Vitalik finally admitted privacy was missing. But the same week, researchers showed how blockchains can hide money in plain sight. Both things are true, and that should worry you.
Dude you are so on point! Seriously I have had the craziest 7 weeks of my life.
Quick rundown, so I started taking a junior it analyst course, figured I should maybe get some sort of upskilling to use on a resume. And I've always been concerned about government censorship, and smart cities, and the fact that our government here in Canada is completely tyrannical and planning some really messed up shit. So after I started taking this course I found out that the company works with google, and microsoft, and the federal government. Well of course that piqued my interest? Because the moment I find out that somebody is linked to our federal government and big corporations, you have to question what their actual motive is.
So I found out that they were listening to us behind the scenes, even when our microphones were off, and it made me wonder what else they were tracking and tracing and what else they had access to inside of my personal computer that I never signed a release form for.
Well that completely changed my entire Outlook and my entire career goal moving forward. I did a bunch of research and ask myself what would I need to do to be able to bypass censorship or create a completely private system that wouldn't register with telecommunication companies, because I'm sure as you have heard, our government is trying to pass legislation right now that would essentially give them back to our access into our devices without a warrant order approval. And this would apply to telecommunication companies.
Well of course that pissed me off to no end, so I decided to try to create my own completely private, unhackable system, so I can learn how to code and be able to test it without anybody tracking it. So I'm 7 weeks into this course, learning the basics and I somehow managed to take an old laptop, completely wipe the Windows operating system on it as well as the administrative password to the BIOS which was locked, and install a completely encrypted Linux operating system, with python, a completely scrambled Mac address, and I'm in the process of building my own router which would scramble both my IP address and my Mac address, so that microsoft, google, telecommunication companies have no idea that it exists.
This is 7 weeks into a junior it course. And I'm somebody who literally knew nothing about this stuff when I first started. That's how much I care about this shit.
So my new career path is to create and build reliable, unhackable operating systems, I can bypass government censorship, bypass all of the tracking and access that they have to our devices, and go a step further and make sure that telecommunication companies cannot log anything that happens connected to our internet.
I have my personal phone, I have a completely separate work/course laptop, and then I have a completely separate Linux operating system that can't be hacked and can't be traced.
So needless to say, after this long winded story, I have found my purpose in life, and I will not stop until I figure out how to protect my family, and my fellow citizens from this digital tyrannical hellscape we are entering into!
And the craziest thing that I realized is that all of these decentralized networks, and open source software that was supposed to protect us and allow us to bypass control of central banks, and essentially governments, has now been literally copied and used to do the exact opposite of what it was meant to do.
So not only did governments just steal open source software created by some brilliant developer who wanted to make it free for everybody I made it in such a way where corporations and governments couldn't monopolize on it. But then they literally just turn around, copied it, claim that they were putting millions and billions of dollars into development, when they literally just stole it from places like GitHub.
There are so many people that I know that are pissed off about that. I'm upset about it but at the same time I'm a little relieved. Because that means they are using the exact same open source software that is available to everyday ordinary citizens. So if I'm using some sort of open Source software, and I know how to program it and I know how to make it work the way it's supposed to, can I have essentially created a software that is just as good if not better than the people throwing millions of dollars at it. This is a good thing, because that means that we have just as much power as them we just have to know how to utilize it.
Where we fall short, is obviously the financing because anybody who has crazy amounts of money are obviously not giving it to people like us, but also they are the ones who make the laws. So I am positive because I still think that there is a chance we can beat this, but there's also a chance that we are way in over our heads.
What crypto was created to be, is not what it is being used for now. And unfortunately, if we don't win this war this time around, I literally honestly think that we will have lost for good. In my mind this is the final battle, because once they are able to track and Trace our purchases, program our money, restrict our money and what we are allowed to do with it, all at the same time while surveilling us 24/7, there will be literally no way out of this. So I agree with everything you said and I think that all these smart people who are creating all of these decentralized, open source projects, better smarten up and figure out a way to keep the government from abusing it.
honestly, I respect the energy behind it. Privacy often becomes “real” for people only when they feel how much control they’ve lost over their own devices, data, and choices. I’d just be careful with one thing: there is n such thing as a truly “unhackable” system, but there are definitely safer, more private, more resilient systems. That mindset, i mean, learning, testing, questioning defaults, separating devices, using encryption, understanding networks, whatever, is exactly where more people should start
The fact that over 9 researchers walked out from Ethereum in less than 7 days is very telling. Since Buterin sold countless times tanking the price, the community lost whatever faith it had in the project. Another glaring problem is the role that Buterin has in the foundation as last year he said that his role will dimish faster than a shooting star and 6 months later 9 researchers quit.
The fact that he literally threw into the history bin all the L2s after he personally vetted them, speaks all we need to know about his character (or lack of it).
Ethereum is the least private of them all and let's not forget that nearly all DeFi hacks are on ETH mainnet. That's why Monero is a better alternative.
