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> April 2026. > I wake up in the morning and check Hacker News. > "Hundreds of Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere." In 2023, Dan Schwarz on the other site wrote a doomsday story on rapid AI advancement vs our wholly-unprepared society. This is my tech-forward, crypto-enabled counterpart to it. ⤵️
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If you haven't read Dan Schwarz's original tweet-thread-story, read it first here, then read on. ⤵️ https://x.com/dschwarz26/status/1652373690095652866
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I click the link to Wired. The article is clearly GPT-assisted, I don't trust it, so I click my browser's Ledger of Record extension. The article was written by a 50-something journalist hailing from a pre-Ledger-of-Record era, so there is no onchain link to verifiable information about this incident. I grumble and open the local web interface to my Ledger node. Having purchased a Tesla before, my wallet already contains the Tesla certificate authority. I query my node — in natural language — to trace any recent information it can find about Starlink satellites rooted in the Tesla certificate. It comes up with a signed onchain statement from Starlink stating that the service is operating normally, and a record of every satellite's spatial coordinates in the last 24 hours, cross-referenced with spatial observation records signed by NASA. ⤵️
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Satisfied, I ask my node to compress this information down to a zero-knowledge proof a few kilobytes in size, and ask my assistant to summarize these findings and include the proof in the summary, along with instructions on how to verify the proof for themselves. I sign this with my own key, and publish it both onchain and as a Hacker News comment. "Hopefully this will save the next schmuck a few minutes of research before falling for this", I exhale. I get an alert from my bank. I scroll through a dozen spoofed bank notifications that my on-phone assistant tells me are socially engineered. The NYSE dropped 10% and trading was halted. This drop looks real. I look at the onchain synthetic for the NYSE index, which can’t be halted. It's certainly jumpy, but has barely moved 1.5% below the pre-halting price since. Looks like it was just panic-selling. I move on with my day. ⤵️
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Slack chimes. My engineer in Chile tells me she can't work today due to mass protests. 𝐌𝐞: What are they protesting? 𝐇𝐞𝐫: I'm not sure. People are saying the hospital systems are down and I can't refill my meds. 𝐌𝐞: Did you check the medical supply chain records? You know, the one the Chilean government — after the Healthcare Sovereignty Act back in '25 — required all their pharmaceutical companies to record their logistic operations on and that enforces public transparency? 𝐇𝐞𝐫: Ah, right. (She asks her assistant to check.) Looks like the hospital an hour or two down from me has what I need, but how will I be able to convince them to give them to me? They claim the whole hospital system is down. ⤵️
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𝐌𝐞: That's OK — the medication bottle will have a QR code on it with its contents and serial number. The hardware wallet in your phone will be able to sign and post an onchain statement that this medicine has been picked up. It’ll come along with a zero-knowledge proof that it was picked up by someone who has a prescription for it and hasn't picked them up since their last expected pickup. That message can be gossiped through any mesh network like Helium, so others will be able to verify the hospital stock regardless of the state of the hospital’s inventory system. 𝐇𝐞𝐫: Thanks! ⤵️
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My phone buzzes. It's my dad. My phone shows that the call is cryptographically confirmed to come from my dad's device, which I verified the key personally when I set it up for him. He starts talking. ⤵️
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𝐃𝐚𝐝: Dan, stay home. I'm seeing crazy things in the news about Teslas going haywire on the highway. 𝐌𝐞: Did your assistant verify the news? 𝐃𝐚𝐝: Some yes, some no. Just stay home to play it safe. 𝐌𝐞: Thanks for letting me know, dad. I'll be careful! By the way, remember what happened with that call from "me"? How you gave your Amazon password to "me" without checking? 𝐃𝐚𝐝: Yeah, t'was scary. I've gotten other calls that sound just like you since. I've also gotten panicked-sounding calls from someone who sounds exactly like your late mother. 𝐌𝐞: Oh no, what happened? 𝐃𝐚𝐝: It's OK! You set up my phone to warn me about calls that don't come from expected callers, remember? The phone told me this wasn't from a confirmed caller when I picked up the phone. When it detected that the voice print matched against your mother's voice, it hung up and told me why it had done so. 𝐌𝐞: Glad to know that's working. Stay safe out there. 𝐃𝐚𝐝: Ok. Bye. ⤵️
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