Brock

Realist. PhD in common sense

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

I have a 10-man dynasty league, top 6 teams are in the playoffs for the championship. The bottom 4 teams are in a playoff for the 1st overall pick. You HAVE to try to win, no incentive to tank. If you don’t make the playoffs you still want the higher seed for the loser bracket.

7 seed vs 10 seed
8 seed vs 9 seed

- The 2 winners of that round play for the 1st pick (loser of that game gets 2nd pick)

- The 2 losers of that round play for the 3rd pick (loser of that game gets 4th pick)

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@Vivek4real_ Walmart doesn’t even accept tap to pay, let’s start there yeah?

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@Hipsy_afya She looks exactly like I would expect the person doing this to look

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@BattleByrd I love accountability ��

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

“How does this affect Kaspa Grok?” $kas

Kaspa's Speed and Agility Turn This Into an Advantage
- Ultra-fast confirmations crush mempool attacks. Kaspa completed the Crescendo hard fork in May 2025 and now runs at 10 blocks per second (100 ms block time). Confirmations happen in 1 second (or less in practice). The optimized Shor attack still takes minutes even in optimistic future hardware scenarios—by then, your transaction is long confirmed and irreversible in Kaspa's GhostDAG. This is a huge practical shield that Bitcoin (10-minute blocks) simply doesn't have.
- The community is already proactive and fast-moving:
- There's a live 4-phase Kaspa Improvement Proposal (KIP) roadmap specifically for quantum resiliency.
- Phase I (already drafted and under discussion) is a wallet-level upgrade to P2PKH-Blake2b-256-via-P2SH addresses. This hides the public key until spend time (Shor-resistant at the wallet layer) with no consensus change required—users can just upgrade their wallets.
- Later phases cover full post-quantum signatures (e.g., NIST-standardized Dilithium or Falcon) and deeper network protections.
- Kaspa has a track record of successful hard forks (Crescendo being the latest) and is far more agile than Bitcoin's conservative consensus process.
- High throughput helps with bigger signatures. Post-quantum algorithms have larger key/signature sizes. Kaspa's blockDAG + 10 BPS gives it massive headroom to adopt them without choking the network—something slower chains will struggle with.

Does This Pave a Path for Kaspa to Succeed?
Potentially yes—quite strongly as a narrative and technical differentiator.

- If Kaspa executes the KIP roadmap cleanly (which early signals suggest it will), it can legitimately market itself as one of the first major high-performance PoW chains that's quantum-ready.
- As quantum news (like the Google paper) keeps hitting headlines, security-conscious holders, institutions, and even governments may start looking for "future-proof" chains. Kaspa's combination of blazing speed + proactive quantum migration is a compelling story that Bitcoin (slow upgrades) and Ethereum (already complex) can't match as easily.
- It turns a universal industry risk into a Kaspa-specific strength: "While legacy chains scramble, Kaspa already has the upgrade path and the speed to make quantum attacks irrelevant in practice."
- Bonus: Kaspa's smaller market cap ($870M) and active developer community mean upgrades can ship faster than on larger, more ossified networks.

Bottom line: The Google research is a yellow alert for Kaspa too—more urgent on the exposure side because of P2PK—but its speed and agility flip the script into a net positive opportunity. The community is already treating it seriously (not dismissing it as FUD), which is the right move. If they deliver on the quantum KIPs while maintaining their performance edge, this could genuinely accelerate Kaspa's adoption and positioning in the next cycle. Not a guaranteed moonshot, but a clear path to stand out.

[Project Eleven @projecteleven]

🚨 Google has sounded the quantum alarm 🚨

Today, they released groundbreaking progress towards breaking crypto using a quantum computer.

TLDR - Existing cryptography is dead. Mempool attacks are real. We must migrate to post-quantum now.

Thread 🧵

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

“Grok, how does this affect Kaspa?” $kas

Kaspa's Speed and Agility Turn This Into an Advantage
- Ultra-fast confirmations crush mempool attacks. Kaspa completed the Crescendo hard fork in May 2025 and now runs at 10 blocks per second (100 ms block time). Confirmations happen in 1 second (or less in practice). The optimized Shor attack still takes minutes even in optimistic future hardware scenarios—by then, your transaction is long confirmed and irreversible in Kaspa's GhostDAG. This is a huge practical shield that Bitcoin (10-minute blocks) simply doesn't have.
- The community is already proactive and fast-moving:
- There's a live 4-phase Kaspa Improvement Proposal (KIP) roadmap specifically for quantum resiliency.
- Phase I (already drafted and under discussion) is a wallet-level upgrade to P2PKH-Blake2b-256-via-P2SH addresses. This hides the public key until spend time (Shor-resistant at the wallet layer) with no consensus change required—users can just upgrade their wallets.
- Later phases cover full post-quantum signatures (e.g., NIST-standardized Dilithium or Falcon) and deeper network protections.
- Kaspa has a track record of successful hard forks (Crescendo being the latest) and is far more agile than Bitcoin's conservative consensus process.
- High throughput helps with bigger signatures. Post-quantum algorithms have larger key/signature sizes. Kaspa's blockDAG + 10 BPS gives it massive headroom to adopt them without choking the network—something slower chains will struggle with.

