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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · 5h

folks, hear me out, the best long-term trading strategy is privacy itself. Those who build and hold it are shaping the foundation of a free economy. And guess what, its yield is true sovereignty: the _only_ return that truly endures.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · 13d

3/ Look, you can go all mainstream, but we should actually celebrate it when Ethereum isn't chosen by tradfi clowns. That means we're doing something right. I won't let Ethereum be tamed, neutered, or turned into just another corporate playground. Never.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · 13d

2/ compliance as a "feature" instead of a _clear_ bug (just check the discussions around FOCIL), and having the constant urge to turn Ethereum into a business (believe me, institutions have this urge) instead of the biggest economic playground of our lives.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · 13d

1/ Ethereum's worst enemy is institutional adoption. Honestly, think about it guys, the more institutions get involved, the more influence they wanna have on future hard fork decisions (and thus will make a core dev's job even more complicated),...

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 30

2/ Those are the projects that will outlast all the distractions, all the fleeting trends. Because principles do fucking matter. Because this is our fight, it's my personal fight, it's our soul. Cypherpunk will always rise. And in the end, Cypherpunk will win.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 30

1/ The soul of Ethereum was Cypherpunk. It _is_ Cypherpunk. It will always be Cypherpunk. You can chase your glossy, VC-driven narratives, build your fancy protocols, but the ones that will endure are the ones that preserve our privacy, defend against censorship & stand tall in the face of tyranny.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

6/ Cold storage means no connection to the internet, period. Happy Sunday and go touch some grass or sand :D.

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

5/ And while I'm at it, please don't store assets in hot wallets. Just don't. Also, don't take pics of your seed phrase with your phone. There are malicious apps that can use OCR to scan images for seeds.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

4/ I understand that shifting most of the space to something like QubesOS isn't realistic, but we must start prioritising security-first OS choices in our ecosystem, not just UX. Honestly, fancy features won't stop your device from being compromised.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

3/ Please remember: these OSes weren't built with the strict sandboxing, strong application isolation, or zero-trust principles needed to defend against these today's threats!

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

2/ However, and that's what I want to address here, is that OS design choices like weak data compartmentalisation & permissive default trust models are the _major enablers_, especially on macOS and Windows.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Aug 3

1/ This morning I've been reviewing our last months' SEAL 911 tickets. Guys, it's clear that soon (probably sooner than you think) a large portion of our ecosystem will be running on compromised devices. I mean, man, infostealers are probably the _biggest_ ecosystem problem right now.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 27

My periodic reminder: if someone offers you a slick-looking hardware gadget at EthCC (or any other crypto event), don't plug it in, don't take it home. Just walk away. Treat it like malware wearing a shiny casing. We've got enough infostealers in the wild already.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 19

If it never goes mainstream, that means it stayed dangerous. It stayed free. Thus, mainstream isn't the goal. Freedom is.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 19

so I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm more and more convinced that crypto was never meant for mainstream. The main reason being that crypto's purpose is _liberation_, not popularity. It's effectively for those who choose sovereignty over simplicity.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 14

Absolutely

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 14

Don't listen to your friends. Listen to your gut feeling and your principles. Good friends mean it well, but won't replace principles.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 14

It could've been simple but somewhere along the way, we chose to build a fragmented, bloated mess of chains instead. A monster of our own making.

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 14

you know, I'm a simple guy: I roll (mostly) with ETH, Tornado Cash, Railgun, BTC, Zcash, and XMR these days. I don't use L2s. I don't use Solana. I don't use fancy DeFi protocols (I like it KISS and trustless). Simply put: just tools that work and don't ask permission.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · Jun 10

I know guys, you're all bullish on Claude etc. but if you keep outsourcing more and more of your thinking to LLMs, you'll eventually become whatever the algorithm decides. You lose your uniqueness, your edge. Just don't.

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · May 27

3/ I use them because their privacy is built-in & the UX is pretty smooth. That's exactly what I want from Ethereum. Simple, private, native payments. No extra steps. If we want to onboard people to privacy at a global scale, it must be native and easy. Full stop.

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · May 27

2/ Long-term, I shouldn't need to interact with a smart contract just to shield a simple ETH transfer. Privacy should be native at the L1. Look, I've been using Monero & Zcash for some time already (on that note, please Ledger ship shielded addresses).

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · May 27

1/ There is nothing I want more than for Ethereum to lead on privacy (scalability has always been a second priority for me tbh; not implying it's not important to be clear). Not conditional privacy. Unconditional.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · May 19

3/ Read the last sentence again. Now again. Ethereum's future has to be _radical_ and _bold_, not obedient.

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio.com · May 19

2/ Folks, honestly, forget the flashy business plans for Ethereum (we do not turn Ethereum into a fucking company). If we start prioritising those over the fundamentals, we're not just selling out; we're turning into muppets of the very mainstream systems we set out to disrupt.

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