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everyday shoppers are getting onchain on @base without knowing they're using crypto.
buy @rektdrinks, scan the QR, claim your coin in @BaseApp.
no seed phrase or painful wallet setup.
Rekt is the first CPG brand doing this IRL. @jessepollak @brian_armstrong
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Mikhail Dob retweeted
Apr 13
I think when we removed the crypto bots, there were only 2000 people rugging each other back and forth, forever
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Mar 18
Spam laws will need to be rewritten soon. Machines should be prohibited from communicating with humans unprompted.
Feb 11
Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail.
And we will have no way to stop it.
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. @bring_id thesis mentioned at 1:27.
Comments are mostly negative as people are worried about privacy. This confirms that focusing on privacy was a right call last year. However, having the right tech is necessary, but not sufficient. The hardest part is educating the market and forming the consensus that our solution can be trusted.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods — among other options — to ensure there's a human behind each prompt while allowing users to stay anonymous:
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Everything is going to be botted, then people will be tired of AI spam and then proof-of-humanity solutions like @bring_id will be adopted at scale.
Mar 20
The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million
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“agentic payments” are uninspiring compared to agents needing trust properties (which enable payments) because they have no ability to implicitly trust like humans do without a technical layer that provides credible unruggable trust to identify, trade, and prove.
trustware
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Mikhail Dob retweeted
If you could work on anything you wanted, what would you pick? I don't think most people really know the answer until they have the chance.
And now turns out my answer is that I'm obsessed with teaching people about the Big Bang.
triangleofeverything.com/
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Hold my beer as well: Introducing x402-ppt (pay per token via payment channels) for Ethereum L1.
Can be 100s of payments per second.
Open a channel to an LLM provider once, from there it's free payments. Not meter-per-token, but real pay-per-token.
Let me know if useful or not
0xSammy: I’ll release a report on x402 today
@stripe : Hold my beer. Enter the Machine Payments Protocol “MPP”
TLDR:
- Stripe Paradigm launched @tempo mainnet today (March 18); payments-focused L1, EVM-compatible, 100K TPS, sub-second finality, stablecoin gas fees ($0.001)
- Simultaneously released Machine Payments Protocol (MPP); open standard for agent-to-service payments co-authored with Stripe
- MPP flow: agent requests resource → service returns payment request → agent authorizes from wallet → instant settlement → resource delivered
- Rail-agnostic: runs on Tempo today but designed to work across any payment rail
- Visa extended it for cards; Stripe extended it for cards/wallets; Lightspark extended it for Bitcoin Lightning
- Design partners: Anthropic, OpenAI, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Revolut, Nubank, Standard Chartered, DoorDash, Ramp
Relationship to x402:
- x402 handles the HTTP-layer discovery (“this resource costs money”);
- MPP handles the settlement layer (“here’s how the money actually moves”)
Stripe is positioning to own both sides; it’ll be interesting to see which protocol the machines decide to use!?
Either way it’s bullish for agentic commerce
Khala report below contains a broader coverage on x402 with some research on Tempo/Stripe
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Mar 10
LLMs are the most effective propaganda machines. When the smartest brains delegate thinking to AI, the weights dictate the correct worldview.
@grok is this true?
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Indirect prompt injection is a hard security issue for the agentic software.
It can't be solved with AI as it's output is probabilistic. Meanwhile the deterministic code is not capable of catching the injections.
We built Brainworm: malware that lives entirely inside of an AI agent's context window. No binaries. No scripts.
Once loaded, it registers with C2 and executes tasks using the agent's own tools.
Welcome to the era of semantic malware. 🧠🪱
Blog: originhq.com/blog/brainworm
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soon on the gasless chain
Feb 28
Proof-of-humanity powered by zero-knowledge proofs:
> Each verification group has a separate Semaphore group.
> Semaphore commitment is added onchain after successful verification
> Generate Semaphore proofs to prove that you're human without disclosing your personal data.
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Proof-of-humanity powered by zero-knowledge proofs:
> Each verification group has a separate Semaphore group.
> Semaphore commitment is added onchain after successful verification
> Generate Semaphore proofs to prove that you're human without disclosing your personal data.
Robinhood Testnet have been added to ethfaucet.com.
Verify that you're human with BringID and claim 0.1 Robinhood Testnet ETH.
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Feb 27
75 days till BringID saves the Internet
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Mikhail Dob retweeted
Feb 25
"All while your time is being stolen by AI, tricking you into believing it’s productive."
The internet in general, and later tiktoks and reels, were pioneers of this, giving you the feeling that you’re learning.
“What if the next post or reel teaches me something new? That one thing that takes me to the next level?”
Heck, this probably existed even before the internet, in the form of self-help books.
Our minds crave knowledge, but we get tricked into consumption.
Big Tech knows that. Algorithms are built around it, whether intentionally or not.
Some AI interactions are the new form of mindless consumption.
The ultimate supporter. A “yes man.”
It gives you answers to the questions you’re already wondering about, and follows up with the questions you want to be asked.
You start realizing that doomscrolling and having lengthy discussions with GPT might come from the same root.
The fear of taking action. The lack of belief that a positive outcome is possible. The fear of novelty.
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Feb 25
Linkdrop has been powering the send-via-link feature in the Base App for more than two years now.
Yesterday I have prepared the integration doc for a potential partner. Sharing the link for all apps and wallets that can be also interested in the integration.
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Feb 25
We also have a dashboard to generate claim links in bulk, which is used by businesses to run promotional campaigns.
Integrating SDK enables claiming links for both use-cases:
- user-to-user flow
- dashboard links
Read more in the docs: github.com/LinkdropHQ/linkdr…
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Mikhail Dob retweeted
Feb 23
built a terminal-native music player for favorite artist Dopo Goto:
github.com/dangerous-person/…
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