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Who Everyone BSBalaji Srinivasan 7 LALyn Alden 6 VBVitalik Buterin 6 DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 2 JSJon Seager 2 MGMatthew Green 2 MMMoxie Marlinspike 2 BSBruce Schneier 1 CWChris Wellons 1 CPColin Percival 1 GOGergely Orosz 1 KHKelsey Hightower 1 KKKevin Kelly 1 MNMichael Nielsen 1 NSNoah Smith 1 PMPatrick McKenzie 1 PKPaul Krugman 1 SKSteve Klabnik 1 TTTerence Tao 1 TSTim Sweeney 1
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  1. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Writes The Pragmatic Engineer

    Our readingHolding crypto involves significant risks such as mathematical breakthroughs, theft, or physical coercion.

    Their wordsYou can either hold crypto and keep being stressed out if a math breakthrough would drain your wallet; or someone stealing your keys would drain your wallet; or someone kidnapping you and forcing you to hand over your keys would drain your wallet

    ↗@GergelyOrosz on Xx.com

  2. 11 days earlier
  3. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Co-founder of Ethereum

    Our readingModern cryptographic networks are called "blockchains" largely for historical reasons.

    cryptography

    Their wordsAs an AI might say, the only honest conclusion (ok fine, the honest punchline) is that a modern cryptographic network like the post-Lean-upgrade Ethereum is called a "blockchain" to a large extent for historical reasons.

    ↗The cryptographic world computervitalik.eth.limo

  5. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Our readingThe set of tradeoffs for users of cryptographic networks is radically changing.

    cryptography

    Their wordsThe most important conclusion is that the set of tradeoffs for users is radically changing:

    ↗The cryptographic world computervitalik.eth.limo

  7. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Our readingThe decentralization of cryptographic networks is shifting from purely a safety burden to, in a few limited cases, a performance strength.

    cryptography

    Their wordsPerhaps the most important shift is that the decentralized nature of the network is shifting from being purely a burden incurred in the name of safety and robustness to at least sometimes, in a few limited cases, being a strength even from a performance perspective.

    ↗The cryptographic world computervitalik.eth.limo

  8. 2 days earlier
  9. NS

    Noah Smith quoted

    Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter

    Our readingThe history of SF tech culture can be divided into four eras, each centered around a different core technology.

    innovation

    Their wordsThe four eras of SF tech culture correspond to four different technologies that were at the center of the city's innovation ecosystem at different times: 1. The Web 2. Social-Mobile 3. Crypto 4. AI

    ↗@Noahpinion on Xx.com

  10. 3 days earlier
  11. PK

    Paul Krugman quoted

    Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…

    Our readingThe cryptocurrency industry has been extraordinarily successful at buying political influence.

    Their wordsBut crypto is still out there. And while it has not succeeded in creating a viable business in the normal sense, it has been extraordinarily successful at buying political influence.

    ↗Will Crypto Crash the Blue Wave?paulkrugman.substack.com

  12. 4 weeks earlier
  13. KK

    Kevin Kelly quoted

    Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What…

    Our readingInvesting in relationships yields better returns than investing in speculative assets like crypto.

    investing

    Their wordsInvesting into relationships is a better deal than investing into crypto.

    ↗A Billion Dollarskk.org 3rd of 3 in this piece

  14. 3 days earlier
  15. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Our readingLocal mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography.

    cryptography

    Their wordsThis is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .

    ↗Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixingvitalik.eth.limo

  17. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Our readingA sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs.

    cryptography

    Their wordsA big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.

    ↗Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixingvitalik.eth.limo

  18. 5 weeks earlier
  19. SK

    Steve Klabnik quoted

    Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming…

    Our readingGiving people the choice to manage their own cryptographic keys matters more than forcing everyone to do so.

    cryptography

    Their wordsA criticism of this boils down to "well, most users won't do that," and while that's true, I also think that's okay for most people, and that having the choice is more important than forcing every user to deal with their own key management.

    ↗Too many words about DIDssteveklabnik.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  20. 2 days earlier
  21. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com

    Our readingThe blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record.

    Their wordsAs incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com All 25 from this book

  23. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingThe world today is dividing into three poles: the American establishment, the Chinese Communist Party, and the global Bitcoin/crypto network.

    ChinaAmerica

    Their wordsToday's world is becoming tripolar. It is NYT vs CCP vs BTC. That's the American Establishment vs the Communist Party of China vs the Global Internet.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com All 25 from this book

  25. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingBitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no system administrator to fall back on.

    Their wordsAnother example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com All 25 from this book

  27. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingSatoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin are substantially more capable than the officials at institutions like the Federal Reserve, a fact the US establishment fails to recognize.

    interest rates

    Their wordsJust like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com All 25 from this book

  29. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingThe Bitcoin Maximalist premise that Bitcoin is the only legitimate coin and all other digital assets are illegitimate is mistaken.

    Their wordsI disagree with the fundamental moral premise of Maximalism, which is that Bitcoin is the only coin and all other digital assets are sins.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com All 25 from this book

  30. 11 days earlier
  31. JS

    Jon Seager quoted

    Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical

    Our readingLinux system utilities, package managers, language runtimes and command-line tools have historically lacked a consistent way to check whether a TLS certificate has been revoked.

