hey hi gm ...

no this is a psyop by early crypto people to convince the feds that ppl wouldn't use blockchains for bad thingsthe point of crypto has never been transparency, it has always been verifiability(specifically verify trust without a central authority)i.e verify that this guy has the money he says he does, verify that my money is mine, verify that he's not rugging metransparency was the first way of doing verification in 2008 because we didn't have the tech we have todayit is the blackberry of blockchain technow ...

RT byte (@byteboro)maybe the coolest thing about the polkadot migration:the relay chain (L0, L1, whatever you wanna call it) verifies every single state transition of every block of all its rollups are valid according to the chain's runtime, and that is why putting all user activity on one of its rollups is possible - the security does not changenone of this posting optimistic updates every 30 minutes or once a day or something and everything in between is just 'trust me bro', it's literally every. single. ...

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RT genzcash (@genzcash).@0xmert_ explains his 1000x privacy thesis:“The last 12-13 years, we were working on getting Bitcoin to be legitimized as well as programmability (Ethereum) and scale in blockchains (Solana) to work.Now that those work, there is one thing left that is asymmetric in upside and impact for the entire industry: privacy.” ...

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“We now want to provide our institutional-grade data onchain.”Dr. Alireza Dorfard discusses Deutsche Börse Group’s recent integration to bring its trusted market data to 40+ blockchains via Chainlink.Watch now ↓ ...

Coinbase submitted feedback to the U.S. Treasury, urging it to strictly follow congressional intent when implementing the GENIUS Act. The exchange called for excluding non-financial software, blockchain validators, and open-source protocols from regulation, and clarified that the Act’s interest ban applies only to stablecoin issuers—not intermediaries offering rewards. Coinbase also recommended treating payment stablecoins as cash equivalents for tax and accounting purposes.https://t.co/Al0YLsCpZI ...

RT milian (@milianstx). @Arcium is turning @solana into a privacy powerhouse.Every ecosystem is approaching privacy differently — on Solana, it’s happening through speed, apps, users, and minimal trust assumptions.It’s quietly becoming one of, if not the strongest privacy blockchain.Take this as you will. ...

MASTERCARD JOINS RIPPLE AND GEMINI TO PILOT RLUSD STABLECOIN SETTLEMENTS ON XRPL- @Mastercard partnered with @Ripple and @Gemini to test credit card settlements using RLUSD, Ripple’s U.S. dollar–backed stablecoin, on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).- If successful, this could mark one of the first times a regulated U.S. bank settles fiat-based credit card transactions on a public blockchain.The Pilot Explained- The pilot links Gemini’s credit card, issued by WebBank, to Mastercard’s settlement network.- Instead of us ...