William Allen

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Just finished a 5-week advanced pen test with Halborn. Really proud of the product we've built. Even with source code, jailbroken devices etc they weren't able to get close to 1 EOA, much less the 2 EOAs you'd need to transfer the self-custodied digital assets. https://www.withchamber.com/how-chamber-works

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grayer area than anyone wants to admit https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/11/02/us-sec-subpoenas-paypal-about-usd-stablecoin-company-says/

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Crypto has found PMF with a huge TAM in a few areas: international + instant payments, ICOs/stock ownership & prediction markets to name three. They're just mostly illegal in the United States and a lot of the world. https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/1727027265924686322

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A legal in the United States ICO without the dual class of ownership (c corp shares vs tokens) could work well here, I agree.

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If you were given the ability to invest in a clean C corp lead by Sama/Greg, but you had to a) invest 50% of your net worth and b) it had a trillion dollar valuation ... you'd do it, right?

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When you talk about the encryption methods found in Skiff drive, Proton, 1password, do you refer to it as 1) end-to-end 2) zero-access or 3)zero-knowledge?

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Family:LensProtocol :: Rainbow:Farcaster https://avara.xyz/blog/introducing-avara-and-announcing-acquisition-of-family

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yeah I think that's correct - embedded wallets can make it *feel* custodial while the action is fully controlled by the user.

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Wondering if self-custody of crypto is like concealed carry. A small, passionate group of people do it, but the vast majority prefer to trust the police.

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hah, that is a good one.

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seems to be zero political discussion on farcaster. feature or a bug?

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These are worth listening to. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000634362224 & https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-harris/id733163012?i=1000634032064

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Ah hadn’t seen this! Wild.

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I think this helps explain it pretty well (but lmk if that doesn't answer your q!) https://contentcredentials.org/

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In some areas it is still theoretical vs real. On the political front, it isn't a real problem IMO - it's all anticipatory. On the war front, it is - a clear infowar happening trying to build support or sympathy for Hamas. Deepfake pornography is an entirely different problem with real ethical quandaries

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'watermarking AI will fail' is correct, but because it's trying to prove a negative (stop bad actors) instead of amplifying the good (those who just want to verify they are who they say they are) https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1723842108484645046

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We have SSL for website authenticity, DKIM/BIMI for email authenticity, and we're getting closer to C2PA provenance for content authenticity.

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this is actually quite helpful :)

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