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Gnosis VPN is the first web3-era VPN powered by
@hoprnet
for
@GnosisDAO
Here is a TLDR of my
@dappcon_berlin
talk. Instead of slides check out
Bonus track: a new user data fingerprinting method that you didn't see coming!
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A Silicon Valley Meetup uninvited me as a speaker because I'm working on privacy and their sponsor (a major exchanges) found the topic too risky
Tell me that crypto in the US is not entirely fucked
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Knock knock anon, who's watching you?
Correct, your RPC provider
We made so that you can watch them watching you
Here's 3.5 surprises 👇
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Frens & anons, I didn't want this to get buried in a long thread so let's make it official:
In light of GIP-98 to build Gnosis VPN, I joined Gnosis as VP Technology to align & strengthen the individual
@gnosischain
projects with a strong focus on decentralization & privacy
Gnosis VPN is the first web3-era VPN powered by
@hoprnet
for
@GnosisDAO
Here is a TLDR of my
@dappcon_berlin
talk. Instead of slides check out
Bonus track: a new user data fingerprinting method that you didn't see coming!
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Read this if you want to understand
- MEV
- proposer builder separation (PBS)
- MEV-boost
- The difference between searchers, builders, relays, proposers
- what it has to do with censorship
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Everyone dunking on
@TornadoCash
is dunking on the core values of crypto & web3: empowering the individual
Decentralization is making things **WORSE** if we don't fix privacy for good!
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Imagine you're so degen that you accidentally went full circle on being as sexist as Wall Street
These aren't the values of the Web3 & DeFi wonderland that I work for
Early Christmas for Yearn Partners
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@AlchemixFi
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@0xjjpa
@infura_io
@AlchemyPlatform
@TornadoCash
A friend of mine just tested sending a tx via Etherscan to a listed address via a custom Infura endpoint and received this
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This weekend I upgraded my
@DAppNode
to run an Ethereum mainent archive node, it's pretty straightforward but since several people were curious here's a how-to thread:
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Ethereum gas prices still ridiculously low, wat do?
This is the perfect time to set up your accounts on
@TornadoCash
Nova and move your $ETH into a shielded pool from which you can move arbitrary amounts to other addresses without doxing your privacy
Wait, since when did Coinbase stop giving you newly derived addresses every time you generate a receive address?
This is a dox nightmare now.
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Short 🧵 on
#EIP4626
: the tokenized vaults standard that will be used by everyone & their mom
Authored by the finest sers
@joey__santoro
(
@feiprotocol
)
@transmissions11
(
@paradigm
)
@JetJadeja
(
@RariCapital
)
@alcueca
(
@yield
)
@fubuloubu
(
@ApeFramework
)
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@cobie
That's exactly what we're building with RPCh: it enables wallets to send RPC requests through the HOPR mixnets to unlink user IPs from RPC servers - privacy even against strong adversaries
More here:
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Now I just hope that the most powerful nation on the planet will not just make another marketing move at the expense of the life of a young nerd with the right value compass 💔
#StandWithTornadoDevs
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Craaaazy new exploit on smart wallets via BLS aggregations that
@ethzed
from
@sigp_io
presented today at
@summit_defi
You can provide a malicious pub key that sets the whole aggregation to zero and thereby validate anything 😲🤯
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The irreversible damage that Flashbots has done to Ethereum is worse than I had expected
A top staker told me today how their entire firm hates censorship but to them, explicitly choosing an alternative to an easily availability OFAC compliant service is high risk activity
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Hello World
@GnosisDAO
!
This is a huge endorsement for years of hard work dedicated to building privacy infrastructure 🙏
It's also a huge task to now actually deliver privacy to the Gnosis ecosystem. Myself & the entire
@hoprnet
team couldn't be more excited to start, LFG 🚀
GnosisDAO has decided on a combined investment of US$1.5M and 500 GNO tokens in
@hoprnet
, a pioneer in providing fully private, uncensorable data exchange between peers, to undertake the development of the fully decentralised GnosisVPN.
