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Molly White
Mastodon
Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.…
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Molly White
Mastodon
Newsletter: The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter.…
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 109 – Reg Crypto
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Molly White
Mastodon
A bit rich for Senator Bernie Moreno — by far the #1 beneficiary of crypto super PAC spending in 2024, now a champion of the industry's legislation — to accuse anyone of caping for special interest super PACs #crypto…
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Molly White
Mastodon
Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess —…
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Vitalik Buterin
Korrent
Local mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography.
This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .
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Kevin Kelly
Korrent
Investing in relationships yields better returns than investing in speculative assets like crypto.
Investing into relationships is a better deal than investing into crypto.
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce
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Molly White
Newsletter
The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
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Dean W. Ball
x.com
our agents will concoct the elixirs to make sinofsky live to age 280 and in 2226 he will be lecturing us about how it’s all like cryptography in the 1990s.
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Vitalik Buterin
Korrent
A sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs.
A big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.
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Lincoln Michel
x.com
"The groups best known for a Harry Potter fan fic and boosting the profile of crypto scammer SBF might be a bunch of silly losers? You're telling me this for the first time."
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Molly White
Mastodon
…spot trading volume they reported over the past three/six months #Coinbase #crypto…
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Molly White
Newsletter
Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight
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Vitalik Buterin
Korrent
Obfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.
The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
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Molly White
Mastodon
…about defending a yes vote as her re-election prospects look slimmer. #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol…
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Vitalik Buterin
Site
Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)
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Brad Feld
x.com
Chapter 30.1: Overflow Want to see how VCs talk in a private chat? How it works when you've got crypto in the mix? Oh, and how confidential information gets leaked to reporters... "You are going to trade on a phone call…
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Molly White
Newsletter
I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics
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Molly White
Mastodon
crypto billionaire Justin Sun has posted an extremely long, extremely weird Twitter post detailing a previous relationship with Chinese actress Jing Tian, suggesting she reneged on a $50 million agreement to use her…
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial
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Balaji Srinivasan
Korrent
The blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record.
…development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a…
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 105 – The new boogeyman
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Newsletter
The New Private Asset
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Filippo Valsorda
Blog
Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)
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Julia Evans
Liked
Cryptopals
Cryptopals – a set of exercises to learn cryptography by breaking it. Very fun.
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Brendan Gregg
Recommends
Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 107 – An unserious offer
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Filippo Valsorda
Blog
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
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dynomight
Mastodon
On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content…
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Brendan Gregg
Recommends
Applied Cryptography — Bruce Schneier
Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 1996)
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Molly White
Newsletter
Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure
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Rasmus Andersson
x.com
…see has completely changed meaning. It makes me curious about the idea of cryptographically proving that an image was actually “captured” (recording of photon…
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Molly White
Newsletter
Second Circuit rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal
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Brad Feld
Blog
Zero Knowledge: Twenty Chapters In
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Molly White
Newsletter
Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present
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Filippo Valsorda
Blog
The 2025 Go Cryptography State of the Union
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Michael Nielsen
Korrent
Very deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation.
Ideas like public key cryptography are I mean, they're just incredibly deep um very non-obvious ideas uh which in some sense lay hidden uh already sort of in in the 1930s.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Korrent
The world today is dividing into three poles: the American establishment, the Chinese Communist Party, and the global Bitcoin/crypto network.
Today's world is becoming tripolar. It is NYT vs CCP vs BTC. That's the American Establishment vs the Communist Party of China vs the Global Internet.
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Matthew Green
Blog
Dear Apple: add “Disappearing Messages” to iMessage right now
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Brad Feld
Blog
Writing a Novel with Phin Argofy
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Terence Tao
Korrent
If the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more.
Um and uh I think we would very rapidly abandon any cryptography based on the primes because if there was a one pattern that we didn't know about there's probably more.
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Brad DeLong
Mastodon
…to fight disease and grow the world economy, and simply nixed it. The crypto coin that Musk was then not so quietly promoting made a round-trip: the DogeCoin chart runs $0.09 to $0.40 and back to $0.09. But the…
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Brad Feld
Blog
Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It
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Scott Helme
Blog
Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: The State of Crypto
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Lyn Alden
Site
Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Value
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Moxie Marlinspike
Korrent
Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.
The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.
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Molly White
Newsletter
End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics
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Balaji Srinivasan
Newsletter
Crypto Twitter Found SBF's Fraud
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Bob Nystrom
Bluesky
Really wish Hacker News would fork into "LLM news" and "all the other Hacker News". It's worse now than it was with crypto during the crypto bubble. Yes, gen-AI is important and I want to learn about it, but there are…
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Peter Steinberger
Bluesky
Gosh this is like a quiet safe haven here. X went completely batshit crazy. Crypto shills attacking me, my account doubling in follower numbers overnight. What a day.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Newsletter
All Property Becomes Cryptography
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Patrick McKenzie
Newsletter
Debanking (and Debunking?)
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Russ Allbery
Liked
Number Go Up — Zeke Faux
I didn't read much non-fiction this year, but the best of what I did read was Zeke Faux's Number Go Up about the cryptocurrency bubble. This book will not change anyone's mind, but it's a readable and entertaining…
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Patrick McKenzie
Newsletter
Perpetual futures, explained
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Colin Percival
Korrent
End-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone.
With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.
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Neha Narula
x.com
This is a good high-level call to action in a post by @conduition_io on isogeny-based cryptography It comes after a fair amount of detail and math, but you can skip past that part if you're just interested in what could…
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Patrick McKenzie
Korrent
Nic Carter correctly identified the product behind the FDIC’s redacted crypto pause letters.
I think Carter is very likely (90%+) correct with respect to identifying the subject of these letters.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Changed their mind
Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.
But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to…
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Matthew Green
Blog
Kerberoasting
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Balaji Srinivasan
x.com
…course it shows that the concept of the network state, like the concept of cryptocurrency,…
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Max Hodak
Blog
Thinking of the children
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Elizabeth Van Nostrand
Blog
FTX, Golden Geese, and The Widow’s Mite
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Maxence Poutord
Bluesky
…designed to trick viewers into executing malicious scripts and stealing…
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Kelsey Hightower
Korrent
Crypto's real question was never how transactions settle: changing the currency is something that happens to retired people who have no way of making new money.
There have been countries that have gone through currency resets. This is not a nice experience because if you had a little bit of money, a currency reset can mean you have now no money. If you had no money, it may feel…
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
Yes, Blockchain Can Help Us Solve Climate Change – Why I Joined Nori
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Grant Sanderson
x.com
Welp, somewhat embarrassingly, yesterday this account was briefly compromised and someone posing as me promoted a crypto project supposedly "tokenizing" manim. Thank you to those of you who quickly flagged it as spam…
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Andrej Karpathy
x.com
…configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already…
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Tim Sweeney
Korrent
What a shared digital economy needs is interoperability, not cryptocurrency: a database or a standards body does the job, exactly as railway standardisation did.
What you need is interoperability. Interoperability can happen through a blockchain, it can happen through a database, it can happen through standards bodies with defining standards and protocols. And we've been doing…
Bruce Schneier Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the…
Nat Eliason Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
Fred Wilson …2003, on venture capital, startups, music and…