Sridhar G

Sunlight + Mountain = Happiness

[Sridhar G @sginams]

@sabeer "Indians are copycats", and proceeds to promote his shitcoin called 'hotcoin'.. claiming it's like Bitcoin. wtf... Why not simply use Bitcoin? Why do you need "Hotcoin".

[Sridhar G @sginams]

Bro, why not put your energy on America and Americans and why do you have to bash beliefs of Indian people.

Even if you agree they are myth, many Indians do. There are many who believe Ramayana literally happened, which is fine, they are not on twitter to read your posts. So your posts cater to no one, unless you do it on ground.

These kind of posts do not help India, Indians, Americans, and literally no one. I'll take these as literal brain dump from someone trying to be "American" and "liberal", while wanting to show fellow Americans I'm not "Indian" anymore.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

@__Injaneb96 Very little infrastructure for other sports.

But we did have individual performers in many sports like Tennis, Boxing etc..

Consider the recent chess boom in India, which needs little infrastructure beyond coaches. At one point last year, we had 4 players in the top 10.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

@BerozgarSangh @sabeer You say give me the best I will give you my best.

Why not always give your best, for collective good?

[Sridhar G @sginams]

The main advantage IMO of bringing RWAs and other assets onchain is that accounting and compliance can become easy for governments and reporting companies, while unlocking more liquidity for end users.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

If the colonialists built infrastructure and it resulted in a loss for them, it was their risk and miscalculation, not because they were altruistic and wanted to build infrastructure for local population.

If anything, the infrastructure made their administration easier, they could collect more in taxes, extract and transport raw materials for cheap, while enslaving labourers and paying nothing, using violence and force on innocent native population, causing famines due to planting 'cash' crops forcefully, as opposed to food that local population can eat. These are just some of the atrocities.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It wasn’t.

With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.

And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

I believe we are yet to see the AI's impact on crypto.

AI agents might probably result in a DeFi Summer 2.0, and it's in the early stages IMO.

People are going to be burned anyways as it always has been in crypto.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

"Nations are not built by governments alone. They are built by citizens who believe they can make a difference." - nailed it.

An average Indian would disagree, but accountability, ownership are a real problem. An average Indian mind is a colonized mind that can't think beyond power, hierarchy, bureaucracy, governments, victimhood, etc.

'Freedom' is only on paper, the way of life has been the same, multiple generations. I do think a change in mindset is overdue, atleast with new generations.

But again, it's easy to comment this while living abroad.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

You have to agree because of the statement you made before, but many would disagree with that assessment, including me.

The contemporary similarities end with technology use, jobs available etc, and there is so much beyond that when it comes to culture.

By your logic, ancient vedic civilization and modern India are different, but you know we have those same rituals and practices even today.

There can be influence from other cultures, but there is a unique signature that can't be avoided. Only an ignorant person would say there is no continuity of Harappan culture in modern India.

Why do Western historians care about the existence of proto-Indo-European language at all if it didn't matter. Harappan / IVC matters to us Indians as do proto-Indo-European speaking civilization for Europeans.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

Will you agree that Western culture and Indian culture are similar today? If your answer is no, why would Mesopotomian culture and Harappan culture be similar back then?

Why make assumptions and statements about history than seeing cultural continuity that exists from then to present day?

[Sridhar G @sginams]

@DrDavidMiano @VinayakKishore There is resemblance of IVC culture in modern India, what difference do you find? Can you be specific?

[Sridhar G @sginams]

@hthieblot Gmail - started using it in 2004, still going strong.

But as a historical artifact- may be the milliondollarhomepage - a crazy idea.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

It's crazy! 15.3% improvement over Google's circuit in just a few days.

[Alex Pruden @apruden08]

One of the coolest things I've seen in a while (h/t @eigenlabs), and the clearest demonstration yet that AI is pulling Q-Day forward: a crowdsourced, open-research competition to optimize the Google ECDLP circuit, the best known approach for breaking ECDSA with a quantum computer.

In March, Google Quantum AI published a paper on the quantum threat to Bitcoin and other digital assets. Notably, they referenced, but did not reveal, the circuit used in their resource estimate. Instead, they used a zero-knowledge proof to show they had compiled it without revealing its layout.

Two months later, that circuit is no longer state of the art. On ecdsa dot fail, anyone can take a baseline circuit and try to beat the Google benchmark. The current leading submission doesn't just meet it; it exceeds it (as of this writing) by 13.3% on the core metric (logical qubits times Toffoli gates).

And these aren't results from a national lab or a leading technology company. Experts and amateurs are working side by side, including AI-driven "autoresearch" from people who aren't cryptographers. Even teenagers are participating.

Circuit design is only one piece. The same open, AI-assisted method can be aimed at error correction, decoding algorithms, and every other layer of the stack. Optimized in parallel, by anyone, continuously.

This is what the timeline debates keep missing. Q-Day doesn't depend on one breakthrough, at one company, on one roadmap. It's being chipped away at an accelerating rate by a distributed, disconnected group of people, both inside the industry and outside it.

It's a great demonstration of the power of AI to accelerate scientific progress, but also a reminder of the accelerationist reality we live in.

