Agree @VitalikButerin - "I support it only if it's open source" SHOULD be more common! But open source is just the beginning - it's only Level 0 of what we need! True #OpenDevelopment requires so much more to actually deliver on the promises you outline. 🧵… 1/10

I had really hoped this kind of tactic would never arrive in the US. I think it is time to stop using the term privacy and start calling these threats as coercive and potentially incentivizing violence.

FROST is a powerful next-gen multisig protocol for Bitcoin — more efficient, more resilient. Join us next Wednesday 10am PDT for a live demo + dev discussion on using FROST with BDK and Taproot via our new CLI playground. 🧵… [1/8]

“ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain (from the IRS) the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.” 🤬 This is so bad on so many levels🧵…

In DC, at @btcpolicyorg, listening to two sitting US senators @MarshaBlackburn @SenLummis talk about Bitcoin policy.

I will be at the Bitcoin Policy Summit @btcpolicyorg on Wednesday in DC. I am advocating for expanding the ban on compelled private key disclosure beyond Wyoming; the “right to transact”; and supporting decentralized identity digital privacy. I’m available to schedule meetings.

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Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9

The Gordian Developer Meeting this month dealt with wallet interoperability and why it's important. [1/10]

🔐 We’ve lost the privacy plot. @hackernoon just published an interview where I dive into how we got here—and what we still can do about it. Interview by @TerezaBizkova 👇 (more links in 🧵…) 1/6