So now that we have a whole bunch of new eyes on us, let me set a few things straight about Union. 1. We're a bunch of goblin builders. Even though ever since we brought on @swgee_writes and @pathogen4815, our reach has improved, we're still at heart just a bunch of coders. 2. Union leverages zk as a tool. It's cool as hell, but not our. Our mission is to bring about a connected, aggregated blockchain ecosystem. Many projects with massive funding attempted to do so and failed, so we founded Union to get this done ourselves. The journey will be long and arduous, but so be it. 3. Why should you be interested in us? We're the most transparent and degenerate infra team out there. If you are sick of VC scamcoins and fake builders, join the Union.

I’ll be on Bloomberg @crypto live today at 12PM EST talking stablecoins & implications of Genius for crypto stacks like Noble. Tune in:

Still laughing that TradFi is gonna repeat the same mistakes we made as an industry last cycle.

Border agents copy entire phone contents in seconds using Cellebrite devices. Full disk encryption only protects powered-off devices.

Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others, Marcus Aurelius says. Your standards are for you.

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RT @lex_node: huge props to @milesjennings and @a16zcrypto on this...they took feedback from the broader cryptolaw community and imo this s…

The biggest improvement for mainnet is the migration from Proof of Authority to Proof of Stake. @PoisonPhang worked very hard on it and it's fantastic to see it running smoothly! We thank @strangelovelabs for their assistance in this process.

People who argue fusion energy won't be cost competitive against fission don't realize that a 1GW fusion reactor can produce 2 tons of gold per year by transmuting mercury. This means Fusion Energy has a 50:50 revenue split between electricity and alchemy.

LIDAR is to self-driving what solar is to energy: a technological dead end. Nuclear is the only viable path forward. When self-driving cars were getting going, there wasn't enough compute and AI sucked too much to just use cameras. Every expert in the world screamed that LIDAR was the future and would be the necessary step to get to self-driving. Tesla saw it differently and invested heavily into cameras, compute, and AI. LIDAR costs a lot and has a whole host of issues (like not being able to see color lol). Tesla cars on the other hand are able to be self-driving at any price point while looking sleek and beautiful. It's obvious looking back, but wasn't obvious looking forward. This is the situation we find ourselves in with solar today. Prices are plummeting, a lot of production is being built, and countries keep flaunting how much of their daily energy use is from solar. Solar has so much momentum. However, this is a complete waste of time. Even if solar panels were 100% efficient and needed minimum maintenance, they are a dead-end technology because *we need to increase our energy consumption by 2-3 orders of magnitude.* This would require covering large swaths of the earth in ugly solar panels and would actually help destroy the environment that we're working so hard to preserve. We should have unlimited clean water. We should travel around the globe in an hour. We should suck carbon from the air and trap it underground. We should put all our garbage on spaceships and yeet it into the sun. We should have swarms of robots repairing our infrastructure, doing dangerous jobs, clearing old landmines fields, and tending to our crops. We should have the most powerful AI imaginable constantly making the world and our lives better. We should create whatever element we desire out of the ones we have plenty of. We should dream big again, and to do so, we need energy. So much of it that it is hard to fathom how we'd even use it. The only reason we're doing solar is because regulations have killed nuclear. @NRCgov, @realDonaldTrump, and @JDVance - please remediate this. Give America Power!