Does This Pave a Path for Kaspa to Succeed?
Potentially yes—quite strongly as a narrative and technical differentiator.

- If Kaspa executes the KIP roadmap cleanly (which early signals suggest it will), it can legitimately market itself as one of the first major high-performance PoW chains that's quantum-ready.
- As quantum news (like the Google paper) keeps hitting headlines, security-conscious holders, institutions, and even governments may start looking for "future-proof" chains. Kaspa's combination of blazing speed + proactive quantum migration is a compelling story that Bitcoin (slow upgrades) and Ethereum (already complex) can't match as easily.
- It turns a universal industry risk into a Kaspa-specific strength: "While legacy chains scramble, Kaspa already has the upgrade path and the speed to make quantum attacks irrelevant in practice."
- Bonus: Kaspa's smaller market cap ($870M) and active developer community mean upgrades can ship faster than on larger, more ossified networks.

Bottom line: The Google research is a yellow alert for Kaspa too—more urgent on the exposure side because of P2PK—but its speed and agility flip the script into a net positive opportunity. The community is already treating it seriously (not dismissing it as FUD), which is the right move. If they deliver on the quantum KIPs while maintaining their performance edge, this could genuinely accelerate Kaspa's adoption and positioning in the next cycle. Not a guaranteed moonshot, but a clear path to stand out.

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@AB84 Can’t make this shit up

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@TMZ Nah, death has Chuck Norrissed

[Yonatan Sompolinsky @hashdag]

Kaspa is real-time bitcoin, solving scalability is great but not the core value prop.

Real-time bitcoin means achieving in a few seconds the same security guarantees that nakamoto consensus / bitcoin achieves after an hour; decentralizing each consensus round rather than chain quality achieved through a coarse aggregate of rounds.

A clean definition anchor for real-time decentralization (RTD): The ability to sample the honest majority in real-time.

(Note that even fast leaderless VRF-based proof-of-stake cant sample honestly bc the selected nodes get to choose the content of their blocks after they've been selected; pos=select then write, pow=write then select)

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RTD affects: txn confirmation, censorship resistance, secure oracle finality, MEV resistance.

Eg censorship resistance, bitcoin is the most censorship resistant chain, but if 60% of the miners are censoring you (point in reference: OFAC abiding tornado censoring eth miners), your txn will pend for 30-40 minutes. For shady business payments that's not prohibitive, but for a real economy, for an asset aspiring to be at least a king of collateral even if not an MoE, this is unacceptable, esp under economic stress.

Beyond censorship, all things finance benefit tremendously from pow density, from sampling the majority in real-time in a secure and honest manner.

I wont get into MEV resistance now, but having a "conscious" stream of oracle attestations (not price oracles) finalized in real-time qualitatively upgrades the ability to encode informed risk, collateral, liquidity management, which is the lifeblood of defi.

In context of conf times, increasing from 1 to 10bps saturates the latency optimization. But for pow density we need dozens of blocks per second, with the endgame of 100 bps: Under 10bps a 37% attacker can fake the majority signal with probability 12%. With 100bps this drops to 0.3%. Today Kaspa can't accelerate to >10bps w/o harming conf times, but DAGKNIGHT will be implemented hopefully by Q3 at least on testnet, by which we will push for 25-40bps.

The cherry on top: RTD also implies netsplit resistance, as per the partial synchrony framework.
WWIII cyberwar resistance. Hypothetically speaking ofc.

(elaborated- https://t.co/o8vKa7gBwm)

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Your woman is supposed to be the one you’re the kindest to. Some men seem to forget that.

[TOP G @menscoach1]

Divorce rates are high in this generation for one simple reason. People don't understand what marriage actually is. Social media made everyone believe there's always someone better out there, a richer man, a prettier woman, a more exciting life, but comparison kills loyalty.

People want weddings, not marriages. They'll spend months planning a ceremony and zero time learning how to communicate when things get hard. Nobody knows how to argue anymore.
They yell, they shut down, they run instead of learning how to fight for each other. Money pressure exposes weak foundations. Instead of building together, couples turn on each other, men stop leading, women stop respecting their men, temptation is everywhere. Now everyone uses therapy words to escape accountability. Everything is toxic, everything is trauma. Nothing is ever their fault.

