Ferran 🐕
@ferran.cc
Building Davinci.vote, the universal voting protocol.
Current interests: Anthropology, opensource tech, agriculture.
I speak:
🇦🇩 (Catalan) + 🇪🇸 + 🇮🇹 + 🇬🇧 + 🇵🇹
Learning:
🇩🇪 + 🇮🇷
Current interests: Anthropology, opensource tech, agriculture.
I speak:
🇦🇩 (Catalan) + 🇪🇸 + 🇮🇹 + 🇬🇧 + 🇵🇹
Learning:
🇩🇪 + 🇮🇷
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Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"
Solving AT Protocol's Centralized Identity
I spent the weekend building a proof of concept for a truly decentralized DID method using Farcaster's battle-tested identity system. Here's why AT Protocol needs this third DID option.
blog.boscolo.co
September 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"
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📝 Des de Vocdoni donem suport a la ILP impulsada per la FIEC i Catalans al món per aconseguir una 🗳️ llei electoral catalana, com ja tenen totes les altres comunitats, que garanteixi circumscripció exterior i vot electrònic.
www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/un-...
www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/un-...
Un grup de catalans a l'exterior impulsa una ILP per una llei electoral pròpia de Catalunya
El grup promotor entra a registre la iniciativa i comença la recollida de signatures per fer possible una llei que inclogui com a circumscripció pròpia la comunitat catalana a l'exterior
www.vilaweb.cat
September 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📝 Des de Vocdoni donem suport a la ILP impulsada per la FIEC i Catalans al món per aconseguir una 🗳️ llei electoral catalana, com ja tenen totes les altres comunitats, que garanteixi circumscripció exterior i vot electrònic.
www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/un-...
www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/un-...
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Faré la prova a veure si Blusky fa màgia igual que Twitter:
Marxo a treballar a Madrid, a partir de l'1 de setembre. Està costant una mica trobar habitació.
Aixis que si em passeu un contacte i acabo trobant habitació, us recompensaría amb una garrafa d'oli bo, d'aquí de l'alta Segarra.
🫶
Marxo a treballar a Madrid, a partir de l'1 de setembre. Està costant una mica trobar habitació.
Aixis que si em passeu un contacte i acabo trobant habitació, us recompensaría amb una garrafa d'oli bo, d'aquí de l'alta Segarra.
🫶
August 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Faré la prova a veure si Blusky fa màgia igual que Twitter:
Marxo a treballar a Madrid, a partir de l'1 de setembre. Està costant una mica trobar habitació.
Aixis que si em passeu un contacte i acabo trobant habitació, us recompensaría amb una garrafa d'oli bo, d'aquí de l'alta Segarra.
🫶
Marxo a treballar a Madrid, a partir de l'1 de setembre. Està costant una mica trobar habitació.
Aixis que si em passeu un contacte i acabo trobant habitació, us recompensaría amb una garrafa d'oli bo, d'aquí de l'alta Segarra.
🫶
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El transporte público es una necesidad pública, como la sanidad, la educación, los bomberos y la policía. Si se necesita, se invierte. No se mide por su rentabilidad contable, sino por su rentabilidad social. Conectar barrios, dar movilidad a quien la necesite, reducir desigualdades.
August 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
El transporte público es una necesidad pública, como la sanidad, la educación, los bomberos y la policía. Si se necesita, se invierte. No se mide por su rentabilidad contable, sino por su rentabilidad social. Conectar barrios, dar movilidad a quien la necesite, reducir desigualdades.
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⭐ Success story throwback:
Last June, the political party Alhora confidently chose Vocdoni for its National Congress votes.
Each month, more parties adopt blockchain voting for its enhanced guarantees. Reducing the attack surface allows for more fair political processes!
Last June, the political party Alhora confidently chose Vocdoni for its National Congress votes.
Each month, more parties adopt blockchain voting for its enhanced guarantees. Reducing the attack surface allows for more fair political processes!
