I will say this very clearly:
- There are solutions to make Bitcoin quantum-ready. This quantum-safe tx is proof.
- There are talented people who can design and build these solutions. This quantum-safe tx is proof.
- We need more solutions like this one. This quantum-safe tx is just the beginning.
- And I'm proud to be working alongside and collaborating with such talented people ;-)
A recent hack drained millions from cold wallets โ not because they were online, but because their "random" seed generator wasn't actually random.
Our fix: 2048 individually printed word tiles. No chip, no firmware, no algorithm.
Shake them in a jar. Pull your seed phrase by hand. Import it straight into your SeedSigner.
If there's no software involved, there's nothing to hack.
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After you turn 40, you basically have two options:
1 โ Actively pursue a healthy lifestyle by prioritizing exercise, sleep and nutrition.
2 โ Feel like crap, have no energy and blame it on getting older.
One compliment, two omissions, one misleading claim, and one glaring mistake that will come to bite back:
One Compliment:
Going for STARKs (โhash based SNARKsโ) is the right move, congrats!
Two omissions:
(1) This conclusion is reached after a long debate over STARKs vs SNARKs. We know this debate well since much of the research into Poseidon was led by StarkWare, and funded by the EF. It's good to see the industry converging around STARKs
(2) Small binary fields were introduced into the world of ZK proofs long before Binius and Flonk, in the ZK STARK paper of 2018. It was already shown there that certain *standard* cryptographic primitives are efficient over it.
One misleading claim:
Prime field STARKs need not be over *large* primes. FYI - Stwo is over M31, a 31-bit field, making it very efficient.
One glaring mistake thatโll bite back:
Binary field multiplication is inefficient over GPUs, whereas small prime multiplication (like Stwo/M31) is.
Will this mean that GPUs binary field based constructions will face challenges that wonโt be that easy to overcome? You tell me.
Overall, glad to see this direction.
Go ZK-STARKs!
I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( https://t.co/I35mrXutP2 ).
In general, a lot of overlap, but:
* Some things got reshuffled in order (eg. quantum safety up-prioritized)
* Some things deprioritized (eg. VDFs; many EVM improvements)
* Some things replaced with superior constructions (eg. Verkle -> unified BT -> PBT; state expiry -> new state types)
What's most striking, however, is that some completely new things are in the strawmap that are NOT in this diagram, because they were not in the 2023 roadmap at all. These reflect changing priorities.
Notably:
* First-class attention to strong privacy. This covers: keyed nonces and recent roots, aspects of FOCIL, lean privacy pool & wormholes
* Aggressive scaling in the context of post-quantum. This covers: leanSPHINCS signatures and aggregation, zkzk frames (see https://t.co/ibrOpMxMfO )
* Lean-ification of the spec, to assist in formal verification (full FV of everything is only possible because of modern AI)
* Blob and gas futures (this idea just didn't exist back in 2023)
* Native rollups (SNARKs were nowhere near mature enough to even consider this back in 2023)
* A more open design space for the "future of the EVM". zkzk frames already implies that the protocol will expose to users some ISA that's not the EVM - current leading candidates are leanISA and RISC-V. These ISAs are more simple, modern and efficient than the EVM. Once they're there, why not expose them to developers everywhere? (And then, why not turn the EVM into being an IR on top of that ISA, instead of an enshrined feature massively complicating the base protocol?) Though much of the deeper exploration here is too early even for the strawmap.
* New state types are not just a replacement for expiry, they're a fundamentally different paradigm to how Ethereum does scaling
A common theme in scaling, found in both state types and zkzk frames (both new ideas), is that instead of trying to maximally scale ALL ethereum activity, we try to create specialized mechanisms that have more restrictive properties that make them more scaling-friendly, while supporting the heaviest loads incurred by users and applications today (eg. token transfers, swaps) and tomorrow (eg. privacy protocols).
The other common theme is treating STARKs and AI-accelerated FV as first-class objects, that we are okay betting the technical future of Ethereum on. There are recursive STARKs in many layers of the protocol, one particular primitive (the "aggregate to union verified dependencies" primitive) is expected to be used in *three* places in the protocol: EL, CL and DL. This can only be safe with formal verification, which is itself only feasible with modern AI tools.
In general, many steps forward in maturity. And a huge amount of hard work by many dozens of Ethereum researchers and developers on all of these features.
Ethereum will be quantum-safe. Ethereum will put users' privacy first. Ethereum will be secure. Ethereum will be censorship-resistant. Ethereum will be highly performant and scalable while satisfying the above. And Ethereum will be Lean.
๐จ RFK Jr. says Tylenol may be linked to autism, ADHD and liver toxicity in children.
Heโs also questioning why Tylenol remains widely available while ivermectin faces restrictions.
โBecause Big Pharma owns our politicians.โ
BREAKING: Effective immediately, the Trump administration will recognize Gold Standard childhood vaccine recommendations for just 11 core vaccines for young children.
"In many cases, we were requiring 72 jabs for our beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children."
"Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases..."
I literally gasped watching this
American bought a cheap phone, hired someone to use it in poor neighborhoods, and visit places acting like they have no money
After a day, apps on that phone had cheaper prices than a normal persons phone
Dynamic pricing is real and we are being robbed blind. Phone are collecting data and using that data to charge people different prices for the exact same services and items
โผ๏ธ UPDATE: Coldcard-linked thefts have passed $130M and victims are going public.
One holder says 8 years of stacking, 2 BTC (~$128,000), was drained from his Coldcard wallet.
A March 2021 firmware bug made seed phrases predictable. Attackers brute-forced them offline and then drained the wallets.