2.0 & debanking crypto companies . but calls out Trump for *checks notes* communism
@WhiteHouse so. you're abolishing price mechanisms and creating a situation where people will have to wait in lines more?. pretty sure there's a C word for that.
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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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Ethereum founder: publicly admits to sending ETH to support Ukraine via Tornado Cash shortly after the US sanctions & Alexey's arrest. Solana founder:.
@StaniKulechov @JaEsf Because of my position I don’t even trade on chain. Every once in a while I’ll do a usdc/usdt $1 swap to test priority fee pricing. Unless you are a socialist, profit == value consumer derives from the product excess of labor and costs.
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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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happy tornado cash day to all who celebrate 🎉
Privacy wins. Tornado Cash is legal. Now Roman Storm (@rstormsf) and Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) should be immediately freed, pardoned, and reimbursed by the state for their invalid prosecution.
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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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gm. consider if the conflict avoidance you made a part of your identity is free riding on the willingness of others to engage in conflicts that ultimately benefit you.
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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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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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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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Okay so I’m drunk, bored and on a plane, so I’m going to address this point by point. I’m doing this because I despise the part of the Ethereum religion that promotes euphemisms over reality, as in my view it gets in the way of real progress. Why do you think I named it.
Today's a good day to remember why we're here. We're building the future of finance—internet finance. Unstoppable global free trade, not trade wars. Credible neutrality, not entrenched interests. Permissionless innovation, not bureaucracy. Undebasable money, not money printers.
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your trenches: losing money on memes . our trenches: fighting the government. milady.
District Court officially ordered to reverse sanctions against Tornado Cash
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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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Unlike some of my peers, I take Ethereum's cultural issues seriously, especially the marxist infiltration. Thank you @ETHGlobal for giving me the opportunity to talk about what it will take to achieve an Ethereum Cultural Victory!. Slide on the next post 👇.
Ameen prioritizes Ethereum winning a cultural victory over 'religious ideologies'. He shares historical precedence for why Marxism is dangerous from his own personal experience in being Iranian. He also details how he would structure a victory for the ultimate success and
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Roman Storm was arrested today 🫡.
saw this legend walking around @EthereumDenver and had to ask for a selfie . @rstormsf @TornadoCash 🫡
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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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this is the first time ever that V has emerged from the shadows to claim EF decision making power. it means every single issue that people have brought up about EF culture & leadership is actually V's decision, and thus his responsibility. the prophet is now a king. milady.
No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board", but until that happens it's me. If you "keep the pressure on", then you are creating an environment that is.
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welcome back, Danny. tbh this is incredibly bullish for Ethereum. at @Etherealize_io Danny will be able to foster a culture of *excellence* alongside world class business operators & devs. you know, maybe Etherealize is the second foundation we needed this whole time 🥳.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum. I’ll be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building.
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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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this tweet marks the end of Vitalik as the demigod of the Ethereum religion. V has descended from the heavens to meet us monkeys in the realm of politics. you can't fight in the dirt without getting dirty. a fallen angel. milady.
No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board", but until that happens it's me. If you "keep the pressure on", then you are creating an environment that is.
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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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the Ethereum Foundation is by far the most legitimate institution in crypto
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plz plz plz don't be another gitcoin commie . milady.
.@arbitrum & @gitcoin have been my home for the past 2 years, providing sustenance, purpose & a stage to show my value. i'll now cultivate a different relation with the ethereum community, as AI x Public Goods/Governance lead at @ethereumfndn !. at a broad level, my role is going
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the real reason I was pissed off at @paradigm was bc when my cofounder Nikolai (@delete_shitcoin) died they refused to even call his parents and offer their support.
@ameensol By the way, there was a time when you threatened people on our team and tried to hold us hostage to your demands. I'm not afraid of you, so make fun of me or threaten me all you want. I still appreciate what you do for Ethereum. I just know you are wrong about us.
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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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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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ETH price going so low I may have to embrace communism.
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gm ETH nerds,. Today we reclaim privacy from the terrorists. I’m proud of our team at @0xbowio for shipping Privacy Pools on Ethereum mainnet. 🫡. Please read our official announcement here:.
gm Ethereum ☀️. It is our great honor to announce the mainnet launch of Privacy Pools!. ETH users can now achieve on-chain privacy, while still dissociating from illicit funds. It is now up to all of us to Make Privacy Normal Again 🫡. More info in this thread 👇
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Ethereum is playing Civ while the rest of you nerds are playing SimCity. not the same
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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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gm ETH nerds. the Danny Ryan news and EF exec director changes aren't even the most important thing that happened today. PRIVACY POOLS TESTNET IS LIVE. reply below with your .eth if you need some sepolia ETH to test it out 🫡.
