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excited to share today that bitwise acquired etc group! they are an exceptional team that manages the largest spot bitcoin ETP in europe (BTCE) this deal: - brings bitwise's AUM >$4.5B - expands our market to EU - allows us to offer more products (e.g. ETH staking ETP, solana ETP) grateful and excited for what's ahead —

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... financial scams. This is an area where many people have no existing defenses - their family members desperately calling them saying they really need a big pile of money quickly. Or the corporate equivalent of the same. This is the reason I wrote this article: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/02/09/securityquestions.html Though we really need a much stronger concerted education effort in this regard. Also much better authentication across the stack.

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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. @base now has the top EVM volume pair 🔥

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Excited to be back on @Farcaster! What drew me back? It wasn't airdrop farming. The power to own my digital identity, social graph, and content. No more echo chambers or censored posts!

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Plane be like... Me be like... We really need to clean up our indoor air, but until then thank you @zhouliang_mask!

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Protip: you can come in to Brussels through Amsterdam. Passport control line in AMS is negligible (at least at 5AM, though I'm sure it's not too bad at other times either), and it's only a 2h train ride straight from the AMS airport to Brussels.

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Poseidon is a super elegant hash function, part 2: Even an optimized STARK arithmetization can fit into a single screenshot

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you're worrying about about prices while 5,000+ builders created 1,255 apps on @base in 30 days during the onchain summer buildathon onchain-summer.devfolio.co/projects

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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/06/30/epochslot.html

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I'm looking for a recipe to cook a delicious chicken steak. Do you have any suggestions?

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How right you are 🙌

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(And yes, like all Pascal's Wager discourse in the 2020s, this has an AI safety tie-in. Soooo many actions done in the name of AI safety so far seem to have had very ambiguous consequences (Premise: all the other AI labs are reckless, I'll make one that focuses on safety! 2 years later: we have n+1 reckless AI labs))

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