They tried to bury us... They didn't know we were seeds...

Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter

Stone Ridge 2025 Investor Letter from Ross Stevens, Founder and CEO

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Take a moment today to remember that Keonne Rodriguez turned himself into prison. Where he’ll stay for the next 5 years. For writing open source privacy software.

This is how giant bureaucracies work. A large number of disconnected sources of authority. Esoteric legalese–often not actual legislation–that mandates cross-jurisdiction compliance. Whether it's legal or not doesn't really matter... only very large players will have the resources to challenge these requests. Everyone else will simply comply for fear of being ground to dust by the legal system.

GitHub

Hey, The Good Guys just called! They'd like some data. · markqvist/Reticulum · Discussion #1004

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Louis D. Brandeis You've p...

GM 🌞 The war for digital privacy is happening RIGHT NOW. Whose side are you on?

The Rage

Recapping The SEC's Financial Surveillance Roundtable

For once, the Government seemed to have a better understanding of what privacy entails than some of its event participants.

Watching a very large quantity of nostr events being processed into binary and batched into clickhouse… Fun things coming. 📈📊🎯

GM maniacs. 🌞 Today; we build.

GM 🌞 So happy to be back into the code cave and done with traveling for a while. Lots to catch up on and lots to ship. 🚀

Chat control, digital ID, and age verification are all badly designed attempts at treating the symptoms of the real issues our societies are facing. Real solutions treat root causes and only come from the distributed consciousness and intelligence of all of us.

GM. Trend I’ve noticed in all my travels this year: Airports in developing nations are waaaay nicer and better run than European airports, which-in turn-are waaaay nicer than most major American hub airports. The empires are crumbling under their own weight.

Oh yay! I now have permission to apply for permission to ask for permission to publish our app. 😭