James Prestwich
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諸行無常の響きあり alloy maintainer. bluechecked against my will. Write-only twitter acct. QT me, I will not see your dunks
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BitClout uploads your keys to their server on every API request. Any employee with access to that server can steal all the money on the platform at any time
@nadertheory
and team are too incompetent to build a browser wallet, so they decided not to 🤷♀️
10 pbkdf iterations 💀
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Think of a blockchain as a DB but writing to it sucks and querying it also sucks and also the maintainers hate you
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crypto is hard money
- hard to use
- hard to understand
- hard to custody
- hard to program
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PoS staking withdrawal delays:
Near & Solana - 3 days
Cosmos - 21 days
Polkadot - 28 days
Eth2 - til the sky turns to ash and melkor breaks the doors of night and turín meets him in battle and the silmarils are returned from sky earth and sea and men join in the song of ilúv
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btc is energy storage in the same way shit is food storage
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Happy to say that the Optics Bridge is live on Ethereum, Celo, and Polygon. You can bridge any ERC-20 token between any supported network
Read down for more info 👇
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Wrote down my experience with MEV research, and the people who drove it to maturity
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Satoshi is literally the only founder who didn't sell the top
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YAM Summary
🍠😭🍠😭
- There was a severe bug in the rebase logic
- Governance CANNOT HAPPEN anymore
- $750,000 in Curve y tokens are locked in the governance
- Staking pools are safe as far as we know
- Every 12 hours more y tokens are locked
- Get out of the YAM uniswap NOW!
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every chain you make
every coin you stake
every arb you take
every TEZ you bake
I'll be watching you
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Hello, today we are disclosing two critical trusted-party vulnerabilities in the LayerZero smart contracts. These issues allow the LayerZero team to completely bypass the Oracle and Relayer for most applications (including stargate).
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For anyone wondering about bitclout it's just your standard influencer-pandering tirefire
1. "Shoot yourself in the foot to log in."
2. Connect your phone number to your private key
3. It's like a twitter clone but everyone is an ad
👇More thread 👇
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I wrote a comprehensive guide to ETH2.0's roadmap 👌
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Happy to announce a community-led deployment of
🏴☠️Uni-v4 Hayden's Vision🏴☠️
Realizing the original Uniswap promises
- No Token
- No Governance
- No protocol rents
- A public good!
Find it on Goerli today!
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remember the 72 hours where loot was the fucking meaning of existence?
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in case you're wondering whether bitclout has improved at all, their blockchain has hardcoded public keys for blockchain admins that can
- edit any post
- edit any profile
- seize any profile from any user (!)
- update an undocumented BTC price oracle (currently reporting ~$60k)
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Bitcoin is rapidly becoming the crypto version of Australian wildlife. We separated ourselves, blocked all cross-pollination, and now there's an isolated gene pool producing weird versions of everything
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imagine having a soul so dead that you look at the Mona Lisa and think about money
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I was wondering why I couldn't find tx construction logic in the frontend. It turns out it's because they post the key to the API so the API can sign for you
very polite of them to take custody of your funds without telling you
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if you have used that seed phrase ANYWHERE, you need to consider it compromised, and rotate funds to new addresses from a new seed phrase
As a reminder:
_NEVER_ paste your key into a web page
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Official Ethereum scaling roadmap over the years
2014:
1024 shards each running a VM
2019:
64 shards with abstract execution environments, and then on to super-quadratic recursive sharding
2023:
Pretend extension blocks are shards. Other people build rollups. Pat self on back
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for those of you who weren't here in 2021 or 2017 or 2013, learn to anchor your identity in something other than money, and get used to watching people you respect lose themselves
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Looks like the liquid emergency 2-of-3 operators can steal 870 Bitcoin because this TXO has aged 2015 blocks?
cc
@notgrubles
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riskier assets have higher rewards. That's why I periodically tweet one word from my seed phrase. Ups the risk and helps me make more money. Chamomile.
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I have never been a keyholder on Optics recovery mode
I am disappointed that cLabs and Celo have chosen to bring their bullying into public spaces, and that they chose to lie about me to attack my reputation
On the advice of my lawyer, I have nothing else to say right now
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200 people are going to try to 51% attack BTCP at the same time and they're going to accidentally secure it
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hardware wallets are key access, not key storage
hardware wallets
- help you sign txns and messages
- secure your keys from compromised computers
hardware wallets do not
- preserve keys over many years
- survive fires or other disasters
don't forget to provision storage too!
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I wrote about the next five years of MEV
We cover:
- backlash
- Negative MEV
- a bunch of code that i wrote and deployed mainnet to help you get back your MEV :)
- and more!
