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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Absolutely

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.