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Today, sharing new voter data with @HarrisPoll that shows increased public demand for financial privacy 2/3 say people should have the right to make legal financial transactions without those transactions being permanently recorded and linked to their identity

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13 years ago today: 3/11/13: Blockchain fork crisis A software bug caused a temporary split: two competing chains run in parallel with different transaction histories Developers and the community coordinated a rapid fix and 24-block rollback within hours, fixing the issue

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including: -Gym membership card -Employer ID card -Credit or debit card -Prescription drug label -Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants) Full list: sos.ca.gov/elections/hava-id… This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look. We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies. On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections. @AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed. What are they afraid of?

Ethereum is one of the most misunderstood assets because it is the most miscategorized. Depending on the day, the market keeps trying to price ETH as a currency, a tech stock, a bet on transaction fees, or a Bitcoin follower, and on every one of those frames, it looks overvalued or underwhelming. History has a habit of repeating itself whenever a new foundational technology emerges. Before society fully understands its significance, the technology is often dismissed, undervalued, misunderstood, and judged by the wrong metrics. The Internet followed this pattern. Blockchain, and especially Ethereum, is following it today. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the Internet was widely viewed as an academic curiosity rather than a commercial opportunity. Its users were primarily researchers, government agencies, military institutions, and hobbyists. To the average person, it appeared complicated, slow, and irrelevant. Major newspapers questioned why anyone would want to read news on a computer screen rather than in print. AT&T reportedly passed on opportunities related to ARPANET because it saw little commercial future in the technology. Even prominent thinkers failed to grasp its potential. In 1995, Clifford Stoll famously argued that online commerce, digital communities, and electronic publishing were largely fantasies. Three years later, economist Paul Krugman predicted that the Internet's economic impact would prove no greater than that of the fax machine. Their mistake was not a lack of intelligence. It was a failure to recognize that foundational infrastructure creates value indirectly before it creates value directly. The Internet was initially evaluated as a product. In reality, it was becoming a platform. It was not merely another communications tool; it was a new coordination layer for society. It would eventually become the foundation upon which entirely new industries, business models, and forms of human interaction could emerge. The same misunderstanding exists today with blockchain networks. Many observers evaluate blockchains as if they were standalone applications. They ask how much revenue they generate, how many fees users pay, or whether transaction costs are rising or falling. These questions are useful, but they often miss the larger picture. Ethereum is not primarily an application. It is infrastructure. Just as the Internet created a global network for the exchange of information, Ethereum creates a global network for the exchange of value, ownership, trust, and programmable agreements. It provides a neutral settlement layer upon which thousands of applications, protocols, financial products, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital organizations can operate. The Internet's most important value did not reside within TCP/IP, HTTP, or email protocols themselves. Its value emerged from what others built on top of those standards. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Shopify, and countless other companies captured enormous economic value because the Internet provided an open platform for innovation. Ethereum operates according to the same principle. Its value is not limited to transaction fees. It derives from securing trillions of dollars in future economic activity, enabling decentralized financial markets, supporting stablecoin ecosystems, facilitating tokenized real-world assets, and serving as the trust infrastructure for a new digital economy. The Internet also experienced its own cycle of misunderstanding. The dot-com boom correctly identified the technology's importance but wildly overestimated the short-term value of many companies built upon it. The subsequent crash led critics to declare the Internet overhyped and disappointing. Yet the crash did not invalidate the technology. It merely removed speculation while leaving behind critical infrastructure. Fiber-optic networks, data centers, software tools, and developer talent continued to improve. The result was the emergence of Web 2.0, cloud computing, social media, and eventually the modern digital economy. Today, many governments worldwide have officially reclassified broadband internet as a critical public utility, on par with water and electricity. The digital economy now accounts for over 15% of global GDP, driving exponential growth in visual and financial markets. The COVID-19 pandemic permanently proved that the global economy could not function or survive without internet infrastructure. Blockchain is experiencing a similar phase today. Speculative excesses have obscured genuine innovation. Failed projects have led critics to dismiss the entire sector. Yet beneath the surface, the infrastructure continues to mature. Scalability is improving. Security is strengthening. Stablecoins are growing rapidly. Tokenization is accelerating. Institutional adoption is increasing. The market's challenge is that infrastructure is difficult to value before its full utility becomes obvious. Few people in 1995 could imagine that the Internet would become essential to commerce, communication, entertainment, education, and work. Today, global society would struggle to function without it. Likewise, many people still view Ethereum as a niche technology for traders, speculators, or technologists. But if blockchain becomes the trust layer for global finance, digital identity, asset ownership, and machine-to-machine commerce, then today's valuations may ultimately look as shortsighted as the skepticism once directed toward the Internet. The lesson of history is simple: transformational infrastructure is rarely understood in real time. The Internet was underestimated because people measured what it was rather than what it could become. Ethereum faces the same challenge today. Its greatest value lies not in the activity we can already see, but in the vast economic and social systems it may eventually support.

The 4.3% unemployment rate is below both the 10-year average of 4.6% and the 50-year average of 6.1%. For the second month in a row, the official government tally of jobs added blew past economists' expectations. And the most recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed hiring surged in March. cnn.it/4ajU9iS