Alex Roan

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Excellent thread on the Dutch court decision to convict Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev on "Money Laundering" charges, despite it being impossible for him to touch, stop, or control funds flowing through the code. https://twitter.com/freedomtech/status/1790500934126293311

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All developers should read this. If a criminal uses your code, YOU are the criminal. 🤡 #FreeAlexey https://twitter.com/freedomtech/status/1790500955680866779

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"There are no legitimate uses for Tornado" Russian-Canadian using Tornado to donate to the Ukraine war effort: #FreeAlexey https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1556925602233569280

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Utterly gobsmacked. In the Netherlands, applying the laws of probability to software is now illegal. Go straight to jail. #FreeAlexey

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This is the github repo for tornado-core: https://github.com/tornadocash/tornado-core I highly encourage you to dive into this codebase to understand the accomplishment. #FreeAlexey

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I learned Zero Knowledge from this codebase. It's open source, public, and used in universities to teach cryptography worldwide as an exemplary example of cutting-edge engineering. He can't access the funds, and he can't stop the funds from moving through smart contracts. No one can. That's why the code is beautiful.

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Shocked and saddened. According to this Dutch judge, merely writing code makes Alexey a money launderer. The code in question is not some secret, forbidden code that is banned from public access or hidden in some hard drive in a bunker. It's on GitHub! https://twitter.com/LefterisJP/status/1790374396147749369

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1st half - Positive from Wales. Clearly less dominant, but energetic and making chances count. 2nd half - France asserted dominance. Wales, looking frantic, making silly decisions, and suffered. Beating Italy is our only chance of going Spoonless 😬 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/match/EVP4132666

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Dim /Cymru? 👀

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Omg there's a /wales channel 😱

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Doom porn is every generation's guilty pleasure. We're not the first generation to predict that new technology will create dystopia, and we won't be the last. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHib5wYEj8

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Trains rule, dinosaurs drool. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxqcli19d_kI6Hve_aTYBiLnUjTCMk85o4?feature=shared

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/trains bucket list items: ✅️ Ride the Shanghai Maglev. 😍

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Learning a new programming language is a journey from consciously parsing each line to intuitively "getting it" - taking in the important details in the code - without thinking. This takes time and graft. When it clicks -> productivity skyrockets -> feelsgood.jpg

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Hey @bren ! @auditwizard looks cool. What's running on the back end that is detecting these vulnerabilities? Existing open source tools or some proprietary tool/detectors?

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Ah, thank you for the response! It did eventually show up :)

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blog.theredguild.org/who-wants-to-make-judging-better/ Tincho dropping some questions on one of the thornier topics in competitive audits: Judging. Judging is ripe for innovation. The @cyfrin team has been working specifically on innovating here on CodeHawks.com.

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