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Frank Braun

Just finished "Zero World Problems: New Standards of Living for the Post-Materialist Economy" by Aaron Clarey, great read.
Should be mandatory reading for the crypto twitter crowd that thinks trading meme coins from mom's basement is the best way to financial independence.

2025-08-21 12:21:15 UTC

Bitcoiners: The network is censorship resistant.
Somehow also Bitcoiners: Let’s figure out how we can best filter “undesirable transactions”.

2025-08-16 17:56:12 UTC

"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
— Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975)

2025-08-15 14:09:45 UTC

The free market is a harsh mistress.

2025-08-12 21:20:51 UTC

The threat model for my life is: It's complicated.

2025-08-12 11:44:27 UTC

Less ego leads to more success.
It allows you to learn and adapt.
The real cost is not making a mistake, it's defending it.

2025-08-10 15:05:27 UTC

Some cryptocurrency tribes build bridges and trade with other tribes.
Others go to war and isolate themselves.
Which strategy is more likely to succeed in the long run?

2025-08-10 14:29:09 UTC

Freedom technology invariants
https://frankbraun.org/invariants

2025-08-10 12:54:33 UTC

I have this theory that a lot of social media is dominated by psychopaths, narcissists, and autists.
Psychopaths don't give a shit if people like them or not. Narcissists feed on any form of attention. And autists are so obsessed with a topic that they can ignore the hate.

2025-08-06 11:47:56 UTC

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David Heinemeier Hansson

2025-08-04 19:02:30 UTC

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I think cancellations have been cancelled.

2025-08-04 18:21:43 UTC

Becoming a verb is a sign of the highest level of adoption: to google, to venmo, to tweet (dang!)
When "to zashi" is commonplace ("zashi me the money", "just zashi it", etc.) Zashi app and financial privacy will have won.
Internet, do your thing 😉

2025-08-02 10:30:36 UTC

Running Zebrad, fully synced 🦓

2025-07-30 21:53:02 UTC

Mandatory age verification which requires attested applications attacks the very base layer of freedom technology — secure devices.
Think about that for a second.

2025-07-30 19:34:18 UTC

What if programming is art?
https://frankbraun.org/art

2025-07-22 20:43:24 UTC

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There are currently three different shielded pools (basically three iterations of the zero-knowledge proof tech) and only the first one had a possible inflation bug.
You cannot audit the inside of a shielded pool, that’s not compatible with the privacy guarantees.
However, each pool has a so called turnstile mechanism which ensures that there are never more coins leaving the pool than coins that have entered it.
The bug in the first pool was fixed in 2018 and given how long ago that was and how little coins still remain in the pool it is very unlikely that the bug has ever been exploited. There is additional evidence that it hasn’t, which I’m sure you can easily find.
The latest iteration (the Orchard pool) also doesn’t have a trusted setup anymore.

2025-07-22 10:54:55 UTC

My Zcash investment thesis
https://frankbraun.org/zecbag
#Zcash

2025-07-09 10:57:23 UTC

CBDCs are great.
They'll sell the normies on the product category.
Selling them a better product in the same category afterwards will be easy.
"Hey, you want that, but without transaction fees, arbitrary account freezing, and full privacy?"

2025-03-08 10:31:29 UTC

Sadly it feels to me like the train towards WW3 has left the station.
While some are trying to step off (the U.S.), others are speeding up the train (most of the EU).
War is never without an alternative.
We don't have to do this.
Pull the brakes.