We now have billionaire tech founders themselves code decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operate over bluetooth mesh networks. I'm not sure the censorship bureaucracy knows what they are up against.

Mandatory age verification which requires attested applications attacks the very base layer of freedom technology — secure devices. Think about that for a second.

Everybody is shopping, but not everybody wants to be free.

What if programming is art?

What if programming is art?

What if I can only program well if I maximize fun instead of productivity?

This privacy stuff is getting out of control, I cannot tell if my patrons are famous OGs or random plebs.

Privacy needs to be baked into L1

Privacy needs to be baked into L1

Privacy is the absence of information leakage and that implies it comes from value at rest, not value in motion. And privacy at rest can only be ga...

I find it interesting how my entire mindset shifted around fiat. Normie friends tell me they need fiat in a "savings account" to feel safe. I cannot sleep well if I have a lot of fiat sitting somewhere. How can you sleep if you are sitting on a melting ice cube? I only feel safe if I'm short fiat.

Saving is not only necessary for capital accumulation, it's also a necessity for monetary privacy.

With the rapid improvements of AI technology it's best to assume that any information that can be derived, will be derived.

I just installed a tool which I wrote in Go almost 10 years ago. No sudden compiler errors. No standard library incompatibilites. And no fricking incompatible source-level changes (👋 Python, Ruby, Perl, Swift, PHP, and Scala). It just worked. That way I can focus on the actual problem, not the tooling. There is enough complexity in the problem domains, we don't need more complexity in the programming languages. Boring is good, boring is productive. All hail the Go compatibility guarantee from the 1.0 release:

Go 1 and the Future of Go Programs - The Go Programming Language

And they are still not planning to break it:

Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain se...

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Frank Braun

I believe in personal freedom and property rights.

Keystone hardware wallet test with shielded Zcash

Keystone hardware wallet test with shielded Zcash

I finally got my hands on a Keystone 3 Pro hardware wallet in order to test it with the Zashi mobile wallet.

#Zcash

My Zcash investment thesis

My Zcash investment thesis

I simply share my analysis of why I think that Zcash (ZEC) might be a good investment mid- to long-term as a high beta play, this post is not an id...

#Zcash

Just as the World Wide Web (using the HTTP protocol) needed an encryption layer first (leading to HTTPS) before it became viable for business, the payment layer of the internet needs privacy in order to function properly. See also:

Zcash, the HTTPS of Blockchains

Zcash encrypts data on a public blockchain much like HTTPS encrypts data on the public internet.

(originally published in January 2020)

AI agents will need embeddable crypto wallets to pay other AI agents and services. Assuming that AI agents are rational actors, do you think they would prefer all of their economic activity to be transparent or private?

Imagine a world where ONE payment will give you the total revenue of a business, their customers, their suppliers, how much they pay their employees, and what their cashflow and runway is. Welcome to stable coins. International commerce simply doesn't work without privacy.

I want every financial regulator and bank compliance officer to loose their job. It's such just a waste of human potential that could surely be put to more productive use.

Use money that cannot be debased to escape inflation. Use money that cannot be traced to escape confiscation.

Every success story in crypto has a dark net market accepting it as means of payment. #Bitcoin

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