    Linuxinfrastructure

    Their wordsFirefox and Chromium have mature, browser-specific infrastructure for certificate revocation and related PKI data, but system utilities, package managers, language runtimes and many command-line tools have historically lacked a consistent mechanism for checking whether a publicly trusted TLS certificate has been revoked.

    ↗Try the `upki` preview for Ubuntujnsgr.uk

  32. 2 days earlier
  33. VB

    Vitalik Buterin quoted

    Our readingObfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.

    cryptography

    Their wordsThe most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation

    ↗Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)vitalik.eth.limo

  34. 4 weeks earlier
  35. KH

    Kelsey Hightower quoted

    Self-taught software engineer

    Our readingCrypto's real question was never how transactions settle: changing the currency is something that happens to retired people who have no way of making new money.

    Their wordsThere have been countries that have gone through currency resets. This is not a nice experience because if you had a little bit of money, a currency reset can mean you have now no money. If you had no money, it may feel like it's impossible to ever get any more money. If you're retired, what do you do during a currency reset?

    ↗Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightoweryoutube.com 15th of 28 in this recording

  36. 6 weeks earlier
  37. CW

    Chris Wellons quoted

    Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems…

    Our readingCode-signing with self-signed certificates makes security worse rather than better.

    Their wordsThe most popular use case is code-signing with self-signed certificates, but that actually makes everything worse.

    ↗My brave new code-signing worldnullprogram.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  38. 2 weeks earlier
  39. CP

    Colin Percival quoted

    FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer

    Our readingEnd-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone.

    privacycryptography

    Their wordsWith requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.

    ↗20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net 1st of 3 in this piece

  40. 4 days earlier
  41. MN

    Michael Nielsen quoted

    Physicist, writer and researcher

    Our readingVery deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation.

    cryptography

    Their wordsIdeas like public key cryptography are I mean, they're just incredibly deep um very non-obvious ideas uh which in some sense lay hidden uh already sort of in in the 1930s.

    ↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording

  42. 12 days earlier
  43. JS

    Jon Seager quoted

    Our readingAccurate time synchronization is a critical system function because it underlies cryptographic verification protocols like TLS.

    cryptography

    Their wordsKeeping accurate time is a critical system function, not least because it involves constant interaction with the internet and forms the basis for cryptographic verification in protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).

    ↗ntpd-rs: it's about time!jnsgr.uk

  44. 6 days earlier
  45. TT

    Terence Tao quoted

    Our readingIf the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more.

    cryptography

    Their wordsUm and uh I think we would very rapidly abandon any cryptography based on the primes because if there was a one pattern that we didn't know about there's probably more.

    ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 20th of 24 in this recording

  46. 4 months earlier
  47. LA

    Lyn Alden quoted

    Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

    Our readingUtility blockchains that provide useful services tend not to accrue much long-term value to their coinholders, unlike a winning monetary protocol.

    Their wordsUtility protocols face heavy competition, and thus their value trends toward their marginal cost of operation.

    ↗Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Valuelynalden.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  49. LA

    Lyn Alden quoted

    Our readingDecentralized finance mainly converts custodial risk into technical risk rather than eliminating risk altogether.

    Their wordsWhile there is some utility value in DeFi, it basically lets users transform custodial risk into technical risk (e.g. bridge protocol hacks), which is not a free lunch.

    ↗Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Valuelynalden.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  51. LA

    Lyn Alden quoted

    Our readingBitcoin's roughly $2 trillion market capitalization is still early relative to its long-term adoption potential.

    Their wordsIn my view, Bitcoin at a ~$2 trillion market capitalization remains rather early.

    ↗Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Valuelynalden.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  52. 2 months earlier
  53. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingCryptocommunities are the next stage of development after cryptocurrencies.

    Their wordsBecause the next step after cryptocurrencies is cryptocommunities.

    ↗Network State Conference 2025balajis.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  54. 8 weeks earlier
  55. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingCrypto's deterministic guarantees constrain what probabilistic AI systems can fake or solve.

    Their wordsAI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic. So crypto can constrain AI.

    ↗AI is polytheistic, not monotheisticbalajis.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  56. 4 weeks earlier
  57. LA

    Lyn Alden quoted

    Our readingBitcoin's use as a medium of exchange will only grow at scale if it solves problems for spenders or recipients better than existing alternatives.

    Their wordsBitcoin is not going to catch on as a charity. In order for spending it to catch on persistently at scale (i.e. not just billions of dollar-equivalents in annual global medium-of-exchange volume, but trillions), it has to solve problems for spenders and/or recipients that other solutions are not doing.

    ↗The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bondslynalden.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  58. 2 months earlier
  59. TS

    Tim Sweeney quoted

    Founder and CEO of Epic Games

    Our readingWhat a shared digital economy needs is interoperability, not cryptocurrency: a database or a standards body does the job, exactly as railway standardisation did.

    Their wordsWhat you need is interoperability. Interoperability can happen through a blockchain, it can happen through a database, it can happen through standards bodies with defining standards and protocols. And we've been doing it for hundreds of years since the railroads were standardized. And it's not something that totally requires a novel technological solution.

    ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 13th of 22 in this recording