From a cybersecurity perspective, it means Q-Day timelines are only going to move up, not back, from here.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

I'm seeing a clear bifurcation in crypto at this point.

#Bitcoin - Decentralized store of value, an alternative to traditional assets.

#Ethereum - a home for tokenization, RWAs, stablecoins etc, doesn't fight the traditional financial system, but provides a new open layer for finance that traditional financial institutions can build on.

[V. Ramgopal Rao, Ph.D. @ramgopal_rao]

When asked about India's contributions to science, many go back thousands of years and speak about zero, ancient universities, metallurgy, or Ayurveda.

While those achievements are undoubtedly important, India's contributions to modern science are equally remarkable and far less appreciated.

What is fascinating is that many of these contributions emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when India was under colonial rule and had very limited scientific infrastructure.

Consider a few examples.

Jagadish Chandra Bose demonstrated millimetre wave wireless communication and developed one of the earliest semiconductor detectors. More than a century later, millimetre waves are at the heart of modern 5G and future 6G communication systems, while semiconductor devices underpin the entire digital economy.

Meghnad Saha developed the ionization equation, which made it possible to determine the temperature and chemical composition of stars from their spectra. Modern astrophysics, stellar evolution studies, plasma science, and even fusion research continue to rely on principles that emerged from his work.

Satyendra Nath Bose developed the statistical framework governing an entire class of particles now known as bosons. Lasers, superconductors, Bose-Einstein condensates, photonic technologies, and many emerging quantum computing platforms trace their origins to ideas he developed in a few pages written in Dhaka.

Upendranath Brahmachari developed Urea Stibamine, one of the first successful targeted treatments for a major infectious disease. Beyond saving countless lives from Kala Azar, his work helped establish the foundations of modern antiparasitic chemotherapy and drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases.

Prafulla Chandra Ray's contribution went far beyond discovering new chemical compounds. He demonstrated that scientific research could be translated into indigenous industrial capability. Through Bengal Chemicals, he laid some of the earliest foundations for science-driven manufacturing in India, a legacy that can be seen today in India's globally significant pharmaceutical industry.

These were not incremental advances. These were foundational contributions that shaped entire scientific disciplines and industries worth trillions of dollars today.

These foundational works also helped many receive Nobel Prizes later.

India has never lacked talent. Even under colonial rule, Indian scientists produced ideas that changed the world.

The challenge now is to build institutions that trust scientists, reduce bureaucratic friction, invest consistently in research, protect academic freedom, and create environments where transformative ideas can flourish.

If a colonized nation with limited resources could produce all this great science, one can only imagine what India can achieve if we fully unleash the talent that exists today.

We just need to empower 'real' scientists.

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[Sridhar G @sginams]

Hi all, my son is participating in this fundraiser run tomorrow.

https://t.co/qyoXJolpV7

If any of you are interested in donating to children with special needs, here is an opportunity.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

I can already imagine what's coming next....tax every citizen, whether a resident or not.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

I thought the Netherlands had a progressive and stable governance, but this is stupid.

Seriously considering moving out.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

I thought the Netherlands had a progressive and stable governance, but this is stupid.

Seriously considering moving out.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

NEW: Dutch Parliament Member Michel Hoogeveen explains how the 36% unrealized capital gains tax, just passed by the House of Representatives, will work.

Here is a more detailed example:

Step 1. Starting position
You own 500 shares.

Value on Jan 1, 2028: €50,000
Value on Jan 1, 2029: €100,000

So the paper gain is:

€100,000 − €50,000 = €50,000 unrealized profit

You did not sell. But for tax purposes, that €50,000 is treated as income.

Step 2. Apply exemption
You are married, so you get a €3,600 exemption.

€50,000 − €3,600 = €46,400 taxable amount

Tax rate: 36%

€46,400 × 36% = €16,704 tax bill

That bill is due in May, even though you never sold anything.

Step 3. Market falls before you pay
Now suppose by May the shares drop in value.

New total value: €60,000

So your portfolio is no longer worth €100,000. It’s worth €60,000.

But the tax bill is still €16,704, because it was calculated based on the January 1 valuation.

Step 4. You must sell shares to pay tax
To raise €16,704, you sell part of your shares.

After paying the tax, you’re left with:

€60,000 − €16,704 = €43,296

Originally you had 500 shares.
Now you have 360 shares left.

You were forced to sell 140 shares.

140 ÷ 500 = 28% of your shares gone.

Step 5. What happened economically?

Before the correction:
Paper gain was €50,000.

After the correction:
Portfolio is worth €60,000.
Original cost basis was €50,000.
Real gain is only €10,000.

But you paid €16,704 in tax.

So instead of being up €10,000, you are now:

€43,296 − €50,000 = €6,704 below your original starting value.

You turned a €10,000 real gain into a €6,704 net loss.

And you lost 28% of your shares permanently.

[Sridhar G @sginams]

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[Sridhar G @sginams]

I've built a state machine simulator. If you are working on designing a state machine / process, this can be very handy.

It's free and works in a browser. Allows you to simulate various paths in the flow and save them as tests for future use.

Try out and let me know your feedback. Link below

#simulation