Research news! 📰 We had an ASTOUNDING 8,616 participants in the Community Survey 😳 89% of you started a smart home due to interest in tech 👩🏼‍🔧 67% of you have between 11-100 devices in your house 🤩 78% of you live with partners 👫 Thanks for sharing your voice!! #SOTOH2025

Critical thinking on way out? Microsoft study finds using AI for work is ‘making us dumb’ Read the article here: pnqk.me/wcim36 #criticalthinking #AtrophiedCognition #problemsolvingskills

TL;DR: • All major AI companies collect and store your conversations forever • Venice does not collect or store your conversations Our commitment to privacy is resolute, and today Venice is the most private AI service available, unless you are running models yourself on your own hardware. We value the scrutiny, and appreciate the adversarial environment that improves such systems. ad intellectum infinitum venice.ai

FREEDOM!!!!

TikTok ban, Musk Twitter takeover, Facebook moderation changes, Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on online speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

Two years ago I began my story at 3MERA, my new startup and this is where the team is at now. We've come a long way since our start in 2022! At 3MERA, we've been revolutionizing how manufacturers showcase their products through: Showcasing Innovation: With interactive 3D and AR, we're bringing your products to life at trade shows, online, and in virtual spaces! Accelerating Sales: Our technology transforms CAD into engaging experiences, speeding up decision-making and boosting sales. Building Trust: We're enhancing customer loyalty with immersive product experiences and top-notch after-sales support. Watch our journey unfold through our development in this video.

🚨SCAMMER ALERT: Thus mf’er is trying to convince you he’s been invited by the Trump Administration to be their top “Crypto Advisor.” THIS IS FAKE NEWS. Shitcoiners need to be rejected every step of the way.

i’m not going to log on and post opinions about the us election but holy shit it’s mesmerizing to see how our real people can’t link the last 4 years’ inflation to the expansion of the money supply but thinks it’s the actions of this or that. we truly are a retarded species

if you want a decentralized internet archive, fund the internet archive. don’t do the typical blockchain move of going “we know nothing about this so we’re going to FIX it by putting all our money into a new thing without learning from their work” blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/

I want a pair of these but also WTF, that is a serious invasion of #privacy

Honored to be sharing perspectives on the future of #IoT (and new systems of machine payments with @AltheaNetwork 😎) with telecom industry experts at today's @CC_GCCM conference. 📡

One way we justify procrastination is by convincing ourselves we don’t know enough to start, even though we learn most by starting. Our fearful brains disguise a lack of courage as a lack of knowledge.

The new Llama 3.2 3b model is live on Venice.ai for all users. It's screamin' fast and completely private. You can use it for free, without an account, from anywhere in the world, on web and mobile. @AIatMeta @AskVenice

Tor Project & Tails join forces tails.net/news/tails_tor/

Soon™ is Now! Sidekick is officially out in the wild and ready to join you on your private crypto adventures. Go find your forgotten older phone and visit sidekick.monerujo.app for all the info. 🔐📱📲💸

Each year, you're allowed to give up to around $18,000 (this number changes annually) to a person without it being taxed, and it can be in the form of #crypto. If you're married, both you and your spouse can each give $18,000 to the same person. Gifts beyond that require a gift tax return, but it’s a great way to transfer wealth tax-free.

The rollout of the 1099-DA form is being staggered over two years, with the first phase covering the 2025 tax year. This means you won’t receive a 1099-DA until January or February of 2026, but it will reflect your activity for 2025. The form will include your address, taxpayer ID number, and typical information, but it will also detail what was sold. For example, if the form comes from #Coinbase, it will state the number of coins sold, their type, and the total amount of money you received. If you traded one coin for another, rather than cash or fiat, the form will specify what you received in exchange. So, both sides of the trade will be visible to the IRS. There was an initial uproar over the draft version of the 1099-DA, which included wallet addresses, but that has been delayed. While it may seem like a positive change, it’s only temporary. The #IRS won’t enforce the reporting of wallet addresses until the 2026 tax year, meaning you'll see that information on the forms you receive in 2027. This phased approach means that, by the second year, the 1099-DA will include additional rows. For example, if you transferred assets from Coinbase to a #Ledger wallet, the form will show Coinbase's wallet address, the amount transferred, your receiving wallet address, and the date and time of the transfer. Over time, this will give the IRS visibility into all the wallets you own, including those for different cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin. Ultimately, this will provide the IRS with more insight into your trades and transfers, whether taxable or not, adding complexity to gain calculations. #crypto #defi $btc $eth #kraken

Here's @valkenburgh pushing back on the suggestion that we should have total surveillance of all users in the financial system

Me double checking my crypto address before making a transaction

I'm leaving @FOUNDATIONdvcs and joining @cake It's time for a new chapter in my journey building freedom tech, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be jumping in to help @vikrantnyc run Cake as VP of Operations starting in September. Why Cake? I've known Vik for many years in the space, and have been watching from the sidelines as he's worked hard to bring together an amazing team to build out a wallet that prioritizes ease-of-use and powerful privacy no matter what cryptocurrency people prefer. That all started with being the first Monero wallet on iOS, and has rapidly grown to being a cross-platform, multi-cryptocurrency wallet used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The best part? @cakewallet has been paving the way in the privacy space for many years, including the latest push to be the first mobile wallet to include Silent Payments for Bitcoin and MWEB for Litecoin. My vision for Cake is to carry this privacy-first vision even further, continuing to push the envelope and let users access powerful privacy features with an intuitive, beautiful user experience that makes privacy easy. The first three objectives I have will be improving and expanding Silent Payments support (especially improving the sync experience!), building out an amazing Lightning experience using the @Breez_Tech SDK, and fine-tuning and improving the existing Cake Wallet that you all know and love across the board. I can't wait to step into this larger role, especially with friends that I've already gotten the chance to meet and get to know over the years. I'm also thrilled to be able to dedicate a bit more time to expanding access and ease-of-use for Monero, especially in the wake of the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the broad attacks against Bitcoin privacy. Monero is a more important tool than ever, and Cake has been a key part of making Monero more useful over the years. Grateful for Foundation I have nothing but amazing things to say about @FOUNDATIONdvcs and the incredible people I've gotten to work with so closely over the past two years. We've gotten the chance to build the best Bitcoin hardware wallet out there in Passport, and turn Envoy from a simple companion app for Passport to a powerful standalone mobile wallet with the best coin control in the space. I especially wanted to shout out @zherbert and @btcqna, as they have been close friends and allies, giving me the chance to get started in the space and grow into what became a much larger role than originally planned with Foundation. Zach has gone above and beyond to empower me over the past two years, and his tireless efforts to drive Foundation forward and ensure we ship the best possible products has been inspiring. @btcqna is the reason I'm even in Bitcoin in the first place, and was the key voice of reason that helped me understand the how and why of privacy in Bitcoin, as well as the power (and necessity) of going no-KYC-only. We've built a great friendship over the past two years and I'm honored to be able to have learned so much from him. This has to be the most bittersweet move of my life, but I'm thrilled with the new prospects at Cake and know that those taking over in my place at Foundation are going to bring a unique approach to help them take the next step forward as well. Now let's get back to building 🫡 P.S. - Keep an eye out, Cake and Foundation will be working closely together in the near future 👀