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LIVE --- Roman Storm Speaks 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️ developer Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ faces decades in prison, after being arrested for creating open-source privacy tools on Ethereum His case could define - Whether code is speech - If developers are liable for open source code - If Americans have... show more

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Bankless1 year ago

Tomorrow at 10:30am EST, we are hosting a Twitter Space to raise support for Roman Storm Show your support Roman, join the space!

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Donate to Roman Storm's Defense Fund:

Campbell (wartime arc)1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf His lawyers had been talking to DOJ when the arrest went down? Insane. Absolutely insane.

leahy.eth1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf crypto folks outta give more credit to Bankless for all the good they do

K42 Ψ1 year ago

@realDonaldTrump Help this guy^💎 @rstormsf is a US citizen worthy of your help, department of government spending @elonmusk a lot of government idiots sure are wasting too much fiat currency in trying to in-prison a GOOD developer for privatising flow of REAL (Crypto) money, find them and FIRE them 👽 Value exchange through creative code is free speech, arresting @rstormsf is ANTI innovation, ANTI free speech, ANTI civilisational progress, ANTI economic progress ❌

valens1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf we support u Roman!!!

Joe Nickence1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf #RepealThePatriotAct

🦇🔊1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf Could you have an episode of all major player in this new administration that are pro ETHEREUM?

Alice in Wonderland1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf Another open source dev with their life on the line ... Just like telegram dev... Just like CZ.... This is nothing more than the puppet Masters wanting the secrets of these brilliant people. They are using their elected puppets to imprison people and extract information they want

Sundel1 year ago

@TornadoCash @rstormsf this aged well already

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Marlene Mhangami

18,215 views • 8 months ago

To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.

To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.

HODLTarantula(HT)🏴‍☠️Sovereign Maximalist

10,126 views • 3 months ago

Excited to share that I’ve joined Anomaly as founding designer. I’m thrilled to work with Jay dax Frank Wang and Adam — a team stacked with talent! I’ve always been fascinated by challenges that influence the way people work. Today, AI is reshaping software development at a pace we’ve never seen. From solo developers to global enterprises, the way we write code has shifted dramatically in the past year, and will continue to change in the years ahead. This is an opportunity for me to help shape these experiences for everyone, regardless of frameworks, IDEs, or tools. I want to explore how they’re adopted and how they can have the greatest impact. The team is hard at work on OpenCode — the open source AI coding agent for the terminal. With over 23K stars on GitHub, it’s already changing how thousands of developers write code every day. Follow OpenCode as we go beyond the terminal and design and build world-class AI developer experiences ✌️

Excited to share that I’ve joined Anomaly as founding designer. I’m thrilled to work with Jay dax Frank Wang and Adam — a team stacked with talent! I’ve always been fascinated by challenges that influence the way people work. Today, AI is reshaping software development at a pace we’ve never seen. From solo developers to global enterprises, the way we write code has shifted dramatically in the past year, and will continue to change in the years ahead. This is an opportunity for me to help shape these experiences for everyone, regardless of frameworks, IDEs, or tools. I want to explore how they’re adopted and how they can have the greatest impact. The team is hard at work on OpenCode — the open source AI coding agent for the terminal. With over 23K stars on GitHub, it’s already changing how thousands of developers write code every day. Follow OpenCode as we go beyond the terminal and design and build world-class AI developer experiences ✌️

David Hill

172,131 views • 11 months ago

As a strong supporter of President Trump’s promise to end the war on crypto, it is important to remember the many victims of the Biden administration’s vile mission to imprison and silence some of crypto’s biggest proponents. Through overcharging, excessive sentencing, and inconsistent enforcement, IAN FREEMAN is being unjustly prosecuted for standing up for financial privacy. The government has targeted Ian for his role in promoting financial privacy through cryptocurrency, with made-up charges built on false narratives. His case represents a dangerous precedent: if we allow this to happen, anyone who advocates for privacy and decentralized financial systems could be next. Check out his story in this video & sign the petition to FREE IAN in the comments.

As a strong supporter of President Trump’s promise to end the war on crypto, it is important to remember the many victims of the Biden administration’s vile mission to imprison and silence some of crypto’s biggest proponents. Through overcharging, excessive sentencing, and inconsistent enforcement, IAN FREEMAN is being unjustly prosecuted for standing up for financial privacy. The government has targeted Ian for his role in promoting financial privacy through cryptocurrency, with made-up charges built on false narratives. His case represents a dangerous precedent: if we allow this to happen, anyone who advocates for privacy and decentralized financial systems could be next. Check out his story in this video & sign the petition to FREE IAN in the comments.

Rothmus 🏴

116,357 views • 1 year ago

NVIDIA just released a new open source transcription model, Nemotron Speech ASR, designed from the ground up for low-latency use cases like voice agents. Here's a voice agent built with this new model. 24ms transcription finalization and total voice-to-voice inference time under 500ms. This agent actually uses *three* NVIDIA open source models: - Nemotron Speech ASR - Nemotron 3 Nano 30GB in a 4-bit quant (released in December) - A preview checkpoint of the upcoming Magpie text-to-speech model These models are all truly open source: weights, training data, training code, and inference code. This is a big deal! Jensen said in the CES keynote yesterday that he expects open source models to catch up to proprietary models this year in a number of categories. NVIDIA is putting their weight behind making this happen. (As Alan Kay said, the best way to predict the future is to invent it.) The code for this agent is open source too, of course. You can deploy it to production with Modal and Pipecat AI cloud, or run locally on an NVIDIA DGX Spark or RTX 5090.

NVIDIA just released a new open source transcription model, Nemotron Speech ASR, designed from the ground up for low-latency use cases like voice agents. Here's a voice agent built with this new model. 24ms transcription finalization and total voice-to-voice inference time under 500ms. This agent actually uses three NVIDIA open source models: - Nemotron Speech ASR - Nemotron 3 Nano 30GB in a 4-bit quant (released in December) - A preview checkpoint of the upcoming Magpie text-to-speech model These models are all truly open source: weights, training data, training code, and inference code. This is a big deal! Jensen said in the CES keynote yesterday that he expects open source models to catch up to proprietary models this year in a number of categories. NVIDIA is putting their weight behind making this happen. (As Alan Kay said, the best way to predict the future is to invent it.) The code for this agent is open source too, of course. You can deploy it to production with Modal and Pipecat AI cloud, or run locally on an NVIDIA DGX Spark or RTX 5090.

kwindla

274,679 views • 7 months ago