Mikerah
@badcryptobitch
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I'm your favorite cryptographer's favorite dropout Building @StoffelMPC Cryptography R&D Consulting via @hashcloak
Joined October 2018
To all of my Twitter followers,. There are now impersonators of me on Telegram. Please be careful. I won't ask you to click weird links or for money. I can't believe I'm famous enough to be even tweeting this.
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Not gonna lie. If Ethereum culture becomes increasingly marred in American-style politics, I'm seriously considering leaving and becoming a Bitcoiner. Bitcoiners genuinely don't care about your sex, identity, race, sexuality and show it.
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Having 0x is in your name is the crypto equivalent of rappers having lil in their names.
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When I become rich enough, I'm going to open a coffee shop that is open from 5 pm to 6 am. Makes no sense that there are no spaces to just chill and drink coffee at ungodly hours. .
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Quick and dirty anon building guide: . If you are anyone with any clout in the Ethereum community, I highly encourage you to start a separate account.
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He sent 1000ETH. It's official. I'm dropping out of @UofT to save crypto.
@badcryptobitch @preston_vanloon @ameensol @RyanSAdams @fredwilson @ethereumJoseph @ConsenSys @prylabs Can you actually stick it on somewhere? Happy to send some funds, but for security need 2-factor confirmations of any ETH address. From bitter personal experience I'm forced to assume you're an evil hacker impersonating Chainsafe until proven otherwise 🤣.
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Seeing the Ethereum community delve into cancel culture is a huge disappointment. One of the greatest things about this community used to be able to meet different people with different views and opinions from my own. Now, the mainstream is to cancel people with opposing views?.
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Surprisingly, there isn't an awesome list specifically for algorithmic game theory despite it being a very large subfield of game theory. So, I created one:.
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Why is it that whenever I meet a Bitcoin maxi IRL, they are always non-technical?. Where are all the technical Bitcoin maxis? .Haven't met one since 2020.
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Every new blockchain ever:. We tested our construction on 256 GB of RAM, Amazon EC2 machines, simulating 10k nodes on our network. Tests show that we achieve 100000000 TPS and confirmation times of 0.00000001 second.
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Increasingly bearish on Optimistic Rollup designs that use the EVM for its VM. Increasing bullish on ZK-Rollup designs that are EVM-compatible. Increasing bullish on Optimistic Rollup designs that leverage newer VM architectures.
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Announcing Meson, a mix network for Ethereum to rule them all.
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Attempting this dumb @APompliano meme:. Banks closes your account without notice. Bitcoin nevers closes your account.
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What Flashbots is making everyone think TEEs are like vs What TEEs are actually like
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Seems like @zksync is the only zk-rollup that makes its server and prover code available for anyone to just be their own sequencer. How disappointing.
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Ya girl got an interview with the @thielfellowship!!!. For those of you in crypto who have received one or is in the same boat, how should I prepare and what was your experience like?.
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After what seems to be an eternity, I've finally published our work on distributed block building using MPC. Makes for some good midnight reading for the insomniacs amongst us.
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@Mudit__Gupta Unlike Brantley, Dame actually harassed people with differing views. Brantley simply tweeted them and was known to treat people well regardless.
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People complain that Polygon PoS is not an L2. Polygon announces plan to transition Polygon PoS to a ZK L2 (Validium). People complain that Polygon is building a Validium.😅🤦. We really can't have nice things in crypto🤷.
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I am being told I should brag more about co-inventing rollups. Here's your Friday reminder that alongside @jadler0, we wrote this paper that is responsible for gazillions in value.
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I'm not going to lie. These Mossad attacks on pagers and walkie-talkies make me bearish on TEEs unless we start working on open source, verifiable hardware. Shit's fucking scary.
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Here's your reminder that. Virgil Griffith is in jail for giving a talk on blockchain and peace in North Korea. Alex Pertsev is in jail for writing code. Yet, SBF is out here giving interviews and getting puff pieces written about him. You literally cannot make this shit up.
