I just wanted to share something I'm trying to do, which is compile my favourite readings/concepts/articles on the different areas I find interesting into a public resource

This is the crypto one. About 120+ links so far. I hope this can be useful to some people!

liamzebedee.com/crypto/ One of the directions I've noticed is that people's attention spans are getting shorter, and not necessarily for bad reasons. Books 50yrs ago were generally the best way to disseminate knowledge, and due to the shape of the market, it was generally the best way to do so - after all, there was no website/internet blogging platforms. When you had the money to publish, then you generally shared a LOT in one go as it was economic. (h/t @zetalyrae who mentioned books/tiktoks a while ago)

Nowadays we have the internet. And the internet lets us share smaller atoms in the forms of blog posts, forum posts, papers, articles, source code, github experiments etc.

I find there's a lot of articles out there that are really really useful. But they aren't the sorts of things you'll find on Wikipedia. This is for a few reasons now - firstly there is Wikipedia's emphasis on authority, which usually precludes blog posts. And secondly, Wikipedia has a definite entrenched bias now - crypto itself is VASTLY undercovered due to systematic bias of editors.

So with this in mind, I've started compiling my own wiki / public notes page for different topics. Sort of inspired by @recmo's public notebooks and @gwern.

so @the_ethernaut has come up with a very interesting upgradeable contract pattern

- single contract
- delegatecalls to every other contract in system using an autogenerated proxy
- storage is thus shared between all contracts

github.com/Synthetixio/sy… @the_ethernaut with a really ergonomic way to isolate storage from collisions

Haha so something wild just happened. Just found out that R&D I did into a P2P reputation protocol way back in 2018 is now being used in a European grant project.

https://twitter.com/liamzebedee/status/1061597311720144897

This is the project, it uses a framework called Evidence Based Subjective Logic, which is similar to eigenvector centrality / pagerank / eigentrust if you're familiar with that.

github.com/liamzebedee/re…

for something which is literally just signing a blob of data using a private key, it was an insanely complicated process

app is finally signed + notarized shoutouts to whoever wrote this guide, which is like, the most sane thing I've found in a forest of insane hacks and winding github discussions
kilianvalkhof.com/2019/electron/…

content-addressable routing (find content by hash) beats location-based routing (ask the IP) because anyone can become a server

in essence, it's a permissionless hosting network IPFS is useful only for key-value lookups - ie. find the value for key
ipfs://bafybeia5tevogbog7fyzsaobhc7oont6fgqry5nqdtqoq4dsyanqv4nhjy

but what if it was useful for an index?

Haha so I've actually written another note on STARK's (for mere mortals).

Basically I wanted to figure out - how hard is it to implement this fantasy alien technology, recursive proofing?

To do this, I had to understand a couple of areas.

Link: hackmd.io/@liamzebedee/H…

https://twitter.com/lordOfAFew/status/1591820008061272066

What does the data structure of a STARK proof actually look like?

I went and reverse-engineered/read the code of a Circom verifier and Starkware's codebase.

Has OFAC violated your rights?
You may be entitled to decentralization

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Introducing Dappnet 🍸 Dappnet resists capture
It's a permissionless application network
built on @ipfs and @ensdomains

The Ethereum database is such a beautiful monolithic bundling of so many things.

Indexes (logs), execution (EVM), sequencing (mempool), consensus (PoW + GHOST), data availability (coinbase)

Literally every aspect of this stack is being torn out and spun into its own protocol. This may be my bias, but out of all the ecosystems I've played around in (eth, sol, cosmos, polka), Eth has the easiest model for composability - e.g. ERC20(0x123).transferFrom

It's like the Go of smart contracts. Really easy to understand and learn.

Bizarre question. Is bitcoin a horizontally or vertically scaled database? Here's my take - it's vertically scaled.

When you look at distributed systems, the replicated state machine method is one way of achieving a fault-tolerant design.

Bitcoin fits that definition of a BFT replicated state machine.

Deployed my first starknet contract tonight goerli.voyager.online/contract/0x064… cairo doesn't have strings jfc it's early

problem I have - there's so many smart people writing amazing longform content on blogs. but the modern internet makes it nigh-impossible to find it a lot of this content is from the pre-social media era.

e.g. I learnt so much from @gafferongames series on building a game networking protocol:
- UDP, TCP, packets, reliability, sequencing

which later led me to read about how source engine (cs;go, tf2) syncs world state

This is my artificial pancreas. Changed the cron job last night so it would only run between 9pm and 7am (~ while I'm asleep). Built a tool 🙆‍♂️ this weekend to annotate the glucose data from @NightscoutProj, so I could build a better view of different things like exercise, alcohol, etc.