Let's have a look details and more↓
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Since there's a bit of hype around $HOPR let me give you my max bullish thesis for
@hoprnet
To be clear, I'm not focused on price, but privacy. I hear people say "why does the founder of a token project that I hold not care about price action?!". Because in all sustainably
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How much money would you need to be promised before you’d sign this? (Relative to your wallet balance)
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Ethereum has burned 50% ($860m) of all $ETH issued since EIP1559 was activated one month ago
🔥🤯🚀
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Why aren't ENS + IPFS deployments not the canonical UI for basically any [d]app?
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I think it's fair to say that Solana unlocked a quite impressive engineering achievement here
Why is nobody taking exactly that VM implementation and replaces the consensus with an Ethereum L2? What am I missing?
During the
@MadLadsNFT
mint
@solana
had hundreds of thousands of requests.
During that entire minute (23:20 UTC) not a single spike in failed txs on DeFi platforms like
@ZetaMarkets
and gas costs still remained at a fraction of a cent. Fee markets and spam prevention at work!
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#zkKYC
frens. I am a relentless privacy maximalist, so I NEED YOU to disagree with me on something:
[🚨trigger warning🚨]
zkKYC is not compliant with the requirements of regulated financial entities and their partners
Here's the problem:
Regulated financial entities such as
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For anyone building Ethereum dapp frontends: I know, it's your job to protect your users, scams are rampant and users are stupid
But PLEASE don't warn users about privacy tools
Interacting with mixers is what I'd expect an increasing number of privacy-aware users to do. Showing
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A hill I'm willing to die on:
A 24 word seed phrase is the essence of personal self-custody
Outsourcing custody to someone w a "business model" or another "trust model" is the wrong move
Teaching 16 year olds how to secure their wallet is the way to a self sovereign society
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ipfs://hoprnet.eth 🥰
I can't describe how happy it makes me to see this link and all that it entails actually load a page on a mobile browser
5+ years of permissionless innovation by many projects & teams enabled non-tech people to now access the
#web3
*natively*
Today, the
#privacyFirst
and decentralized
#web3
is more needed than ever
Today
@opera
brings it to retail users, not just nerds
Today you have a choice to support autocratic corporations & governments or a more efficient and free tomorrow
#ipfs
#privacy
#decentralization
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Just ordered an 8TB NVMe to upgrade my
@DAppNode
to run an Ethereum archive node
What do people want to know and what should I monitor during the sync process?
(bonus question: how do I do that on DAppNode?)
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Web3 privacy bro 😂
just built a fully automated Wojak meme generator in Glif in 5 min:
Claude 3.5 block generates the meme as JSON
ComfyUI block uses a Wojak Lora to generate a fitting image
JSON extractor + Canvas Block ties it all together
input "AI entrepreneur" 💀
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Let's start with the winners
@compoundfinance
@dydxprotocol
@WrappedBTC
@Bancor
@loopringorg
@ddexio2018
@TornadoCash
(kinda relieved!)
@melonprotocol
&
@avantgardefi
(literally none, amazing!)
@xdaichain
They do NOT track users via Google Analytics or alike
#PrivacyFirst
👏🙏😘
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Running your own node increases resilience of Ethereum - "herd immunity" as
@VitalikButerin
likes to call it
The HOPR (and Ethereum!) hardware node is our contribution to that, and soon you'll even earn money with it
Order here:
NEW:
@hoprnet
's hardware nodes will let individuals validate transactions on the Ethereum blockchain – without any reliance on cloud servers controlled by Amazon and Alibaba.
@IanAllison123
reports
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Hate to get back to that conversation with
@KyleSamani
how "running a node at home achieves nothing"
Running a node at home is what allows you to enforce censorship resistant money when Uncle Sam comes after your provider
It's happening.
@infura_io
and
@AlchemyPlatform
are now blocking RPC requests to
@TornadoCash
Centralized RPC services are one of the cancers that undermine the core benefits of crypto.
As long as they dominate the market, no protocol is truly permissionless.
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Don't let
@peter_szilagyi
see this - the "I told u so" will be out of this world
With BNB @ $600, 7GWei gas and 90k gas, a Pancake swap is now around $0.4
Lack of innovation came to eat this free lunch, but hey let's fix it with 200m block gas limit 😱
No,
#PancakeSwap
isn't slow, BSC is just overloaded right now.
We also have an ATH number of people using the site.
