The @TornadoCash team and their investors made bank from the code
It was not an open source project
It was a for-profit company pretending to be “decentralised”
$TORN is shite
Feb 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
I want to fund a *super simple* open source Android Wallet for Ethereum
My ideas:
> It focuses on 4 functions: ADD, PAY, BUY, OUT
> They expand to BANK, SEND, FIND, CASH
> It has to be in Kotlin & Rust—not cross-platform
> We have to explore using Chrome & Samsung Browser
The goal will be for it to work on the lowest power devices with a smashed screen
I will use this with my people in the townships of South Africa
It will have a meaningful impact on the first day it ships
Who wants to hear my story about how Uniswap actually got started?
I have wanted to tell this story publicly for years. But I did not have the heart to do it.
It is filled with so much love & so much sadness.
A few things have changed in my life that have made me realise one thing:
I want to release my old stories & go on new adventures
🧵
Jan 19, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
Who wants to hear the story about how @CurveFinance was launched?
If this gets 33 retweets, I will write it up
It all began at @ETHIndiaco, where I met @newmichwill, in 2018
Back then, we just called him Michael Egorov
Dec 31, 2022 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
How I got hired & fired from Stripe as employee number 20-something in 2012
Buckle up:
I have told this story to hundreds of people in person. After a decade since it happened, I wanted to reflect on how much this experience changed me & my trajectory.
Most importantly, I wanted to publicly thank @patrickc & @collision for giving me the opportunity.