"strongly on the good side, with a hint of chaotic individuality" 🌞 @ethereumfndn 🌚 @dod_berlin 🩷 FOSS, privacy, decentralization

Joined February 2012
franzi retweeted
📣 Event alert for folks in India and neighboring countries Devcon 8 brings Ethereum and open-source builders together for talks, workshops and community sessions in Mumbai. 📍 Mumbai, India 📆 November 3–6, 2026 🌐 devcon.org/en/?ref=itsfoss.c…
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says UwU in real life 🥰💛 @fileverse
privacy & big tech starter pack for beginners
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can confirm, I'm extremely excited
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities. Read more below
Quick updates on the Open Anonymity project (@OpenAnonProject)! 1. OA-chat is live! You can now signup: chat.openanonymity.ai 2. We collaborated with @ethereumfndn (@VitalikButerin, @DavideCrapis, @VittoStack, @curryrasul) to develop zkAPI, a new zero-knowledge protocol for accessing gated / paid APIs with unlinkability. It’s like a generalization of OA unlinkable inference that also abstracts payments away. Now also available on OA-chat! I'm excited because more infrastructure should exist where privacy and sovereignty is foundational and people are in control.
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keep ethereum weird 🖤🐈‍⬛🏴
we're heading towards complete retardation man. the vast majority of the world is not fucking ready for self-sovereignty and probably never will be. wallets have sucked ass at protecting normal users for over a decade. seed phrases & private keys are an utterly shit security model for humans (oh, and multisigs are great but people protect their 3/5 multisig with the same seed, so also full retard mode). and yet we're still pretending this is the future of finance. it's fucking not. most of this industry is a VC exit-liquidity circle jerk where the end user ultimately eats the loss in some form. maybe the answer isn't mass adoption. maybe the answer is staying fucking small. small, weird, technical, paranoid, adversarial, and hard to capture. the smaller and more niche we stay, the more dangerous and long-lasting this industry becomes. being small is a feature.
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Down to be a model citizen (😉) and participate in an Ethereum assembly at 40C3 this year? I'm looking to host one again, but this time would be great to have community coordination beforehand. Give me a hand (or a DM) if you're planning to be there 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️
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This initiative will be part of the amazing Critical Decentralization Cluster 🖤 decentral.community/
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Let's face it: GitHub is on the decline & a SPOF in the hand of a huge corporate. That's why we're inviting you to an evening of "Decent Code Collaboration Concepts after Git(Hub)": * Mon, Oct 5, 7 PM * at @cbase hosted by @dod_berlin * @radicle, @tangled_org, rngit, Jujutsu
Mark your calendars: 5.10.2026 Decent Code Collaboration Concepts after GitHub With a talk by @lftherios from @radicle rngit and tangled will also be topics Let's explore a feature of code collaboration after GitHub on board of @cbase together! platform.openmeet.net/events…
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Replying to @peterbarnett_
If you are not on at least one blacklist, you have not truly lived.
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for some things, @bluesky is just better you can follow all @EFDevcon speakers in one click
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Drumroll please... We are thrilled to announce the 14 Community Hubs selected for Devcon 8! 🔐 Privacy Hub 🛟 Security Hub 📑 EIP Hub 🤝 P2P Networking Hub 🪙 Token Rights Hub 📈 Prediction Markets Hub 🛠️ Open Source Builders Hub 🎨 Onchain Art Hub 🔬 DeSci Hub 🌐 Resilient Networks Hub 🇮🇳 Katta Developers (India Hub) 🧩 Fragmentation Hub 🤖Agentic Hub 🌱 Zuzone Hub Selected from 32 proposals, this year’s hubs will create spaces for new ideas, unexpected conversations, and community-led programming throughout Devcon 8 🌍 Check the full forum post below, link in the replies 👇🏻
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reviewing @EFDevcon programming… got me SO excited 🤩 some speakers we can already announce 👇
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We've published the EF Protocol cluster's priorities and our first shared Hegotá EIP tier list, with input from ~60 researchers and engineers across all 9 Protocol teams. We're aggressively targeting a quantum-resistant Ethereum L1 no later than December 2029. That has implications for what we propose including in Hegotá, and how much capacity we leave for the forks after it. Keeping mainnet safe remains our first priority. We'll be on r/ethereum for an AMA on September 16 at 2pm UTC. Please come ask us about the priorities, the tier list, or anything else you're curious about. Tier and priorities posts and question form can be found below in this thread:
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franzi retweeted
People pay 47% income tax to live in this asshole of misery.
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Happy birthday @dune and thanks for bringing back golden @ethberlin memories 🫶
8 years ago @mewwts and I started @Dune to make it easier to access and analyze blockchain data. Here's a hand drawn chart I walked around and pitched at @ETHBerlin hackathon in our first week. We had no working product and Mats was utterly ashamed... ... and here’s one of the technology industry's absolute GOATs @patrickc tweeting out a Dune chart to his 1.7M followers this week! Today Dune reaches millions of users and serves thousands of businesses including many of the world’s largest financial institutions - we’ve come a long way from humble beginnings!
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Devcon is built for the Ethereum ecosystem, with the Ethereum ecosystem. The Supporters Program gives aligned teams a way to help make Devcon possible while showing up as active participants in the community. It's more than a sponsorship, it's an invitation to participate.
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