Bitcoin evangelist, author, entrepreneur Founder: Vault Logic, WatchMyBit, and other fine DougCo companies
Pinecrest FL
Joined January 2010
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Doug Scribner retweeted
Mehow on the @token2049 main stage today.
Public blockchains put every transaction on display. The tools built to fix that: mixers, privacy coins, shielded pools, hide you, and then the exchanges you actually need treat you as a risk. Transparent to the world, or private and locked out, that's been the choice.
A payment should be private to the world, readable only by the recipient, and able to prove where the money came from when an auditor or exchange asks, without exposing the rest of the sender's history.
AmericanFortress™ is the missing primitive: a payment that is simple, private, safe and carries its own proof. Readable only by the recipient. Provable to an auditor without exposing the rest of your history. Compliant without viewing keys.
#TOKEN2049
Doug Scribner retweeted
People killed by AI: zero
People killed by governments: millions
Let's give control of AI to the governments and call it safety
Doug Scribner retweeted
📁 3AM crypto security thoughts
┃
┣ 📂 Did I use the right address
┃ ┣ Checked it 4 times
┃ ┣ Copy pasted it
┃ ┗ Still not sleeping
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┣ 📂 Clipboard hijacking
┃ ┣ What if it changed mid-paste
┃ ┣ Transaction already sent
┃ ┗ Can't undo it
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┣ 📂 Glass wallet anxiety
┃ ┣ Someone is watching my balance
┃ ┣ They can see every transaction
┃ ┣ Every counterparty
┃ ┗ Everything
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┣ 📂 Address poisoning spiral
┃ ┣ That address in my history looks familiar
┃ ┣ Too familiar
┃ ┣ Slightly different
┃ ┗ Oh no
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┣ 📂 Quantum dread
┃ ┣ My old wallets are exposed
┃ ┣ Have been since day one
┃ ┣ The math is just waiting
┃ ┗ Someone is already harvesting
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┣ 📂 AI agent paranoia
┃ ┣ Is it sending to the right place
┃ ┣ Nobody verified the destination
┃ ┣ No identity check
┃ ┗ Just a raw address and hope
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┗ 📁 Existential question
┣ Is my crypto actually mine
┣ If anyone can see it
┣ Track it
┣ Front run it
┗ Was it ever really private
Doug Scribner retweeted
The key to success is wanting more in life, but the key to happiness is wanting less
Doug Scribner retweeted
My Tesla prevented an accident . Before my brain could process what was happening my car stopped abruptly and resumed running after the dashing boy cleared the path.I couldn’t have prevented this on my own and the aftermath is tragic and unimaginable. Thank you Elon.
Doug Scribner retweeted
Your crypto security should not depend on whether you notice one wrong character.
Yet that’s still how billions of dollars are moved every day.
This Wednesday at 1:30 PM ET, @MehowHacks joins @RoundtableSpace to talk about phishing, address poisoning, the coming quantum threat, and why wallet security needs a completely different architecture.
Don't forget to join in!
Doug Scribner retweeted
US data centers use < 1% of the water Americans use on their lawns annually.
LBNL put data center consumption at 17b gallons in 2023, projected to grow to 38b-73b by 2028.
EPA says lawn watering is ~ 3 trillion gallons. Not including parks, golf, businesses
.5%-.6%
Doug Scribner retweeted
The privacy model crypto actually needs:
Anonymous to third parties. Transparent between the two people transacting.
Right now you get one or the other. Full transparency exposes everything to everyone.
Privacy pools hide everything from everyone, including the recipient who needs to know who paid them.
The answer is an identity layer that sits between those extremes.
Outsiders see nothing. The two parties see each other.
Private where it should be. Verifiable where it matter
Doug Scribner retweeted
Don’t blame baby boomers because they could buy houses for $20k and pay for college with a summer job.
Blame the politicians who printed money from thin air for half a century to fund expansion of government, war and grift.
The money is broken. Fix the money. Fix the world.
Doug Scribner retweeted
Every proposed answer to quantum risk so far has asked the same thing of you: move your coins.
Millions of holders, custodians, ETFs and treasuries, all migrating to new addresses before a deadline nobody can name. That's not a solution, it's a systemic event with a countdown on it.
@MehowHacks at BASS @Stanford on why we built the version where you do nothing at all.
Doug Scribner retweeted
Crypto going mainstream depends on institutions trusting the rails enough to put customers on them.
@Americanfort_io is building exactly that: Send-to-Name kills address-based phishing, KYC/AML compliance is native, and their infra is built for AI agents to transact autonomously. Now they've added a quantum-safe layer too, no fund migration required.
This is what has to exist before crypto shows up inside the apps people already use every day, the infrastructure work that quietly makes everything built on top of it possible.
Full story below 👇
Doug Scribner retweeted
Spot on!! 🎯😎😆
I can’t wait for the comments!!
Nicklas Nilsson explains the difference between right-wing and left-wing people in spot-on text on Facebook:
"If a right-wing person is gay, then he is, and he doesn't care what others think.
If a left-winger is gay, then he demands legal changes, protests against everything and everyone, and turns it into a political struggle.
If a right-winger is vegan, then he simply doesn't eat meat.