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So Ethereum can be used for a lot of great things but who can name a payment processor which we can easily integrate into the checkout of a web2 app that ACTUALLY WORKS?
I'm a simple guy and want no rocket science, but:
1. pay in ETH / USDC on mainnet and ideally on
@gnosischain
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Has anyone given
@MetaMask
kudos for being THIS transparent about where you leak metadata or is any other wallet being this honest to their users and giving them such optionality? 🫡♥️🙏
BTW all these services off by default pls!
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So this week we learned that:
- centralized servers go down
- centralized data vaults get breached
- centralized counterparties disrupt operations
It's almost like we should actually decentralize things🤔
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@redphonecrypto
@asteroidxyz
But for information to actually flow in a censorship resistant resilient manner it must be anonymous -
@hoprnet
providers that, for example for Gnosis VPN:
Gnosis VPN is the first web3-era VPN powered by
@hoprnet
for
@GnosisDAO
Here is a TLDR of my
@dappcon_berlin
talk. Instead of slides check out
Bonus track: a new user data fingerprinting method that you didn't see coming!
1/17
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Next bull market you *will* be priced out of using Ethereum L1. You don't want $ETH to be 🦇🔊 before L2s are ready for show time, anon!
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Will GnosisVPN prevent censorship?
I'm glad you asked! Let's dive into what censorship even means here and if GnosisVPN (that was approved last week by
@GnosisDAO
to be built) will help
Spoiler: Yes, it will :)
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GnosisDAO has decided on a combined investment of US$1.5M and 500 GNO tokens in
@hoprnet
, a pioneer in providing fully private, uncensorable data exchange between peers, to undertake the development of the fully decentralised GnosisVPN.
Let's have a look details and more↓
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The prevalence of maximally invasive tracking even in deeply web3-minded teams is concerning 🤮
Dogfooding our decentralized dream starts with YOUR marketing team 🤷
Privacy is a fundamental value of the next web, if we won't live those values, who will?!
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Ethereum gas prices going mad again
Don't wanna blindly trust
@ETHGasStation
?
Then try - 100% decentralized :)
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I do feel tempted to join the Flashbots dunking BUT maybe we should simply see OFAC as just another player who entered the MEV game
Now that we know this, let's not shit on each other but get back to designing mechanisms improving the game
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I ❤️ that $HOPR is not just a top20
@Uniswap
pool (ahead of $MKR 🤓) but also starts picking liquidity on
@Honeyswap
on the refreshingly cheap
@xdaichain
Yes, liquidity is still 1000x higher on Uni but I have a feeling that will change more and more towards Honeyswap
🦄 ➡️ 🐝
🦄 HOPR Dai is top 20 Uniswap pool
💰️ 100% of funds plus fees moved from Balancer to Uniswap
🤯 $35m liquidity, $13m 24h volume
➡️
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@ArkhamIntel
My job is literally to make your life harder. Thank you for giving me another reason to get up in the morning!
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Shoutout to
@0xframe
for shipping an ever more private wallet 👏
Now Frame is not leaking your ETH address in RPC requests anymore before you actually added the account
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Let's trim the overgrowing dark forest by being mindful about privacy when designing web3 products
Thank you 😘
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I am once again asking for a VC to fund a local-first Etherscan clone so at least the next generation of Ethereum users isn't all skewed by the second biggest data harvesting machine of all Ethereum (the biggest one being RPC providers)
I am once again asking for a VC to fund an etherscan clone so we aren't all skewed if etherscan gets hit by a bus
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$NODE by our frens at
@DAppNode
got rekt - really sorry for everyone involved!
Rarely met a team that's more committed to the true mission of web3, so I'm certain they'll push through this and come out stronger than ever!