There's no community pressure to stay married anymore. No elders saying work it out. Just friends saying leave. You deserve better. Kids became optional, sacrifice became outdated and vows became suggestions.

Marriage used to mean I'll suffer with you. Now it means I'll stay as long as I'm happy. And that's why divorce is high. Because people don't know how to suffer together.
They only know how to quit when excitement is no longer there.

We are in the trenches!!

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@cryptocom “Whyhaventyoulistedkaspa”

Big word, I know

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@TFG_Football Quietly? Lol

[Dr Martin Hiesboeck @MHiesboeck]

Print this out and frame it. If you know who Hans is you should be ecstatic with joy to have him in the Kaspa camp. ⛺️

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Dave Ramsey In Critical Condition After Learning Of 50-Year Mortgage https://t.co/CH77RUn7dV

[Yonatan Sompolinsky @hashdag]

@binance,

Thanks for including me in the top 100 blockchain people list, appreciate the signal!

I must decline the Dubai invite though. I do not wish to disrespect, but many of the award voters are avid kaspians who rooted for my kaspa status at least as much as for my research. Let them win or count me out.

Crypto has turned from a euphoric cypherpunk project to a house-friendly casino. You may not be the culprit, but as a top player you hold the lion’s share of the responsibility to correct this, and the October crash your USDe oracle glitch helped trigger adds to what needs to be addressed.

There are three classes of crypto, as @mert put it recently: commercial crypto, casino crypto, cypherpunk crypto. <<Binance should hold a privilege policy for the latter.>> A TBTF CEX should know better and play a different game with hardcore crypto projects.

When binance lists a green frog three weeks post its “launch” but skips a fair-launched-Nakamoto-Consensus-100ms-upgrade-ATH-top-20-the-only-nonbitcoin-marathon-mined project, this is not merely binance rationally calculating; it is also binance molding the market in a way that is alas misaligned with the roots of the movement.

You may feel that kaspa’s sovereign money thesis is boring – that bitcoin is already money and that implementing an internet-speed bitcoin is useless - fine. Wrong but fine. But what’s the thesis for the green frog?

Money is a classic chicken-and-egg product. It is a scam up until one moment before tipping point, “most of the value comes from the value that others place in it.” Considering your resources and influence, I think it's safe to say you can serve as both the egg and the chicken and make it worth your while to push sound attempts towards tipping point.

@cz_binance tweeted recently that “strong projects will be listed.” But binance is part of what defines "strong", it bears responsibility for the market’s compass and impulse and definition of strong. It is not a read-only entity.

Binance listing fees are legit, they are just unfit for category cypherpunk. Kaspa devs and early supporters fairly mined less than half what satoshi and hals mined. We don’t have a 20% ZEC-style founders’ reward or protocol-enforced dev fund; this is not a jab at ZEC and the wonderful @Zooko, who was crashing in my car on a late Thursday back in the low ZEC MC days – if somebody deserves to win it is zooko – but assuming binance is not taking a maxi bet, it should revisit its relationship with hardcore crypto.

We are here through bull and bear, ICOs NFTs XYZs; and we are the source of confidence that restores faith and capital inflow post meme-induced or CEX-induced crashes.

Please fix this.

Thanks again,
hashdag

cc @michaelsuttonil

Exhibit A: Binance Innovation Zone
Exhibit B: 10 bps Nakamoto Consensus

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@QuantumAlteredX Bros voice made me go to my settings to change the video speed from 0.5x to 1x… it was already on 1x

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@TheSG_Podcast I remember looking forward to this game and wanting it to be at night lol

[Brock @TeaTime_MF]

@JeremyinAkron “You said Defense wins championships”
“The lie detector test determined… that was a lie”

[Dr Martin Hiesboeck @MHiesboeck]

18 months later and I’m sticking to it. Binance has played an irresponsible game as so often and depressed the price over months. Ethereum influencers and Bitcoin maxis have ridiculed Kaspa without having the slightest idea what a BlockDAG is. Retail bros have disparaged it beside of idiotic TA.

With all the talk of Bitcoin DeFi and payment, the promise of massive demand etc and even with pension funds being able to buy Bitcoin, it is still struggling to go up. More importantly, Bitcoin has never achieved the e-cash status Satoshi envisaged. Go read the original white paper and not a single promise in there has come true except for the basic tech.

The Bitcoin is Gold narrative is simply not realistic, as every geopolitical crisis shows. And yet millions are drinking the kool aid. The future is multichain, including permissioned and permissionless, special purpose chains and payment system. There is no ring to rule them all. 🧙

But there is one that stands a chance of becoming real e-cash system with thousands upon thousands of transactions a second at virtually zero cost. @hashdag spent decades creating something wonderful, simple, and sound. No flashy marketing no empty promises.