BTC⚡️ Cooking in Stealth, Quant Prev:(Spartan/Binance/Chainlink) FinTech/Health/Infosec & a lil bit on life🧬 CryptoAnarchist, Personal opinions. NFA
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call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
This is insane
If you put money in Schiff's bank in 2011 you're down 100%
If you bought $BTC in 2011 you're up 25,166,200%
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
The biggest takeaway from the ZCG debate is that most people who want ZCG either don’t understand principal agent problems, or they don’t care about violating them.
Zcash doesn’t need to re-invent the governance wheel. Stakeholder voting has worked in capital markets for centuries. Coinholder voting is just the onchain form-factor.
Experimenting in governance is not part of the Zcash mission. Its mission is privacy.
It’s time to end ZCG and all the distractions and misalignment that come with it.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
User funds are safe!
It does look like a hack on Binance. Appreciate the quick freeze from Tether (~$971m) and Circle (~$823m).
I don't manage Binance (.com) anymore, but as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
I agree. Bitcoin is a beneficiary of the AI trade either way. Either we get universal basic income and mass money printing, or the AI trade blows up and we get a huge money-printing bailout. Either way, it wins.
". If it pays off it will have been financed by credit expansion; if it does not, the losses will be socialized. Either way, the supply of claims on the future grows, and so does the value of a hard money asset with a fixed issuance.The AI build-out, usually cast as bitcoin's competitor for capital, is itself a debasement machine: Morgan StanleyexpectsAI-related debt issuance to reach $570 billion in 2026 and about $1.5 trillion of the build-out through 2028 must befinanced externally"
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
not only am i not worried about the crypto community's ability to handle the upcoming ai/quantum threat, i will venture to say that in the next 2 yrs the world will realize crypto is far better prepared for it than the rest of the internet and finance. we've had a trillion dollar *irreversible* honey pot for a decade, producing a far more battletested system and adversarial security culture than pretty much anywhere else on earth.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
There is real misunderstanding of where Bitcoins value lies
The value lies in the principles and in turn the cultural network it has built - its why some people call it a one time discovery
In a rough thinking example - one of the worst modern day disasters of Hurricane Katrina when the whole city of New Orleans was displaced its said that 53% had returned or stayed within a year - an this is just a example tied together by a general sense of community let alone the fierce community that Bitcoin has
Its an example to say that if there is an issue or wallet hack etc the major solution will be inward looking to resolve it - it wont be external
Given the choice Bitcoiners would choose a Bitcoin decided solution/fork etc they would not just move to some other "coin"
Bets elsewhere come from a technical thinking standpoint and a general what if aswell as opportunism - its in my opinion a big mistake to think Bitcoin would not survive turbelence once you understand this
This technical like thinking has been the reason why technologists have dramatically underestimated the value of network effects
#Bitcoin
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
Heard of a top law firm completely cutting off Harvey and all API calls to Claude/OpenAI after they saw what openAI did with navier strokes
Now hosting everything locally with GPUs they own, running Kimi and deepseek
Think you’ll see a lot more of this going forward
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
HOLY SHIT.
For crypto, this is one of the most insane posts of the year, but I'm guessing most people don't understand it.
Let me explain...
Bitcoin's accounts, and subsequently Ethereum's (and therefore every other EVM chain's), are built on a specific elliptic curve called secp256k1.
secp256k1 is a different elliptic curve from the one used across nearly every modern hardware device, including iPhones.
Modern devices mostly use a different curve called secp256r1, which is usually referred to as P-256 - one of the curves investigated in the article.
This mismatch has made it sooo difficult in the past to integrate crypto accounts natively into the security systems of modern hardware.
For example, Apple's Secure Enclave natively supports P-256, not secp256k1.
This has prevented crypto accounts from being able to use the same hardware protection as things like Apple Pay.
Same goes for the web with passkeys - WebAuthn uses P-256 signatures, which means Ethereum accounts using secp256k1 can't use them natively either.
But why did Satoshi do this?
The main theory for choosing secp256k1 was distrust of the P-256 curve - i.e. he thought there was an NSA backdoor.
A "backdoor" here basically means a secret, intentional weakness in the curve that would allow the NSA to exploit it and access private keys.
This was because P-256 was created with involvement from the NSA...
And the NSA provided a mysterious "seed" used to generate one of the curve's parameters without explaining where that seed came from.