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
⭐ Success story throwback:
Last June, the political party Alhora confidently chose Vocdoni for its National Congress votes.
Each month, more parties adopt blockchain voting for its enhanced guarantees. Reducing the attack surface allows for more fair political processes!
Last June, the political party Alhora confidently chose Vocdoni for its National Congress votes.
Each month, more parties adopt blockchain voting for its enhanced guarantees. Reducing the attack surface allows for more fair political processes!
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⭐ Success story throwback:
The town of Bellpuig conducted the first fully digital referendum under Spanish law, achieving a 32% turnout, with each ballot audited end-to-end thanks to Vocdoni.
🗳️ A small town scores a big win for blockchain voting!
blog.vocdoni.io/referendum-...
The town of Bellpuig conducted the first fully digital referendum under Spanish law, achieving a 32% turnout, with each ballot audited end-to-end thanks to Vocdoni.
🗳️ A small town scores a big win for blockchain voting!
blog.vocdoni.io/referendum-...
First Public Institution in Spain Holds Vocdoni Referendum | Bellpuig Council
Vocdoni is a digital voting system built using decentralized tech. It meets the highest standards of security, auditability, and accessibility required for public and private governance while remaining versatile and cost-effective. Bellpuig is a town of around 5,000 people, in the county of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain. The town's mayor reached out to Vocdoni with the goal of digitalizing its voting processes as part of an election promise to increase direct citizen participation. Institutional...
blog.vocdoni.io
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⭐ Success story throwback:
The town of Bellpuig conducted the first fully digital referendum under Spanish law, achieving a 32% turnout, with each ballot audited end-to-end thanks to Vocdoni.
🗳️ A small town scores a big win for blockchain voting!
blog.vocdoni.io/referendum-...
The town of Bellpuig conducted the first fully digital referendum under Spanish law, achieving a 32% turnout, with each ballot audited end-to-end thanks to Vocdoni.
🗳️ A small town scores a big win for blockchain voting!
blog.vocdoni.io/referendum-...
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We’re excited to showcase DAVINCI, our new decentralized voting protocol, at tomorrow’s PSE's Learn & Share!
Join us for an in-depth session where we’ll dive into DAVINCI’s architecture and how it ensures attributes like anonymity & anti-coercion
📅 29 May, 14:30 UTC
🔗 meet.google.com/xws-bsxa-ztt
Join us for an in-depth session where we’ll dive into DAVINCI’s architecture and how it ensures attributes like anonymity & anti-coercion
📅 29 May, 14:30 UTC
🔗 meet.google.com/xws-bsxa-ztt
May 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We’re excited to showcase DAVINCI, our new decentralized voting protocol, at tomorrow’s PSE's Learn & Share!
Join us for an in-depth session where we’ll dive into DAVINCI’s architecture and how it ensures attributes like anonymity & anti-coercion
📅 29 May, 14:30 UTC
🔗 meet.google.com/xws-bsxa-ztt
Join us for an in-depth session where we’ll dive into DAVINCI’s architecture and how it ensures attributes like anonymity & anti-coercion
📅 29 May, 14:30 UTC
🔗 meet.google.com/xws-bsxa-ztt
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My awesome list for @atproto.com has been merged as official Awesome list! github.com/atblueprints... #atproto
Feel free to submit PR for adding your project, app, lexicon, etc.
Feel free to submit PR for adding your project, app, lexicon, etc.
GitHub - atblueprints/awesome-atproto: A curated list of awesome AT Protocol resources
A curated list of awesome AT Protocol resources. Contribute to atblueprints/awesome-atproto development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My awesome list for @atproto.com has been merged as official Awesome list! github.com/atblueprints... #atproto
Feel free to submit PR for adding your project, app, lexicon, etc.
Feel free to submit PR for adding your project, app, lexicon, etc.