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bitcoin mempool empty again. who's gonna pay to keep this network running? 🤔
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NFTs are like Rolexes. Nobody cares if it's real, they just think you're a douche and want you to shut up about how much you spent on it
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Basically
- AI folks hate Crypto
- Artists hate both AI and Crypto
- Crypto people haven't noticed yet
- Because they're too busy masturbating about how good crypto is for AI and Artists
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This is the guy that posted your keys to his webserver because he couldn't figure out how to write a tx signer
Let's talk about Chrome extensions and seed phrases in web3 🧵
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For the last few months we've been working on a new cross-chain communication mechanism
Optics 🔮 explores a security trade-off that allows cheap, low-trust communication between any two smart contract chains
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There's no credible argument for a single chain future, and (tautologically) no one credible believes in one. In fact, no one credible has _ever_ believed in a single chain future, including Satoshi Nakamoto
Maximalism was invented by grifters to keep their marks pliable
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For the last couple months
@DaniPopes
and I have been working on a total rewrite of the ethers-rs stack
We're incredibly proud to finally publish the work and announce Alloy: a new foundation for Ethereum's Rust ecosystem.
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I think my favorite part is everyone thought 0xb1 was some kinda trading genius
In reality, he fucked around, traded money he knew was from retail fraud, did shady shit of his own, and STILL underperformed the "just sit on your ass and hodl" strategy by $400mm
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His palms are sweaty
branches weak
HEAD's heavy
there's conflicts on his
merge already
git spaghetti
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I'm not a financial therapist, but maybe you shouldn't put your net worth and your self worth in the same asset
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We're all here because we're excited about how DeFi is cutting out the middlemen by *checks notes" introducing a bubble of rent-seeking middlemen driven by fake money
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Rollup debate is politicized b/c once you accept that RUs != bridges, you have to admit:
- RUs do not scale Ethereum
- Ethereum may not be ideal DA
- RUs do not "settle to" or "inherit security from" Ethereum
Ethereum may be Rollup-centric, but Rollups are not Ethereum-centric
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_every user_ has given their keys to the BitClout API server
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.
@Blockstream
giving a master class in irresponsible disclosure
- didn't notify those affected
- didn't set up monitoring while the issue was minor
- concealed insider theft vectors
- omitted the full extent in their comms
Is there a worst practices doc they're following? 🤔
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"Bitcoin has governance problems" is like "Van Gogh isn't photorealistic." True, but you're still making yourself look dumb
cypherpunks hate governance. Blocking changes was the goal
other projects have different experiments, but don't hold Bitcoin to authoritarian standards
4/ We first saw it with
#Bitcoin
, but have seen it with nearly every cryptonetwork that's gotten to scale since -- at a certain size, governance problems arise.
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If you are curious whether BitClout and
@nadertheory
are using your face/name/social media to promote their shitcoin, feel free to post below
I'll check anyone with >1,000 followers and post screenshots
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The "hashrate crash" isn't real. Long block intervals are vastly overrepresented in fixed-period sampling
This is because the interval is long. A 18-minute block has approximately the same likelihood as a 2-minute block, but affects time-based sampling 9x more (!!!)
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funny to see how many people who insult me for dunking on eth get really eager to retweet me when I'm dunking on liquid 🤔
It's almost as if they don't value my expertise and just want me to reinforce their identity
this is a subtweet
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🚨 ETH price tweet cringe dominance now at 51%! For the first time in history, ETH holdlers are more annoying than Bitcoin hodlers! 🎉
Huge thanks and round of applause to
@RyanSAdams
@TrustlessState
@antiprosynth
@IslandHunting
and so many others for making this happen 👏👏👏👏
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it's a contract deployment, Michael, what could it cost, $10,000?
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in Paris on July 23rd,
@CeloOrg
,
@graphprotocol
@NEARProtocol
@centrifuge
& others are hosting a cross-chain pitch event
This is the time to present any cool interop ideas or whitepapers you’ve been sitting on
Registration coming soon. Leave a comment here if you're interested
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Ethereum people: Birds can fly into outer space!
Me: Birds can fly, but not into outer space
Ethereum people: Maybe there will be a bird breakthrough, anything is possible!
Me: ಠ_ಠ
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- have a problem
- add a blockchain
- have 2t+1 problems
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If you're looking for 2017 tokens to go back up in value, ask yourself how many 2014 tokens you own
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there 👏 is 👏 no 👏 solution 👏 to 👏 the 👏 oracle 👏 problem
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the best part of flash loans is that they're surfacing the smart contract issues we previously just pretended weren't there
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solidity internals education time!
what happens in a call to another contract? although this line looks very straightforward, the compiler produces a _lot_ of code around it
Post-call check
#2
will shock you!
