snowmoon

📰 Vitalik’s new science fiction novel 《Snowmoon》 was released, and the opening is already fascinating: an office building was charged a 0.59% “aesthetic tax” because its shape resembles an airplane; heavy metal bands won’t be banned, but they might be placed under a higher tax rate.
This book doesn’t just show off technology for the sake of it. Zero-knowledge proofs have already been incorporated into drone safety certification; a smartwatch only confirms that it won’t come too close to humans, but doesn’t know the model or owner. Voting, taxation, public funding, and urban planning are all taken over by cryptography and digital currencies.
🔥 Even more interesting is that the novel doesn’t reduce the four societies to simple good guys and bad guys. Veridia changes choices through taxes and subsidies, values privacy and cooperation, but actions may be slower; Freetown is more market-driven, with higher personal freedom, yet it’s hard to coordinate on defense; the Arctic Empire is extremely efficient, but the cost is concentrated power and personal obedience.

💡 Gladias represents institutions, fairness, and legitimacy, while Zei is good at acting quickly when rules change and information is incomplete. When the two characters meet, they lay out the core issue: with only rules, you might not react in time during a crisis; with only the ability to win, you might end up becoming another Arctic Empire.
To be honest, the most piercing thing about this book isn’t a particular technical setting—it keeps asking: how can a society that protects privacy and restrains power still retain the ability to act in the face of a strong enemy? If you were in that world, would you rather live in Veridia or Freetown?
#Vitalik #Snowmoon #零知识证明 #encrypted governance

V actually finished the novel.

《Snowmoon》（Snowmoon/雪月） has 32 chapters, all written in his own handwriting; the AI only handles proofreading for spelling and ensuring consistency in the setting. The story takes place in a sci‑fi world powered by cryptography and decentralized governance—zero‑knowledge proofs, quadratic voting, and privacy technologies. All the things he usually talks about are woven into the plot.

What’s most interesting is the open‑source license: GPL v3. It can be adapted into a movie or animation, but the entire production pipeline (including AI prompts and the script) must be open‑sourced as well. A typical V God-style romance—at the end of the book, there’s even a line saying, "Snowmoon was written with love".

The people who write code have gone to write novels—maybe Ethereum forums should create a dedicated "Authors" subforum someday.

Source: BlockBeats, ChainCatcher, Foresight News (compiled/republished)

#ETH #Snowmoon

GM☕️ V, acting all suspicious—so you’re starting to write a novel, huh?《Snowmoon》 and you wrote 32 chapters in one go🤣

The money in the book is called zipcoin, and in your bookkeeping you write zc. The protagonist also has a local AI companion named Emerald (jade).

Last night, everyone used the book title, the currency, and the AI assistant to mint tokens—$SNOWMOON, $ZC, $EMERALD—so you had this whole table of them. The casing, different platforms, and different mechanisms got mixed up in a messy P spree🫠 (and even on BSC there’s a $Love token—supposedly the only one with a Chinese character that appears}).

Anyway, I didn’t make any money from it. Damn it—last night on Fomo App, the Gas quote was the highest at 80 U+. The lottery position was basically like donating🫠.

#MEME #SNOWMOON #ZC