My honest sharing of the Artizen fiasco, what happened to us, and how I want to move forward.

a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art

You cannot arrive where you never left. You can only forget where you are, and then imagine a journey that takes you back there. You cannot become what you already are. You can only forget what you are, and then imagine you're becoming it. The imagined journey ends the moment you remember. This is not beyond your power; it is as easy as opening your eyes. But it would mean leaving behind all the stories of loss and gain and becoming worthy. Be honest: is that really what you want?

first, the rise of Zcash then, the restoration of the 1st and 4th amendments and repeal of the Patriot Act and KYC

I like ZEC more than the average guy, and it feels like my feed has suddenly become 90% ZEC bullposting Is my feed cooked or is ZEC about to rip on a hyperbolic moon mission? Zaccelerate

Smithers has been rewritten from the Ground up It's no longer React. We are all-in on @EffectTS_ It's also UI first. Meaning these technical details aren't important. You can just use an intuitive simple UI without ever knowing or caring about the technical details This thread is for nerds who do care about technical details. We cover every abstraction in Smithers from ground up🧵

for zcash, privacy is often misunderstood as the end all be all that certainly serves a clear market segment and is incredibly important but I posit the more significant part of privacy is its role in enabling a better monetary asset privacy enables choice, but more importantly it enables the safe haven and fungibility required for a true internet-native SoV internet-money by default has historical information attached to it which means that one coin may not actually be fungible for another coin (i.e if the Canadian government determines your coins came from those supporting the truckers, they can come after you for years into the future) i.e the money you receive shouldn't come with the baggage of those who held it before you cash does not have this problem and is devoid of all information which enables true fungibility and higher liquidity in the limit, and so too must internet-native money have this property even with gold and other offshore holdings, there's a reason people (used to) put them in Switzerland to take advantage of bank secrecy but with Zcash, we now scale this to the entire planet. that's the point of tech: scale now, all you need is an internet connection and a cryptographic keypair to get all these benefits that were only available to a select few so, even if you're someone who doesn't need the privacy aspect of zcash, it's still foundational for enabling a better monetary asset along with quantum proofing and performance upgrades trillions

please pause the frontier until we ipo please please please. ai is dangerous. trust me.