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Thor Torrens Verified account @ThorTorrens · Aug 22

ZEC is now in price discovery

Same 21,000,000 hard cap

Same halving schedule

Except one doesn't dox your entire life savings to the world

If you think public surveillance should trade higher than cryptographic invisibility you must have lost your mind

The last 1000x

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Fireside Alpha Verified account @firesidealpha · 4d

David Sacks predicts Democrats will use AI legislation and frontier-model approvals to create a surveillance and censorship state 'turbocharged by superintelligence'

“It’s 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don’t think you have to speculate too much to understand where it’s going.

“I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean, that’s ultimately the end state.

“How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that. The regulators give their notes on it. You can’t get a model released unless you address their concerns.

“And their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about, like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID. How quickly we forget all of this.

“They’re going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI, and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about superintelligence here. So I do believe that that is the regime that we’re headed towards.”

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The Chopping Block Verified account @_choppingblock · 18h

Tarun says Zcash has a better store of value story than Ethereum. Haseeb asks him to steel man proof of work.

Tarun: "I think arguably Zcash has just a better story for store of value to me than Ethereum."

"It is just much harder to manipulate fundamentally."

"The fact that there's a tangible input cost is sort of the thing that gives you a floor."

Haseeb: "I really don't get why proof of work is tied to being a store of value."

"Steel man that argument for me."

"The input cost of something obviously does not create a floor in its value. It's the other way around."

"The floor in the value creates the input cost."

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Dev Verified account @zkDragon · 20h

Short talk explaining Private Information Retrieval, a repeat of the talk I gave at ZODL Summit Prague!

In it, we explain the high level of PIR, and how you use it to find out if you received a payment!

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