SunCat @Bitcoin_L1

A Beijing court has ruled that online gaming accounts can be inherited after a player dies. The case involved a gamer who died last year at the age of 36 and had built up 87 gaming accounts over more than a decade, along with valuable in-game items. After his death, his mother asked Chinese developer Changyou to transfer the accounts to her, but the company refused, saying its user agreement does not allow accounts to be transferred and that the company owns the account data and virtual items. The court found that while the company still owns the accounts, the right to use them has economic value because Gu had spent years investing time and money into them. The court ruled that his mother could inherit the right to use the accounts and ordered the company to transfer their real-name registration to her.

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I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( strawmap.org ). In general, a lot of overlap, but: * Some things got reshuffled in order (eg. quantum safety up-prioritized) * Some things deprioritized (eg. VDFs; many EVM improvements) * Some things replaced with superior constructions (eg. Verkle -> unified BT -> PBT; state expiry -> new state types) What's most striking, however, is that some completely new things are in the strawmap that are NOT in this diagram, because they were not in the 2023 roadmap at all. These reflect changing priorities. Notably: * First-class attention to strong privacy. This covers: keyed nonces and recent roots, aspects of FOCIL, lean privacy pool & wormholes * Aggressive scaling in the context of post-quantum. This covers: leanSPHINCS signatures and aggregation, zkzk frames (see ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-8288-fra… ) * Lean-ification of the spec, to assist in formal verification (full FV of everything is only possible because of modern AI) * Blob and gas futures (this idea just didn't exist back in 2023) * Native rollups (SNARKs were nowhere near mature enough to even consider this back in 2023) * A more open design space for the "future of the EVM". zkzk frames already implies that the protocol will expose to users some ISA that's not the EVM - current leading candidates are leanISA and RISC-V. These ISAs are more simple, modern and efficient than the EVM. Once they're there, why not expose them to developers everywhere? (And then, why not turn the EVM into being an IR on top of that ISA, instead of an enshrined feature massively complicating the base protocol?) Though much of the deeper exploration here is too early even for the strawmap. * New state types are not just a replacement for expiry, they're a fundamentally different paradigm to how Ethereum does scaling A common theme in scaling, found in both state types and zkzk frames (both new ideas), is that instead of trying to maximally scale ALL ethereum activity, we try to create specialized mechanisms that have more restrictive properties that make them more scaling-friendly, while supporting the heaviest loads incurred by users and applications today (eg. token transfers, swaps) and tomorrow (eg. privacy protocols). The other common theme is treating STARKs and AI-accelerated FV as first-class objects, that we are okay betting the technical future of Ethereum on. There are recursive STARKs in many layers of the protocol, one particular primitive (the "aggregate to union verified dependencies" primitive) is expected to be used in *three* places in the protocol: EL, CL and DL. This can only be safe with formal verification, which is itself only feasible with modern AI tools. In general, many steps forward in maturity. And a huge amount of hard work by many dozens of Ethereum researchers and developers on all of these features. Ethereum will be quantum-safe. Ethereum will put users' privacy first. Ethereum will be secure. Ethereum will be censorship-resistant. Ethereum will be highly performant and scalable while satisfying the above. And Ethereum will be Lean.

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Good day cuties... The Earthie Platform Android closed beta is officially live! 🚀 If you'd like to join as a tester: - Fill out the form below. - DM me once submitted so I can add your email ASAP, no need to send the email via dm, just do it via the form. - I'll send you the Google Play Store testing link directly via DM. Form: form.jotform.com/262207509154050

My statement on Clarity Act⬇️⬇️

<< This is an official notice from the Discord Earth2 community manager >> Dear Earth 2 Community, This is a courtesy update to confirm that the team has just processed a total of 386K in $ESS withdrawals in today's batch. For clarity, the daily total amount provided in these courtesy updates includes the Trial Withdrawal System amount. All Essence withdrawals are 100% up to date. As usual on a Friday, the next batch of $ESS withdrawals will be processed on Monday afternoon AEST. Our team has been following the intended procedure as set out in the article earth2.io/news/mentar-st…. There is 283K $ESS from the Trial Withdrawal System included in today's batch. Players did not deposit any $ESS into the platform 6 August (UTC). We would also like to provide a brief update regarding Part 1 of the RT9 release. We had anticipated releasing it later this week if everything progressed smoothly; however, there have been a few delays as development has continued over the past week. RT9 is an exceptionally complex release, and while we are not trying to overstate or build unnecessary anticipation around it, we believe the reasons for these delays will become apparent once Players experience the scope of part 1 alone. If Part 1 is not released over the weekend, it is expected to be released early next week. Thank you for your attention and support, we hope you all have a great weekend! #Earth2 #E2 #E2V1 #VirtualReality #Metaverse

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The Senate has had CLARITY for a year. Since then, lawmakers have negotiated hundreds of pages of changes, reached agreement on SEC and CFTC nominations, and secured unprecedented ethics commitments. The crypto and banking industry have compromised as well. That’s how legislation is supposed to work. No one gets everything. Everyone gets most of what they need. At this point, the only thing left isn’t negotiation—it's whether some group will try to stall or block legislation that already has broad bipartisan support. Millions of Americans own crypto and are watching. It’s time to call the vote.

