My talk at Devcon around the ethics of building public good infrastructure.
More specifically, I talk about how assholes are everywhere and what you can do to stop them.
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Founder of , program owner of logos.co, comp chem physics phd. I am focused on building asshole-resistant technology.
I also garden.
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Status Weekly Roundup: Keycard team
Hey, @Keycard_ here!! 
This week, we've been hard at work on the architecture of our upcoming hardware wallet 
This device is going to be fully open source, including everything related to its hardware, software, industrial design and… Show more
This week, we've been hard at work on the architecture of our upcoming hardware wallet
This device is going to be fully open source, including everything related to its hardware, software, industrial design and… Show more
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Love the "fetching data" screen as I start up a fresh install of Desktop (new version 0.12)!
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Hey, Waku fam! 👋
Want weekly progress updates on all the wicked work we're doing with Waku? Introducing #WakuWednesdays, your weekly roundup of all things ! 🧵
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Status Weekly Roundup: Wallet team
Last week, we added the "all accounts" screens to the wallet so that you can see an aggregated summary of all of your accounts, assets and transaction histories in a single view.
We also tweaked the wallet header with new colors and… ~~~~~~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N f2c6ac64-eb07-4bf8-bb18-52a36cf153b7 hf3f8e3a ~~~~~~~~~~
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Pruning is pretty nice - keeps your consensus client sub-100 gb, leaving more space for the execution client - we already do the same (ie are efficient) for memory, cpu and network usage, so storage is naturally next. Why are you not using yet, really?
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If you are still not taking advantage of the --history:prune option, we recommend testing it in a non-production environment, as it will be enabled by default in our next release. 
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we're going to do this as a public goods audit cc - will DM
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If you can do what this person did, it isn't state of the art, it's trash:
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📢Nimbus v23.5.1 is out.
It's a medium-urgency point release improving the compatibility of Nimbus with 3rd party validator clients and beacon nodes and introducing the support for incremental pruning.
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super proud of what we've built and this is just the basics. Try it out! It's free, no account required, and let me know what you think!
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Draw your world! 
Sketch-to-skybox introduces a whole new palette of tools to let you architect your new skyboxes better than ever. Try it with Remix for maximum effect!
GET SKETCHING: skybox.blockadelabs.com
#GenAI #aiart #gamedev #skybox #sketchtoskybox
Sketch-to-skybox introduces a whole new palette of tools to let you architect your new skyboxes better than ever. Try it with Remix for maximum effect!
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The most trusted name in cryptography, relied upon by the world's governments for their highest security applications for decades, sold products backdoored by the CIA. How can we ensure this won't happen again? Open-source software.
GridPlus will open-source its firmware in Q3.
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Status Weekly Roundup: Keycard team
Welcome to your first weekly update from the team!
Currently, we are investigating the possibility of creating a new 100% open-source hardware wallet that uses existing Keycards as the secure element and adds a screen, keyboard,… ~~~~~~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N f2c6ac64-eb07-4bf8-bb18-52a36cf153b7 hf3f8e3a ~~~~~~~~~~
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Status Weekly Roundup: Wallet team
Hi 👋 from the Status Wallet Team!
You haven't heard from us before, but we are busy building Status' new multi-chain wallet for both Status Desktop and the new Status Mobile 2.0.
Last week, we were working on the transaction activity screens… ~~~~~~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N f2c6ac64-eb07-4bf8-bb18-52a36cf153b7 hf3f8e3a ~~~~~~~~~~
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Since everyone is having hot takes on key material and its security, here's an session I did on how wallets work, hardware wallet fundamentals, and some best practices
If you don't know this stuff, then watch and this will all make more sense
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I should write more. The question is do I do it under my own site or make it focused towards the various projects I'm involved with under ?
Probably a combination of all of them.
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Not every claim of "Self-Custody" is true. Not every wallet is a self-custody wallet. Let's fix the misuse of terms and focus on user empowerment.
