Roman Semenov 🌪️
@semenov_roman_
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Tornado Cash. Building privacy and scalability related stuff for Ethereum. Dabbling in AI.
Joined September 2009
Just a question for current DeFi devs: How can you be so sure you won’t be charged by the DOJ as an MSB - for building a non-custodial protocol - and then accused you should’ve built it custodial instead? If SDNY can charge a dev for building a non-custodial protocol… who’s
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When someone is selling at the top and buying at the bottom, isn't their trade supporting the market rather than manipulating it? Like it's the opposite of where the market is moving so helps to support its stability.
Crypto is a rigged casino, and today’s events prove it beyond doubt. A single colossal BTC whale shorted at the peak, then, just minutes before the market-shattering crash, piled on millions more in shorts. At the very bottom of the drop, he closed 90% of his Bitcoin short and
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Securing our borders to keep fentanyl out of our country.
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With AI inference you usually don’t care that much if someone extracts the encryption key, but it’s still useful to put a price tag on your data instead of letting providers log all your requests in plaintext. All modern GPUs support TEE execution with no overhead!
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A reminder that TEEs are not fit for usage in blockchain. They are however good for improving the privacy of less critical systems with zero overhead, like MEV auctions or AI inference.
This is as good a time as ever to recall why TEEs are not to be used in decentralized blockchain infrastructure. Each TEE holds within it a secret key. That secret key is physically present there. If you extract that key, all security is toast. Now, given that it's physically
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We are excited to welcome @barinov to lead Privacy @ the Ethereum Foundation, and @AndyGuzmanEth as the new lead of the PSE team. Privacy is normal.
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Why doesn't Claude Code automatically convert fetched pages to markdown and trim before feeding them into the main context in the first place?
When Claude Code fetches Bun’s docs, Bun’s docs now send markdown instead of HTML by default This shrinks token usage for our docs by about 10x
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not that I'm not guilty of participating in it but I worry that poring over the cryptic memes left by shooters is exactly what they want and they leave cryptic memes precisely to bait us into this
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If you care about the future of crypto you need to advocate for it. Your voice could make all the difference! The CLARITY Act, an important bill for crypto ownership/use in the US, passed the House and now it's time for the Senate to act. Tell your member of congress to vote
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It would be more efficient to focus on the system that enabled that, rather than a single perpetrator. Yes, you can punish that one guy but the system would keep creating more if not fixed.
"The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace and safety, should be given a “Quick” (there is no doubt!) Trial, and only awarded THE DEATH PENALTY. There can be no other option!!!" - PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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Did you know that claude-code has keywords that increase its reasoning budget? Add them when planning out a new feature or deeply analyzing a bug. Also useful to output the result into an .md report after that. Keywords: "think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink".
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when you forget to notify brussels you are finetuning llama 2
The first deadline for EU AI act reporting passed in August, and all models over 10^23 flops must now be formally reported on to a regulatory agency. For reference, 10^23 flops is at the level of Llama 2 13B.
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Life is abundant, but having an abundant life is something entirely different. It means embracing both insufferable and delightful experiences, yet possessing unshakable peace and confidence in the future—wanting, but never lacking. Life in its raw form overflows with stimuli,
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some of anthropic rugpulls so far: > 5 years retention of all conversations and code, all data will be used for training > 1.58-bit quantized models during daytime > plus not getting opus 4 in claude code > max plans limits cut in half 6 weeks ago, no comms > weekly limits
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Regulators talk a lot about ending prosecution for non custodial crypto projects, but their actions tell a different story. And it keeps killing US based privacy tech companies.
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... is roughly proportional to population of humans at that point. The more people we have the more ideas and inventions are happening at the same time in the world.
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Isn't it weird how modern humans lived for 300k years without creating a civilization? And then suddenly everything started happening so fast. I've compared time with human-years elapsed and it all started to make sense. The amount of historical stuff that happened is proport...
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I'm especially interested if the DOJ keeps fighting when Roman appeals his unlicensed money transmission verdict. If so, what is this speech all about?
“The department should not leave innovators guessing about what triggers criminal liability." I'm grateful for that but concerned that it's a little late for that approach in Roman Storm’s case, and we’re not ready to celebrate when he is still facing an appeal. 2/
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Tornado Cash (@TornadoCash) is a decentralized privacy protocol using zero-knowledge proofs to break the onchain link between sender and receiver. It is designed to provide privacy on a public blockchain. Ethereum is for privacy.
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Reminder: @alex_pertsev ’s arrest was 3 years and 3 days ago. Three years spent in prison or with heavily restricted movement. The legal battle in The Netherlands is still ongoing, just like @rstormsf ’s in the US. https://t.co/I3LX0hF0XZ
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