我嘗試將新世代的數位意識形態納入左右派的政治光譜中，並將科技加速主義與資源的集中與分散列入比較，並且以「密碼龐克運動史觀」重新爬梳數位發展脈絡，最後將臺灣與自己的數位自主權納入定位。/1 數位時代的意識形態光譜全文 matters.town/a/yq81ykvpnm8g

I just wanted to keep looking at the generative art on @fx_hash_ — so I built a little viewer for it 🌱 The pieces on fxhash actually live on-chain (onchfs) and on IPFS. So I made a small browser viewer that loads each artwork straight from there and runs the original generator right in your browser. That way you can keep enjoying these works for a long time, whatever happens down the road. It gathers pieces from Tezos, Ethereum and Base into one gallery, and save any piece to keep offline. Honestly it's just nice to have everything I love in one calm little place. I can't code at all. I made the whole thing with Claude Code, basically just chatting in plain words and describing what I wanted. Wild that this is possible now. It's free and open source — come have a look or use it for your own favourites 🌐 fxhash-viewer.vercel.app 💻 github.com/WicketWystriWarri…

We built a real-world OpenAC implementation for privacy-preserving proof of personhood. It uses an existing government-issued credential, proves eligibility in zero knowledge, supports revocation checks, and runs the proof flow on mobile devices. Check threads for links and summary 🔗

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

Over 27 EU authorities worked together to take down 1VPNS a centralized VPN service. They seized the infrastructure in part of "Operation Saffron". It is kind of hard to take down a decentralized VPN😉

Terrific talking radical trust at the Wisdom & Action Forum.✨ #CivicAI gathers us round campfires of understanding.🫂 Kami-tilled #DataSoil🌱, not tech-drilled #DataOil🛢️, creates lush & redolent AI futures for all. ▶️civic.ai/safer-sovereignty/ ▶️linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #LLAP🖖

We Want You!🫵 New_ Public, PublicSpaces & Waag Futurelab are teaming up to launch the game-changing Open Social Awards.🏆 ▶️conference.publicspaces.net/… ▶️app.formbricks.com/s/cmn3lqv… Apply by May 1, 2026✅ Let’s terraform our social mediascape & #FreeTheFuture — together!🫂 #LLAP🖖

Without additional funding, Session's doors will close next month. Please read this appeal from Session co-founder Chris McCabe. getsession.org/donation

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I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*. We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspective that we are Ethereum, and therefore we need to go around and find use cases for Ethereum - and generate arguments for why sticking Ethereum into all kinds of places is beneficial. But recently I have been thinking from a different perspective. For a moment, let us forget that we are "the Ethereum community". Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc | ...} community. Going in with zero attachment to Ethereum specifically, and entering a context (like RWC) where there are people with in-principle aligned values but no blockchain baggage, can we re-derive from zero in what places Ethereum adds the most value? From attending the events, the first answer that comes up is actually not what you think. It's not smart contracts, it's not even payments. It's what cryptographers call a "public bulletin board". See, lots of cryptographic protocols - including secure online voting, secure software and website version control, certificate revocation... - all require some publicly writable and readable place where people can post blobs of data. This does not require any computation functionality. In fact, it does not directly require money - though it does _indirectly_ require money, because if you want permissionless anti-spam it has to be economic. The only thing it _fundamentally_ requires is data availability. And it just so happened that Ethereum recently did an upgrade (PeerDAS) to increase the amount of data availability it provides by 2.3x, with a path to going another 10-100x higher! Next, payments. Many protocols require payments for many reasons. Some things need to be charged for to reduce spam. Other things because they are services provided by someone who expends resources and needs to be compensated. If you want a permissionless API that does not get spammed to death, you need payments. And Ethereum ZK payment channels (eg. ethresear.ch/t/zk-api-usage-… ) is one of the best payment systems for APIs you can come up with. If you are making a private and secure application (eg. a messenger, or many other things), and you do not want to let people to spam the system by creating a million accounts and then uploading a gigabyte-sized video on each one, you need sybil resistance, and if you care about security and privacy, you really should care about permissionless participation (ie. don't have mandatory phone number dependency). ETH payment as anti-sybil tool is a natural backstop in such use cases. Finally, smart contracts. One major use case is _security deposits_: ETH put into lockboxes that provably get destroyed if a proof is submitted that the owner violated some protocol rule. Another is actually implementing things like ZK payment channels. A third is making it easy to have pointers to "digital objects" that represent some socially defined external entity (not necessarily an RWA!), and for those pointers to interact with each other. *Technically*, for every use case other than use cases handling ETH itself, the smart contracts are "just a convenience": you could just use the chain as a bulletin board, and use ZK-SNARKs to provide the results of any computations over it. But in practice, standardizing such things is hard, and you get the most interoperability if you just take the same mechanism that enables programs to control ETH, and let other digital objects use it too. And from here, we start getting into a huge number of potential applications, including all of the things happening in defi. --- So yes, Ethereum has a lot of value, that you can see from first principles if you take a step back and see it purely as a technical tool: global shared memory. I suspect that a big bottleneck to seeing more of this kind of usage is that the world has not yet updated to the fact that we are no longer in 2020-22, fees are now extremely low, and we have a much stronger scaling roadmap to make sure that they will continue to stay low, even if much higher levels of usage return. Infrastructure for not exposing fee volatility to users is much more mature (eg. one way to do this for many use cases is to just operate a blob publisher). Ethereum blobs as a bulletin board, ETH as an asset and universal-backup means of payment, and Ethereum smart contracts as a shared programming layer, all make total sense as part of a decentralized, private and secure open source software stack. But we should continue to improve the Ethereum protocol and infrastructure so that it's actually effective in all of these situations.

