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amilichon Sequoia backs Skiff, a privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace

Excited to announce!

amilichon Skiff lands $10.5M from Sequoia to build out its end-to-end encrypted workspaces

Thanks for sharing! Excited to keep working on privacy.

amilichon Crypto is an unproductive bubble

Thanks for sharing, we totally agree with the utility in collaboration and sharing.

ENS/wallets give users a lot of utility on Skiff - it makes logging in to privacy-first platforms easier (manage on secret key/seed phrase), sharing easier (ENS vs. an address), and decentralized storage can be nice if you don't want your data hosted on big tech.

amilichon Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]

Yes, we use E2EE CRDTs! They don't have to be centralized because we still get composable updates using YJS (https://github.com/yjs/yjs). This would still help a ton given the p2p nature of updates (malicious or broken clients can cause havoc for documents).