Marek

Computers, math, Zcash

[Marek @upbqdn]

"Designed in California, assembled in China" is going to apply to software sooner than expected.

[Juraj Bednar @jurbed]

This guy is a fraud. Telegram messages stay unencrypted on their servers all the time. 99%.

(Well, encrypted with a hot key they know and use).

Easy proof - turn off your phone. Login on another device. Magic, your messages are there! Where do they come from?

[Marek @upbqdn]

@thefrankbraun Turnstiles

[Marek @upbqdn]

I looked at a photo of myself from ten years ago and thought "Yeah, I've been just stabilizing my APIs since then". Is this how being old feels?

[Marek @upbqdn]

@zooko ybndrfg8ejkmcpqxot1uwisza345h769

[Marek @upbqdn]

The folks are still around, though, and a new story was just born.

https://t.co/pUUHQtNEi4

[VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN @Vladcostea]

Paralelni Polis is dead

horrible news for bitcoin adoption in Europe

This was the first cafe to accept bitcoin payments in 2014

Had a coworking space where you could meet hackers & anarchists

Hosted hundreds of conferences & community meetups

Nurtured open source startups

Displayed the works of underground artists

Sold overpriced drinks and food that everyone gladly bought to support the movement

Even mobilized the community during the pandemic to have a huge remote conference with dozens of volunteering hosts and guests

If you were a bitcoiner who came to visit Prague, Paralelni Polis would let you sleep in their dorm for free. If no dorm was available, they had couches too

Now it’s dead.

Much like bitcoin adoption in Europe.

In the beginning, they would force all cafe customers to buy bitcoin to pay for the drinks.

There was a Bitcoin ATM at the entrance, but the employees would usually offer to trade bitcoin for cash in person to avoid the 10% fee.

In recent years, Paralelni Polis rebranded as Second Culture. Started accepting credit cards for payment, cut down on the number of events, faced an identity crisis that ultimately led to its demise.

Even some OGs who basically built the place didn’t want to visit anymore. Call it local drama and politics, but it was bad for everybody involved.

The worst of outcomes happened and bitcoin culture is now crippled.

I feel sorry for the newcomers who will never experience the joy of walking into this place to experience a true bitcoin economy. Heavily ideological, but somehow functional.

Now Paralelni Polis and its incumbent Institute of Cryptoanarchy are dead. What remains inside is an unplugged ATM and the Monero logo on the door – a hint that the dream of peer to peer electronic cash has moved elsewhere.

Now we never spend, shake hands with bankers and deny the existence of a second best while technically losing by every significant metric.

Good night, sweet prince!

[Marek @upbqdn]

@peter_szilagyi RDB in Rust has more problems than this. The compilation takes forever. The API is largely undocumented. You often end up guessing what you're doing. Why not redb?

[Marek @upbqdn]

Looks like this is going to work out
https://t.co/BXYjCn2EiO #defi

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[Marek @upbqdn]

@jurbed And foldables?

[Marek @upbqdn]

@mert This is being fixed on multiple fronts. By early enthusiasts, as usual.

[Marek @upbqdn]

@colludingnode tldr

[Marek @upbqdn]

Would be fun if we went the full circle and started writing just assembly again.

[Marek @upbqdn]

Monitors with GPUs in them when?

[Marek @upbqdn]

@DefuseSec They look nice on paper, but have chips on both sides, and cooling the bottom ones sucks.

[Marek @upbqdn]

The authors of Google, in their founding paper from 1998: " [...], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

https://t.co/b56NL6DjvF

[Zcash Media 🛡️ @zcashmedia]

Fixing the Web’s Greatest Problem

Our newest video explains the problematic business model (Surveillance Capitalism) dominating much of the digital world and explores whether two developing technologies (Web3 and Web 3.0) will fix this business model, or make things worse.

To make this complicated landscape as understandable as possible, we distilled ideas from a broad set of thinkers and builders including:

-@shoshanazuboff (Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism)
-@timberners_lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web, Web 3.0 pioneer, Co-Founder & CTO @inrupt)
-@tristanharris (Co-Founder @HumaneTech_)
-@Snowden (Director @FreedomofPress and NSA whistleblower)
-@cburniske (Partner @placeholdervc)
-@owocki (Founder @gitcoin)
-@profjasonpotts (Professor of Economics @BlockchainRMIT)
-@zooko (Co-Founder @zcash)
-@AmberBaldet (Co-Founder @GrowClovyr, Director @zcashfoundation)

While a 20 min. video cannot cover everything in this topic comprehensively, we hope it provides a clear overview of several important issues shaping the future of our digital world. Hope you enjoy!

This video was made possible with funding from @ZcashCommGrants and @Cryptopathic.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:07 Web 1.0
01:44 Web 2.0
02:41 Commercialization and Centralization of the Web
03:26 The Web’s Most Precious Resource
04:39 What is Surveillance Capitalism?
05:19 Surveillance Capitalism Business Model Explained
06:40 The Problem with Surveillance Capitalism
08:28 Can We Invent New Business Models For the Web?
09:12 Web3 and Web 3.0
12:42 What is Web3?
14:41 Web3 and Blockchain
15:26 Blockchain’s Major Flaw
17:30 What Every Solution to Surveillance Capitalism Needs to Consider
17:50 How Web3 Can Fix It’s Major Flaw
18:09 Why Zcash Represents a Solution to The Web’s Biggest Problem

[Marek @upbqdn]

@zooko How did people live before 2015?

[Marek @upbqdn]

@jurbed Having only one makes no sense. Every grown-up has two, but not for fault tolerance reasons. For that, you need three.

[Marek @upbqdn]

It's also the only benefit. PoW is PoS with extra steps leading to this benefit.

[@nutty.land / @[email protected] @nuttycom]

@EthosVentures Yeah, economies of scale are an absolute bastard. One benefit of proof of work is that because miners have to pay for ASICs and power, they’re usually forced to sell their coins.

[Marek @upbqdn]

@nuttycom Also, not wrapping them, but making them private.

[Marek @upbqdn]

@nuttycom Wrapping them in something private is just not letting the panopticonians control the narrative, which just as important.

[Marek @upbqdn]

@nuttycom way out, not of

[Marek @upbqdn]

@nuttycom When the surrounding environment is inflationary, the only rational choice is to borrow against ZEC, wait a bit, and do it again. Stablecoins do that. They're a way of.