Vlad Zamfir
@VladZamfir
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Best thing about cryptocurrency might be all the unintended educational consequences
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Ethereum isn't safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don't rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!
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Dear market o' pumpers,
be you hodlers or dumpers,
don't pump too greedly
for t'is way too early
for regulators to nail it
or the market to take it
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I can't think of a single blockchain/cryptocurrency project that is ready for production
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👀! my first public draft spec of Casper the Friendly Ghost a "correct-by-construction" blockchain consensus protocol
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Check out this infographic I just made.
I know some of you may find it mildly upsetting or whatever, but keep it to yourself, don't @ me. Thanks!
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Headlines sensationalized. It's just a PoC for cross-shard communication based on research already done at the IC3/Ethereum bootcamp and earlier, not a breakthrough or a complete architecture :)
JUST IN: Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir has coded up the base architecture of upcoming scaling solution, sharding.
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Ethereum, only 6 and already rocked the world harder than we can admit in polite company
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follow or subscribe b4 it goes on lock in 2w, for as a ghost I will ghost the other half of you for testing me
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Christmas is good excuse for me to mention that we all eventually die, and that we should appreciate the time we have with people we love ❤️
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I just published a new blog post, "Blockchain Governance 101"!!
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Against
@NickSzabo4
's Law, For A New Crypto Legal System
I am willing to die on this hill.
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Can anyone think of two cryptocurrency communities who have a chance of doing the first crypto merger?
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Surprised there aren't prediction markets about when Casper/Sharding will be released 🤭
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I'll stop calling it "the blockchain" without saying which one when you stop calling it "the law" without saying whose 😂
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I for one am excited for the cryptocurrency space to be fun again! 🥳🥳
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I just published a new blog! It's a hardcore one :) “My Intentions for Blockchain Governance”
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Commercial interest in blockchains has far outpaced academic, commercial and policy understanding of the tech.
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Does anyone else feel like we should pump the brakes a little bit?
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Merry Cryptmas everyone!!
Here's some teaser graphics about the sharded fork choice rule I'm working on - it's the best gift I could deliver on Twitter without much prep.
I made them with in MS Paint :)
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Neat inter-species legal order (HT
@BullyEsq
)
Amazing: a trail of termites (up) and a trail of ants (down), both protected by a row of their soldiers in a stand-off, without fighting.
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Still not safe or scalable
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Bitcoin isn't a consensus protocol unless you decide not to revert blocks (after enough confirmations)
1/ Use of the word "consensus" to describe Bitcoin's PoW algorithm has done irreparable harm to people's understanding of the protocol. There's no explicit agreement by nodes on which chain is the longest. Every node just uses the longest one it can find as its source of truth.
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🥳🥳
@naterush1997
@adiasg
Georgios Piliouras and I published a draft paper covering CBC Casper in much more excruciating detail than has been available until now! Check it out!!
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Ethereum is so much more than a financial smart contracts platform
And ether isn't money
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I am way more worried about blockchain safety than blockchain scalability, use cases, or adoption
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My number one priority is obviously my work on Ethereum... lol at crypto journalism 🤦♂️
BREAKING: What's
@VladZamfir
doing these days? He's teaming up with Casper Labs, an R&D startup, ready to take blockchain to the next level
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Congrats to
@naterush1997
and
@dannyryan
for releasing v0.2 of the cbc Casper prototypes, last night!
Lots of great upgrades: networking delays, hash-linking, consensus on an integer, on a list ordering, and on a concurrent schedule!
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"Blockchain experts" can't agree on a definition of "blockchain", on basic architecture questions (scaling or security), on what they're useful for, or on how they should be governed
It's still very early days in our collective understanding of "the blockchain"
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Ranked factors that determine a crypto's success:
1) Is there a community? Where did it come from? Why are they still here?
2) Can it deal with constant mud slinging on social media?
3) How are their shared resources governed? Is it effective? Legitimate? Open access/source?
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it is nice to get stolen funds back, but is this governance process something EOS should be proud of? Who is Ben Gates? Where does his presumed authority come from?
EOS Alliance is pleased to acknowledge the first ever arbitration ruling from ECAF, returning stolen funds from phishing attempts to users. This is a milestone achievement for EOS and blockchain, and a new standard for decentralized systems.
#blockchain
$eos
@bytemaster7
@TBCox
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Shame on us for lending our legitimacy to Libra
Seeing
#openlibra
publicly announced for the first time is sending shivers down my spine. I am so excited about this initiative to "lock the door open" for libra tech.
@geiger_lucas
on the main stage at
#devcon5
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Take personal responsibility for your cryptocurrency losses.
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Bear markets also produce joy and reduce stress and anxiety. In me, for example!
Developer/researcher interests and coin holder interests are not naturally aligned!
Bear markets produce stress, anxiety, frustration, desperation, and misdirected anger. Seeing this on crypto twitter and in telegram chats and other forums. It's all part of the journey. Hug your loved ones, go for a hike, and re-read the Satoshi whitepaper.