The Privacy Pools testnet is live! . Come enjoy the future of on-chain privacy!.
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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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tfw paradigm invests $278m into FTX and then tries to talk about ETH maxis
eth maxis are solana’s strongest soldiers.
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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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fun fact @nicksdjohnson stole 75% of brantly's tokens. if you are not woke you are worth 75% less to Ethereum. milady.
@ameensol happy valentine's day ameen.
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is there anyone trying to make Ethereum *less* complex?. or are we just adding things without realizing that each new thing requires maintenance and cognitive overhead for new entrants to learn about?. at some point we're going to collapse under the weight of our own complexity.
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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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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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it's wild to me that Martin and gnosis built the most advanced DEX with built in MEV protection and no one properly shilled it for years until *checks notes* Donald Trump.
.@CoWSwap is the kind of "exclusive for large investors" I like. Anyone can use it and on Gnosis I literally just did a trade with the size of $0.01!
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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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the ETH religion was important when we had nothing on mainnet . we were all believers in Ethereum "values", and we threw enough shit at the wall that some of it actually stuck . but today, the religion doesn't matter as much as practical utility. ETH competes on merit or it dies.
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chainlink god wins most reasonable take on Ethereum L1 vs L2 value accrual IMO. it is actually insane that @VitalikButerin's proposed solution was basically social pressure towards L2s to encourage them to remain ETH aligned
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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 🫡.
saw this legend walking around @EthereumDenver and had to ask for a selfie . @rstormsf @TornadoCash 🫡
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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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what does it say about the Ethereum community that this film originally started out as an "Ethereum" film but then eventually just pivoted to a "Vitalik" film?. ☠️.
Vitalik's journey from teenage coder to Ethereum visionary is more urgent than ever. As the market crashes, the film explores how an innovative vision for a decentralized internet can bring hope to a world in crisis. Now available on digital platforms worldwide!
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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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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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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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Trump just did what degen spartan chided ETH nerds for failing to do. pillage your competitors chains. and bring the wealth back home. milady.
look, i'm no expert. but President Trump has DRAMATICALLY increased his ETH exposure in the past 8 hours. twap'ing like his life depends on it. lmao
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@eyeslasho I think it's perfectly OK that she chose to leave instead. The hijab is how Muslim women symbolically demonstrate their subjugation to Islam. It's OK for her to reject it on principle.
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starting a crypto venture fund for only anonymous founders. thesis: identity is liability
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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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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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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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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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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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who would be the best representative for Ethereum to send to the Trump admin?. Vitalik is busy being credibly neutral in Montenegro, who can help?.
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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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if you haven't noticed yet, the conflict avoidant way Vitalik sidelines you is that he starts interacting with everyone around you but not you. instead of responding to any of the criticisms I brought up, he is having fun ironically(?) promoting communism with actual communists
@TBSocialist C.
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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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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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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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gm devcon. just donated 50 ETH to Alexey Pertsev's legal defense fundraiser. willing to match up to 50 more ETH of donations that come in this week. that should help Alexey fund his ongoing appeal costs. if you can, please join and help him out ✌️.
Thank you to the very generous anon who just donated 50 ETH to Alexey's legal defense on Juicebox. Alexey is bravely fighting for our right to privacy and to publish code. We can't let these charges stand unchallenged, he deserves freedom and nothing less. Privacy is normal.
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Two years ago today, @alex_pertsev was arrested in the Netherlands for his part in building @TornadoCash. In May of this year, NL judges found Alexey guilty of money laundering and sentenced him to 5+ years in prison. The same judges said "there is no legitimate use for Tornado
Exactly two years after my arrest in Amsterdam, I’m back behind bars, appealing a 5-year sentence. This fight isn’t just about me; it’s about our privacy rights and the future of software developers. Please join this legal battle and donate via Juicebox. #freealexpertsev
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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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Hey young blood 👋. I encourage you to build completely permissionless privacy tools that get co-opted by terrorists and get you sent to prison (and then wait years for the EF to finally support you). If you don't you don't share the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded.
What Ethereum needs is a lot of young blood who shared the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded. It’s on the next generation now.
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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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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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