No matter how wealthy you are, the one thing that cannot be bought back is time. It's easy to get on the daily treadmill for years, only to turn around and realize it all didn't really matter as much as you thought. Live a thoughtful life and spend your time where it matters most.

The real answer is that China is experiencing what I have been warning people about for years: stablecoins will destroy currency controls and greatly impair the ability of regimes to lock their people in and then burn the fiscal house down. Put differently: do you want your money trapped in China in local currency?

I tend to agree.

coolest project in crypto you're not following @qdayclock

Probably the best survey of quantum computing progress was updated recently, this time to account for @CraigGidney newest paper, whose concluding line in the paper reads: "I prefer security to not be contingent on progress being slow" Ironic that it is a controversial belief.

Sam Jaques @sejaques updated his excellent quantum landscape. Now you can quickly move between years and see the progress. This really shows what a big deal @CraigGidney algorithmic improvement this year is: moving the red line goalposts much closer!

The path to hell is paved with good intentions. From an understandable desire to mitigate the use of finance by bad actors, Section 1960 is increasingly being wielded as a weapon against increasingly adjacent activities. The consequences will be the creation of a system that is inherently authoritarian and antithetical to the fundamental American ideal of individual liberty.

Does anyone else find it ironic the LLM-assisted search is basically providing the same UI/value proposition of early Google search competitor Ask Jeeves? Ask Jeeves allowed users to ask a question in natural language and get a direct answer vs a list of blue links. Sound familiar?

If you buy ZEC today, you're supporting the ones building the next generation of freedom technology, and you're making it harder for the government to attack Roman Storm, and future Roman Storms. For cowards: please sell your ZEC to someone with courage.

Today in the MIT Technology Review, I explain why the Bank Secrecy Act, a Nixon-era law, is no longer fit for a modern era where nearly every financial transaction is trackable without a warrant. Our financial data is among the most sensitive personal information we produce. Indiscriminate financial surveillance such as what we have today is fundamentally at odds with the Fourth Amendment in the digital age.