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[Anpan🦇 @anpan02]

@0xfluid why can't I withdraw my USDC? Withdrawable amount is "0". Did you guys get hacked?

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

See a bunch of idiots saying Trump was going after Epstein and that's why he's in the files

If that were true you don't stack your entire admin full of Epstein people, give his accomplices lenient sentences and you sure as shit don't wish them well

https://t.co/dM5MnypAvd

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since 2017, I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why.

https://t.co/LerCobzgvo

First, the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg, who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions, but not the state (eg. user balances, smart contract code and storage):

> The messages are logged, but the state (e.g., UTXO) is implied, which means it is constructed by the computer internally, and then (can be) thrown away.

I was heavily against this philosophy, because it would imply that users have no way to get the state other than either (i) running a node that processed every transaction in all of history, or (ii) trusting someone else.

In blockchains that commit to the state in the block header (like Ethereum), you can simply prove any value in the state with a Merkle branch. This is conditional on the honest majority assumption: if >= 50% of the consensus participants are honest, then the chain with the most PoW (or PoS) support will be valid, and so the state root will be correct.

Trusting an honest majority is far better than trusting a single RPC provider. Not trusting at all (by personally verifying every transaction in the chain) is theoretically ideal, but it's a computation load infeasible for regular users, unless we take the (even worse) tradeoff of keeping blockchain capacity so low that most people cannot even use the chain.

Now, what has changed since then?

The biggest thing is of course ZK-SNARKs. We now have a technology that lets you verify the correctness of the chain, without literally re-executing every transaction. WE INVENTED THE THING THAT GETS YOU THE BENEFITS WITHOUT THE COSTS! This is like if someone from the future teleported back into US healthcare debates in 2008, and demonstrated a clearly working pill that anyone could make for $15 that cured all diseases. Like, yes, if we have that pill, we should get the government fully out of healthcare, let people make the pill and sell it at Walgreens, and healthcare becomes super affordable so everyone is happy. ZK-SNARKs are literally like that but for the block size war. (With two asterisks for block building centralization and data bandwidth, but that's a separate topic)

With better technology, we should raise our expectations, and revisit tradeoffs that we made grudgingly in a previous era.

But also, I have actually changed my mind on some of the underlying issues. In 2017, I was thinking about blockchains in terms of academic assumptions - what is okay to rely on honest majority for, when we are ok with 1-of-N trust assumption, etc. If a construction gave better properties under known-acceptable assumptions, I would eagerly embrace it.

On a raw subconscious level, I don't think I was sufficiently appreciative of the fact that _in the real world, lots of things break_. Sometimes the p2p network goes down. Sometimes the p2p network has 20x the latency you expected - anyone who has played WoW can attest to long spans of time when the latency spiked up from its usual ~200ms to 1000-5000ms. Sometimes a third party service you've been relying on for years shuts down, and there isn't a good alternative. If the alternative is that you personally go through a github repo and figure out how to PERSONALLY RUN A SERVER, lots of people will give up and never figure it out and end up permanently losing access to their money. Sometimes mining or staking gets concentrated to the point where 51% attacks are very easy to imagine, and you almost have to game-theoretically analyze consensus security as though 75% of miners or stakers are controlled by one single agent. Sometimes, as we saw with tornado cash, intermediaries all start censoring some application, and your *only* option becomes to directly use the chain.

If we are making a self-sovereign blockchain to last through the ages, THE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE CONUNDRUMS CANNOT ALWAYS BE "CALL THE DEVS". If it is, the devs themselves become the point of centralization - they become DEVS in the ancient Roman sense, where the letter V was used to represent the U sound.

The Mountain Man's cabin is not meant as the replacement lifestyle for everyone. It is meant as the safe place to retreat to when things go wrong. It is also meant as the universal BATNA ("Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement") - the alternative option that improves your well-being not just in the case when you end up needing it, but also because knowledge of it existing motivates third parties to give you better terms. This is like how Bittorrent existing is an important check on the power of music and video streaming platforms, driving them to offer customers better terms.

We do not need to start living every day in the Mountain Man's cabin. But part of maintaining the infinite garden of Ethereum is certainly keeping the cabin well-maintained.

[Anpan🦇 @anpan02]

@DonAlt Loomdart with a pump mechanism

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

No idea why so many people on my timeline defend the ICE killing
Wish I didn't have to see it on my timeline over and over again all day

You know you can be outraged about something fucked up someone belonging to an organization you support did, call for prosecution of said individual and still be supportive of the organization as a whole?
You guys realize removing such individuals is better for everyone, not worse?

Absolute cult behavior when you can't even do that anymore

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a powerful moment and huge rebuke of Donald Trump, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, just admitted it is Trump’s tariffs that are now raising Americans prices.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Netflix had enough cash to buy Warner Bros., but cried poor when we shared passwords with our mom.

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

"Please don't talk about it too much"
"It's the democrats"

Why would you want people to not talk about it if it's the Democrats in the files?
He has zero problem shitting on Democrats at any turn, why is he "defending" them in this one?

Right after: "It's a hoax"

Now what is it? You just said it's the democrats in it after begging not to talk about it
And now 5 seconds later it's made up?

Even the dumbest person on the planet can tell this is a liar scrambling
The question is, why is he lying?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

🚨 Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

[stokes @ralexstokes]

Fusaka is scheduled to activate on mainnet on December 3, 2025 at 21:49:11 UTC.

Check rest of thread for EF blog post for further details, and some highlights

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Just your weekly reminder Trump raped a 13-year old child.

It’s on record

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

The Trump family and friends are getting rich off of your misfortune

And you all still suck them off

Fascinating behaviour

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

If you ever listened to me, listen now:

Donald Trump has crashed the economy. This will be clear over the next months. He can't fix it. They've fucked it up that bad.

So now we're in for a terror storm of fake emergencies, fake crisis, manufactured wars & chaos to hide it all.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

🚨 Elon Musk has deleted this tweet.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Since last year’s election, the Trump family has nearly doubled its wealth to $10 billion. Trump alone has increased his wealth by $3 billion. This spells pure corruption.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking: The Trump administration just deleted a study by the National Institute of Justice that shows domestic terrorists are most often right-wing.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

RT if you believe @realDonaldTrump should order a FULL INVESTIGATION into Epstein’s illegal sexual trafficking from the last 30 years and get answers!