As part of our series of blogs to enable decentralization through a user-centric lens, we attempt to tighten the definitions.
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On the Blog: 
An attempt to 'standardize' industry nomenclature around Web3 Custody:
medium.com/silence-labora
Are you custodial, self, non, semi, or hybrid in custodial type, anon? 
Have better definitions and related feedback? We're all ears 
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An attempt to 'standardize' industry nomenclature around Web3 Custody:
medium.com/silence-labora
Are you custodial, self, non, semi, or hybrid in custodial type, anon?
Have better definitions and related feedback? We're all ears
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Status Weekly Roundups: Desktop Messenger team
Hi from the Status Desktop Messenger team! 👋
We're the team that's hard at work building Status Desktop's fully decentralized 1:1, group and community chat functionalities. Here are a few updates on some of the things we've been… Show more
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confirmed, although Github not on the main page, have to go to docs even though it's "built by developers, for developers."
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Can someone explain to me how the isn't just a blatant clone of ?
Furthermore, I find it amusing that it doesn't compare to Avalanche on the landing page w.r.t. performance considering it seems to be the exact same thing.
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And it's open-source :)
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Status Weekly Roundup: Design team
Hello there! 👋
Our design team has been hard at work reimagining Status as a pixel-perfect human experience for the decentralized era.
The result? A beautiful, functional redesign of the Status Mobile 2.0 app✨
We assembled a team of… Show more
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9 audits from top firms, yet all audits were able to find new bugs.
This proves that no audit guarantees 100% security.
Audits are super important and helpful, but everyone, please stop using them as certification.
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A Lido V2 Audit Update:
Security is a top priority. To this end Lido DAO dedicated significant effort to 9 independent V2 audits.
These audits have uncovered important findings, all of which have been either acknowledged or fixed.
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Ready to level up to ZK security auditing? Building privacy dApps?
We are thrilled to announce yAcademy’s ZK Auditing Fellowships! 🚀🔥🚀
Our pilot ZK fellowship: May 22nd to late June 2023.
Ready to rumble? Applications are now open:
yacademy.dev/fellowships/zk
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Hey all,
We've been heads-down working on lots of cool stuff and we know we've been a bit too quiet on the updates front.
We have some exciting announcements coming later this year, but until then, we want to start talking about the things we're busy working on. Going forward,… Show more
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Has anyone considered the relatively low data retention lifetime of Secure Element based secret storage? Google says ~25 years while ChatGPT gives us less (~10).
This should def be considered for your long term storage solution for your crypto and other secrets.
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I don't expect much clapback, it's just low effort attention seeking from this dude, I'd imagine. Either way, money to a good cause.
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This troll wants to make fun of me. Cool. Let’s play.
Every single quote tweet of this one which makes fun of this asshole, I am donating $13.37 to nonprofits which support diverse voices in our industry.
And I will provide receipts.
Your move, bucko
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This is a group that I endorse as official. Follow them for updates and guidance on how you should protect yourself.
If you are a victim, I also urge you to help us solve and mitigate this issue by providing what details you can via their portal.
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OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELEASE
Victims urged to come forward!!
We've just published a new writeup @viamirror -
"Uncovering a Sophisticated Multi-vector Crypto-Asset Theft Scheme"
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It is remarkable to think that only in the past 15-20 years have we moved most of our private communications to digital channels with centralized storage & the processing power to perform bulk scanning. Coincidentally that’s nearly as long as encrypted messaging has been around.
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Why not combine this with an game to get people comfortable using a . Gas isn't the only hurdle.
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yeah we're in contact with a number of people for months now. here's what theyve said:
they used or have previously used mm mobile and/or extension and/or mew in 2017/2018 and/or mew more recently and/or ledger live and/or mycrypto and/or trust and/or exodus and/or electrum… Show more
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My personal opinion, something that was ubitquitously used in the past was hacked and sat on for years. The threat actors are draining now and it's hard to reason why.
If you have old funds, move them now.
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