What a great set of awardees for the #Levchin prize 2026

🏆 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for the invention (and publication 🤭) of Public Key Cryptography 🔐

🏆 The Tamarin team for the developement of the Tamarin prover and its use in verifying security protocols

Well-deserved 👏

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i wonder if the #iacr #levchin #prize at #realworldcrypto this year goes to trump?

Who are the #PayPalMafia? Now #fascism is taking over everywhere, #Nazi idealisation is normalised and the global network of extremists is exposed.
And this is only one global company. I wonder where the other #billionaires rate on the #whitesupremacy scale.
My guess: High, cause that's where addiction to power and money takes you; #NarcissisticPsychopathy = grandiosity = the delusion of being superior.

#Musk #Thiel #Levchin #ApartheidSouthAfrica #press #opinion
https://youtu.be/QAHSgVk84B0?si=VTA1BtyZIfz7zXEv

"The PayPal Mafia": The South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel

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Who are the #PayPalMafia? Now #fascism is taking over everywhere, #Nazi idealisation is normalised and the global network of extremists is exposed.
And this is only one global company. I wonder where the other #billionaires rate on the #whitesupremacy scale.
My guess: High, cause that's where addiction to power and money takes you; #NarcissisticPsychopathy = grandiosity = the delusion of being superior.

#Musk #Thiel #Levchin #ApartheidSouthAfrica #press #opinion
https://youtu.be/QAHSgVk84B0?si=VTA1BtyZIfz7zXEv

"The PayPal Mafia": The South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel

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I really don't know
where the myth that #Musk is a 'genius' comes from.
Almost all Musk's businesses have turned out to be >scams
#Musk did NOT invent #PayPal
which was created by #Levchin & #Thiel that then 'merged' with Musk's X.com
#Tesla was created by engineers #Eberhard & #Tarpenningis NOT Musk
#SpaceX was somehow successful ONLY thanks to good engineers
(Musk hijacked Tesla proceeds / #American #taxpayers $ and poured them into SpaceX)

Musk is a... 'Trump-style Genius' 🤣

including #Paypal being the brainchild of Ukrainian Max #Levchin its CTO
haha, #levchin backthen cto of #paypal shares a story about #solaris and #linux incompatibility leading to a scary fail of #shamirssecretsharing of the business-crown-jewels: https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing
Shamir Secret Sharing

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....

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