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decentralized and democratic differential defensive acceleration・ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html#dacc “My techno-optimism” · https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html “d/acc: one year later”
Excited to speak at the D/acc Human-Aligned Tech Workshop with @holonym! Join us to explore the future of human-first technology.
See you there!
https://lu.ma/tfe9k2gf
See you there!
https://lu.ma/tfe9k2gf
Free markets, strong governance, social safety nets, and innovation have driven prosperity in the physical world
My dream is that we can recreate it in the digital world where it doesn’t matter where you’re born anyone can prosper
My dream is that we can recreate it in the digital world where it doesn’t matter where you’re born anyone can prosper
We're launching a d/acc grants program with funding from Vitalik and some other great folks.
Would love if folks can suggest teams/projects that would benefit.
Would love if folks can suggest teams/projects that would benefit.
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Edge City
@edgecity·17:19 07/03/2025
We are launching the SHIFT Grants Program to fund d/acc projects.
With anchor funding from Vitalik Buterin (@vitalik.eth), Trent McConaghy, ASI Alliance / Ocean Protocol Foundation & Yonatan Ben Shimon
How you can get involved👇🌱
With anchor funding from Vitalik Buterin (@vitalik.eth), Trent McConaghy, ASI Alliance / Ocean Protocol Foundation & Yonatan Ben Shimon
How you can get involved👇🌱
aiaiyo
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr·05:08 05/03/2025
This would make for a good d/acc protocol name
The aiaiyo handshake protocol
Alignment cultists would hate it
The aiaiyo handshake protocol
Alignment cultists would hate it
What are you favorite d/acc products and/or protocols? What are some things you'd like to see?
Any interest in a d/acc meet up in NYC during FarCon (May 1-4ish)?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth·23:48 23/01/2025
This is the essence of d/acc: the goal is not to indiscriminately accelerate everything, including superintelligent AI and fentanyl, the goal is to selectively accelerate defense to keep up with offense. Sometimes, defense is a matter of cultivating our own sense of virtue. Sometimes, defense is a matter of creating better alternatives.
In defi, we are already starting to see a return toward honest token-based fundraising that gives users clear understanding of what they are buying, bringing us the best of pre-2020-era ICOs while addressing their downsides. @infinex_app and @Truemarketsorg sales are two examples of this, and I know of other examples soon to come.
There is a bright future of capital allocation mechanisms that can be built. We can act to ensure alignment with community wishes and safeguard important values like privacy, security, open standards and open source, within the incentive structure itself. Acceleration is coming either way; it is our task to choose the brightest possible vector.
In defi, we are already starting to see a return toward honest token-based fundraising that gives users clear understanding of what they are buying, bringing us the best of pre-2020-era ICOs while addressing their downsides. @infinex_app and @Truemarketsorg sales are two examples of this, and I know of other examples soon to come.
There is a bright future of capital allocation mechanisms that can be built. We can act to ensure alignment with community wishes and safeguard important values like privacy, security, open standards and open source, within the incentive structure itself. Acceleration is coming either way; it is our task to choose the brightest possible vector.
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@chaskin.eth·22:54 14/01/2025
Blockchain should not be designed for the average case but for the absolute worst case, extreme scenarios
The only way to achieve this is thru true p2p protocols with consensus & access formed in homes & by individuals
Otherwise it’s just a fintech wrapper & time will expose it
The only way to achieve this is thru true p2p protocols with consensus & access formed in homes & by individuals
Otherwise it’s just a fintech wrapper & time will expose it
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth·17:12 05/01/2025
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth·17:12 05/01/2025
“Another way to think about d/acc is to go back to a frame from the Pirate Party movements in Europe in the late 00s: empowerment.”
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth·17:12 05/01/2025
“Our dream was to enable the future of human freedom, and we had this bizarre confidence about how the future would unfold and, to use Alan Kay’s famous phrase, to have a huge hand in inventing it.”
- Mark Miller
- Mark Miller
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@chaskin.eth·21:02 06/01/2025
I recently realized I didn’t know much about the cypherpunks, just that they pushed for privacy. Then I learned about their fearless fight for freedom and was inspired
Wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum
https://paragraph.xyz/@chaskin/who-even-were-the-cypherpunks
Wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum
https://paragraph.xyz/@chaskin/who-even-were-the-cypherpunks
I recently realized I didn’t know much about the cypherpunks, just that they pushed for privacy. Then I learned about their fearless fight for freedom and was inspired
Wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum
https://paragraph.xyz/@chaskin/who-even-were-the-cypherpunks
Wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum
https://paragraph.xyz/@chaskin/who-even-were-the-cypherpunks
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth·17:12 05/01/2025
These things obsess me. What other simple solutions there are for complex problems?
Eg: wastewater monitoring for public health purposes or mitigating flare gas pollution through Bitcoin mining
Eg: wastewater monitoring for public health purposes or mitigating flare gas pollution through Bitcoin mining
"Can evil be done with this technology? Yes. Deal with it"
- Timothy C. May, co-founder of the Cypherpunk movement
- Timothy C. May, co-founder of the Cypherpunk movement
