A lot of smart young researchers and developers at SBC exploring fundamental problems of decentralized systems. Good place to hire them before they become professors and only focus on writing whitepapers.

SBC is such a cool conference, a lot of builders working on frontier Blockchain tech. #SBC25

Unity is really good for business, dangerous for decentralized networks. You need effective coordination, but you also need competing thoughts and forces. If you're unified and highly coordinated, you can do what Hyperliquid did - change game rules instantly.

Paying team members in USDC reveals the privacy gaps in our "transparent" systems. Of course everyone knows each other's salaries - same exchange, same timing, same amounts every month. The blockchain analysis isn't rocket science. Especially when your entire company is hackers @statemindio We need granular privacy controls, not binary choices between completely open or completely opaque systems.

Airdrop manipulation has unit economics that work: spend $20k on influencer attacks, extract $200k+ when protocols buckle. There are no bad people, just bad incentives.

Decentralized VPNs. Fucking scary for security reasons. Also fucking inspiring for what it enables.

these acts that the US are passing do much more than what they actually do: they legitimize the industry. young ambitious people might actually build crypto apps. colleges might start offering classes. etc and you might be able to say you work in something other than finance.

page 13 @symbioticfi mentioned

I could buy a miner, put it in my basement, and listen to it scream and yell, and feel connected to securing the network. Delegated proof of stake took that ownership feeling away from people.

The Genius Act loophole everyone's missing: "Banks can mint stablecoins but they can't bear interest" sounds restrictive: Put bank stablecoins → lending protocol/CDP → now they're interest bearing The restriction is technically meaningless.