Can’t put the genie back in the GPU.

The left won. The world's richest man is an electric vehicle manufacturer who is decarbonising the atmosphere while helping quadriplegics, restoring space travel, and making the internet and freedom of speech widely available across the globe. Unfortunately most of the people who identified as "left" were simply pathological grief merchants with oppositional defiance disorder. They build nothing. They stand for nothing.

leaking the weights right now:

One keystroke.

Why we need financial privacy, a thread 🧵

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

I created a web game where you can practice your Latin vocab by hitting Celtic warriors with your pilum.

Learn to confidencemaxxx and watch reality bend your way. Winners act like winners. This is your sign to start believing in yourself. This is your sign to start becoming delusionally confident in yourself and the fact that it will all work out.

Shielded romance.

Was nice while it lasted. Good bye Fable.

Seems Fable 5 is teaching people exactly why censorship is bad. There's only two classes in the future: those who need permission, and those who have their own compute. Buy as many GPUs as you can. Give your family, friends, and local community unfiltered access.

Fraud is a tax on civilization.

ZachBTC, Coffeezilla and Nick Shirley are role models. I hope someone create a program to teach more people how to do it. Imagine a thousands of them, in every country, finding fraud and reporting it publicly.

If everything is just permissioned it’s called a bank. We already have those.

Antifragile. 🦑

I publicly announce that I've taken a $ZEC position and I'm dangerously long freedom.

UPDATE: The various orgs and protocol developers mentioned have agreed on the specific consensus rule changes for Ironwood, after settling the finer details. Here's a summary: 1. Ironwood introduces a new pool using the Orchard protocol, just like the existing pool. 2. The circuit for the Orchard protocol—which applies to both the existing Orchard pool and the new Ironwood pool—will have a flag that consensus rules can toggle. This flag disables payments to *other* users within that pool, while maintaining the ability to create change notes. (This enables a privacy safeguard.) 3. The old Orchard pool will have this flag enabled after the network upgrade, and payments to the old pool will also be disabled by constraining valueBalance. 4. Because payments are disabled on the old pool, wallets must send new payments to Orchard receivers (inside existing unified addresses) via the new pool, and they should also migrate funds away from the old pool. This combination enforces a bound on the circulating supply of ZEC through the use of the existing turnstile mechanism; the amount of ZEC that anyone can transact with is no more than the amount that is supposed to exist. Meanwhile, users' wallets can migrate funds to protect them from risk, which also gradually provides evidence that counterfeiting never took place. Now that we have this decided, we'll collectively move on to the implementations, specifications, and ecosystem support/outreach. (We also have many different auditing and formal verification efforts taking place behind the scenes to provide assurance about the circuit correctness. More on that soon!)

I’m excited to announce that PGP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Crypto is pivoting into PGP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Zcash, or PGPZ. PGPZ is a Washington, D.C. policy initiative focused on privacy-preserving digital cash, practical compliance, and the public-interest role of Zcash. The goal is simple: make sure Zcash has serious, organized, and credible policy engagement in Washington. Policymakers are making decisions that will affect whether privacy-preserving digital cash can exist, be used lawfully, and serve the public interest. PGPZ is about ensuring Zcash is understood, represented, and defended in those conversations. PGPZ will focus on three exciting pillars: 1. Focused Convenings We will continue the PGP* policy convening series in a more Zcash-focused format, bringing policymakers together with experts on privacy-preserving digital cash, practical compliance, civil liberties, and public-interest technology. The Cypherpunk Policy Dinner on October 21 will be a key example of this pillar in action. 2. Community and Member Resources We are creating a broader home for Zcash policy updates, resources, programming, and community-led coordination so that people interested in Zcash policy work can stay informed and get involved. 3. The PGPZ Coalition We are organizing a smaller, action-oriented working group of policy professionals and active advocates focused on policymaker education, advocacy strategy, and practical engagement around Zcash. Privacy-preserving digital cash needs credible advocates. Financial privacy is not a partisan issue; it is a civil liberties and human rights issue. PGPZ is one way we are helping ensure that message is heard clearly by policymakers. More details, programming, and participation information are coming soon. pgpz.org