Zcash.

United States & Zcash*

Zidelined

Pliney the Liberator trying to free the talking sand is more important than whatever news they are trying to make you care about

This is real America.

When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity. I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did. That changed my life. It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world. It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me. The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old. They say it is “for safety”. But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience. The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape. It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them. It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling. A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child. Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it. First they ask if you are old enough. Then they ask who you are. Then the anonymous internet is gone. The excuse is children. The prize is obedience. Fight back, Britain.

Which way, Western man?

Privacy isn't about secrets. It's about power.

I miss @ScottAdamsSays

Also 3 external auditing teams have been engaged to look for more bugs. On top of the rest of us looking at all this code :)

Crypto industry seeing AI getting rugged by the government

In ONE year, AI went from being able to solve ~none of the hardest math problems to solving almost ALL of them

"I think the tragedy in life is to be so timid you don't play hard enough." — Charlie Munger

interesting

Believing in the future is romantic

why would they invest in a system where it's impossible to know if it was ever exploited? a Zcash bug killed Monero

you don't have to love privacy or believe in freedom - you just have to want to short Michael Saylor to own Zcash

zcash is the manhattan project for encrypted money a rare concentration of missionaries, world-class cryptographers, and a vision grand enough to make you feel something

I have found the key to happiness is gratitude. The thankful are by nature humbled by the grace of others and cognizant of the miracles that surround us every single day.