ZK proofs are the solution to this problem. Its a pity this tech is not taken more seriously. I recently used a product that required proof of country (or rather proof of not from certain countries). It was a very painless experience with https://zkpassport.id/
Readit Newsdylkil commented on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults cnbc.com/2026/03/08/socia... · Posted by u/bilsbie
dylkil commented on Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? vitalik.eth.limo/general/... · Posted by u/bpierre
Key quote from the article:
> Many have argued that the lack of large-scale applications for the past ten years proves that crypto is useless. I have always argued against this: pretty much every crypto application that is not financial speculation depends on low fees - and so while we have high fees, we should not be surprised that we mainly see financial speculation!
> Now that we have blobs, this key constraint that has been holding us back all this time is starting to melt away. Fees are finally much lower; my statement from seven years ago that the internet of money should not cost more than five cents per transaction is finally coming true.
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All of this depends on so called "Layer 2s", which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user. I'm skeptical that this is best way to solve the scalability issues that plague cryptocurrency, but I will say that this looks to me like it has a much better shot of succeeding that anything Bitcoin has ever attempted to do on this front.
> which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user
Not exactly, L2s are being abstracted away, end users eventually wont even be aware what chain they are interacting with without tracing the tx
dylkil commented on The pro-Israel information war jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
dylkil commented on Rattled U.S. government fears wars could spread axios.com/2023/10/20/bide... · Posted by u/ironyman
Why vote down the cease-fire then in the UN?
dylkil commented on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services blog.torproject.org/intro... · Posted by u/simonpure
I though that its the last hop that operators control and they can intercept the traffic thats the problem. but this only saves them money and costs the users more when energy is expensive
It limits denial of services attacks on onion services
dylkil commented on Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B theverge.com/2023/8/23/23... · Posted by u/Analemma_
Wouldn't the developers of privacy-focused blockchains like Zcash and Monero also be liable under this logic? Surely they also knew that criminals would use anonymous transactions and they did nothing to implement KYC / AML.
There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from
dylkil commented on Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood wired.com/story/the-psych... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
dylkil commented on Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs spiegel.de/politik/deutsc... · Posted by u/tfourb
I will take the contrarian position here. This is bad policy and shouldn’t happen.
First, making recreational drugs illegal is a good policy. Drugs are addictive. They intentionally disrupt your normal brain function. Some people are more affected than others and commit crimes while taking drugs. They disrupt the normal functioning of society. The more people that take drugs, the worse it is for society. Look at the opioid epidemic for a recent US example.
Second, the government should not send mixed signals about drugs. It should not at once ban them, and also facilitate their “safe” consumption. People cannot understand this mixed message. If drugs are bad and shouldn’t be consumed, why is there an official channel for “safely” consuming them?
The result of this double think will likely be further moves toward legalization of drugs, their subsequent proliferation through society, and the further decay of society as a result.
Every study under the sun shows drug criminalization causes more public health issues than it solves. It should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal issue. Portugal is a fantastic case study of how this succeeded.