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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ
@zooko
Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.
- If you thought Bitcoin was confusing, wait'll you find out how the U.S. Dollar actually works.
- Money is a technology. Recent events—the protests in Canada and the war in Ukraine, and in cyberspace—have shown that our current monetary tech is an instrument for political power, and it has reminded us that politically neutral money is necessary for democratic societies. …
- Disgusting complicity on the part of the New York Times. He has ruined countless people's lives by theft and fraud, and NYT is now helping him to delay or evade justice by whitewashing him in their prestigious, influential newspaper. I doubt this is just a mistake on their part.Disgraceful reporting by the @nytimes on FTX. It portrays SBF as a charitable entrepreneur who went under and does not mention the words fraud, criminal, substance abuse, friends & family Bahamas KYC racket, hack, stolen funds or wiped servers anywhere. archive.ph/mxOh5
- Look, I really hate speculating about this spy-vs-spy bullshit, but it is really bothering me to see the great and the good of my tribe (Balaji, Vitalik, Roman Storm, Noelle Acheson, Josh Swihart) treating Pavel Durov as an oppressed hero. Please consider the following facts: ⤵️
- How much to make sure McAfee *doesn't* tweet about your project?
- OMG—everyone who cares about Proof-of-Work mining needs to read the entirety of blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-c…. There are many major truth bombs in there. This is going to force me to rethink a lot.
- Omg everybody everywhere is talking about cryptocurrency trading and mining, at neighboring tables in restaurants and standing in line at coffeeshops
- Dec 31: Taiwan public health officials warn WHO of potential human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus: amp.ft.com/content/2a70a0…. Taiwan mobilizes its national health emergency office.
- Replying to @zookoI'm naturally a pretty open-minded guy, so it's just dizzying to me to watch in realtime as the most widely-read, prestigious newpapers demonstrate total corruption by participating in whitewashing a politically-connected fraud bigger than any since Madoff.
- Reasons to prefer BLAKE3 over SHA256:
- I love going to the grocery store and buying whatever I want and not worrying how much it adds up to, even if it is $100. I wish everybody could do that all the time...
