franco

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How trustworthy is libgen? I'm downloading some old pdfs and not sure if I should open them even after Jotti's malware scan and VirusTotal for scanning. I'm then uploading them to an old google drive I have and viewing them that way.

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Yes! Net good in general for Sony to have an ethereum L2. Just highlighting that corpo L2s have different constraints and goals and will act accordingly. From 0xBreadGuy on twitter: - With this method, they will at least be paying some sheckles to Ethereum by way of proof/DA posting and utilizing $ETH as a medium of exchange · The alternative is they create something like a VeChain which just exists (and dies) as a mid-40s mkt cap L1 with no broader contribution to the ecosystem · It's good because it shows they can do it to other corps interested in the space. It can be viewed as a first step approach to adopting Blockchain.

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Ill try and generate one!

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Im partial towards starknet and wanted to include zk stuff in the narrative but honestly any other L2 that isn’t controlled by a bank would do

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Thanks vrypan! Appreciate the vote of confidence.

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This is not far off by the way. Sony is already doing this with their Ethereum L2 "Sony went live with their L2 yesterday and has a policy where if they don't agree with your contract they'll simply block you your transactions at the RPC level and give a forbidden response on their explorers They're already doing this to early memecoins, nuking the price and costing people money" from 0xBreadGuy on X

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Out of curiosity Ive been digging into this, but cant find what exactly is a violation of App Store rules. Could you clarify? Closest I found was 3.1.5(a) and (b) which describe guidelines for integrating cryptocurrencies

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"Crypto was never about building better banks," she broadcasts into the sovereign mesh, her message proving its own authenticity through recursive ZK-SNARKs. "It was about making them obsolete."

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Within a week, the new regime starts "optimizing" Base's validator set. By month's end, they've "enhanced" their MEV extraction. Users who'd trusted in Armstrong's vision find their transactions increasingly routed through "preferred partners," their data sold to the highest bidders, their privacy evaporating in the name of shareholder value. Maya watches the exodus begin—the lucky ones who understand what's happening racing to bridge their assets to sovereign chains before the restrictions tighten. On StarkNet, the cryptographic proofs don't care about corporate boardrooms or CEO manifestos. The math simply works, or it doesn't. Trust is replaced by verification, hope by proof, promises by protocol.

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It was inevitable, she thinks. No matter how principled Armstrong had been, no matter how many legal battles he'd funded against the SEC, no matter how earnestly he'd championed crypto's liberating potential—Base was built on trust, not truth. And trust, in the corporate world, only lasts until the next quarterly earnings call. The NASDAQ-traded shares of Coinbase demanded growth, profits, control. The fiduciary duty to shareholders was a poison pill that would always, eventually, trump any CEO's crypto idealism.

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"They thought decentralization was a bug," she muses, watching her latest autonomous world compile, its zero-knowledge circuits proving every state transition back to genesis, "when it was always the whole point." The newsfeeds ping: Brian Armstrong's departure from Coinbase dominates the Base-dwellers' consciousness. The old guard of crypto-idealists is being quietly replaced by McKinsey-trained "blockchain efficiency experts." The new CEO's first shareholder letter speaks of "optimizing validator returns," "regulatory alignment," and "enhanced transaction monitoring"—corporate doublespeak for what Maya knows is coming.

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She checks the latest metrics through her neural feed: another thousand Base users have "migrated" to Coinbase's new "Enhanced Security Program"—a euphemism for full financial surveillance that would make the old banks blush. In the sovereign networks, anonymous provers are spinning up another hundred autonomous worlds, their validity proofs propagating across the network like digital DNA, evolving, combining, creating new forms of human organization that the corpo-chains couldn't even imagine.

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The corpo-chains never understood what they gave up for their quarterly earnings. Their "innovation" was just repackaging the old world's power structures in blockchain wrapping paper. Meanwhile, in the sovereign space, Bitcoin's proof-of-work keeps time like a cosmic heartbeat, Ethereum's global settlement layer maintains humanity's shared truth, and StarkNet's ZK-recursive proving system lets them scale to the stars without sacrificing a single bit of cryptographic truth.

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Maya watches them from across the cryptographic divide, her consciousness distributed across StarkNet's zero-knowledge proof network, her thoughts encrypted but verifiable, anonymous yet authentic. She runs an autonomous world—one of thousands that bloomed in the sovereign space after the split. Their LLMs train on shared compute networks, each inference proven valid through recursive STARKs, each data point privacy-preserved through lattice-based FHE that would take the Base-corps' quantum computers centuries to crack.

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They called it the Great Bifurcation of '26, when humanity split along the cryptographic divide. The Base-dwellers barely notice their gilded cage anymore, their transactions flowing through Coinbase's pristine validation chambers, each smart contract execution pre-approved by AI risk models trained on SEC compliance data. Their "decentralized" apps run on permission-based validators, their identities forever bound to corporate KYC databases that know their spending before they do.

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What goodreads alternative are people using if any?

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John von Neumann says this in “The Maniac” by Benjamin Labatut. Another great one: “Im gonna Maniac this shit!”

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I loved all the cameos from historical figures like Capone, JPK Sr., Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, et. al.

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Not that I know of. Im still very new at this 😅

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I really dont like the bitcoin maxi crowd. They seem to live in a very weird bubble. There are some interesting topics being discussed and some interesting people but most just seem obsessed on price and dogmatic about the tech. Extremely low signal to noise ratio. That being said, from what Ive seen, the Nostr client ecosystem seems much more developed than the farcaster one. The apps also seem to have a much better UX than warpcast. There may be technical reasons for this regarding the underlying protocol that I have yet to explore more in depth but this is my superficial take. Frames seem like the big differentiator but for some reason I have little to no interest in them. It feels like a chore to learn to use them and the UX seems unappealing. This might be a personal bias. I might be too comfortable with just using the social features Im used to from twitter and reddit and too lazy to learn something new. I will fix that this year.

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