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@dieworkwear Well, I was today years old when I learned that Derek is Asian and not a white guy.
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Honestly, I think in the near future, there will be two main architectures for deploying privacy-first apps:.- TEEs + MPC.- MPC + TEEs.And yes, the order matters. First, TEEs + MPC is the design where TEEs are the main enforcer of private state but MPC is used to provide extra.
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oh husbandt, you wrote an independent TFHE implementation and Zama enforced their patent and now we are homeress. I'm leaving you for TEE guy
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First time using a Solana app and I have to say it was literally the best experience I've had on any crypto app since literally Uniswap v1. At this rate, normies will literally not even now they are using Solana. They will just use it.
Crypto x Longevity. We are long best friends and have so much to do together. @solanapoet has warmly welcomed me and our Don’t Die community, creating a unique collection of typewriter art. Free to collect @drip_haus. Excited with the Solana ecosystem hosted by @superteamDAO.
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Neat cryptography lecture notes with exercises and solutions:. Covers all of the basics and then advanced topics like ZKPs.
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@NathanWorsley_ Might be the middle of the night for you but was probably the middle of the day for them.
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Finally published our work done during the @initc3org Ethereum summer camp. Done with @suryabakshi @parthgargava @0xQuintus @sxysun1 @yahgwai @Lsquaredleland .
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I thought @egirl_capital was just a meme account but it turns out it really does fund legit projects in the space?.
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Look at this new Awesome list I made around the mathematical and financial foundations of DeFi. PRs are welcomed!.
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Recently, many people have been nagging me about getting started with MPC. Here's a short list of resources that are beginner friendly in terms of both books, papers and code.
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@hasufl @AntonioMJuliano Honestly, newer L1s are mostly designed by former FAANG engineers and it shows. They make tradeoffs that make sense from a purely distributed systems PoV which is why you are seeing a lot of scalability off the bat from these L1s. But they all sacrifice decentralization.
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It's funny how billionaires will give out advice about TRT for longevity/anti-aging and no one bats an eye. @bryan_johnson post recipes, supplement stack, youtube videos, etc on how to extend your life and all I see on my TL is hate.
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I just published this overview of networking in ETH2.0 to try to get more people working on the networking aspects of Serenity. Special thanks to @icebearhww, @kevinchia0907 and @jadler0 for the feedback.
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Since everyone is realizing that Yul+ is cool due to a cool kid (@transmissions11) saying that it's cool, let me just say that I audited the first every Yul+ codebase (w/ @NatalieChin7) and created this list.
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@TusharJain_ How can you tweet this seriously when you are one of the main investors in Solana?.
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When you ask FHE teams to share how they are going to split the decryption key and to post the code for it.
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Here's your Sunday afternoon reminder that building a sustainable blockchain-enabled for-profit business is not evil and the smartest people in this space shouldn't have to rely on donations to live a decent life and meet their ambitions.
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If @zama_fhe and @randhindi believe in their work, we invite them to compete with @sunscreentech in a way that moves the industry forward rather than engage in secret campaigns of intimidation, IP trolling, and speech suppression. Thread 🧵👇. On December 3, following a 6+ month.
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Top 5 worse uses of zk in terms.1. zkCloud.2. zkCompression.3. zkOracle.4. zkTLS.5. zkRollup.
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After spending the week trying to understand geth and get a project working, I just want to shout out @peter_szilagyi for leading the building and maintenance of such a complex piece of software.
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Introducing the zkMesh newsletter! It will be co-written with @AnnaRRose and will be focused on blockchain privacy. As a result, the @hashcloak newsletter is being retired. Thanks to everyone who subscribed to that newsletter!.
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SBF has a physics degree from MIT and can't code. Sean Bowe yolo'd a state of the art pairing friendly curve for zkSNARKs that underpins bajillions of dollars. 2022 is wild 🤯.
@badcryptobitch as the BLS12-381 designer I can tell you I just yolo'd and asked some famous cryptographers to doublecheck me. they were like "yeah that's fine" and now it's the center of countless blockchains lol.