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1/5 🗳️ Introducing DAVINCI: the universal voting protocol
🎉 We’ve raised $1M to build a voting protocol unlike any before:
Censorship-resistant, gasless, anonymous, anti-coercion, scalable and secured by cryptography & Ethereum.
Join the whitelist to get some perks!
📖 blog.vocdoni.io/davinci-uni...
🎉 We’ve raised $1M to build a voting protocol unlike any before:
Censorship-resistant, gasless, anonymous, anti-coercion, scalable and secured by cryptography & Ethereum.
Join the whitelist to get some perks!
📖 blog.vocdoni.io/davinci-uni...
DAVINCI: the voting protocol that meets the criteria for universal adoption
Back in 2018, we started Vocdoni after identifying some flaws in the way people vote. Traditional paper ballots can be slow to count, hard to audit, and vulnerable to tampering. Onchain voting solves some of those issues but adds new ones, such as high fees, poor privacy, vote buying, “follow-the-crowd” pressure, and limits on how many voters it can handle. Inspired by how Bitcoin and Ethereum opened finance to anyone with an internet connection, we wondered: why not do the same for democracy...
blog.vocdoni.io
April 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
1/5 🗳️ Introducing DAVINCI: the universal voting protocol
🎉 We’ve raised $1M to build a voting protocol unlike any before:
Censorship-resistant, gasless, anonymous, anti-coercion, scalable and secured by cryptography & Ethereum.
Join the whitelist to get some perks!
📖 blog.vocdoni.io/davinci-uni...
🎉 We’ve raised $1M to build a voting protocol unlike any before:
Censorship-resistant, gasless, anonymous, anti-coercion, scalable and secured by cryptography & Ethereum.
Join the whitelist to get some perks!
📖 blog.vocdoni.io/davinci-uni...
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Decidim 0.30 is out!🔔
This release is packed with new features: one-time participation without registration, customizable taxonomies, improved traceability, AI-powered spam detection, co-authorship from comments...
Check it out here: decidim.org/blog/2025-04...
Thanks for your contributions 🫶🏽
This release is packed with new features: one-time participation without registration, customizable taxonomies, improved traceability, AI-powered spam detection, co-authorship from comments...
Check it out here: decidim.org/blog/2025-04...
Thanks for your contributions 🫶🏽
April 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📅 Demà 18 de març, més de 45.000 membres del @coib.cat participaran en l'Assemblea General.
🔹 El COIB ha preparat aquest tutorial per explicar com votar de forma fàcil i segura amb la tecnologia de Vocdoni 🎥👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKx...
🔹 El COIB ha preparat aquest tutorial per explicar com votar de forma fàcil i segura amb la tecnologia de Vocdoni 🎥👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKx...
5 passos per votar electrònicament en els processos participatius del COIB
YouTube video by COIBarcelona
www.youtube.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📅 Demà 18 de març, més de 45.000 membres del @coib.cat participaran en l'Assemblea General.
🔹 El COIB ha preparat aquest tutorial per explicar com votar de forma fàcil i segura amb la tecnologia de Vocdoni 🎥👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKx...
🔹 El COIB ha preparat aquest tutorial per explicar com votar de forma fàcil i segura amb la tecnologia de Vocdoni 🎥👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIKx...
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🗳️ L'Ajuntament de Castelló d’Empúries posa en marxa els pressupostos participatius 2025 utilitzant la tecnologia de vot digital de Vocdoni!
📅 Fins al 30 de març, els castellonins i castellonines poden decidir com invertir 250.000 € en el municipi 👇
castello2025.vocdoni.vote/
📅 Fins al 30 de març, els castellonins i castellonines poden decidir com invertir 250.000 € en el municipi 👇
castello2025.vocdoni.vote/
March 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🗳️ L'Ajuntament de Castelló d’Empúries posa en marxa els pressupostos participatius 2025 utilitzant la tecnologia de vot digital de Vocdoni!
