Bitcoin because of its nature will only appeal to people who want to take agency, who want to be self-sovereign, who want to be free. Do you want to be a passive consumer or a worker. Or do you want to be an active builder.I think the information is out there for everyone, but you got to learn that knack of like natural curation. It's going to be extremely hard because the algorithm is against you, the media outlets is against you, influencers are against you. So, who is going to take care of you.You. ...

📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ The Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate has reignited one of Ethereum’s oldest debates: Should it stay laser-focused on cypherpunk values, or lean harder into adoption, product, and market share? Ryan and David debate CROPS, self-sovereignty, ETH as money, and whether the EF is protecting Ethereum’s soul or holding it back. ------ 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🪐GALAXY | INSTIT ...

UPDATE: ⚡ "Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world," says Vitalik Buterin about the new EF Mandate. "Its role is to be a sanctuary technology."CoinMarketCap (@CoinMarketCap):LATEST: ⚡ The Ethereum Foundation's new "EF Mandate" says Ethereum should prioritize self-sovereignty and remain censorship-resistant, open source, private and secure. https://t.co/SZm8DZavHV ...

🚨VITALIK DEFINES ETHEREUM'S CORE MISSION: "SANCTUARY TECHNOLOGY."@VitalikButerin has publicly backed the newly released EF Mandate, framing @Ethereum as a "sanctuary technology" built to preserve self-sovereignty and enable cooperation without coercion.The Foundation will double down on CROPS (Censorship Resistance, Open Source, Privacy, and Security) at both the protocol and application layers.Vitalik explicitly states that Ethereum must pass the "walkaway test," signaling the protocol will never be optimi ...

Vitalik Buterin said the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity to support an aggressive roadmap and long-term sustainability. He disclosed withdrawing 16,384 ETH to fund open-source, secure, and verifiable full-stack infrastructure focused on self-sovereignty, privacy, and security, while continuing to prioritize Ethereum’s core development. https://t.co/tUQX35Glox ...

I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since 2017, I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why.https://t.co/LerCobzgvoFirst, the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg, who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions, but not the state (eg. user balances, smart contract code and storage):> The messages are logged, but the state (e.g., UTXO) is implied, which means it is constructed by the computer internally, and ...

An important, and perenially underrated, aspect of "trustlessness", "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity.Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance, and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks, if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography, ultimately that protocol fails all three tests:* It's not ...

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.Some of what this practically means:Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off t ...

RT Gareth Jenkinson (@gazza_jenks)So, why did the Winklevoss twins launch @cypherpunktech - the first Zcash Treasury Company?Why are they bullish on @Zcash? Can Bitcoin and Zcash coexist?I caught up with @tyler and @cameron last week for @Cointelegraph - here's everything they said about Zcash 👇"We're huge fans of Bitcoin. We're hodlers, of course, and also huge fans of Zcash, which we view as encrypted Bitcoin.""Bitcoin is where you store your value and Zcash is where you transact or spend your value. And ...

RT Tyler Winklevoss (@tyler)Privacy is the precondition for many of our freedoms. It’s the point at which government and corporate reach end and our individual freedoms and self-sovereignty begin. As our lives have moved online, privacy’s become a rare, vanishing commodity.That’s why we founded Cypherpunk (@cypherpunktech) — a company dedicated to privacy and self-sovereignty. We will execute on our mission by accumulating, building, and supporting privacy-protecting assets and technologies at a time when t ...