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Ameen Soleimani
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Ameen Soleimani
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coordination arms dealer @unchainiran @0xbowio privacypools.com @letsgethai @reflexerfinance @molochdao
1/ New privacy paper with @VitalikButerin, Jacob Illum (@chainalysis), @mat_nadler, @fschaer! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… We explored new compliance opportunities made possible by privacypools.com, where users can provably dissociate from illicit funds. story below 🧵👇
- 1/ We fixed @TornadoCash 😇 v0 of privacypools.com is live on @optimismFND test out the demo, but please note: - this is experimental code - it has not been audited - the trusted setup is untrusted read the full story anon 🧵👇I sincerely hope no one thought we were finished
- 1/ His name is Virgil Griffith It was great fun to see everyone this week in NYC, but I’ll admit, I was walking around with a hole in my heart and a looming sense of dread. Virgil’s trial starts this Monday. #FreeVirgil
- "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" I find myself agreeing more and more with Thiel. if Trump hadn't gotten elected, I think I would be fully post-democratic. Trump's (2nd) election was spooky bc it was the first actual transfer of power in DC in myReplying to @VitalikButeringwern.net/doc/politics/2… Note that this was from *2007*, a decade before his more recent shifts, and two years before his quote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" (see cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/pet…) where he claims to choose freedom.
- the most used crypto in iran is USDT on Tron and this makes me seriously question everything I do how tf is the brock pierce shadow bank and the justin sun shadow blockchain doing more for the cause of financial freedom in iran than anything I've contributed to in ethereum?
- one of my more controversial opinions is that I don't believe everyone should have a vote one objective criteria for voting rights I like is that you earn a vote only when your tax contribution to society exceeds your public goods consumption - in other words, when your net
- Vitalik doesn't call out the Biden admin for: - arresting Roman Storm at gunpoint at his house in front of his daughter - SEC going after Hayden Adams for Uniswap - operation chokepoint 2.0 & debanking crypto companies but calls out Trump for *checks notes* communism
GIFReplying to @WhiteHouseso... you're abolishing price mechanisms and creating a situation where people will have to wait in lines more? pretty sure there's a C word for that - 1/ gm from the Netherlands @alex_pertsev's trial starts today he stands accused of laundering $1.2B via Tornado Cash I believe he should be free—open source devs should NOT be held criminally liable for the crimes of foreign terrorists!
- Ethereum founder: publicly admits to sending ETH to support Ukraine via Tornado Cash shortly after the US sanctions & Alexey's arrest Solana founder:Replying to @StaniKulechov and @JaEsfBecause of my position I don’t even trade on chain. Every once in a while I’ll do a usdc/usdt $1 swap to test priority fee pricing. Unless you are a socialist, profit == value consumer derives from the product excess of labor and costs.
- my billionaire ETH friends are doing deep dives into life extension research to see how they can accelerate it that feeling when Ethereum actually ends up defeating death itself LFG
- happy tornado cash day to all who celebrate 🎉
Privacy wins. Tornado Cash is legal. Now Roman Storm (@rstormsf) and Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) should be immediately freed, pardoned, and reimbursed by the state for their invalid prosecution.
