#Kaspa has such a strong and united community that I feel like even if #Binance and other exchanges don’t support it, Kaspa enthusiasts would still use $kas out of sheer stubbornness and mutual love, instead of any fiat currency. 💚🫶
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.
Feature freeze is here for Toccata! This means that no further consensus rule changes will be made as preparations are being made for the Toccata hard fork.
Toccata is going to bring loads of features to Kaspa such as ZK proofs, Programmable UTXOs, and more!
Toccata consensus feature freeze is finally here after a heroic last-mile push by kas core devs.
Aiming to reset TN12 tonight, or tomorrow at the latest.
Genesis update:
+ 0x6b617370612d746573746e6574 // kaspa-testnet
- 12, 2 // TN12, Launch 2
+ 0x544f4343415441 // TOCCATA
+ 12, 3 // TN12, Launch 3
@Grayscale@realvijayk arigato gozaimasu!
if Kaspa army showed up here, think how they'll show up when you provide a KAS digital asset..
by mid june Kaspa OP_CAT++ Bitcoin. worth the attention _/\_
fed the Google whitepaper to Claude with the prompt:
"take a look at the Google paper, pick out the key parameters, and give me your analysis of the relative strengths, weakness and adaptability for both Bitcoin and Kaspa in table form"
there's literally no parameter for which $KAS Kaspa is not superior, security wise
the narrative for the past few years, that somehow $BTC is more secure as a POW chain, has now gone out the window in face of the quantum threat
"Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 7pm"
every. fucking. day.
was about to pay $200 for Max. then I read this article
98.5% of tokens - wasted
you're not paying for answers. you're paying for Claude to re-read its own homework 30 times
spent months blaming Anthropic for being greedy. turns out the problem was how I write prompts
5 minutes of reading
basic plan now handles more than my old Max
I sometimes see the suggestion here that Russians don't like Americans. But let's not forget that the Tula Sugar Factory released white sugar in commemorative packaging in honor of Trump's election 😁