Koja

[Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ @el33th4xor]

While recent developments in quantum computing are amazing, they pose no threat to the security of cryptocurrencies, at least not yet! Let me explain why.

Quantum computing will make it easier to perform certain operations, like factoring numbers, while others, such as inverting one-way hash functions, remain just as difficult. Further, depending on the platform, a quantum computer has a small window of opportunity to attack. These two facts make the job of a quantum attacker fairly difficult.

The design of systems such as Bitcoin and Avalanche X/P Chain ensures that, when Alice sends money to Bob, Bob's public key is not revealed to the public. Instead, the world knows only the hash of a hash (so, two separate one way hash functions) of the public key. This means that the funds at rest are quantum resistant -- the attacker simply has no information to work on, he cannot be grinding away in the background.

The public keys are exposed only when transactions are issued. So the quantum attacker only has a brief opportunity after he sees the public key in a transaction but before that transaction is incorporated into the chain. The faster the chain, the harder the problem. In the case of Bitcoin, the quantum attacker needs to break the key within 5 to 30 minutes. For Avalanche, the attacker only has 1 second, if that.

Finally, we already have a pull request for Avalanche that introduces lattice cryptography. Lattice-based crypto is built from the ground up to resist quantum attacks. We don't ordinarily use it because the signatures are about 10x bigger.

Overall, (1) we're seeing amazing work on quantum computing that we'd love to see more of, for the good of humanity, (2) realistic attacks on cryptocurrencies are still a long ways off, and (3) Avalanche is ready to roll out quantum resistant signatures very quickly once we decide that quantum attacks are on the horizon. For now, let's all watch how quantum computers develop over the next few decades.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@risicare_eth @bsmokes Not a valid comparison.

SOL is centralized, ETH is decentralized

Taken to the extreme, SOL can be turned off, ETH cannot. And its why SOL is fast and cheap vs ETH.

The market shows this in TVL and Stable Mcap. The big boys park their money where its safe.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@WinnieSchola @MattWallace888 Of course

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@thesaviour Wonder what @MaximeBernier thinks

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@767Aviatrix @TruthBiglyPower @Blondes_tweets Modern day Israel are not the biblical Israelites

[Footdoc @Therealfootdoc]

The head of the snake that controls the world via usury

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@LayahHeilpern I switched to my Following feed. Soft core porn is everywhere on For You

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Did you know that the ancient Sumerian King List describes rulers who reigned for thousands of years?

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

How many men are willingly viewing porn. Exposing themselves to another man’s member. Corrupting their spirit.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Man. This war propaganda just ain’t hitting the same.

I’m frankly tired of being an economic slave colony to pre-planned wars.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@troonytoons Bro I was just getting over the first one

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@leo_mrusso Leo, are you sure they were my books that you read? Because if you'd read them, and understood them, you'd absolutely understand why I'm ready to die on this hill.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@zherbert That last I would personally sell

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

John McAfee’s web security ran on the computers at the White House, this gave McAfee access to Hillary Clinton’s emails among other things.

John made this Tweet on November 30, 2019 claiming he would not commit suicide before he was arrested, on June 24, 2021 he was found dead.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@HazelAppleyard_ Still not a woman

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@jk_rowling Common Rowling W

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@davidicke I choose Christ

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Steward bells began ringing, but it was hard to learn anything... the Titanic’s passengers began exploring for an answer...’

Walter Lord, A Night to Remember

🧵

[Koja @KojaTheWhale]

@underyahsgrace Dudes a WEF pawn

Only @MaximeBernier is a real G