Pramod Kandel 🏔️
@pramodkandel
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Building towards global, democratic financial future with an awesome team @alpenlabs.
New York, NY
Joined February 2010
Together we can.
💥🔫 @Starknet & Alpen will build a shared Glock verifier on Bitcoin! @EliBenSasson shares his excitement for an open, neutral financial system for Bitcoin.
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Teaser videos be so good, we might as well make a feature film now Kudos to our marketing team at @AlpenLabs and @Starknet , @sxddnt @metapills. Excited about what's coming up.
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What’s happening in Nepal right now is nothing short of a grassroots revolution. Sparked by a ban on social media, it’s grown into something larger: a generation rising up against corruption, privilege, and being shut out of opportunity. For me, working at Alpen, it hits close.
How did we end up polling on Discord for Nepal’s next leader? Here’s a rundown: tldr; Nepali government was overthrown in 48 hours and I think i just witnessed the first internet native revolution. Over two decades ago, Nepali citizens overthrew the Monarchy to establish a
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tyrants cannot rule the land of the gurkhas against the mighty will of our new generation after deciding the new leader on discord & resisting censorship with bitchat, nepal’s gen z is now inscribing art on bitcoin to immortalize this revolution
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The fire will be global. I got stuck in Turkey because of airport closures, and the waiter was saying - “Our government is utterly incapable as well. We should revolt like you guys did.”
How did we end up polling on Discord for Nepal’s next leader? Here’s a rundown: tldr; Nepali government was overthrown in 48 hours and I think i just witnessed the first internet native revolution. Over two decades ago, Nepali citizens overthrew the Monarchy to establish a
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"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster cryptographer. To me, being a gangster cryptographer was better than being the President of the United States." - @liameagen and our researchers @AlpenLabs who supported the work and implemented various parts of the
💥🔫 It’s Glock o’clock! [codebase + paper] 99.8% reduction in onchain costs. Verify anything on Bitcoin – elegantly & efficiently.
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Culmination of multiple years of getting the brilliant team together, many months of working tirelessly coordinating globally, countless hours of research, design, and engineering, and continuously iterating with multiple research breakthroughs - and we have only just started.
Bitcoin’s financial system is coming online. Alpen's Public Testnet is now live! Borrow, trade, earn yield & use stablecoins – soon on Bitcoin.
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Our research wizard breaking BitVM3 like it's a New Year's resolution
I believe the BitVM3 RSA garbling scheme is likely broken for circuits with gates of fanout greater than 1. Because the evaluator is linear, we can solve for the output labels in terms of the adaptor elements using linear algebra.
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Our “business” guy grokking and explaining our advanced cutting-edge research and tech on bitcoin bridges better than most “tech” guys.
Lots of recent "BitVM" breakthroughs and announcement(s). The core 1-of-N trust assumption still holds, but nearly every other tradeoff is being chipped away. I'll describe it all below. -- Disclaimer: This post is a bit dense if you're not in the weeds of BitVM already and
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I've heard smart young folks in Nepal say bitcoin is only for the privileged. In fact, it's much more for the underprivileged-those derided and excluded by the existing systems. Your startup could be funded by global citizens instead of greedy local VCs who want all your company!
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A lot of things cooking here at Strata. Hang tight for the release!
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With the support of this calibre, the moonshot doesn't seem that impossible. Excited to finally announce it!
We’re thrilled to announce our $8.5M Strategic Round, co-led by @dba_crypto and @cyberFund_. This round will help us supercharge the development and launch of @Strata_BTC into mainnet in 2025.
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