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Here's your afternoon reminder that DApps are just basic web apps hosted on Heroku and the smart contract(s) deployed onto Ethereum and accessed through Infura. Stop acting the UX/UI and backend is all that different from Twitter (Twitter's backend is more complex, anyway).
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This is Bryan Johnson. He reduced his cortisol levels by nearly 50% and added an estimated 10 years to his life. His trick? . He stopped worrying about securely composing cryptography schemes and instead started using TEEs
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Hot Saturday Take:. ZKML is overrated. MPC-ML is underrated and is truly going to be the thing that makes us seriously question everything.
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If you are a young person looking for an interesting field to spend the next 10+ yrs of your life in, there is no field like crypto!. It's at the intersection of finance, economics, cryptography and CS. Even if you leave the field, you would have touched tech no one else has.
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Recommended reading for anyone wanting to understand how zero-knowledge proving protocols are constructed:.
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Optimistic rollup teams are so petty. If this continues, the main reason why they might lose the long-term L2 scaling battle won't be because of the tech but because of the teams attitudes towards each other.
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Honestly, it's kind of hilarious that a lot of cryptography teams think that in order to be competitive they need to invent a whole new scheme when in reality, all they had to do was take an old paper and implement it. Your end user doesn't care if you invented it or not, they.
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A fun fact that I learned today is that a lot of the epidemiology models for modeling infections and how they spread can be used to de-anonymize gossip-based networking protocols. The larger field is known as rumor source detection and as many applications across many fields.
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Everyone wants to write smart contracts. No one wants to do protocol/infra-level work. .
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It's the end of the first day of the work week and we are near ATH prices for BTC. Which means it's a pretty damn good time to read this Ethresearch post from @IAmNickDodson on how to achieve fast finality for ORUs using this one simple trick😅.
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@motherpredicate It really does though. How many mainstream celebrities on this site have a .eth in their twitter handles? A lot. ENS is quite frankly one of people's main entries into Ethereum and if Ethereum bows down to American-style struggle sessions, I'm out.
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ZK, MPC, FHE teams: We are so cracked. Everyone on our team either went to an Ivy League university of UC Berkeley or MIT or Stanford and worked at FAANG. TEE teams:.
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Taking inspiration from @calchulus and the new year, I'm starting an ETH2.0 Office Hours doc. Pretty much an evolving AMA, instead of those fixed Reddit ones. Please RT so that we can as many questions answered as possible.
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Stuck at the airport overnight because my flight got cancelled. Bringing back the cringe 1 like = 1 hopefully hot take trend.
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Advice to the kids:. Diversify your skillsets. Do more lower-level technical work. Currently going through a bunch of resumes, and you all look like a bunch of clones with the same internships and js projects.
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Even though I'm not finish, I'm still announcing something later today. I would have been a little bit closer to completion if I hadn't gotten so tired in the middle of the day and slept all through the night. I'm making sure all the ETH-based chains get network-level privacy.
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A current thought of mine that I'd like feedback on:. ORUs are not universally composable. ZKRUs can be made universally composable but current instantiations aren't. Thoughts?.
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@sandeepnailwal Who thinks that?. EF + Scroll's implementation is almost done. We know that Polygon Hermez will release a zkEVM within the next few months. ZkSync will also be releasing a zkEVM within the next few months. If you think a zkEVM is 12-18 months away, you've been living under a rock.
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We just got funding from @VitalikButerin for our beacon chain client in javascript/typescript. You can follow the development and contribute on Github.
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zkTLS/mpcTLS teams keep on fussing over what are going to be effectively minor details when it comes to trusting the notary. Pick a tradeoff, stick with it and get users. If it turns out you do need to change your tradeoff, at least you have some data to back you up.
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Given all of this Zama drama, I've been thinking about equivalent situations that could have played out differently for the underlying technology. The biggest one that came to mind is threshold signatures which has been a massive boon for the crypto industry. The biggest company.
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FHE is more decentralized than ZK because it has a wider participant set. The participants:
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