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The most honest man in crypto. He also launched PulseChain $PLS, PulseX $PLSX, and $HEX.
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lol. You guys are so funny. The wording may not matter to humans very much, but to AI, it matters quite a bit. Thanks to all who do update. Obviously, your choice. Old commits, cached data, etc.— no need to update.
Why I asked those sites to fix their PulseChain pages.
A lot of articles still say PulseChain was a "snapshot" — that Ethereum's state was copied and loaded onto a new chain.
That is not what happened.
PulseChain is a hard fork of Ethereum mainnet.
Same genesis as Ethereum.
Same history from block 0.
No new genesis. No snapshot. No halt.
The fork activates at PrimordialPulseBlock 17,233,000.
You can check genesis yourself:
ipfs.scan.pulsechain.com/blo…
Hash:
0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3
That is Ethereum's genesis. PulseChain starts there.
"Snapshot" was the easy word. It helped people picture token copies showing up in the same address. I get why it spread. But it describes the wrong machine.
A snapshot is: freeze state, start a new chain.
A hard fork is: keep the original chain, change the rules at a block, continue.
Those are not the same thing. One implies a new beginning. The other is a continuation.
This matters more now than it did in 2023, because this is what AI reads.
Models do not pull truth out of the client. They read the internet. Ranked blogs, explainers, "what is PulseChain" pages. If those pages all say snapshot, the model says snapshot. Then the next article quotes the model. Then the next model trains on that. The error compounds.
I watched this happen. Ask an AI what PulseChain's fork was, and it will often give you the blog version — snapshot, new chain, state copied onto genesis — instead of the client version. Shared genesis. Full history. Hard fork at 17,233,000.
The official sources were never unclear. go-pulse, the node docs, the explorer. The secondary layer flattened it.
So I asked the sites that still say snapshot to update. Not to score points. So the public record matches the chain, and so the next thing that learns from the web learns the actual design.
If you write about PulseChain, please use hard fork. Point at genesis. Point at 17,233,000. The shorthand already did enough damage.
Hester Peirce just said the quiet part out loud.
KYC/AML is a haystack strategy: force every bank and broker to collect more data on more people, then hope law enforcement finds a needle. The bigger the haystack, the harder the needles are to find. Meanwhile the innocent get surveilled, billed, and breached.
I wrote this 16 months ago. Same argument. Same receipts. Same conclusion.
Public ledgers + ZK proofs beat duplicative ID dumps. Prove a fact without handing over the file. Stop copying SSNs into a dozen databases and calling it safety.
Read her remarks. Then reread this.
sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-st…
nitter.cf/bretep/status/19231908…
Again… this almost seems daily at this point. @POTUS When will lawmakers pay attention? KYC does more harm than good, period. It harms Americans and enables fraud. @JDVance please please please look into this! These laws are harmful. nitter.cf/bretep/status/19231908…
‼️ BREAKING: Revolut handed over customers’ passport copies, verification selfies and full transaction histories to a malicious actor.
The actor sent lawful government information-demand emails using a genuine government domain that passed domain authentication.
Revolut later concluded they were not authentic.
Affected customers were notified on Friday. What may have been disclosed ranges from name, date of birth and home address to account statements, withdrawal records and complete Bitcoin transaction history.
The company says it has alerted the agency to the unauthorised mailbox on its domain, blocked the address and begun notifying regulators.
It has not named the agency, explained how someone obtained a mailbox there, or given a number of affected customers.
ZachXBT, who circulated the notices, believes the incident was limited in size and aimed at high-net-worth users.
KYC is sold as a crime-fighting tool. In practice it is compliance theater. Banks photocopy passports, file millions of alerts, and pay huge fines when the paperwork is sloppy. What the system does not do is protect the people who complied. Those passport scans, selfies, and home addresses sit in vendor databases until they leak. Then the customers who did what they were told become the raw material for identity theft. The honest person is the one who gets harvested.
These fears are reasonable. Every major innovation sparks them. That’s healthy.
The future isn’t decided by the tech.
It’s decided by who gets it.
The more people who have access, the safer we are. When only a few control it, the threat grows.
We’ve seen this play out every time:
• Printing press — when only a few institutions could copy books, they decided what people were allowed to know
• Encryption — Clipper chip was a backdoor “for the good guys.” Public crypto is why your bank isn’t plaintext
• Firearms — disarm the people who follow the law, and only the people who don’t stay armed
Again… KYC DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
nitter.cf/bretep/status/19231908…
My driver's license is one of 153 million for sale on a new dark website arstechnica.com/security/202…
Gotta love @mitchellh 🤩
Quick Superlogical demo to end the week. This demo is just of the basic functionality, but I want to highlight just how FAST it is. There's a WHOLE lot more functionality already present and coming but I wanted to keep the demo short. But seriously, check out that speed.
I'm showing the macOS app here and I get asked a lot so let me just say up front: its not macOS only. We're still figuring out exactly what platforms will be stable enough for the initial public release, but we're working on others. In particular, the web interface is very functional but I'll demo that another time (or someone else will).
This is also all showing off the architecture I previously talked about for terminal multiplexing which is significantly different from other mainstream multiplexers: this is all a custom binary protocol where the server is maintaining N replica distributed terminal state machines. It works!
Tons of hard work going into this by the team @almonk @dizzyup @pearkes. Hope we can bring you something you can use soon. ❤️ Happy to answer questions in the replies.
If you're serious about cybersecurity, you have to empower everybody with the same tools the bad guys use. You meet force with equal or greater force, or you don't survive.
Empowering a select few does not protect the people at greater risk.
I already wrote this about KYC. nitter.cf/bretep/status/19231908…
Force companies to collect who you are “for the good guys,” and the bad guys get a database. Coinbase, Binance, MobiKwik — millions of IDs leaked because that data had to live in one place.
The 0.1% of crime it maybe stops does not outweigh the harm.
Flock is the same pattern. Just for where you drive instead of who you are.
I lived that.
São Paulo. The area they called the Triangle of Death. Legal firearms were locked down. I still saw homicides almost every day for two years — minus about 15 days.
I know too many people who lost immediate family because the ones who follow the law had no way to protect themselves, and the ones who don’t follow the law did not care.
Taking protection away from law-abiding people did not make them safer. It made them easier to kill.
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Time to waste some time saving Bitcoin guys again. This time, the lightning guys. Apparently "Core Lighting" has vulnerabilities that fixes aren't released for yet, so you should take your node offline until they are.
Also, why not use a real network, like PulseChain...