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#StandWithUkraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core Now: Humanist, permaphilocryptoculturalist, startup CxO Like: @BloqInc @SpaceChain @VesperFi
Nov 10, 2022 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 1 min read
What was SBF lobbying against? DeFi. πŸ€”

What would have prevented this? DeFi. πŸ€”

What exchanges already publish real-time proof-of-reserves? DeFi. πŸ€”

What will US regulators try to shut down? DeFi. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ πŸ€” #DeFi
Nov 8, 2022 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Feb 15, 2022 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 1 min read
Boiled down: Turning off your ability to buy food and shelter, without due process. Who would have thought that Canada would be the example encouraging users to try (a) cryptocurrencies and especially (b) privacy-enhanced crypto.
Feb 15, 2022 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Getting a real 1930s vibe wrt Donbas.

Will Putin de-escalate down to: seizing territory, just not as much territory as the world had feared? Perhaps even a bloodless conquest? The beginning of WW2 saw some "bloodless conquests", eventually developing a familiar script to shift war guilt:
- Destabilizing border incidents
- Inside the victim country, a German-paid sympathizer would publicly plead for German military help
- German military takes territory
Aug 15, 2021 β€’ 73 tweets β€’ 22 min read
May 9, 2021 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 4 min read
1/ Snowden notices part of what's wrong with #Bitcoin governance and development. 2/ As I've observed over a decade of #Linux development and another decade in #blockchain, crypto and infosec folks often hyper focus on security to the point where people are turned off from the product, or simply stop waiting for a promised future and move on.
Dec 18, 2020 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 5 min read
1/ Excited - Soon to be opening the doors to the @VesperFi beta launch #DeFi #cryptocurrency #permissionless #ethereum #blockchain #PaymentFreedom #SaveTheDate medium.com/vesperfinance/… 2/ Beta testers will be able to test our first product - ETH, WBTC and USDC "Holding Pools"

Holding Pools are yield aggregating vaults, similar to other projects, with a focus on longevity, and a professional, simple, clean experience.

This is a familiar DeFi primitive.
Oct 8, 2020 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 2 min read
1/ Yesterday: My L1 chain has better, faster tech than #Bitcoin or #Ethereum. It is not compatible with existing software or tooling, but will nevertheless overcome network effect and momentum to become the next Ethereum. Invest in my Ethereum killer. 2/ Today: My L2 rollup chain has better, faster tech than #Bitcoin or #Ethereum. It is not compatible with existing software or tooling, but will nevertheless overcome network effect and momentum to become... Invest in my...
Oct 6, 2020 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
1/ Supportive of this innovation and effort, and encourage people to participate. 2/ #Ethereum bot ecosystems often unintentionally evolve to single-bot-wins situations, where it is pointless & costly to run a bot that consistently comes in "2nd place"
Feb 21, 2019 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Finally spent some time studying #Ethereum Merkle Patricia Tree github.com/ethereum/wiki/…
1. It is an elegant data structure for Eth, creating a cryptographically stable merkle root, no matter the data insertion order.
2. Oh boy, it really punishes your hard drive storage. In my past life at Red Hat, I wrote the ATA (aka IDE) drivers for Linux, so I know a bit about data storage and hard drives.
Here is why Eth is so punishing on data storage, and why SSDs/NVMe are a field requirement for Eth: