Roger Wattenhofer
@TheWattenhofer
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Head of Research at @anza_xyz. Professor at ETH Zurich. Freedom and Liberty.
Switzerland
Joined December 2024
I hear the job market for Computer Science graduates is dire. I would still encourage students to study CS. CS engineers now build AI tools for other CS engineers. All other disciplines will follow, with the same effect on the job market. Just 5 years later.
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Thanks for coming around. I think Mysticeti and Alpenglow are both the state of the art protocols in their domains (DAG vs Coding). However, security shouldn't be measured in %, but in USD. For Solana, security is $20B!
it's been a few months and since solana is def going down the alpenglow path i spent some more time diving deeper into the details tl;dr although i didn't fully change my mind, i now think it looks like the right move for solana and here's why first thing first, alpenglow is
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“Solana has distribution and tech. The former is great, and after Alpenglow the latter will be too.” @TheWattenhofer - Head of Research @anza_xyz speaks with @f_s_y_y on stage at the L1D Summit
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cc @anza_xyz
Elon Musk is getting a payment package that represents HALF of Bitcoin's market cap Half. For a single man. Don't you mfs tell me Bitcoin is overvalued lol
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"At the peak of the dotcom bubble, 97% of the fiber that had been laid in America was dark. Contrast that with today - there are no dark GPUs."
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True, currently about 1/3 of the validators receive about 50% of their stake from the foundation. But... 1) This help has been reduced over time, and will continue to reduce. 2) This is not necessarily bad because it can support geographic decentralization. 3) Alpenglow.
While ETH is winning in the actual important metrics for a blockchain, what’s Solana doing? Subsidizing its validators. By a *lot.* It would be better for them if they dropped the act and went full Hyperliquid - run the chain out of a single data center and maximize throughput.
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Good comparison, but: Instead of communication complexity use bottleneck complexity. Alpenglow commit is really min(2delta_80,3delta_60) (yes, sometimes 3 < 2). With these two improvements, and assuming crash failures > byzantine failures, Alpenglow wins in every single row!!!
Did a comparison between some of the newest consensus mechanisms that I find cool
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I agree with this guy
🚨 @HashKeyGroup Summit Highlight Roger Wattenhofer (Anza / ETH Zurich, @TheWattenhofer) at #HashKey Summit: “Stop calling blockchain Web3. Blockchain is a trust system, not just a web system.” He stressed that the future of infrastructure must balance bandwidth, latency &
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"For payments, Alpenglow could be a breakthrough. Sending stablecoins across borders in 150 ms would put crypto payments on par with credit card networks. Combined with Solana’s low fees, the upgrade positions the network as a genuine alternative for real-time settlement."
Read how it works: 👇 https://t.co/iW3JX0tkAq
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My big boss:
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money (0:00) Introducing Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko (0:55) Crypto under Trump vs Biden, stablecoin boom, what it means for US treasuries (5:56) Traditional exchanges using blockchain vs
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Europe: can you eventually wake up and admit self-driving tech?
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An interesting science opinion article in the WSJ about brain development:
wsj.com
Neuroscience confirms the importance of free speech to individual citizens—and to democracy itself.
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Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! Today’s date is made of 3 perfect squares and they form a Pythagorean triple: 3² + 4² = 5² This only happens once a century.
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