Lúcás Meier
@cronokirby
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Cryptographer @commonwarexyz Opinions do not yadda yadda. Did an MSc (Computer Science) @EPFL. Avid, not fast runner. https://t.co/yOuGtLnGMF on bsky.
Seattle
Joined March 2019
"Fast Block Dissemination with Immediate Guarantees" Our implementation of the ZODA Hadamard variant (written by @cronokirby) is available now: https://t.co/88cuPeKwD3
commonware.xyz
You can come to consensus over a mere fingerprint of the block—a hash for example—but doing anything interesting with that fingerprint, like processing transactions or updating state, requires...
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"Once a Validator, Not Always a Validator" (@commonwarexyz's consensus-agnostic approach to reconfiguration and resharing with @vex_0x) https://t.co/QLRk1X3EZE
commonware.xyz
Many consensus protocols, from Tendermint and HotStuff to our own Minimmit, are defined under a permissioned model where the validator set is fixed and known ahead of time. Safely transitioning from...
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Excited to have joined @commonwarexyz, where I'll be tinkering around with cool cryptography and blockchain primitives 😎
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If you think back to the Taylorism which still haunts our thinking, the role of the manager is in organizing the factory. This is the same role assumed by the software engineer.
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In a successful software company, engineers are a kind of manager
it's interesting how power can devolve to workers from management when management under-hires and has no redundancy in capacity and one or two ICs are the sole repositories of knowledge about large sections of a company's infrastructure
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I think it's misleading to refer to transactions made with this card as a "private payment". It's not any more private than any other credit card.
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As far as I can tell, what this is a standard secured credit card, issued by Payy, but where the collateral can be stablecoins on their network
introducing payy card — spend stablecoins privately 🤫 • undoxxable non-custodial card using ZK for privacy • physical card with light-up logo (limited quantity) • easy setup and deposit USDC/crypto • soon: spend-to-earn points program
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It also means that NYC has garbage bags of trash cluttering the sidewalk instead.
HOW MUCH of NYC’s success as a city can be attributed to not having alleys? Seriously, NYC has much narrower blocks than other legacy cities thanks not having alleys and garages in the middle. Blocks in Queens and Brooklyn are the closest thing the US has to courtyard blocks.*
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I just don't think cities should be in the business of planning out zoning or codes at all
The builder’s remedy is great but it’s kind of like the World Cup of land use - comes around only once a HE cycle. Time to expand? What if the AB1893 builders remedy applied EVERY year a city fell behind its annual market rate prorated RHNA goal (ala the SB35 penalty)? Agree?
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So the court is allowing witnesses to testify to Roman's state of mind wrt nonresponse to people who merely believed their stolen funds went through TC, but not any testimony wrt privacy, Roman's state purpose for creating TC?
@Timccopeland @tayvano_ Defense already knew the funds didn't go through Tornado but were unable to object to this witness because the witness _believed_ her funds went to Tornado and the government is showing her to the jury anyways for a state of mind regarding Roman's nonresponse. It's fucked up.
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This is dangerously close to being an illegal future on box office returns
IMAX Tickets for #TheOdyssey will officially go on sale July 17 — an entire year before the film opens • Will only be available for select showings with theaters that have IMAX 70mm screens • Tickets for other formats will likely go on sale much closer to the film's release
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We updated our paper on Fiat-Shamir! We now take a closer look at the gap between what symmetric cryptography has focused on for over 10 years (indifferentiability) and what is actually needed for the soundness of ZKPs and SNARKs (something stronger!). https://t.co/uifvzYU0Sf
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We analyze a variant of the Fiat–Shamir transformation based on an ideal permutation. The transformation relies on the popular duplex sponge paradigm, and minimizes the number of calls to the...
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If Go has a million haters, then I am one of them. If Go has ten haters, then I am one of them. If Go has only one hater, then it is me. If Go has no haters, then that means I am no longer on Earth. If the world is for Go then I am against the world.
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You could BUY ~1k USD worth of $OSMO in privacy on @penumbrazone for same/better execution as on Osmosis right now.
You could sell ~1K USD worth of $OSMO privately on @penumbrazone for similar execution as on Osmosis right now.
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Prediction: the current AI wave will have small first order effects, but much larger higher order effects
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Evidence is much easier to object to than theory. The negative effects take a long to play out, can be counterfactual, and easily objected to in the discourse.
It is remarkable how utterly we economists have failed to convince others that rent control is a bad policy. Our rhetoric has traditionally relied heavily on the logic of theory. I think we need to rely more on evidence.
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Roosevelt's law: in the long run, the budget of any government department approaches 100% healthcare and pension spending
yup defense budget is really misunderstood everyone thinks of buying hardware - missiles, tanks, submarines or whatever that's 17% of the DOD budget a far larger share is wages, benefits and maintenance
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Intellectual Property Law is fundamentally communist
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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