Our allies from @torproject released a VPN beta. Help legit team empower VPN landsape: - install - try out Tor VPN - give feedback to the team - donate to Tor FAQ: support.torproject.org/tor-v… Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…

チームみらい最高やな #チームみらい

チームみらい、今回の選挙で目標にしていた5議席以上が、現時点で確定いたしました！ 応援していただいた皆さまのおかげです。本当にありがとうございました！✨ #チームみらい

Congratulations to @team_mirai_jp on a truly spectacular and historic triumph in the Japanese election, taking 4th or 5th less than a year after its founding and becoming the first significant Japanese party led by someone under 40. Give Japan a future again!

RT @asaman_man: チームみらいについて色々考えていたのですが、勢いで16,000字書きました。オードリー・タンとの思想的な相違点がサービスの設計にも反映されているのでは？　みたいな話です。ニュースレターつってるけど無料で読める記事です、今のところ。 https:/…

The Ethereum Foundation Academic Secretariat Team is sponsoring the 2026 PhD Fellowship Program. The program provides PhD students working on research critical to Ethereum’s long-term evolution with a 1 year fellowship. Proposals due April 1st. esp.ethereum.foundation/roun…

早安我的朋友，有人這兩週在清邁的嗎？

🎙 X Space 预告 《我们为什么需要区块链？》 从 Cypherpunks 到比特币，我们到底在追求什么？ 你会写 Solidity，但你知道为什么我们需要区块链吗？ 你听过“去中心化”，但你想过它在保护我们免于什么吗？ 2009 年，Satoshi 在创世区块留下了一则银行纾困的新闻。 2025 年，我们在讨论 ETF、合规、机构入场。 这中间，我们是离理想更近，还是已经忘了为什么出发？ 💬 这场 Space 会聊到—— 1️⃣ “去中心化”到底在保护我们免于什么？ 什么时候中心化反而更好？  2️⃣ 如果你的银行账户明天被冻结，你有什麽选择？ 3️⃣ 政府说：“加密货币合法，但要实名制”——你接受吗？ 4️⃣ 进币圈是为了改变世界，还是财富自由？这两种人能共存吗？ 📅 时间： 1月28日 周三 16:00 UTC 8 🔗 直播链接： x.com/i/spaces/1yNxabNWEanKj 🎤 主持： @0xMalingshu |  @xichngz0437353 👥 嘉宾： @0xwachi_  |  @XiaoHai67890 | @mashbean | @swiftevo1 📋 策划： @0xMalingshu |  @xichngz0437353 | @CryptoPonnie 如果你也曾困惑：技术学了一堆，但到底为了什么？ 这场 Space 可能会给你一些答案，或者更多的问题。 🔔 开启提醒，我们 Space 见。

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with firefly.social/, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants). But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway. Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop. Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social. The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets. I plan to post more there this year. I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.