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Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.
Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth
Joined March 2008
Zcash is winning. https://t.co/NeDXowomgK ⤵️
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Zcash is the most important project in the world, and it is winning.
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Inside me there are two wolves: One wants higher $ZEC prices. One wants lower $ZEC prices.
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Check out this Epic Zcash "Space Battlefront" Dashboard created by @cyberaxe 🔥 🌌🚀 https://t.co/U4Y2U9ZoPs
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Yesterday was a good day for DeFi. A good day for Ethereum. Uniswap did the right thing. It kept a promise. It restored something we’ve been missing for three years: Belief. Since 2022, the nihilist crypto narrative has been winning: - everyone’s here to f**k you over - no
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To anyone aiming to be the best: > You're delusional. But you have to be. That's the only way to make it. Extreme effort + conviction is sensed telepathically.
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BLEG: can anyone send me Kathleen Fisher's thesis "Type systems for object-oriented programming languages" (1996)? It's not on Sci-Hub yet. PS: Are the sci-hub tokens peddled by sci-net dot xyz legit?
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After out-of-band-note-delivery ( ZCash Tachyon), we need to build a relatively private way for users to sync their received notes across their own devices. It should start simple (e.g. using a web2 service, ala Google Drive or Signal note to Self) But eventually we should hide
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"threads are for people who can't program state machines" - Alan Cox
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@jschxyz Thanks! And yes, most were operating in the red zone. However "insecure" is a bit of an exaggeration. The statement should be "security level is unknown, and best we can hope for is less than what we conjectured" So far, "less" is about 2-3 bits of security
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@nico_mnbl Okay your explanation is actually the most helpful I’ve seen yet. Thank you! Was it common for projects to previously use parameters in the red area? Assuming projects generally try to stay near the black diagonal, and new papers keep revealing area under that is insecure?
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@jschxyz (btw the fact that there is a red area below the black area is a huge result and something we didn't know until last week)
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@jschxyz but we have no proof for it - red area is Ben and Angus's result. Those parameters are not secure We could (should?) plot the other results on this graph too
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@jschxyz Even ignoring what the axes are, I think this is illustrative: - the green and blue areas are sets of parameters where we have proofs that hash-based SNARKs are secure - the black area are not valid parameters - white area is unknown! We've been assuming that it gives security
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@zkGaylord @AngusGruen I don't understand these proximity gaps / conjecture discussions, but I feel that I now understand *even less* thanks to this graph – thanks @zkGaylord
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@zooko This is also one of the reasons why there should be an urgency around creating viable alternatives software/hardware mobile alternatives to the Duopoly. The app stores are gated, and it's pretty clear where sideloading is still possible they are moving toward eliminating that as
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I agree with all of the reasons Alex gives in this thread for Zcash’s meteoric rise. And I think there is one more: the irresistibly tightening supply as Zcash follows the Bitcoin issuance schedule. Only 21M ZEC will ever exist. https://t.co/XoU9Xb7j4f
ZEC is printing market cap ATHs weekly if not daily. CT is obsessed with privacy, completely pivoting the sentiment as of 2 years ago. What has changed? How did they achieve that? Below is my reasoning 👇
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I love when people buy ZEC from people who sell ZEC.
I was there for the early bitcoin days and this is just like it. Every time it crashed the IQ distribution of holders shifted rightward immediately. Now we have perps accelerating the process so people like that Wei Zhao guy get liquidated for betting against freedom. Nice.
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While on the subject of friends coming home, I think the zcash surge is something every single person in crypto should be happy about, regardless of individual financial exposure of what the coin does going forward. Privacy is supposed to be our thing. We've neglected it for
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