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This week, Q Inc has changed course with speaking with investors. Given I receive a lot of cold opens from investors on Farcaster, I would like to share that change with everyone publicly, and why. Moving forward, we refuse to even begin conversations with funds who have ever (or intend to) engaged in token warrants. It is clear our values and beliefs are diametrically opposed, and this is a far easier filter to save ourselves the time. It has been a long path to fundraising principally because we are operating from a perspective that as a company collaborating on a fair launched project, we can not and will not do token warrants. Despite being upfront about this, this topic has resulted in a lot of time wasted in talking with crypto funds, because they do not believe equity has a path to return for them, and ultimately decline. This is very telling because if they don't believe the company will be successful what use are the tokens, unless...?

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Years ago, when I started building a decentralized discord clone, people asked me why. I wanted a communication tool that was truly decentralized, in a way that no state actor was able to gain control over. Signal's design wasn't capable of group chats beyond a certain size. The features only went so far. And it has failure points such that countries block them by firewall and have to rely on the good graces of others to run proxies, which ultimately get shut down or blocked too. App stores do not share in this ideal — their concern is profit, and will bend backwards when forced to by regulatory bodies. Amazon and others are complicit in helping state actors maintain their control of the web, and are profiting handsomely from the arrangement. None of this happened by accident. And I only saw it getting worse. I realized what I was building in this chat application went beyond just chat, and how pressing it was to make this general purpose.

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I took the time to pivot, to build what Nick Szabo called a god protocol. A protocol capable of being a globally shared computer — but truly one, not facing the extreme bottlenecks of the existing block chain paradigm. And I began to sound the battle cry: the internet is under attack. I argued that the four axes of control over the web: - ISPs - cloud providers - identity/backup/mail/general service providers - state actors All of them were engaging in a multisided attack on internet freedom. I argued this before founders were getting arrested and charged for uncensorable platforms. I argued this before tornado cash's developers were arrested. I argued this before protesters in Canada saw their bank accounts frozen. I argued this before government and major social media went on a collaborative purge and information hole campaign on topics related to COVID, labeling/hiding "misinformation" that later was proven to be true (lab leak, mask effectiveness, economic policies that are coming due as we speak)

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And I dealt with a lot of people who did not believe this was a "serious problem". That the acts of one nation would not be replicated and amplified amongst them all. That it wouldn't get worse. My messaging changed. The internet wasn't just under attack, the internet was already dead. That we needed to move quickly, and continue to push for privacy and censorship proof protocols. That the MEV bot wars and government controls on speech were different sides of the same coin. And that the window is closing on having a chance at fighting. The message spread. But it spread in strange ways. Suddenly I found myself working towards a protocol launch to do these things, and my act of talking about it caught the attention of a few different crowds: - those who believe in the ideals - those who wish to destroy the ideals And the latter camp has been in our public square, telling everyone how much they care about this technology, how much they wish to support it and help it grow. They told me the same.

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Whether it's self delusion on their part or malice, they have sold a lie that they care about the future of this technology, and it shows bare in their acts: - they buy the reward of the protocol and focus on protocol builders to design it to be scarce in ways that make them wealthy - they buy the labels of "backing community driven projects" and put up large banners to claim their involvement in the space of all these things, and then drop them when the wave that project was in dies down - they lead on builders for months (or even over a year) that the support is around the corner, hoping to exhaust them until they out of desperation will bend their morals They are the fifth axis of the attack on the internet, and their words should be met with the same skepticism that is given to any other actor that has been complicit in letting things get the way they have.

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We are days away from the launch of what I have been building towards for years, a rally cry for freedom on the web. And we will not bend to anyone that wishes to stop our mission in securing every bit of traffic over the web, in ensuring people have the right to transact, the right to speak, the right to peacefully assemble, the right to compute, and the right to do such in private. And we will not negotiate with any of the axes for those rights. We will not ask permission. We will not cower in fear of consequences that have no basis in the rights of man. We will not take their money. This is a war for our rights, and a war we will win. Get with it, or get out of the fucking way. The internet is dead. Long live the internet.

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Seven years goes by fast. What started as an educational series blossomed into a discord clone, then finally Q. This Sunday, I'm returning to my old Twitch account to do a stream, open Q&A (pls don't be super unhinged), and demo a little bit of the dev process for Q. 6:30pm PDT/1:30am UTC. https://twitch.tv/0xCassie

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"Quilibrium's mission is to secure every bit that traverses the web." Epic 2-hour deep dive into decentralized and privacy preserving Platform as a Service protocol Quilibrium, it's technical architecture, how it differs from traditional blockchains, the $wQUIL token, and more, with Founder, Farcaster developer, and former Coinbase Senior Staff Software Engineer @cassie! YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3eTJl9ZlY&list=PLvybryJu19f-21sqf5DG1yANEQsBUXpD8&index=1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2olhPEMb98fv4oQHPdZnK7?si=22c38daa181e4571

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“Have you said everything you needed to say?” Many years back in my career, a friend and former manager knew I was coming to an end in a chapter of my life with where I was working and that I wanted to move on to bigger things. He told me this question to know when it was time.

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随着网络中存储的数据越多，quil的排放就越少，当前v.1.4.19在线时间越久，2.0上线前的收益就会越高

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https://paragraph.xyz/@quilibrium.com/fireside-chat-pomw,-multiproofs,-and-v1419

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time for some /lounge talk, answering @cameron's prompts: 1. How did you discover Farcaster? A few years ago I was publicly tweeting about a project I was working on, a decentralized alternative to discord (Howler) and the infra to serve it (Quilibrium). Varun saw my tweets, and sent me a DM.

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wow amazing never seen before

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focus > sprawl chaos makes change

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The thing that's made me happiest this year, though, is discovering the Q . Cassie and the Q community have given me that same feeling I had back during DeFi summer, that sense of excitement and joy in the process. It's been absolutely amazing. chill & based

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I've been in the crypto space for a few years now, I've started to see the world in a new light. Facaster feels like the home base for crypto natives, with so many cool and unique things slowly building up - I can't wait to see what happens next!

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That's so freakin' romantic!

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