My portfolio is 90% $KASPA, the future of the crypto world. Yonatan Sompolinsky embodies the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto. I also buy meme coins like $MANYU
Most proof-of-work chains throw away the loser. Two miners solve a block seconds apart, one chain wins, the other block's work counts for nothing.
Kaspa doesn't discard it.
GHOSTDAG classifies every honest block into a blue set, then gives every node the same procedure for ordering the whole graph, including the blocks that "lost." At 10 blocks per second, that's the difference between wasting most of the network's work and using nearly all of it.
The losing block isn't wasted. It's ordered.
$KAS
Kaspa community is no joke!
I officially told my team to work on a $KAS risk model.
Also wondering if I should buy some $KAS before the bull market gets out of hand.
P.S. I apologize for calling you bots in previous polls.
To every developer who walked away from Ethereum because gas fees are insane:
To every Solana dev who got rugged by validator centralization:
To every Bitcoin dev frustrated by immutability: Kaspa's Toccata launches in 2 days.
PoW security. Ethereum-grade programmability. Bitcoin's UTXO model. Solana's speed.
8 builders are already shipping. The infrastructure is ready. The exchange support is live.
The only question: where will YOU be when the ecosystem explodes? #Kaspa
Stroem Finance is Connecting Kaspa, Igra, & Ethereum...
Stroem Finance is set to debut its cross-chain atomic swap protocol, enabling trustless asset exchanges between @kaspaunchained, @Igra_Labs, and @Ethereum.
The architecture utilizes hash-locked contracts to eliminate intermediary risk and bridge-based vulnerabilities traditionally associated with cross-chain movement.
The protocol is currently restricted to a dedicated testnet environment as developers finalize the settlement logic for a full mainnet deployment.
Not sure how I only just saw this, and I appreciate the kind words.
Every single one of us do what we can, we all believe in $KAS and preach it for a reason.
Most of crypto is garbage and doesn't move the industry forward, heck, we now have a platform generating 8 figures+ running 'bounties'.
We all have a duty on some level to push the real tech that can move us forward, and reward our belief in that too!
since many (~4) asked me about the zcash bug - - - earlier this year I had this convo with a zcash core dev:
zk: it's weird that kaspa is pruning past records
me: why does it need to keep 'em?
zk: the whole point of ledgers is to prove correctness of all state transitions
me: the whole point of ledgers is to provide focal points for the consensus state
zk: the whole point...
me: hmm then why did you come work in zcash? you know the Sprout->Sapling counterfeiting bug
zk: Turnstile guarantees that the counterfeit could have been very limited
me: true but you still cannot prove or even reason about correct state transitions besides the total supply cap
zk: that's actually a good point
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the most hardcore cryptography coin is shifting away from correctness proofs to practical-enough proofs. I believe this is a step in the right+practical direction, yet the paradigm shift should not go unnoticed - -cryptography is giving way to consensus.
if you came to zcash for cryptographic integrity, reconsider. there are many good reasons to root for zcash prospering. zcash is serving a more important role than bitcoin, whose utility for the original mission is by now blurry. cryptographic integrity is/should not be one of those reasons.
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BTW the bug should definitely have been exploited. I don't know the personal values of Taylor Hornby, and I shouldn't be required to make the effort to learn them. I only know that if I found such an exploit, it wouldn't take me more than a few minutes to tempt myself into printing a longint amount of ZEC and deciding later what to do with it.
I wouldn't necessarily use it to exit the pool immediately and corrupt the supply, I'd wait to see if some portion of the broken pool does not seem to migrate on time (probably lost funds), in which case I would not think twice before claiming the funds myself.
you could argue that no harm done, and you might be right, but then again you are here -- in zcash / in crypto -- for its consensus dynamics, the ability to coordinate interests and convictions across different trust zones around some shared asset; not for some pristine mathematical integrity.