Brendan Farmer
@_bfarmer
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works on ZK @0xPolygon, previously mir
Joined October 2018
@ebfull @Mudit__Gupta @zooko Agree. These two claims are very different: (1) A soundness bug is theoretically possible (but we have zero evidence that a bug actually exists). (2) Users today are still at risk from the 2018 bug, as an exploit would have allowed an attacker to undetectably mint ZEC, so we
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*me while I'm doomscrolling on my digital cognitotoxin dispenser, mainlining algorithmic microdoses of validation as my attention span dissolves into a slurry* "haha man these Romans were so stupid, not realizing they were poisoning themselves with lead & stuff"
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This is misleading (re the 2019 bug). Migrating from sprout -> sapling involved a turnstile, allowing anyone to verify the balance of the sprout pool. So it's incredibly unlikely that the bug was exploited. Otherwise, an attacker has waited 6 years to withdraw, risking that
Nobody knows how many zcash tokens actually exist. Shielded assets like zcash are hard to audit. In March 2019, an infinite mint bug was detected in zcash shielded assets. It was fixed in October 2019 but there is no guaranteed way to tell if the bug was ever exploited.
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@0xMert_ @ika_xbt @1HowardWu The simplest private money with the smallest attack surface has the best shot at pmf as a sov.
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One thing that I realized re: ZEC.* In the past, a structural risk for ZEC has been delisting by CEXs due to regulatory pressure (OKX, Huobi, Coinbase UK) But stablecoin growth and CEX->DEX flows are hugely positive for ZEC. Every stablecoin issuer brings another onramp,
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This is a slide in my decks - @0xPolygon (almost) single handedly bank rolled + innovated + open sourced ZK innovation that formed the bedrock of the practical (production grade) ZK! I honestly believe that initial push is why ZK evolved so quickly. Huge respect for the Polygon
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I think @brevis_zk has been doing amazing work - really excited to see what they can do for high throughput EVM chains
@_bfarmer @RiscZero @SuccinctLabs @openvm_org @brevis_zk I also wanted to share a few thoughts on the performance side of proving for high-throughput chains. We’ve now reached a stage in ZKVMs where parallelization is almost linear. In practice, this means that with sufficient hardware provisioned, we can achieve near real-time
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🙏 It's funny because we were inspired by the minimal VM recursion that @RiscZero implemented as a way to avoid precomputing a bunch of recursive circuits of different sizes.
@_bfarmer @RiscZero @SuccinctLabs @openvm_org @brevis_zk Tbf we were heavily inspired by Plonky2 recursion, plonky team has done amazing work
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Hydrate. Hustle. GO! CELSIUS HYDRATION - The ultimate hydration for every move. CELSIUS. LIVE. FIT. GO!
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Shameless plug - every zkVM running in prod (except @RiscZero ) runs on ZK tech built by our team at Polygon Zero - including @SuccinctLabs @openvm_org @brevis_zk etc. What’s more Ethereum-aligned than developing the ZK future of the entire protocol? Plonky2 and Plonky3 were
I really appreciate both @sandeepnailwal's personal contributions and @0xPolygon's immensely valuable role in the ethereum ecosystem. To recap: * Polygon hosts @Polymarket, which is probably the single most successful example of a "not just boring finance" app that has actually
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The other alignment anons were deactivated after gwart consumed them and absorbed their power
This is like if Greta went to work for BP
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Update: gave away $1k in ZEC to strangers on the internet. Welcome to all the new zcash users. Someone anonymously sent me this. Good reminder that sometimes money is just a number on a screen, and that privacy is worth fighting for.
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Update: gave away $1k in ZEC to strangers on the internet. Welcome to all the new zcash users. Someone anonymously sent me this. Good reminder that sometimes money is just a number on a screen, and that privacy is worth fighting for.
The Zcash community gave me $1k in ZEC! Wild. Reply with your shielded address, I'll send you ZEC.
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Why it happened: Mass-market clouds = mass-market risk. Zero-days and vendor dependencies mean your data is only as secure as the slowest patch.
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got my first ever ZEC today and surprised with the experience time to make brainrot explainer for zcash?
The Zcash community gave me $1k in ZEC! Wild. Reply with your shielded address, I'll send you ZEC.
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The Zcash community gave me $1k in ZEC! Wild. Reply with your shielded address, I'll send you ZEC.
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Actually such a fun idea! We all share our empeheral zcash address and chat with each other! u1au4l9ulydgw30szghmhcm8dpxa8wknx5dtlq06h67e8f7kzsy3nyxdfrcyc35s2ygw94elrumaxvpska6wd0sn57vyepw5rhggwgz794emn8qgl5qzgcw7hpztrmwenke6s8p42r58yntkcwd3a4830newpl47pcj85wt06qaqpur7ql
@_TomHoward @dlubarov @ebfull u1cj9mvv632fez5tq46vlgpasycauhcnsdc0xm0scnmmmuec8trakx5uj8sjjg207lauk2d2dd0hd5zjn5ntw2q22h3r7zvnucss3mdw9tyrchvxlmlmsxytl23fp4ssepe3h4cv4rrj0acw34expcy8hgvv65myjxhqlsgqra8c9r2zwq Not necessary though, I’m already pro zcash!
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As the tools of hackers become more sophisticated, the technical defenses against cyber-attacks we are all used to are increasingly insufficient. Take it from the Head of IDI's Democracy in the Digital Age Program—an expert in cyber security policy—Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler,
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Not a hater, respect the hustle, etc ...but I'm dying that they got two VCs to give the exact same talking point but with different numbers - Morehead said 9 billion tx/day, Novogratz said 14 billion. Assume that they're comparing hypothetical max throughput on Solana with
Pantera founder @dan_pantera: "Solana can do more transactions per day than all capital markets combined." Solana szn 🔥
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