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I'm happy that everyone's iPhone is getting an AI
I'm concerned about the societal, political & economic impact of two corporations who never had any individual's well being at heart to now see, store & say more than you - or even your government
I will continue building
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At what point will
@newmichwill
actually bail out
@CreditSuisse
? I totally do want to see the day that the
@CurveFinance
logo is framing Paradeplatz
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I see a ~20% chance for $ETH to *completely* unreasonably rip this cycle
That happens when every mid brain on Wall St understands that ETH is ultrasound money
🦇🔊 is an incredibly Wall St-able meme
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Ok I'm gonna say it:
Crypto is a joke until we 100x our collective level of giving a fuck about absolutely anything
Crypto is a joke as long as it's ok for everyone to just ghost anyone
Crypto is a joke as long as the "CEO" (weren't you anti corporate?!) thinks they are the
#1
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So the Medalla Testnet has issues because people don't care to keep their validator nodes online
That simply teaches us that we cannot simulate a crypto economic network without economic incentives
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@haydenzadams
Extremely weird & far fetched idea:
A Uniswap UI that does not violate user privacy and is actually decentralized - not theater
@MicahZoltu
@koeppelmann
@safe
@Uniswap
Here some best-off from the latest IPFS deployment of Uniswap:
This "decentralization" achieves nothing but false appearance - I mean, literally including Google tracking over IPFS 😵😵💫😲👏🤯
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@rstormsf
@el33th4xor
@crododile
@avalancheavax
Still, I find it a bit ironic that I have to trust someone's claim that "this key was created in a secure enclave and nobody had access to it"
Wasn't this whole space built on the premise of avoiding such trust assumptions?
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Prrrrrroud owner of a
#MoonCat
!
Thank you for the adoption
@BokkyPooBah
- it will have a lovely home here and next to my
#BastardPunk
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@gitcoin
This is the final step in the Gitcoin Builder grant application. Many users will most certainly sign this without a second thought, lowering their guard for future attacks. Can we fix this ASAP, please?
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Ok fuck this all, this is just too much
Fuck all centralized exchanges
Fuck all crypto news sites
Fuck all influencers
From now on the only thing I'll trust is code and data that I can obtain locally
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Full stack privacy is normal!
⬅️ Transport privacy via HOPR protects any crypto wallet via
@RPC_h_
from RPC providers, ISPs, hosters & many autonomous systems to spying on you
➡️ on-chain privacy via
@TornadoCash
shields your txs from anyone who can read Etherscan
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Crypto markets are harsh & I'm sad to see many people getting laid off. But one of the best teams & products is hiring and growing.
Check out many open positions at
@safe
- I'm a big fan, committed user and tiny backer, I'd apply if I'd not work on HOPR:
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I'm now 7 years in crypto and the
@hoprnet
community is hands down the craziest crypto crowd ever 🥳
We DIDN'T ANNOUNCE ANY SALE but everyone is already lobbying for the fairest launch ever - I think you'll love tomorrow... 😘
#AllWalletsMatter
#TestnetWalletsToWhitelist
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@coffeencrypt0
The biggest danger to Bitcoin are the currently loudest voices in the Bitcoin community
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I'm a lil biased but if this is the onset of a full on war against all of crypto then maybe you should double down on privacy?
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I'm a MtGox creditor and spent my morning reading through a dozen Japanese translated legal docs and didn't find anything about any funds being distributed any time soon
Don't spread fake news!
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... and the DeFi user tracking list of shame:
@MakerDAO
@UniswapProtocol
@SetProtocol
@synthetix_io
@AaveAave
@Instadapp
@KyberSwap
@NexusMutual
@bzxHQ
@getnuo
@numerai
@staked_us
@opyn_
@Dharma_HQ
@AugurProject
@ConnextNetwork
@dForcenet
@defipuls
@defiprime
😭😭😭
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I really hope recent events will lead to a Cambrian explosion of stable tokens towards the holy grail being:
- stable
- scalable
- decentralized
@reflexerfinance
&
@LiquityProtocol
are amazing but we need more on that front!
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Vibes at
@DappCon
- founders coming for free food
- everyone coding in chill area
- I heard "NFT" zero times
- hustle level infinity
- all working in prod
- everyone all in
- wagmi, srsly
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Picture of the last shareholder meeting of Credit Suisse, not even a joke!!!