Should the Senate vote on the Clarity Act?

Your agent finally gets its own wallet. MetaMask Agent Wallet is now live for everyone.

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Arc @arc

5 days ago

Arc Mainnet. September 16.

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What's #RT9's release without a little hype, or at least a #MusicVideo to get things going. Been a ride, can't wait to see where we're at in another 5 years. The #song is called, We Saw It Before They Did. @earth2io @theshaneisaac

I believe we will get a vote on the Clarity Act before August recess and get people on the record after 11 months of negotiating with Democrats and adding 300+ pages to the bill at their request. It's just time to get people on the record.

🇺🇸 Tuesday came and went without the crypto CLARITY Act appearing on the Senate’s schedule. Time is nearly up before their August recess. ONLY 3 days left. Every single Senator who continues blocking action should be voted out of office.

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Listen… Coldcard hackers: You may have acquired roughly 1,500 BTC. But spending it is a completely different challenge. Every transaction will be watched. Every movement will be analyzed. Every attempt to cash out will attract attention. Bitcoin remembers. If your goal was wealth there may still be one path that leaves everyone better off. Return the funds. Accept a negotiated security bounty with CoinKite. Leave behind a legacy of exposing a critical weakness instead of one of destroying families’ savings. The Bitcoin ecosystem rewards people who strengthen it. The world is watching your next move.

How safe if your Bitcoin seed phrase? The difference between 40 bits and 256 bits is not a small upgrade. It is the difference between minutes and longer than the age of the universe.

The classic L2 vs Ethereum alignment drama is back, and this time Base is right in the middle of it. Layer 2s were sold as a way to scale Ethereum while still supporting it. Users pay fees in ETH. Those fees are supposed to strengthen the main network, create demand for ETH, and keep the whole ecosystem aligned. Base is doing the opposite right now. It generates massive fees in ETH from all the activity on its chain. But instead of holding that ETH or putting it back into the Ethereum ecosystem, those fees are being sold and the money is going into Bitcoin. Meanwhile Base’s parent company keeps its ETH holdings basically flat while stacking more BTC. Base uses Ethereum for security and settlement, takes the value created by ETH users, and converts it into something that doesn’t help Ethereum at all. If a major L2 won’t support $ETH, then the community shouldn’t support that L2 either.

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This is sad! You may or may not know, @TrustWallet faced this exact same bug years ago, a pseudo-random number generator, ie, not truly random, $12m in losses. They covered every user. Software will always have bugs. What matters is who’s behind it.

Jonathan Goodman 🇨🇦 @itscoachgoodman

a week ago

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack. My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet. This part's nerdy, but here's

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Big Bank Beth @SenWarren hates President Trump so much that she’d rather have no rules of the road for the digital asset industry — leaving consumers vulnerable and law enforcement empty-handed — than take the win for consumers. Let’s get the facts straight on her “fact sheet”: 1. She claims the blind trust is a shell game. It’s not. By law (5 U.S.C. §13104(f)(3)(A) and 5 C.F.R. 2634.403), a trustee is barred from disclosing trust holdings back to the official. That’s not a loophole, it’s literally what makes a blind trust blind. Read the law for yourself below. 2. She claims $TRUMP proves the president would create new coins. But $TRUMP launched when President Trump was a private citizen. The ethics ban applies to conduct while serving. You can’t retroactively ban something that happened before the law — or the presidency — existed. That’s how the law in the Soviet Union worked, not America. 3. She acts like Trump’s adult children running WLF is some unprecedented dodge. It’s not. Federal ethics law has never imputed financial interests from adult, independent children — only spouses and minor children. That’s not new to this bill; it’s how conflict-of-interest law has worked for decades. The facts speak for themselves. Don’t fall for Liz’s lies. banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

The Clarity Act is good for the country, good for consumers, and good for the people we represent on both sides of the aisle. After nearly 11 months of giving almost everything asked of us, I genuinely don't know what else my Democrat colleagues need before we act.

I've incorporated hundreds of pages of Democrat priorities in the Clarity Act: 33 Dem-driven edits in Title I alone, 23 new illicit finance sections, 30 more CFTC wins, 3 entirely new titles Dems wanted. That's 100+ compromises — yet still not enough for some. "Perfect" stopped being principled months ago. Now it's just an excuse not to legislate. We have to pass the Clarity Act NOW.