Just in time before my trip to Berlin ✈️ to meet the team of @Igra_Labs i’ve successfully finished setting up my own node $KAS
It took me exactly 2 minutes with the help of AI.
kaspa:native when in doubt, zoom out.
And, study the actual tech currently worth just under a billion dollars. Adoption comes next, which will make us rich or live quite comfortably.
#Kaspa is not a gamble but an investment.
Simply HODL for it.
Buying $KAS in the 3–5¢ range is significantly undervalued.
I know most Kaspa holders are deeply underwater right now — myself included. My average entry is around 7.5¢.
But instead of panicking, I’m accumulating more aggressively than ever, lowering my average entry along the way.
The conviction hasn’t changed. If anything, it’s stronger.
And so is the community.
The Kaspa community is one of the strongest in crypto, and I believe we’re still early. From here, it only grows stronger.
#Kaspa
Strongly considering just being a
$KAS account these days, trading and occasional ads for business.
Really enjoying trading and Kaspa is Kaspa, enough said.
The $KAS Toccata Hard Fork will probably be the only pleasant event in the market this month
At least the tech will advance
It's still unclear if BTC could become digital gold, but I'm personally sure that Kaspa can become digital silver (and actually be used for payments)
Tomorrow it's finally time for the first community hangout!
Kaspa Under the Hood: Setting the Stage for vProgs
Grab a beer, coffee, tea, or whatever keeps you going, and join us for the first regular Kaspa community hangout.
We will start with a high-level presentation of the upcoming vProgs architecture and Kaspa’s next stages of development. Since the architecture is extensive, this first session is meant to set the stage for future deep dives.
The presentation is meant to be accessible to people with different technical backgrounds. We will take things step by step, build up the necessary context, and gradually develop a shared understanding of Kaspa’s architecture, trade-offs, and long-term vision.
After that, we will move into a relaxed open discussion where people can ask questions, share ideas, and talk about anything interesting: Kaspa, decentralized infrastructure, incentives, technology, philosophy, or the future of humanity.
Bring your ideas and questions, grab a drink, and join the conversation!
https://t.co/dDIudhbwCG
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.