Sean Bowe
@seanbowe.com
Cryptography researcher, developer of Zcash
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remember that if you have no presence in the UK you literally don’t have to care about their terrible laws
Just Say “No”
Just Say “No”
i still question how uk expects decentralized networks to comply, and whether bluesky's client-sided identity verification is enough for that
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
remember that if you have no presence in the UK you literally don’t have to care about their terrible laws
Just Say “No”
Just Say “No”
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Extremely with @steveklabnik.com here.
It’s been months and months of seeing people I respect say easily demonstrably false things.
People who are reasonable except on this one topic.
Not just a different opinions or preferences, but things that are not real.
It broke me a bit.
It’s been months and months of seeing people I respect say easily demonstrably false things.
People who are reasonable except on this one topic.
Not just a different opinions or preferences, but things that are not real.
It broke me a bit.
I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...
I am disappointed in the AI discourse
steveklabnik.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Extremely with @steveklabnik.com here.
It’s been months and months of seeing people I respect say easily demonstrably false things.
People who are reasonable except on this one topic.
Not just a different opinions or preferences, but things that are not real.
It broke me a bit.
It’s been months and months of seeing people I respect say easily demonstrably false things.
People who are reasonable except on this one topic.
Not just a different opinions or preferences, but things that are not real.
It broke me a bit.
new blog post with some rust code this time: seanbowe.com/blog/ragu-fo...
Ragu for Orchard: Recursion Al Dente - sean bowe
seanbowe.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
new blog post with some rust code this time: seanbowe.com/blog/ragu-fo...
new blog post: seanbowe.com/blog/tachyon...
Tachyon: Scaling Zcash with Oblivious Synchronization - sean bowe
seanbowe.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
new blog post: seanbowe.com/blog/tachyon...
caught some kittens in the bush outside today!
March 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
caught some kittens in the bush outside today!
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i have great affection for bsky devs, i think this is a worthy project and im grateful to them for the kindness theyve showed us
this is an open letter to them regarding what to do about Recent Complaints, offered in good faith and the spirit of friendship
my advice: 黙殺
this is an open letter to them regarding what to do about Recent Complaints, offered in good faith and the spirit of friendship
my advice: 黙殺
July 15, 2023 at 5:49 PM
i have great affection for bsky devs, i think this is a worthy project and im grateful to them for the kindness theyve showed us
this is an open letter to them regarding what to do about Recent Complaints, offered in good faith and the spirit of friendship
my advice: 黙殺
this is an open letter to them regarding what to do about Recent Complaints, offered in good faith and the spirit of friendship
my advice: 黙殺
this crowd of social media police is going to be shocked when they find out what the publicly stated goals of the AT protocol are
July 15, 2023 at 5:34 PM
this crowd of social media police is going to be shocked when they find out what the publicly stated goals of the AT protocol are
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people who feel it’s “inexcusable” for a dev team to not have implemented whatever feature are welcome to start their own instance and write their own clients and figure out all of the missing protocol level details for federation and figure out the emergent economic incentives of the protocol and
July 13, 2023 at 1:17 AM
people who feel it’s “inexcusable” for a dev team to not have implemented whatever feature are welcome to start their own instance and write their own clients and figure out all of the missing protocol level details for federation and figure out the emergent economic incentives of the protocol and
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A brief list of things of value that crypto has incentivised people to produce:
- Open source cryptography implementations
- Efficient consensus mechanisms
- Multi-party computation schemes, including threshold signatures
- Zero-knowledge proving systems
- Case studies of SGX failures
- Open source cryptography implementations
- Efficient consensus mechanisms
- Multi-party computation schemes, including threshold signatures
- Zero-knowledge proving systems
- Case studies of SGX failures
The fact there’s a crypto industry is breakdown of capitalism. The core thesis of capitalism is you produce things of value and get paid for it. So it’s net beneficial for society by incentivizing people to invent iPhones or Google search.
Crypto provides nothing of value just get rich quick schemes
Crypto provides nothing of value just get rich quick schemes
June 28, 2023 at 12:22 PM
A brief list of things of value that crypto has incentivised people to produce:
- Open source cryptography implementations
- Efficient consensus mechanisms
- Multi-party computation schemes, including threshold signatures
- Zero-knowledge proving systems
- Case studies of SGX failures
- Open source cryptography implementations
- Efficient consensus mechanisms
- Multi-party computation schemes, including threshold signatures
- Zero-knowledge proving systems
- Case studies of SGX failures
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wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped
probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/
probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/
June 6, 2023 at 7:23 AM
wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped
probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/
probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/
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bottom line is nobody has the power to kick other people off the internet. but infrastructure providers can decide what is allowed on their infra and set rules there.
May 1, 2023 at 3:23 AM
bottom line is nobody has the power to kick other people off the internet. but infrastructure providers can decide what is allowed on their infra and set rules there.
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i do and i have
but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”
but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”
May 1, 2023 at 1:18 AM
i do and i have
but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”
but i’m sure there will be cases where it looks like they’re engaging in good faith and i won’t know what to do, and everyone will start yelling at me. the moderation policies here are not going to be “ban whoever the loudest group hates”
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I haven't even been on this site two weeks yet, and I have whiplash from how fast it is growing and changing. Kudos to the @bsky.app team for keeping up!
April 24, 2023 at 7:49 AM
I haven't even been on this site two weeks yet, and I have whiplash from how fast it is growing and changing. Kudos to the @bsky.app team for keeping up!
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the bluesky timeline is called
the skyline
the skyline
April 13, 2023 at 5:47 AM
the bluesky timeline is called
the skyline
the skyline
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It’s been ~two months, I think a critical mass has been hit in recent days + the Substack / Elon-Musk’s-Twitter kerfuffle
April 11, 2023 at 12:04 AM
It’s been ~two months, I think a critical mass has been hit in recent days + the Substack / Elon-Musk’s-Twitter kerfuffle
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wow twitter just flat-out sucks now
feels like we just killed their entire platform
feels like we just killed their entire platform
April 11, 2023 at 12:02 AM
wow twitter just flat-out sucks now
feels like we just killed their entire platform
feels like we just killed their entire platform
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I put bluesky’s app in the spot on my home screen where Twitter’s app was. it’s over everyone
April 10, 2023 at 11:42 PM
I put bluesky’s app in the spot on my home screen where Twitter’s app was. it’s over everyone
Only a few days in the last several years have I been entertained by Twitter discourse nearly as much as the last 24h of bluesky discourse. bullish
April 10, 2023 at 11:25 PM
Only a few days in the last several years have I been entertained by Twitter discourse nearly as much as the last 24h of bluesky discourse. bullish
didn't think it was fair that my cat is on twitter but not bluesky so here we go
April 10, 2023 at 8:07 PM
didn't think it was fair that my cat is on twitter but not bluesky so here we go
I’m just glad I finally have something to do with this domain name I renew every year
yeahhh can’t wait to see this
domains are back, baby
it’s the 90’s again
domains are back, baby
it’s the 90’s again
April 10, 2023 at 5:30 PM
I’m just glad I finally have something to do with this domain name I renew every year
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“we need more invite codes for our friends”
April 10, 2023 at 4:29 PM
“we need more invite codes for our friends”