misery

Core @optimist | The Tree Grows | ex @messaricrypto

[misery @zcb_spec]

This, my wife, kids, some dogs, cows, ducks, and a max-eff Theatre of Blood team on demand

[misery @zcb_spec]

All the templar rug did was provide entries for those with eyes to see. Iota 100B run, Score institutional partnerships, targon maxed out demand, and a plethora of other subnets kicking ass.

Just getting started

[Greg Schvey @GSchvey]

I've been digging into the @MacrocosmosAI @IOTA_SN9 100B parameter pretraining run to understand what it is (or isn't) and potential implications.

My honest assessment below in case its helpful for others:

[misery @zcb_spec]

@capradavis @UnsupervisedCap @Old_Samster @bloomberg_seth That's my QUANT

[Chris Davis @capradavis]

Extremely excited to announce that I’ve joined @UnsupervisedCap to invest alongside @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth in what I believe is the most meaningful movement in decentralized technology.

In hindsight, becoming a believer was inevitable. At the heart of the Bittensor thesis is the idea that crypto is, and has always been, a highly optimized global coordination engine. That idea is what originally drew me into the crypto industry, and the one that has kept me here for the past five years. Bitcoin proved the idea works for running cryptographic algorithms. Bittensor extends it to any objective with a reliable reward function.

My long term conviction is that Bittensor will coordinate intelligence on an unimaginable scale, fueling a virtuous cycle that pulls immense amounts of capital and talent into our industry while erasing years of reputational damage done by opportunistic actors who were never aligned with the foundational ideology crypto was built on. After that who knows - but you gotta start somewhere.

If you want to chat about anything and everything Bittensor, my DMs are open.

[misery @zcb_spec]

@0xkeet @yomme639 oMo twin

[misery @zcb_spec]

Thank you so much @yomme639 for my own personal mi note :)

Asuka w/ Longinus - Evangelion

[misery @zcb_spec]

@TrushiMC https://t.co/JmVzx7Twtz

[layla @TrushiMC]

never stop gambling 🙏

[misery @zcb_spec]

Everyones piling into zec this time except with leverage and the shielded pool is frozen idk if i like this scenario

[misery @zcb_spec]

@tulipking @crypto_condom please enlighten us should you have the time

[misery @zcb_spec]

@hellojintao You really are the best at this

[misery @zcb_spec]

You have to assume this gap continues to close. Past 12 months Q-day has come forward multiple years.

It would take months for the afflicted coins to move out of vulnerable wallets at max network capacity. And thats assuming perfect cooperation.

Then we have to worry about satoshis supply being up for grabs…

Some pretty tough headwinds for $btc

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

[misery @zcb_spec]

@AvgJoesCrypto @UniswapAuctions @octra Great stuff per usual sir

[misery @zcb_spec]

@JW100x @UmbraPrivacy @SolRouterAI @zerion The cloud grows

[Pine Analytics @PineAnalytics]

@UmbraPrivacy, a privacy-focused payments app on @solana, moved from a TestFlight beta to a public App Store release on May 30. The app handles ordinary wallet functions — sending and receiving tokens — but its defining feature is shielded transfers: users deposit assets into shared on-chain pools and can then send or withdraw to other wallets in a way that severs the public link between sender and receiver. Because funds are commingled in the pool, an observer can see money enter and leave but cannot reliably match a withdrawal to the deposit that funded it.

The pools currently support seven assets: USDC, USDT, SOL, Umbra's native UMBRA token, a cash-like token, and two tokenized equities — Tesla (TSLAx) and an S&P 500 product (SPYx) — letting users route stablecoins, SOL, and tokenized stocks through the same privacy layer.

On-chain, value locked across the pools has grown from near zero in March to roughly $460K as of June 1, though it's concentrated: the native UMBRA token accounts for about 73%, with USDC, USDT, and SOL making up most of the rest. Weekly flows show roughly $1.2M deposited against $800K withdrawn since late March with deposits exceeding withdrawals in most weeks.

[misery @zcb_spec]

@Sailorlolita145 @yomme639 mi note

[misery @zcb_spec]

If youve been fading my schizo rants about harnesses until this point - heres some credence

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

We have been working closely with @nvidia to ensure Hermes Agent works smoothly on their new @NVIDIARTXSpark superchip and integrates with the new OpenShell runtime, which connects Hermes to @Microsoft's security primitives.

Watch our feature in the big announcement at Computex:

[Max @MaxScore]

today a nasdaq listed company, @oblong_inc, invested in @manakoai and partnered with us on north america.

that effectively puts us in front of the entire american market

first pwc, now this, and more major names to come that we can't talk about yet

physical ai, running on @webuildscore sn44

to celebrate it we'll activate perpetual conviction lock on $1m worth of sn44 today

we're just getting started

[milian (ARX MODE) @milianstx]

A moment many have been waiting for.

The best privacy UX is now live on the App Store.

[Arcium ☂️ @Arcium]

It’s finally here.

Umbra, now live on the App Store, powered by Arcium.

[misery @zcb_spec]

more i consider humanoids potential more i recognize they're pretty much americas only hope for reclaiming manufacturing independence all things considered