You don’t need to justify wanting privacy. You need to question why others want access.

Bobine

A blockchain in your garage

- A blockchain in your garage "An ultra-simple blockchain with instant finality" wow this is cool!

Visualization of every Citi Bike ride ever taken in NYC from @freemanjiangg "291 million rides covering 12 years of history, running at 60+ FPS completely in the browser". nice! 🚴‍♂

bikemap.nyc

Visualization of the entire history of Citi Bike, the largest bike-sharing system in the US.

2 new #ethereum MEV related tools from @nero_eth:

MEV Builder Bids Dashboard

Real-time visualization of MEV builder bids on Ethereum. Watch block builders compete for block space with animated bid data powered by Xatu.

- the boosts auction live, incl. bids, their timing, and dynamics

Exclusive Orderflow Explorer

Block explorer focused on exclusive orderflow analytics for Ethereum

- private/exclusive order flow at the block level.

Nearly 24 years ago (2002), I created an account on

nyx.cz :: úvodní stránka

- one of the first social networks I ever joined. What's remarkable is that nyx.cz still exists today, unchanged despite decades of technological evolution, preserving that chaotic, early-internet atmosphere and rare vibes. I grew up on this. BTW, je tu někdo na nyxu? :) #czechstr

Forkcast

Forkcast - Ethereum Upgrade Tracker

See what

is really nice tool for watching Ethereum development

privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful

I always appreciate this about Ethereum, it's definitely cypherpunk at its core... but it's also a lot of fun and diversity View quoted note →

Crypto's Deviance Adam Mastroianni's decline of deviance thesis argues society has become increasingly risk-averse and homogeneous - teens drink less, adults commit fewer crimes, culture stagnates, and architecture converges on minimalist sameness. His explanation: life has become so safe and valuable that we've adopted "slow life strategies," avoiding anything that might disrupt our comfortable existence. The cryptocurrency space perfectly illustrates this pattern's divergence. Bitcoin and Ethereum represent two fundamentally different responses to the decline of deviance. Bitcoin is embracing the decline. What started as cypherpunk rebellion has crystallized into orthodoxy. The community has developed rigid narratives around "digital gold", "21 million", and "hodling". The culture demands conformity - if you question the laser eyes consensus, you're dismissed as not understanding Bitcoin. It's creating exactly the kind of monoculture Mastroianni describes: everyone thinking the same thoughts, using the same language, following the same playbook. Bitcoin has become institutionalized deviance that's no longer actually deviant. Ethereum, meanwhile, exemplifies the wild deviance Mastroianni says we're losing. DeFi Summer was pure chaos - a completely unregulated market where anyone could launch anything. Sure, most projects were garbage or outright scams. But that's the point. Real deviance means tolerating the bad weird along with the good weird. You had teenagers creating protocols moving billions of dollars. Anonymous developers shipping code that banks couldn't imagine. Constant experimentation with new mechanisms, new models, new possibilities. The Ethereum ecosystem remains genuinely strange. Every few months there's a completely new category of thing that didn't exist before - DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, restaking, RWA tokenization, AI agents, prediction markets. The community actively debates fundamental changes. Hard forks happen. People take real risks. This connects to Mastroianni's insight about why deviance has declined: we have too much to lose. Bitcoin's institutional adoption has given it something precious to protect, so it's become conservative. Ethereum's culture, for better or worse, maintains the hacker ethos of "move fast and break things" - which is only possible if you're willing to risk breaking everything you've built. The question is whether crypto can sustain genuine deviance or whether, like everything else Mastroianni documents, it will inevitably converge on safe, boring consensus. Bitcoin suggests the latter. Ethereum suggests it's still possible to keep the weird alive - if you're willing to accept the chaos that comes with it.

The Decline of Deviance

Where has all the weirdness gone?

I'm not far from living fiatless. I don't need bank accounts or centralized exchanges. 99.9% of my money is in cryptocurrencies. All thanks to Ethereum

Ethereum building true decentralized state machine for over 10 years, and even though we have immediate consistency and strict ordering, there are still plenty of exploits and room for improvement. Now imagine building something like this on an eventually consistent and unordered event log.... 🤦‍♂ View quoted note →

patience for what? lol View quoted note →

If you think Ethereum is "stealing" Bitcoin's narratives, then yes - and that's how it's supposed to be

We choose to build trustless systems even when it is harder. We pay the cost of openness over the convenience of control. We do not outsource neutrality to anyone who can be bribed, coerced, or shut down. We measure success not by transactions per second, but by trust reduced per transaction. We refuse to build on infrastructure we cannot replace. We refuse to call a system "permissionless" when only the privileged can participate. We refuse to trade autonomy for polish, or freedom for frictionless UX. Trustlessness is not preserved by consensus alone — it is preserved by resistance. If your protocol requires faith in an intermediary, change it. If it relies on a private gateway, replace it. If it hides critical state or logic offchain, expose it. In the end, the world does not need more efficient middlemen. It needs fewer reasons to trust them. Trustlessness is the foundation. Everything else is construction on top of it. The designs will change. The principles will not. View quoted note →

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” https://trustlessness.eth.limo

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vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) on X

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” This was an important - and controv...

"comprehensive technical framework for secure electronic voting that uses biometric passports for identity verification, zero-knowledge proofs for anonymity, blockchain smart contracts for vote recording, and a novel relayer incentivization system to eliminate transaction fees for voters." 👀

Freedom Tool

An identification and privacy solution that revolutionizes polling, surveying and election processes

Cypherpunks direct code Cypherpunks write code is outdated

"Often housing groups of people with radically different interests and goals and values, nation states are odd by their very nature. However, they are also odd in how they operate externally. Nation states do go to war. They do it all the time. And while tribes also went to war, when a nation state engages in kinetic conflict, it is really something to behold. Because some nation states are drawn with borders that have enormous territories and numbers of people, they typically also have vast resources to wage wars – wars in which weaker nations are turned into economic vassals. When large nation states find themselves in conflict with their peers, the result (as seen in those wars of the twentieth century) is typically the deaths of tens of millions of people." - Farewell to Westphalia

Anarcho-capitalism's greatest strength, in my view, is its intellectual coherence. Built on logical foundations rather than emotional ones, it avoids the splintering into competing sub-movements that plagues many political philosophies.

Someone hacked into someone else's server, did damage and surveillance. And a "privacy activist" says that it's not actually violence relativizing it by joggling about intellectual property. Basically saying its okey. WTF?