I don't wanna sound alarmist (and with all due respect for the depicted CeFi fangirls & boys):
If crypto isn't gmi, there's soon literally nobody left to take care of any other Fi
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This week we at
@hoprnet
announced
#RPCh
A private RPC over HOPR
With RPCh we're bringing something to the billion dollar RPC industry, that is actually in line with the vision of web3
Why & wat dis? 👇
Yesterday we announced RPCh to the public - the most private Ethereum RPC provider, thanks to HOPR 📣
BUT at
@InfiniteHackETH
RPCh has been integrated behind the scenes already 👀
@TallyCash
,
@GetBlockWallet
,
@0xFrame
🔥
👇 1/18
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@RealMiguelMorel
@ArkhamIntel
> Our industry has been plagued with bad actors
Aka
@ArkhamIntel
management! 👏
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#PrivacyIsNormal
Please consider donating to those who work on keeping all of us and our future free
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Settling stable tokens on an
#Ethereum
L2 (
@loopringorg
) from a debit card 🤯😍🚀
WTF, this is so cool! Great job
@ThomasBertani
& team
@eidoo_io
!
12/N What's more?
#EidooCard
is an industry-first debit card integrated with L2 solution
@loopringorg
, making the cost of transaction for spending your
#crypto
non-existent! You can spend $BTC, $ETH,
@circlepay
$USDC.
I already have one, perks of being the project lead 😉
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I've seen first throughput measurements of the latest
@hoprnet
release. It's absolutely insane. Like, totally mad.
That will silence everyone who said "proof-of-relay is inefficient, centralized processes are the only way to go"
Will share once we have easily reproducible data
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The
#web3
is here:
Netflix now using IPFS BitSwap 🤯
#IPFS
showing a lot of promise. after discovering the project a year ago i saw the potential for massive improvements in
#data
transfer speeds using the
#BitSwap
protocol. pretty awesome to see
@netflix
adopting this
#technology
.
@protocollabs
@juanbenet
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Welcome to 2023 - a brave new world:
The ETH L1 core dev roadmap is committed to scale L2s >10x but nobody can tell us how or when L2 sequencers will be more decentralized than FTX 🫡
Soon these L2s have more TVL than FTX 🤔
#WhenDecentralizedSequencer
@arbitrum
@optimismFND
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Why LUSD depeg and why u degens not playing the arb game of a lifetime?
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Insanely low gas prices are prime time to upgrade your EOA to 1-of-1
@gnosisSafe
You'll thank me later anon!
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Every major network launch goes like this. Please screenshot this for the "running your own node adds nothing" guys.
The only way to still have access to a network during times of massive load is by running your own node - NOT by maxing out your company credit card on AWS 📝
(1/2) The network is currently under high load. Some RPC services may experience degraded performance.
Teams are working to increase RPC capacities.
Stay tuned for updates.
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#FreeRoman
!
Listen to my conversation with
@rstormsf
from last year to learn about
@TornadoCash
, the hardcore decentralization of their DAO, how non-custodial TC actually is (!) and how Roman personally got into crypto & Tornado
Roman is one of the most humble guys in this
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Some finality issue / reorg on
@gnosischain
just happened, it seems 4 entire epochs just got skipped
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@michaelmoro
@GenesisTrading
This thread adds zero additional transparency
Stop seeing your company as "50% more transparent than 3AC, gmi" and start seeing yourself as "99% less transparent than DeFi, ngmi"
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bad news - might not make it to
@EthCC
, just started playing
@darkforest_eth
and there's few things more pleasing than exploring a virtual universe
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In my totally biased view, I think
@hoprnet
got some of the most approachable bounties at
#EthDenver
So how can I haz HOPR app in 5 minutes starting from scratch?!
👇🧵1/10
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Frens - just tested Covid positive after EthDenver (I'm OK!)
I was among the <5% trying to wear a mask at all times but I wasn't 100% diligent. So if you were close to me or talked to me without a mask, pls get tested and watch out for more vulnerable people around us 🙏
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@realPsyclops
@BoringSleuth
@StevenNerayoff
@VitalikButerin
Wait... You... Don't... actually think that The Purge refers to removing transaction evidence right???
This is the funniest thing that gets crazy troll bot retweets today 😂🤣
I'll leave this here, you can just silently read, no need to respond or like
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This day 8 years ago was my life's magic moment: Ethereum Devcon 1
I'm trying to learn something new about Ethereum every day since then and it's still magical
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I'll be giving a total beginner
@solidity_lang
101 workshop tomorrow at
@InfiniteHackETH
to onboard more 🧠s &❤️s to the web3 wonderworld! 🤓🦄
Here some helpful links & resources: 👇
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