I thought about this more and I think responders are right that revealing the country non-consensually without offering any opt-out option (not even "stop using your account") is wrong.In most cases, revealing country still leaves a very large anonymity set, but there are some people for whom even a few bits of leakage are risky, and they should not have their privacy retroactively rugpulled with no recourse. ...

Prediction about this "show which country the account is from" thing:In the short term it will have lots of positive effects.In the medium term, the sophisticated actors will find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not. Lots of ways to rent individual people's passports, phone numbers, IP addresses, etc. Getting a million accounts with fake location will be medium-hard, getting a single account with fake location, and then getting it to a million followers, will be easy.In six months, the ac ...

RT Luca Zanolini (@luca_zanolini)Finality is the belief that some things won’t change in the future.In our new post, we unpack how this belief works in blockchains: why it’s conditional, and how its strength evolves over time.Together with @ittaia and @VitalikButerin, we explore this conditional notion of finality.https://t.co/B1pfs5zNfa ...

RT Devconnect ARG - the first Ethereum World’s Fair (@EFDevcon)Devcon 8Mumbai, India 🇮🇳Q4 2026 https://t.co/0i6Fhk5PtT ...

RT Justin Drake (@drakefjustin)🤯 two 5090s now prove every L1 EVM block 🤯The @zksync Airbender team pulled off something insane ahead of tomorrow's https://t.co/cTmas4QhBE demo. Mainnet proofs on two gaming GPUs. One box, ~1kW—basically a toaster.Props to @robik, Michael Carrili, @MarcinM02, @Shamatar.The L1 gas limit is going higher. So much higher.Beast mode. Gigagas L1. Believe in something. ...

User Interface Design & Consumer Behavior - The industry needs more adversarial UI design that works in the user's interest [1] - The industry should consider operating system plugins that override ride/delivery app UIs to show all-inclusive total prices, including tax, fees, and expected tip [1] - Delivery app tipping is a tool for maximizing price paid by consumers, not a feedback mechanism [1] - Consumers are economically irrational with tips; for every $1 in tip, they behave as if it were $0.80 [1]

Onchain Privacy Advancement - Onchain privacy is entering a new stage [1] - Ethereum is advocating for privacy by default within wallets [1] Key Players - Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin, and kassandraETH are demoing the Kohaku wallet [1] - Privacy Pools is honored to be a part of this advancement [1]

Industry Movement - The industry acknowledges the signing of a "trustless manifesto" [1]

RT Matthew Green is on BlueSky (@matthew_d_green)I don’t understand why the EU is so absolutely unrelentingly determined to do ChatControl, no matter how many times democratically elected governments refuse them. It’s becoming scary and pathological. https://t.co/HrP111ot5h ...

Future generations will wonder how we were ever ok with thisLinus Petersson (@LinusPeters):110k will die of aging today ...