Mikerah
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I'm your favorite cryptographer's favorite dropout Building @StoffelMPC Cryptography R&D Consulting via @hashcloak
Joined October 2018
To all of my Twitter followers, There are now impersonators of me on Telegram. Please be careful. I won't ask you to click weird links or for money. I can't believe I'm famous enough to be even tweeting this.
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hearing and seeing an old man talk about clothes is way more entertaining and relaxing than I thought https://t.co/zvV2uLWIgR
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i really hope the people posting they hate crypto and want to quit crypto quit
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- All forms of investing are gambling - Most other things in life, like picking a college or major, can be thought of as gambling - Some gambles are necessary - Some, like buying the S&P 500, are generally good - Some, like sports betting, are on average really stupid
1) I like gambling 2) Kalshi is a gambling company 3) I like Kalshi What I don't like is Robinhood claiming to be providing a level playing field for retail traders to create generational wealth when they're serving them up to citsec on a silver platter
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Privacy in large societies might turn out to have been a short-lived phase in human history.
RIP Privacy β AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere. A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street. No government database. No police system. Just public data and off-the-shelf AI. You look at someone
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You can tell who cares about real metrics vs gameable metrics by where they advertise
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Japan: Let's build trains that go 200mph and run on time all the time. Also Japan: let's make floors out of straw and walls out of paper, then heat just one room with a portable kerosene heater.
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First lets state an undeniable fact: Ethereum has benefited tremendously from centralized solutions and continues to. The Block building pipeline is not decentralized on L1 or L2. Though I certainly applaud all of the ongoing R&D efforts to do so and am rooting for the teams
Solvers are bad guys really trusted entities. But bundlers and block builders are good intermediaries and make our system trustless. Don't know about that. If you imagine distributed block building many of these roles coordinate or vertically integrate which is already status
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iβm pretty sure that the original intention and spirit of copyright law is not βhand over millions of peopleβs assumed-private conversations over to the new york times (and whoever hacks them or anyone in the chain)β
BREAKING: @OpenAI must tuner over 20 million+ chat logs to plaintiffs, Judge Ona Wang has ruled in a 9-pg Order just issued:
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it's crazy that a woman needs spend at least $200+ to get clothes made out of real fabrics whereas men only need to spend like $100+ for non-polyester clothes i'm cooked
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this is precisely why i struggle to take this industry seriously. i grew up working between buenos aires and san francisco, and from a young age i admired institutions like mit and berkeley, i even had their posters on my wall. i was drawn to genuine hacker culture, to open
whatβs the best thing to build in this market? perp dex? prediction market? something else? curious to hear why.
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@lex_node iβve dated 6β4 and 5β6 and lots in between. as a 5β4 girly i think 5β10 maaaybe 5β11 or 6β even is the best match for me. 6β9 is terrifying, what are you doing up there? get down.
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Toronto had a pretty bad draw for the World Cup. Good thing I didn't overpay for tickets
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okay so here is my somewhat toxic legal take that I think can manage to piss off pretty much everyone and every type of person in crypto simultaneously: *right now there are numerous launchpad projects that pitch themselves along the lines of 'make tokens work like equity but
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