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PoW maximalists should cut their losses and become PoW moderates instead of continuing to spending time spreading FUD about PoS :P
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If you claim to have solved governance, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Notice how speculators consistently under-emphasize community building (and governance) and over emphasize technical solutions. It takes time for capital to learn new tricks, I guess.
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Anyone know blockchain/crypto projects that don't use corporations, lawyers, paper contracts, foundations, etc?
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Sorry, having a Bitcoin moment
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Reminder that L2 solutions freeride on L1 and reduce the economic security of L1
(Yes, this includes lightening, plasma, state channels, and L2 sharding)
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Actually, defending black hats because "they follow the rules" is many orders of magnitude worse.
No one defends thieves because they didn't break the rules of physics. Some people defend unethical behaviour when it's also legal, but that's morally reprehensible.
@VladZamfir
@AlpacaSW
@IOHK_Charles
@Jordan_Mack
@CamioCross
@RosuGrigore
@phildaian
@socrates1024
All the hacker did was follow the rules, Vitalik politicized it and moralized it by calling it a "theft." Dangerous precedent was established. imo
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What if the cryptocurrency bubble is actually a coordinated attack on cryptocurrency? 🤔
#trollolol
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If the EOS constitution binds users to do dispute resolution according to the laws of Malta, does that include complying with GDPR? 😂
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eeeek!! The DAO hack's second anniversary is in two days!!
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If you're developing a public blockchain and you're also planning to run consensus forming nodes because "it's going to be very profitable", you might have a massive conflict of interest
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An Ethereum-Libra political alliance is never going to be okay with me
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Imagine paying $70 in fees for anything purchased from these companies lol
Companies that accept Bitcoin:
Microsoft
Subway
Wordpress
Virgin Galactic
Reddit
Mint
Bloomberg
Dish Network
Intuit
Wikipedia
4Chan
Braintree
Shopify
Stripe
Overstock
OKCupid
Namecheap
Zynga
San Jose Earthquakes
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Super concerned abt the apparent popularity of public chain projects who ignore/assume away their hard economics/mechanism design problems 😟
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Smart contracts made me appreciate the ambiguity and undefined-edness of natural language contracts
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Check out this visualization of the X-shard message routing and shard rotation PoC that
@adiasg
@AlexSkidanov
and anonymous others and I hacked together at
@ETHSanFrancisco
!
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Check out my cbc-Casper and sharding slides from ETHcc!
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Heads up blockchain, this guy is out to get you ;) from a bank's PoV, blockchains are like competitors who don't have a costs of compliance!
BREAKING: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says bitcoin "is a fraud" that will eventually blow up
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Just a reminder that Libra is legally and politically opposed to our core values
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OH: "They want smart contracts to work in zero knowledge, but they don't even work in full knowledge..!"
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I am not going to work or associate with anyone who supports Facebook's Libra project or "not-Facebook's" OpenLibra project (
@open_libra
not
@OpenLibra
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I'm sorry about damage to my personal and/or professional relationships that this may cause, pls understand; this is political
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Great news everyone!
For a limited time if you send 5 ETH to this address 0xad06e3fD0e095939D966E13F27b826409C368D89, I'll send you 10 ETH back!
(JUST KIDDING!
#APRILFOOLS
)
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Oh man, a hard fork on my birthday? Too good to be true
Seems we're going with block 7.28M for the
#Ethereum
Constantinople refork scheduled for the 27th of February! Will be a single fork on mainnet and a post-Constantinople-fixup fork on the testnets to get them back in line feature wise with the main network.
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Would you support a hard fork that obsceletes ETH ASICs? (Just wondering, this is not a proposal)
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Come see me speak about Casper, sharding, and blockchain governance at EthCC! They've given me lots of time 😍 it's gonna be great
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Excited for us to stay off the collective hype train for a while 🤗
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Missed on a good April fool's joke:
Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin
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The impact of people's incentives on their reasoning is hard to understate
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Decentralization requires that more people become independent
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I remember when we were worried that there wouldn’t be enough fees lol
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My latest most updated definition of governance is:
The process by which we (at least attempt to) establish and maintain the legitimacy of decisions, decision making processes and associated principles and norms
Thanks to all who contributed so far!!
Still looking for feedback!
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People who think I’ve left somehow ethereum are in for a surprise 🙃
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Imagine thinking that blockchains are only for "money" 🤣
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I'm a fan of ethically-motivated blockchain governance as a general concept, but censoring gab seems like something that would damage the legitimacy of ethereum's blockchain governance process
I am proud that this has gone viral. I did not work on cryptography to empower racists, but normal, good people.
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Uniswap Labs is a Silicon Valley VC funded New York startup, it is not uniswap.
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This is an incredibly destructive meme propagated by ppl with very little respect for or understanding of law and politics, hubris ppl who think they can escape “stupidity”, “inefficiency”, “zero sum games”, and other simple-minded reductions and rejections of complex social life
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