📅 Fins al 30 de març, els castellonins i castellonines poden decidir com invertir 250.000 € en el municipi 👇
castello2025.vocdoni.vote/
📅 Fins al 30 de març, els castellonins i castellonines poden decidir com invertir 250.000 € en el municipi 👇
castello2025.vocdoni.vote/
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🤝Vocdoni is officially partnering with @upc.edu to advance secure digital voting with the latest cryptographic tech.
This partnership formalizes initiatives like maintaining network nodes and reviewing our new protocol (more info later this week 🗳️👀).
blog.vocdoni.io/vocdoni-upc-...
This partnership formalizes initiatives like maintaining network nodes and reviewing our new protocol (more info later this week 🗳️👀).
blog.vocdoni.io/vocdoni-upc-...
Vocdoni and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) partner to advance anticoercion, transparent, and anonymous digital voting
Vocdoni and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have joined forces to advance secure, anti-coercion, transparent, anonymous, and verifiable digital voting. This partnership allows us to streaml...
blog.vocdoni.io
March 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🤝Vocdoni is officially partnering with @upc.edu to advance secure digital voting with the latest cryptographic tech.
This partnership formalizes initiatives like maintaining network nodes and reviewing our new protocol (more info later this week 🗳️👀).
blog.vocdoni.io/vocdoni-upc-...
This partnership formalizes initiatives like maintaining network nodes and reviewing our new protocol (more info later this week 🗳️👀).
blog.vocdoni.io/vocdoni-upc-...
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
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Oh look, exactly what everyone said would happen is happening
Age-verification laws are being weaponized to censor LGBTQ+ and abortion-related content online, restricting access to critical resources under the guise of protecting children, EFF’s Rin Alajaji and Paige Collings write for @msmagazine.com.
Age-Verification Laws Seek to Erase LGBTQ+ Identity from the Internet
The internet age-verification craze that’s sweeping the nation isn’t really about protecting little Dick and Jane from Pornhub—it’s about giving government and companies the power to decide what’s “ha...
msmagazine.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh look, exactly what everyone said would happen is happening
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
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If you are interested in solid measured analysis of the DeepSeek situation, Gary Marcus is a great writer garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-race-f...
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now.
Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victory
garymarcus.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you are interested in solid measured analysis of the DeepSeek situation, Gary Marcus is a great writer garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-race-f...
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Did not have Jevons paradox memes on my 2025 bingo card
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Did not have Jevons paradox memes on my 2025 bingo card
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L'Ajuntament de Barcelona és la darrera entitat que anuncia la seva marxa de X, una tendència que ha anat sumant mitjans, universitats i associacions catalanes i internacionals en els darrers mesos
La fuga de X no s’atura
Institucions polítiques, acadèmiques, informatives i entitats socials abandonen progressivament la xarxa social liderada per Elon Musk
www.metadata.cat
January 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
L'Ajuntament de Barcelona és la darrera entitat que anuncia la seva marxa de X, una tendència que ha anat sumant mitjans, universitats i associacions catalanes i internacionals en els darrers mesos
Tremendo joc 🥹
Avui es compleixen 25 anys que arribava "Tzar: The Burden of the Crown" per "Windows" 🕹🎮. #TzarTheBurdenOfTheCrown #Windows #EstratègiaEnTempsReal #Estratègia #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics
January 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Tremendo joc 🥹
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Although "primitive communism" has never existed as more than a Marxist concept with no fieldwork, that could account for it, its pervasiveness has proven hard to contest. It's very important to note that Engels in his often quoted work "The origin of the family, private property and the state",⏬
January 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Although "primitive communism" has never existed as more than a Marxist concept with no fieldwork, that could account for it, its pervasiveness has proven hard to contest. It's very important to note that Engels in his often quoted work "The origin of the family, private property and the state",⏬
Noves troballes situen la presència dels “primers humans” a Europa fa 2 milions d’anys (200.000 anys abans les restes òssies de Dmanisi, Geòrgia).
