Zcash just proved every concern Bitcoiners have had.
Three actors froze billions of dollars overnight. Forced through a hard fork without telling anyone. Four-year-old infinite inflation bug. ZEC down 40%.
Meanwhile, 160 ex-spooks signed a letter to expand the Patriot Act to crypto via the CLARITY Act.
Today's Brief breaks it all down.
https://t.co/UtrrT9fpvJ
@udiWertheimer@EliBenSasson No different than having all your value in any other singular asset- there’s a distinct canyon between crypto and even ground-level financial advice. Is easy to start at first principles: Diversity is Critical
@WatcherGuru Imagine paying millions to top-tier human security firms for audits over the last 4 years, only for Claude to casually scan it and find an infinite money glitch. Crypto security is about to change forever after this.
Single Crystal CVD Diamond
Have no doubt, you are at the dawn of an industrial revolution. There is a string of breakthroughs happening throughout upstream industries that all compound.
Diamond manufacturing is now able to produce CPU size single crystals wafers.
Currently these are marketed as heat spreaders because they have thermal conductivity of 2,200 W/mK which means they move heat incredibly effectively.
However, that somewhat misses the wood for the trees…
Diamond has physical and electrical properties that exceed traditional silicon, making it uniquely suited for high demand applications.
Thermal Conductivity: Heat is the enemy of electronics. Diamond conducts heat better than almost any other known material, about 5 times better than copper and over 10 times better than silicon.
A diamond chip can act as its own heat sink.
Ultra Wide Bandgap: Diamond can handle massive amounts of voltage and operate at incredibly high temperatures without electrical breakdown.
This makes it perfect for high power applications like electric vehicle inverters, power grids, and aerospace technologies.
High Frequencies: Electrons move very quickly through diamond, allowing chips to operate at much higher frequencies, which is ideal for advanced telecommunications and radar.
Radiation Hardness: Diamond is incredibly resilient to radiation, making diamond based chips ideal for satellites, space exploration, and nuclear facilities.
To make a material act as a semiconductor, you have to "dope" it. To do this you inject impurities into the crystal lattice to create a positive (p-type) or negative (n-type) charge.
Diamond's atomic structure is so tightly packed that forcing other elements into it is hard. While p-type doping (with boron) has been figured out, reliable n-type doping (with phosphorus) remains a massive hurdle.
Theoretical ceilings
Band gap
Silicon wafer = 1.1 eV
Diamond CVD wafer = 5.5eV
Clock speed
Silicon wafer = 5-6 GHz clock wall
Diamond CVD wafer = 1-2 THz clock wall
Max Running Temp
Silicon wafer = 150°C
Diamond CVD wafer = 1,000°C
Whilst we etch silicon with photolithography and Extreme UV light, this doesn’t really work with chemically inert diamond.
Diamond CVD is currently etched with oxygen plasma etching, but this lacks the precision of EUV.
However, we can etch diamond to extreme precision with electron projection lithography. EPL was invented in the 90s by Bell Labs, IBM and Nikkon but abandoned as it was harder than EUV.
Electrons repel each other so the beams blurrs too readily.
What if we built a femto electron beam?
What if we built it to extreme such that it was a ‘single electron’ pulse?
What if we build a microscopic "bed of nails" containing millions of nanoscale tungsten or silicon tips (photocathodes). You shine a massive, highly complex femtosecond laser system across the entire array.
Every time the laser pulses, millions of tiny tips each fire a single, perfectly straight electron at the exact same time.
Turns out, research teams at likes of MIT and Stanford are currently experimenting with exactly this, laser driven nanotip electron emitters.
Pair that tool with Diamond CVD substrate tech and we approach the material limits of both semiconductors and nanotechnology.
Would require asynchronous logic to escape fatal clock skew and operate at full capability.
But I think I will live to see it.
@sethforprivacy@fluffypony Cake and Vik have been in the game for a lot longer than ZODL, I mean Zashi. As i type this i remember the need to get rid of the HODL mindset and in to the TRANSACT mindset…
One of the more striking features of the current slavery conversation is how much of the actual historical record has to be edited out before the preferred story can feel coherent.
You can tell the approved version because it begins in 1619 and ends with a present-day invoice. Everything before that ... thousands of years of the same practice across every inhabited continent ... gets treated as background noise or, more often, simply left off the page.
The attributes now presented as uniquely American (hereditary status, people treated as collateral, children born into ownership) turn out to be standard features of slave systems from Babylon onward.
The ancient Greeks had philosophers calmly explaining why some humans were naturally suited to be property. The Romans built an entire entertainment industry around the disposal of the enslaved. None of this is hidden information; it just isn’t useful to the narrative that requires American slavery to stand alone as a singular moral catastrophe.
What also tends to disappear is any discussion of how slave societies actually performed once you move past individual fortunes. The regions that leaned most heavily into the institution were rarely the ones that developed broad prosperity or dynamic economies.
Free labor regions tended to pull ahead. This pattern shows up repeatedly when you stop treating slavery as an American invention and start treating it as the widespread, long-running human default that it was.
The selective focus serves a purpose. Once the story is narrowed to one country and one era, the political conclusion becomes much easier to reach: the wealth that exists today must be the direct result of that earlier exploitation, and therefore permanently transferable.
Broader history makes that conclusion harder to sustain, which is probably why broader history receives so little airtime.
The version that survives is the one that keeps the moral ledger simple and the bill collector busy.
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@TheProjectUnity Theres no “hint”- across the galaxy the likelihood of other “life” is high- but across time, either they came and went a long time ago or “we” are “them”.
@FenixAmmunition Yeah- thin MX gloves- i also use them for driving something with an alcantara wheel. Also Milwaukee makes some thin stretchy anti-cut gloves that seem like they would work well
@SoveyX Sorry, one more correction I’m seeing now you said two years ago so in the US for 30 year fixed that was 7-8%. Paying it off as a guaranteed seven or 8% return, which is not bad
@SoveyX I should add, I’m assuming you’re on a standard fixed term loan. If you’re on an arm or something or one of those weird Canadian things, then it’s a different calculus.
@SoveyX If your loan is a favorable low percent, one, don’t aggressively pay it off. Use the extra income to invest. It’s a simple equation: paying off the loan as a guaranteed return, can you make a better return by doing that or investing in the market for example?