Jeff Garzik

Prev: early #Linux kernel, #Bitcoin Core.
Now: energy/acc humanist, network plumber @hemi_xyz

[Jeff Garzik @jgarzik]

Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker.

With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more.

With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce resources, famine, poverty, all the ghost factories never built and the ghost jobs never generated.

[Jeff Garzik @jgarzik]

@SawyerMerritt @shervin @SpaceX 🔥👀

[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

Thanks to @TemplarProtocol, users can borrow USDC on Ethereum L1 against hemiBTC at market-leading rates. Publicly traded treasury companies, such as @BTCS_SA, are allocating hemiBTC to @GamiLabs to grow their balance sheets via this carry trade.

[Colin Grabow @cpgrabow]

Fun Jones Act fact of the day: more propane has been shipped from the US mainland to Puerto Rico under the current JA waiver (410,000 barrels) than in the last 22 years combined (364,000 barrels):

[Jeff Garzik @jgarzik]

@tedfrank @stuartbuck1 @cremieuxrecueil TIL. Thanks for the data point, countering the popular narrative.

[Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3]

Now it’s time to build nuclear powered desalination plants and canals to green large parts of the American desert West.

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

BREAKING NEWS: according to CloudFlare Radar Data, Agentic traffic has SURPASSED human traffic across the worldwide internet for HTML webpages.

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

BREAKING: Antares has achieved initial criticality with Mark-0, its low-power nuclear reactor test unit at Idaho National Laboratory, marking the reactor’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The first ever Fannie Mae-insured mortgage backed by BTC in the U.S just got funded.

Originated and serviced by Better, powered by Coinbase.

Rolling out nationwide this summer.

[Lily Liu @calilyliu]

This always happens before a generational IPO.

All risk, big and small, gets sold into dry powder to get allocation in SpaceX (in this instance).

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

[Steven Murdoch @sjmurdoch]

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their public signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 of 32 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. https://t.co/xz3svmqiDa

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Stripping the BRCA from Clarity would not make the bill tougher on industry.

It would not address ethics concerns.

All it would achieve is hurting open source developers.

https://t.co/9cPhhM4QU2

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The U.S. company Cerebras successfully designed the largest computer chip ever made, fifty times bigger than a GPU.

If AI demand continues to grow, it will not be the last company to design a peculiar chip with unique advantages.

Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

[Jeff Garzik @jgarzik]

@SawyerMerritt @Robotbeat 👍💪

[Jeff Garzik @jgarzik]

@BlakeSNeff @hbdchick And no charges or reprimands for the battalion of attorneys who advised him and many others that sexual orientation asylum filings would be granted speedy approval.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was six years old."

"John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could."

"When I was born, the dentist didn't use novocaine!"

[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

The issue affecting Hemi Mainnet block production has been resolved.

All Hemi node operators must update immediately to continue syncing with the network. No funds are at risk.

Read more: https://t.co/sjBpY2kA8m

[joseph.eth @josephdelong]

It’s weird people judge decentralized platforms revenue against centralized equivalents.

It’s quite literally why decentralization exists to disintermediate middleman tax.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Most people think HIPAA protects their medical privacy.
It doesn't.
It governs how your health data gets shared, not whether it does.
Once collected, your information moves through systems you'll never see, for purposes you never approved.

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