Joined @stripe on their call about the remote hub - some notes:
Stripe’s had remote engineers since the early days, 7 years ago.
Started investing in engineering hubs beyond SF in 2017: Seattle, Dublin (EMEA), Singapore (Asia-Pacific)
Now opening a remote hub - hiring engineers/managers across teams and the stack.
Our discussion was inspired by PageRank, EigenTrust, TrustDavis, Social Collateral, PGP, Circles, ...
Some takeaways: 2) Reputation leads to a unique form of liquidity within social communities
May 26, 2018 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1) The Truebit virtual machine spec is up!
github.com/TrueBitFoundat…2) The Truebit VM is based on WebAssembly, because:
• WASM is portable.
• WASM is designed to be sandboxed and secure.
• WASM is a compilation target for C, C++, Rust, ...
• WASM values map directly to 32/64 bit architectures.
• ...
May 5, 2018 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1) Why we need sharding: if blockchain consensus relies on every node processing all transactions + storing all state, the network cannot scale beyond the capacity of a single node.
2) So need to achieve consensus on subsets of transactions (the raw data) and state (the results of interpreting the data) in a way that balances security and availability.
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