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rui da silva

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The author wrote that the first day at E-Vote-ID highlighted how even the world’s most mature e-voting systems still relied on trusted people and processes. They said one presenter had remarked that trust was sometimes unavoidable, while the next frontier was to reduce that dependence and improve verification.

The author said the week at VotariApp focused less on adding features and more on making the system easier to test, verify and explain. They wrote that production testing, governance work and conference preparation had reinforced the importance of making claims independently checkable to strengthen trust.

AI is making plausible information almost free to produce. Verification is not becoming free with it. That creates a strange new economy of knowledge: the cost of appearing informed is collapsing much faster than the cost of becoming informed. New essay: When Information https://t.co/pDdpVtJU94 #AI #InformationEconomy #Knowledge #Nocountrycodesfound.

I wrote this back in February: “The future of voting is not about replacing paper with software. It is about replacing trust with proof.” Six months later, Votari is live on iOS and Android, real elections can be created, and the architecture has evolved well beyond the #VotingTechnology #DigitalElections #ProofNotTrust #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedfromtheprovidedtweet.

Public debate increasingly judges the speaker before testing the claim. Labels replace evidence. Motive replaces argument. Reaction replaces refutation. My new piece asks a simple question: when did we stop arguing about what is true? https://t.co/4vHuMCP7Ct https://t.co/Sx5lFgJ396 #PublicDebate #Truth #CriticalThinking #Nospecificcountrycodesarepresentinthetweet.

rui da silva Aug 28

The Great AI Confusion: Producing an Answer Is Not the Same as Understanding It https://t.co/zUtWwU8DEr #AIConfusion #UnderstandingAI #MachineLearning #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.Thus #theresultisempty.

rui da silva Aug 28

AI is making output cheap. It can generate proofs, diagnoses, designs, code, arguments and art. But producing an answer is not the same as understanding the question. The real scarcity in the AI age may be judgment, meaning and responsibility. New article ↓ #AI #Automation #Judgment #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweet.

rui da silva Aug 10

Not every election needs the same level of identity verification. With the new Votari, an election can be open to anyone with the link, restricted by email domain, require passport verification—or combine eligibility rules. The organiser decides what the election requires. One #Votari #ElectionAccess #IdentityVerification #Nocountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

rui da silva Jul 28

He built a Bitcoin company on BTC. That fundamental mistake was always going to catch up with him. None of what’s happening surprises me #Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto #

rui da silva Jul 13

Big update from @VotariApp 🚀 Elections can now be: 🌍 Open — anyone with the QR code can vote 📧 Email domain-based — ideal for universities and organisations 🛂 Passport-verified — for stronger voter eligibility Votari is also now localised for Brazil, Portugal, Spain and #VotariApp #Elections #VotingInnovation #BR #PT #ES

rui da silva Jul 13

Poverty Is the Problem. Success Is Not. Much of modern political discourse is built on the assumption that inequality is the problem. I believe this is a profound mistake. The true enemy is not inequality—it is poverty. There is a reason the commandment “Thou shalt not covet” #Poverty #Inequality #Success #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

rui da silva Jul 2

BTC did not eliminate IOUs. It industrialised them. The market is mostly custodial exchange activity, internal ledgers, ETFs, market-maker churn and off-chain claims, with only a minority ever touching the chain. For something sold as decentralised, final and sovereign, that is #Bitcoin #Decentralization #CryptoReality #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.

rui da silva Jun 4

There's a huge difference between: ✅ "We have backups" and ✅ "We have successfully restored production systems from backup" Today was about proving the second one. Infrastructure maturity isn't built with assumptions. #Infrastructure #Backups #SystemRestoration #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweetprovided.

rui da silva May 29

The fact that most of the world still doesn’t realize BTC today is an impaired implementation of Bitcoin can be seen either as a tragedy or as one of the greatest asymmetric opportunities in technology. The real question is: what do you see? #Bitcoin #BTC #Opportunity #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.Thus #theresponseisempty.

rui da silva May 29

The Problem With “Digital” Voting People don’t mistrust digital voting because it’s digital. They mistrust it because it’s opaque. Most systems replace one black box with another. The interface looks modern. The mechanics remain hidden. You cannot independently verify the #DigitalVoting #Transparency #ElectionIntegrity #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries;therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

rui da silva May 21

RT @BullRushClub: BSVM: Replacing Ethereum with Real Bitcoin (SV) — Without Changing a Single Line of Code ⚡🔄 This changes everything for… #BitcoinSV #Ethereum #Blockchain #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.Therefore #nocountrycodescanbereturned.

rui da silva May 21

RT @LinuxHandbook: One of the biggest cybersecurity embarrassments of 2026 just happened. Sensitive credentials linked to the US Cybersecu… #Cybersecurity #DataBreach #Infosec #US