Se sap poc sobre la sortida dels hominins d’Àfrica (i quina espècie), però ja es van trencant narratives poc científiques i batalles d’egos d’anys. 🏺💀
Se sap poc sobre la sortida dels hominins d’Àfrica (i quina espècie), però ja es van trencant narratives poc científiques i batalles d’egos d’anys. 🏺💀
New evidence suggests that the timeline of Hominin presence in Europe is earlier than previously believed. This predates the Dmanisi, Georgia site by approximately 200,000 years. 🏺💀
New evidence pushes back arrival of early hominins in Europe
Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.
www.sciencedaily.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Noves troballes situen la presència dels “primers humans” a Europa fa 2 milions d’anys (200.000 anys abans les restes òssies de Dmanisi, Geòrgia).
Se sap poc sobre la sortida dels hominins d’Àfrica (i quina espècie), però ja es van trencant narratives poc científiques i batalles d’egos d’anys. 🏺💀
Se sap poc sobre la sortida dels hominins d’Àfrica (i quina espècie), però ja es van trencant narratives poc científiques i batalles d’egos d’anys. 🏺💀
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ICYMI Protocol Berg will be back in 2025!
What you can expect for v2:
⬩ Two days of content
⬩ June 12-13
⬩ Free tickets
⬩ No sponsors
⬩ Multi-protocol, multi-perspective, multi-learnings
CfP and ticket applications will open early next year. 🥳
protocol.berlin
What you can expect for v2:
⬩ Two days of content
⬩ June 12-13
⬩ Free tickets
⬩ No sponsors
⬩ Multi-protocol, multi-perspective, multi-learnings
CfP and ticket applications will open early next year. 🥳
protocol.berlin
Protocol Berg - Berlin
Protocol Berg is a two-day protocol and research focused technical conference taking place in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, on June 12-13, 2025.
protocol.berlin
December 2, 2024 at 3:45 PM
ICYMI Protocol Berg will be back in 2025!
What you can expect for v2:
⬩ Two days of content
⬩ June 12-13
⬩ Free tickets
⬩ No sponsors
⬩ Multi-protocol, multi-perspective, multi-learnings
CfP and ticket applications will open early next year. 🥳
protocol.berlin
What you can expect for v2:
⬩ Two days of content
⬩ June 12-13
⬩ Free tickets
⬩ No sponsors
⬩ Multi-protocol, multi-perspective, multi-learnings
CfP and ticket applications will open early next year. 🥳
protocol.berlin
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🥝✨ i’m now more or less a week on bs, time to give some love to my friends at Kiwi News.
if you don’t like to doomscroll to DYOR
come and join our cozy onchain hacker news community to co-curate the alpha.
news.kiwistand.com
if you don’t like to doomscroll to DYOR
come and join our cozy onchain hacker news community to co-curate the alpha.
news.kiwistand.com
Kiwi News - handpicked web3 alpha
Kiwi News is the prime feed for hacker engineers building a decentralized future. All our content is handpicked and curated by crypto veterans.
news.kiwistand.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:42 PM
🥝✨ i’m now more or less a week on bs, time to give some love to my friends at Kiwi News.
if you don’t like to doomscroll to DYOR
come and join our cozy onchain hacker news community to co-curate the alpha.
news.kiwistand.com
if you don’t like to doomscroll to DYOR
come and join our cozy onchain hacker news community to co-curate the alpha.
news.kiwistand.com
He sentit que s’està desenvolupant un clon d’Instagram per la xarxa Bluesky.
Només espero que incorporin aviat els perfils privats pq si no serà un gran pas enrere.
Només espero que incorporin aviat els perfils privats pq si no serà un gran pas enrere.
January 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
He sentit que s’està desenvolupant un clon d’Instagram per la xarxa Bluesky.
Només espero que incorporin aviat els perfils privats pq si no serà un gran pas enrere.
Només espero que incorporin aviat els perfils privats pq si no serà un gran pas enrere.