I think Ethereum deserves serious criticism here, especially around governance, privacy, and the gap between the “decentralized” narrative and how much influence a few people still seem to have
Dude you are so on point! Seriously I have had the craziest 7 weeks of my life.
Quick rundown, so I started taking a junior it analyst course, figured I should maybe get some sort of upskilling to use on a resume. And I've always been concerned about government censorship, and smart cities, and the fact that our government here in Canada is completely tyrannical and planning some really messed up shit. So after I started taking this course I found out that the company works with google, and microsoft, and the federal government. Well of course that piqued my interest? Because the moment I find out that somebody is linked to our federal government and big corporations, you have to question what their actual motive is.
So I found out that they were listening to us behind the scenes, even when our microphones were off, and it made me wonder what else they were tracking and tracing and what else they had access to inside of my personal computer that I never signed a release form for.
Well that completely changed my entire Outlook and my entire career goal moving forward. I did a bunch of research and ask myself what would I need to do to be able to bypass censorship or create a completely private system that wouldn't register with telecommunication companies, because I'm sure as you have heard, our government is trying to pass legislation right now that would essentially give them back to our access into our devices without a warrant order approval. And this would apply to telecommunication companies.
Well of course that pissed me off to no end, so I decided to try to create my own completely private, unhackable system, so I can learn how to code and be able to test it without anybody tracking it. So I'm 7 weeks into this course, learning the basics and I somehow managed to take an old laptop, completely wipe the Windows operating system on it as well as the administrative password to the BIOS which was locked, and install a completely encrypted Linux operating system, with python, a completely scrambled Mac address, and I'm in the process of building my own router which would scramble both my IP address and my Mac address, so that microsoft, google, telecommunication companies have no idea that it exists.
This is 7 weeks into a junior it course. And I'm somebody who literally knew nothing about this stuff when I first started. That's how much I care about this shit.
So my new career path is to create and build reliable, unhackable operating systems, I can bypass government censorship, bypass all of the tracking and access that they have to our devices, and go a step further and make sure that telecommunication companies cannot log anything that happens connected to our internet.
I have my personal phone, I have a completely separate work/course laptop, and then I have a completely separate Linux operating system that can't be hacked and can't be traced.
So needless to say, after this long winded story, I have found my purpose in life, and I will not stop until I figure out how to protect my family, and my fellow citizens from this digital tyrannical hellscape we are entering into!
And the craziest thing that I realized is that all of these decentralized networks, and open source software that was supposed to protect us and allow us to bypass control of central banks, and essentially governments, has now been literally copied and used to do the exact opposite of what it was meant to do.
So not only did governments just steal open source software created by some brilliant developer who wanted to make it free for everybody I made it in such a way where corporations and governments couldn't monopolize on it. But then they literally just turn around, copied it, claim that they were putting millions and billions of dollars into development, when they literally just stole it from places like GitHub.
There are so many people that I know that are pissed off about that. I'm upset about it but at the same time I'm a little relieved. Because that means they are using the exact same open source software that is available to everyday ordinary citizens. So if I'm using some sort of open Source software, and I know how to program it and I know how to make it work the way it's supposed to, can I have essentially created a software that is just as good if not better than the people throwing millions of dollars at it. This is a good thing, because that means that we have just as much power as them we just have to know how to utilize it.
Where we fall short, is obviously the financing because anybody who has crazy amounts of money are obviously not giving it to people like us, but also they are the ones who make the laws. So I am positive because I still think that there is a chance we can beat this, but there's also a chance that we are way in over our heads.
What crypto was created to be, is not what it is being used for now. And unfortunately, if we don't win this war this time around, I literally honestly think that we will have lost for good. In my mind this is the final battle, because once they are able to track and Trace our purchases, program our money, restrict our money and what we are allowed to do with it, all at the same time while surveilling us 24/7, there will be literally no way out of this. So I agree with everything you said and I think that all these smart people who are creating all of these decentralized, open source projects, better smarten up and figure out a way to keep the government from abusing it.
honestly, I respect the energy behind it. Privacy often becomes “real” for people only when they feel how much control they’ve lost over their own devices, data, and choices. I’d just be careful with one thing: there is n such thing as a truly “unhackable” system, but there are definitely safer, more private, more resilient systems. That mindset, i mean, learning, testing, questioning defaults, separating devices, using encryption, understanding networks, whatever, is exactly where more people should start
The fact that over 9 researchers walked out from Ethereum in less than 7 days is very telling. Since Buterin sold countless times tanking the price, the community lost whatever faith it had in the project. Another glaring problem is the role that Buterin has in the foundation as last year he said that his role will dimish faster than a shooting star and 6 months later 9 researchers quit.
The fact that he literally threw into the history bin all the L2s after he personally vetted them, speaks all we need to know about his character (or lack of it).
Ethereum is the least private of them all and let's not forget that nearly all DeFi hacks are on ETH mainnet. That's why Monero is a better alternative.
I think Ethereum deserves serious criticism here, especially around governance, privacy, and the gap between the “decentralized” narrative and how much influence a few people still seem to have
One sided business..