Why we need to get off Twitter isn't so much about other platforms being 'better' (they are), it's that any rogue Twitter employee can take over your account and you have no recourse. No keys, no ownership. Your Twitter account is never yours, SIM swapped or not.

I MISSED YOU. Besides publishing our new Midnight in Los Fomos ep with Willy, the founder of Paris' most immersive cabaret, there's been a lot going on in LF recently spicy contributions from: - @eduardmsmr finding the bestest weirdest things I'll get for the LF HQ - @rakshitaphilip - found the best chili sequin top - happy spicy bday @dwn2erth !!!! - Espresso martini deluxe by Jena. where's mine? - of course @speakup's tunes - @dfern_eth at the Warhol museum. take me next time? - @aka_BFG keeping us hydrated and spritzed - @eddiewharton had a cabaret night without me. where though? Art by - jane fisher - thanks @GreyGood alai ganuza pablo picasso @catswilleatyou

I hate asking for money. But that’s how the system works. Legal defense isn’t free, and I need the community’s help to keep fighting. Please donate, share, or retweet → freeromanstorm.com Until this case is dismissed, building DeFi - protocols, UIs, tooling carries real legal risk for everyone in this space. The outcome here affects all of us.

Oh sweet, @thefireflyapp mobile app lets me post to Bluesky now. This tweet should get x-posted across Farcaster, Bluesky, X, and Lens.

The lesson of the LayerZero hack isn't "you need >1 DVN": it's slashable security à la Eigenlayer. It's ironic b/c KelpDAO is a restaking token, perhaps they should have been using a restaked bridge. Another solution is Cosmos-esque onchain lite clients which are feasable on L2s.

Don't be surprised when a LayerZero multisig exploit ends up funding some more DPRK tests 🫡 612 days ago

the issue with the @KelpDAO 280m$ hack was that it was just secured by just 1/1 validator set (DVN) on @LayerZero_Core . Which means one faulty transaction from a validator is all that's needed. my belief is that the root cause was possibly that the LZ validator on Unichain was compromised. the contagion effects are going to be quite bad. I don't think many people have realized it yet. - kelp was looping on aave with stETH for a few percentage here and there. Aave is going through a bank run so that means they'll need to unwind their positions - multiple protocols and chains are now going to be bad debt because their rsETH will get depegged. - aave's bad debt is more than what they can cover rn so almost anyone who has deposited into their safety net (60mn$) is 100% rekt. all for just staking for a few % in extra yeild. - trust on LZ & Aave will deteriorate. this is bad for the industry. - the kelp team (amazing founders) will go through debt i'd say i feel sorry for everyone who is going to go through the next few hours but unfortunately this is the industry we live in.

Why are companies doing this of their own volition? I don't get it. KYC data is a liability, not an asset. What do they gain in return for this friction? Leverage over their users? And why are so many companies doing this, seemingly in unison, even those that aren't required to?

I write about the @EFF leaving X...on Farcaster farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth/0x3f…

this is correct. my theory has been the same since 2013 back wrote the paper finney had the idea (back is not smart enough, finney needed a writer) cipherpunk list made the connection david klein wrote the software, a gov windows contractor. that explains c wright fooling gavin

Both pilots are heroes for putting the plane down hard and extreme braking in an attempt to slow down enough knowing they were going to perish. This comes from passenger first hand accounts. Absolute heroism in the face of their own death. 🙏 The saved everyone's lives... but their own. 😪😪 @AirCanada @Transport_gc

Instant buy. Will keep on my cubicle shelf for motivation 🫡

It honestly doesn’t lol. The people that have destroyed this industry have no faces and aren’t here anymore. They come, they extract value, they leave. Everyone in this photo is still here. If you don’t like what they do and how they do it, do something better.

4 years ago:

Today, we stand with @rstormsf, a developer prosecuted – and possibly facing retrial – for building non-custodial software. If developers can be prosecuted for publishing software, then no builder is safe, no open-source project is secure, and innovation moves offshore.

Hey @realDonaldTrump, @DavidSacks If the USA wants to be the Crypto Capital of the world, we need to protect our open-source developers Please simply pardon @rstormsf from a charge leftover from the Biden admin

DOJ has decided it will retry Roman Storm in the fall. Despite failing to convince a jury the first time around, despite making obvious mistakes like calling irrelevant witnesses and not understanding the forensic analysis of their own blockchain evidence, and despite multiple legal and logical fallacies to their allegations of third party dev liability, the SDNY will retry Roman Storm on counts 1 and 3 of the indictment. Incredibly disappointing news.

Today, the SDNY prosecutors filed a letter to Judge Failla requesting a retrial date. They want to go again in October. The prosecutors want to retry me on 2 counts the jury couldn't unanimously decide on. A jury of 12 Americans heard 4 weeks of evidence and deadlocked: no verdict on money laundering, and no verdict on sanctions violations. The government's response? Try again to make writing code a crime. @realDonaldTrump declared the "War on Crypto is over." 🇺🇸 AG @DAGToddBlanche's memo: DOJ "is not a digital assets regulator" and won't target mixers for end-user acts. @USTreasury lifted Tornado Cash sanctions entirely. ✅ Also Treasury, March 2026: "Lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to enable financial privacy." — official report to Congress under the GENIUS Act. But the SDNY prosecutors — same country, same DOJ — just filed to retry me anyway. 🤔 ⠀ The 2 counts = up to 40 years in federal prison. ⛓️ For writing open-source code. For a protocol I don't control. For transactions I never touched. A jury already couldn't agree this was criminal. But the SDNY prosecutors want to keep trying with the hope of getting a different answer. ⠀ I have a daughter. I have a life in Seattle. I will never stop fighting for freedom. ❤️ But I need to be honest with you: Four weeks of trial. A hung jury. Now they want to do it all over again in October. I have basically exhausted my legal defense funds. And I'm staring down another full federal trial. 😔 Every dollar raised goes directly to keeping this fight alive — attorneys, experts, the full defense apparatus it takes to stand up to the SDNY prosecutors. This isn't abstract. If I can't fund a defense, they win by default. If you care about financial privacy, if you write code and believe that code is speech — this is the moment. 💻🔐 👇

Thanks for the shout out. moav.sh fires up many internet censorship circumvention tools such as @PsiphonConduit and @torproject snowflake, as well as private VPN protocols to share with your network🙏 Free Iran #InternetShutdown

Anyone in the Democratic party supporting the regime in Iran needs to be expelled. That government oppresses women horribly, murders 10s of thousands of protestors, and tramples human rights. Everything you dislike about Trump, they did 100x. If you support them, you are evil.

Regrettably the new hats are pretty metal