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looking at users? That's a key upload
reading a post? key uploaded
checking your DMs? you better believe they upload your key
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2019:
I'm gonna need to make some txns, so I'll leave 0.3 ETH in this wallet
2020:
I'm gonna need to make some txns, so I'll leave 3.0 ETH in this wallet
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Hi twitter friends 👋
I wrote down a few thoughts about the Zcash Dev Fund and I'd like to share them with you
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3 months since the last time anyone bothered to make a uniswap governance proposal. All 3 governance proposal so far have been to distribute cash to specific parties. It's almost like this token doesn't actually govern anything except who gets rich off speculators
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trained GPT-3 on bitcoin and generated the next million blocks 😎
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fascinating to see how many Ethereum community figures are willing to throw each other under the bus for a share of $75k 🤔
it's like watching Survivor but the stakes are lower and everyone was friends last week
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If I've learned anything from Crypto, it's that Alice, Bob, and Charlie are fabulously wealthy world travelers
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summary:
for just under and hour, the emergency 2-of-3 controlled 870 Bitcoin
this violates liquid's security model
we know about this because liquid holds Bitcoin
we don't know what caused it, because liquid federation behavior is trusted and closed
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new COMP proposal to *checks notes* bail out whale farmers who got liquidated because they... *furiously shuffles papers* didn't understand the risks of pricing assets with illiquid markets?
Wish I could vote to pay myself when I lose money 🤔
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The year is 2060.
@zmanian
has uploaded himself to a Cosmos zone. ETH12.0's metashard plasmagoric web7 has claimed most of europe. Casper CBC spec is expected within a year. Bitcoin's timestamp bug halted the chain decades ago, but no lightning client noticed. XRP is the standard
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saying "it's time to build" is nonsense. It's ALWAYS time to build! There's so much work that needs to be done!
Instead, just say "I got distracted by greed and lost money"
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we got into Bitcoin to solve social coordination problems with free markets, without needing government intervention or violence
voluntarily cooperating to reorganize the chain to punish a thief fits the Bitcoin ethos perfectly
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imagine putting $200mm into a company with these metrics
📉📉
📉📉
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a long time ago I went to an event where accenture announced their invention of editable block chains
they had some sort of scheme for revoking parentage and substituting a different block within a chain
and 6ish years later it remains the dumbest thing I've ever heard
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you don't HAVE to be drunk to write solidity but it is considered best practices
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coinbase:
Let's enshrine the founder's bad politics as company policy
kraken:
hold my beer
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if you don't believe me, or don't get it, I have time to explain it to you at $750/hour
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2 categories contain 99.99% of Eth users:
- Will never run a full node, because what's the point, Infura is great
- Can run any number of full nodes because they have a devops guy fulltime
There are exactly 5 people in the middle. They all work at the EF, and control the roadmap
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Bitcoin people:
Not your keys not your Bitcoin
Also Bitcoin people:
LBTC is BTC
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it's somewhat crazy to call the beacon chain eth2.0, considering how it does 0 Ethereum things 🤔
hello, i have invented car2.0. it has no wheels, and does not go. you cannot sit in it. someday i will replace engine with hover, probably. car2.0, yo
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How many times do you think a security camera has recorded you typing your password? 🤔
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ethereum people all like "we should have 8 clients" when they can't even keep a single client team from burning out
ya'll kids can't have an aquarium til you can keep your damn goldfish alive smdh
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pulled the bitclout binary from their docker container. anyone familiar with go reversing want to play with it?
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product idea:
instead of a kanban board that I reorder for priority, show me 2 issues and ask me to pick the more important one. Repeat that 30ish times
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ok but hear me out, 23andMe is far more dangerous and destructive to personal privacy than worldcoin
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liquid is illiquid
solidity is porous
simplicity is complex
stablecoins are wobbly
daos are all centralized
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
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Been a pretty good 2.5 years
Good morning everyone. We have some important news that we'd like to share with you before you hear it secondhand:
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@La__Cuen
@AmberBaldet
@secparam
@nadertheory
@HesterPeirce
how dumb do you need to be to put an SEC comissioner's face on a shitcoin
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crypto in a nutshell:
be greedy when others are fearful, and greedy when others are greedy
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Can we start referring to last year's ICO market as the vaporwave?
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the difference between "governance" and "attack vector" is spelling
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Scalability vs Throughput myths -- A thread
Scalability - validating more transactions on the same hardware
Throughput - processing more transactions across the whole system
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I am not going to take any PoW attack on Bitcoin seriously until it happens to Ethereum. Here's why:
1. Attacking Ethereum is something like 60% cheaper
2. DeFi lets you leverage up a double-spend risklessly
3. More routes to monetization via tx ordering manipulation
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very few bitcoiners at SBC this year, presumably because they've killed and eaten most of their researchers at this point
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This Liquid utxo rotation issue:
- affected hundreds of BTC
- was internally known (for months?)
- was externally undisclosed
- allowed theft by coordinated employees
Sounds like a recipe for disaster if I ever heard one
@_prestwich
@notgrubles
this is a known issue. the coins are auto-swept forward as part of the HSM peg process. funds are safe as keys are offline and geo-distributed. we were planning to address via HSM upgrade, which is a manual hands on process for security, but covid lock-downs made that difficult.
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one coin makes you larger
and one coin makes you small
and the ones that airdrops give you
don't do anything at all
go ask alice
leveraged 10x tall
and if you go chasing tokens
and you know they're going to fall
tell em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
has sold you deep-out calls
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Each year 50 bajillion socks are lost in the laundry
SockChain ($SCK) will change that.
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