This eventually transformed into a ~25-year-old mystery with a 5-figure reward for finding where this seed came from.
Claude figured it out in less than 30 mins.
And the best part is its internal thinking was: "Hmm wait... is it suspicious that such an obvious thing wasn’t discovered in 25 years?"
The solution was stupidly simple - just the time the curve was created, put into a specific random number generator function.
This doesn't 100% prove there's no backdoor yet, but it provides strong evidence that this seed wasn't secretly engineered by the NSA.
And Claude did this with "just a simple prompt" in under 30 minutes.
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
fun fact: satoshi refused to use the NIST seeds probably because he was somewhat of a bunker mode retard himself, instead used the more obscure secp256k1, and most other cryptocurrencies followed
this is why we can’t directly use industry standards like passkeys in blockchains, and instead we ship people purpose-built hardware wallets made by fucking amateurs, leading to routine 9 figure hacks
anthropic’s discovery reveals that in retrospect his panic wasn’t necessary and we could’ve just used the standards
thanks bunker mode retards!
(this comment is exaggerated for comedic effect but it’s not wrong)
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
bombshell report from the OCC out today confirming what we all suspected:
between 2020 and 2025, based on a review of 100,000 complaints, America’s largest banks systematically denied banking to lawful businesses based on political and reputational considerations rather than objective financial risk, effectively appointing themselves arbiters of which industries deserved access to the financial system. digital assets was specifically named as one of the six most affected industries.
TLDR: we weren't imagining it. OCP2.0 was real.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
I think Justin Drake's latest alarmism/vagueposting is going to do a ton of damage in multiple ways. It's basically a huge self-own for their own advocacy work on quantum stuff.
Threats from quantum/AI are real, and teams throughout this industry are making considered decisions about how to respond to those risks in a practical way, and to help their users navigate the uncertainty.
Some of those teams have really good cryptographers with an excellent grasp on the decisions they can make, others have to take their cues from trusted experts. There are so many dimensions to optimize along! And due to the complexity involved, it's almost impossible to explain this stuff to non-cryptographers.
Experts have to be cognizant of all this, and of their responsibility to be levelheaded.
After the fog clears up and people learn from their cryptographer friends what is actually going on, they're going to discover this was (at best) an unintentional marketing stunt and a lot of trust will be lost. And nobody will really know what to do...
This is a shame, because they are directionally correct. It actually meant something when they sounded the alarm before. They've just gradually descended into unhinged predictions without feedback to discourage it.
Can anyone, I mean seriously anyone, justify this debacle? It permanently colors all the legitimate concerns/predictions about classical crypto going forward. By their own admission, there was no new information that drove this. I think Justin Drake should explain how he thought this was the right approach, even if he genuinely believed what he was saying.
Baffling.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
People read one emotional Matt Green tweet about public key encryption, spent 0 seconds thinking about it, and decide to panic.
Sure ECDLP will be broken with QC's one day. But there's so many levels to this being wrong to panic over.
- 0 actual progress on attacking anything
- We have tons of alternate plans available.
- Quadratic advantage hash-based PKE
- Lattices
- Multivariate polynomials
- A whole field of KEM's from fine grained cryptanalysis. (Fun fact, works even if P=NP)
Sure you can wake-up and choose doomer and be wrong.
We have decades of cryptography to draw from on for all the above options, AND how to build a lot of what we want from UX tweaks without PKE. PKE just made a lot much easier, and less web of trust routing like.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
the whole cheat code to life is taking messy action. that’s it. no neuroplasticity, no delusion, nothing else. i’m talking about the most raw action, where you literally don’t even think about it. you just move. you just put one foot in front of the other every single day. and if you adopt this mindset and just move, what you’re going to realize is that action never leads to losses. action only leads to lessons. and if you’re the type of person who accepts this and just moves and acts, all you’re going to do is learn. your actions are going to teach you the lessons you need to take the right actions next time. and then, when you take the correct actions next time, you’re literally going to get closer to everything you want in life. so now that you know this, all you need to do is act. take messy action. you’re never going to feel ready. you’re never going to feel confident. it’s never going to be the perfect time. you just have to move.
call(g,a,v,in,,,)⚡️🛡 retweeted
24hrs ago: Openai can do the math to break cryptography and send all of your cryptocurrency tokens to 0
Now: Openai can't do the math on their own revenue
