This howee guy does little videos on machine shop wisdom but also occasionally pops out deep concepts like assassination markets and fractional reserve
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PayPal revolutionized peer-to-peer money transfers, Cycles will revolutionize peer-to-peer credit.

When we all left Novi, there was a serious tech gap between what was needed in the space and what was available.

The reason I chose to take my research and join Aptos over the other offers and opportunities I considered is that I believed that if someone can build technology to…

Story time. My encounter with Bitcoin OG, privacy extremist, and defector Amir Taaki:

- 'Hey Amir. I work on a Chaumian Ecash system for Bitcoin and I thought you might like it'
- 'Ecash on Bitcoin? Well, good luck with THAT!'

To be a great routing node in LN, you must become the Kwisatz Haderach. Understand psychology of peers like a Bene Gesserit, understand how to not waste liquidity like the Fremen, compute fees like a Mentat. Profit is about seeing many futures and placing yourself in the best one

Everyone, please call, otherwise we are screwed.

It takes less than 3 minutes. When you call, you will hear short instructions, punch in your zip code, you will be passed through to your state rep, you will get a live rep, say your piece, and you are done.

I am excited to share that starting in Fall 2024, I will be joining as an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology Penn State College of IST at Penn State.

Thanks to Yang Wang, Andrew Miller, Sauvik Das | [email protected] Yun Huang @ UIUC, Dawn Song, and all my…

I’m sad—and frankly baffled—to report that the House voted today to reward the government’s widespread abuses of Section 702 by massively expanding the government’s powers to conduct warrantless surveillance. 1/14

Congratulations to ciamac moallemi Tarun Chitra Sarah Allen Xin Wan Theo Diamandis bita del rey for your leadership in putting this all-star conference together. It was a tremendous group effort with weekends worked and the outcome is beyond! High bar set for a defi research conference.

The review paper arxiv.org/abs/2404.01141 and video youtube.com/watch?v=VmX1gE… for your preferred level of detail! Amol did a huge lift for Air Force Research Lab - AFRL & Booz Allen Hamilton implementing 18 different algorithms to test and see what gets you good accuracy for differing levels of privacy.

And my personal favorite: refereeing papers is anonymous and also doesn't pay, so you get neither money nor prestige. You just get to not combat a dumb, error-filled paper in future years.

crazy how much difference just 15 thou makes to perceived fit

This week we have Jasleen presenting on the Enigmap paper m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv4EBz…

Wow the tldresear.ch conference schedule is up, and the line up is very impressive. Apply to attend May 16-17! tldresear.ch/schedule

⛓️Cornell Blockchain Conference is back on Friday, April 26 on Roosevelt Island, NYC! With the theme “Building for Billions”, this year’s event will bring new insights on onboarding mass users into the world of #web3  🌏

Join the power assembly of speakers including Ari Juels,…

EIP-3074 is coming and I'm excited.

It solves a single issue that plagues nearly all transaction relayer services:

- the 'msg.sender' issue

Essentially, if a relayer pays for a user's transaction, then the relayer's address is set as msg.sender and not the user's address.…

🚀 Major Update: Shifting from #PhatContract to AI-Agent Contract.

This shift marks our strategic pivot towards embedding #AI deeply within the Web3 ecosystem, setting the stage for the creation, ownership, & economic leverage of #DecentralizedAI agents.

Why this matters?…

We need more internet standards that come with pictures of cute animals. I think it would a measurable positive impact on the mental health the security community.