If a left-winger is vegan, then he wants to ban meat, halt food production, and protest outside farms and chicken farms.
If a right-winger doesn't like guns, then he just doesn't buy any.
If a left-winger doesn't like guns, then he tries to ban them, prevent everyone else from owning one, and hates those who do.
If a right-winger is worried about the climate, then he flies less, drives an electric car if it suits him, and sorts his waste.
If a left-winger is worried about the climate, then he wants to ban fossil fuel cars, air travel, and meat for everyone else, protest outside factories, and demand that the state forces the change.
If a right-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he moves to an area with good schools, or chooses a private school, or gets involved himself.
If a left-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he demands more tax money from everyone, equal results for all, a ban on charter schools, and protests against every inequality.
If a right-winger complains about his job or workplace.. he doesn't. He changes jobs or starts his own business.
If a left-winger complains about his job – then it's the boss, the company, or the colleagues who are at fault. He demands collective agreements, strikes, changes for the whole community, and protests against the company so that it suits him.
If a right-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he moves, renovates, or buys something else.
If a left-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he demands rent freezes, more subsidies, regulations for everyone, and protests against landlords and politicians.
If a right-winger fails with a business or an investment that goes wrong, then he gets up, dusts himself off, and tries again tomorrow.
If a left-winger runs out of money on the 24th, then he blames the rich for having too much and needing to contribute more, blames the lottery win that didn't come home last week, and mutters that he has such damn bad luck.
If a right-winger sees this – then he sends it to a few friends for a good laugh.
If a left-winger sees this – then he tries to argue against it, get it removed, and delete me from Facebook."
Doug Scribner retweeted
250 years ago a bunch of treasonous anti-regulation extremists created America.
Happy Independence Day, may we some day create it again.
🇺🇸
Doug Scribner retweeted
Do people realize it's not individual politicians, but the two-party system itself that's the problem?
Doug Scribner retweeted
Venice.ai is already today this "unlinkable inference layer," a "VPN for AI"
Use any model (ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Grok) through Venice pseudonymously.
Can we build a blind, *unlinkable inference* layer where ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini can't tell which call came from which users, like a “VPN for AI inference”?
Yes! Blog post below + we built it into open source infra/chat app and served >15k prompts at Stanford so far. How it helps with AI user privacy:
# The AI user privacy problem
If you ask AI to analyze your ChatGPT history today, it’s surprisingly easy to infer your demographics, health, immigration status, and political beliefs. Every prompt we send accumulates into an (identity-linked) profile that the AI lab controls completely and indefinitely. At a minimum this is a goldmine for ads (as we know now). A bigger issue is the concentration of power: AI labs can easily become (or asked to become) a Cambridge Analytica, whistleblow your immigration status, or work with health insurance to adjust your premium if they so choose.
This is a uniquely worse problem than search engines because your average query is now more revealing (not just keywords), interactive, and intelligence is now cheap. Despite this, most of us still want these remote models; they’re just too good and convenient! (this is aka the "privacy paradox".)
# Unlinkable inference as a user privacy architecture
The idea of unlinkable inference is to add privacy while preserving access to the remote models controlled by someone else. A “privacy wrapper” or “VPN for AI inference”, so to speak.
Concretely, it’s a blind inference middle layer that:
(1) consists of decentralized proxies that anyone can operate;
(2) blindly authenticates requests (via blind signatures / RFC9474,9578) so requests are provably sandboxed from each other and from user identity;
(3) relays prompts over randomly chosen proxies that don’t see or log traffic (via client-side ephemeral keys or hosting in TEEs); and
(4) the provider simply sees a mixed pool of anonymous prompts from the proxies. No state, pseudonyms, or linkable metadata.
If you squint, an unlinkable inference layer is essentially a vendor for per-request, anonymous, ephemeral AI access credentials (for users or agents alike). It partitions your context so that user tracking is drastically harder.
Obviously, unlinkability isn’t a silver bullet: the prompt itself still goes to the remote model and can leak privacy (so don't use our chat app for a therapy session!). It aims to combat *longitudinal tracking* as a major threat to user privacy, and its statistical power increases quickly by mixing more users and requests.
Unlinkability can be applied at any granularity. For an AI chat app, you can unlinkably request a fresh ephemeral key for every session so tracking is virtually impossible.
# The Open Anonymity Project
We started this project with the belief that intelligence should be a truly public utility. Like water and electricity, providers should be compensated by usage, not who you are or what you do with it. We think unlinkable inference is a first step towards this “intelligence neutrality”.
# Try it out! It’s quite practical
- Chat app “oa-chat”: chat.openanonymity.ai/
(<20 seconds to get going)
- Blog post that should be a fun read: openanonymity.ai/blog/unlink…
- Project page: openanonymity.ai/
- GitHub: github.com/OpenAnonymity
Doug Scribner retweeted
Attacking my investment record is about the dumbest thing you can do.
What can I expect. You don’t understand the Second Amendment or the Constitution.
Maybe you are frustrated that actual conservatives are leaving your silly network. You know that once again your sinking reputation will be tarnished even further because you jumped on a false narrative like a clickbait blogger and now it looks like you were fooled. You said he “pulled a gun” there’s no evidence of this. You made it up or swallowed what the government told you uncritically.