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@cmpeq
Carter Feldman
23 days
@jonathanfleming if the majority of people don't support this, vote em out.
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Carter Feldman
4 months
#OP_CHECKGROTH16VERIFY demo on dogecoin~
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Carter Feldman
1 year
In our next post in our Medium series The Hackers Guide to Layer 2: Building a #zkVM from Scratch, we will build a trustless proof of math cross-chain bridge to transfer assets/data trustlessly between L1 and L2. No Multisigs, No PoS, just trustless, unhackable, #ProofOfMath !
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Carter Feldman
8 months
Introducing L2Ordinals, open standards for fully trustless zkVM powered Layer 2s on #Bitcoin . Read the spec at:
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Carter Feldman
1 year
The Hackers Guide to Layer 2: Building a zkVM from Scratch continues tomorrow as we wrap up merkle trees: ✅ ZMTs (similar to Sparse Merkle Trees, except good) 🕸️ Spiderman Proofs ⏭️ Append only Merkle Trees 🔗 Chained Delta Merkle Proofs Next week: arithmetic circuits+plonky2🔥
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Carter Feldman
1 year
If someone is "auditing" a smart contract and panics when they see 2**256-1, they probably shouldn't be auditing smart contracts lol
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chrisdior.eth
1 year
If you are auditing and stumble across this: `0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff` Don't panic, its pretty simple. This is the hexadecimal version of uint256 maximum value. The same as type(uint256).max. This is a little cleaner than using the
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Carter Feldman
15 days
@SecretSvcSpox why didn't you secure the building 137 meters from the president?
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Carter Feldman
7 months
Introducing #BitIDE , a fully featured development environment for #Bitcoin developers: - ✏️ Custom OpCodes - 🖲️ Fully featured debugger - 💻 JavaScript Meta Programming - 🧙‍♂️Polyfills so you can use OP_MUL and more on the Bitcoin mainnet Build on Bitcoin:
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Carter Feldman
7 months
Want to get started developing on #Bitcoin ? Checkout this 5 minute tutorial which walks you through: - Deploying a Local Test + Block Explorer - Writing a TapScript Locking Script - Deploying a TapScript UTXO - Funding and unlocking your P2TR UTXO
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Carter Feldman
9 months
@MMCrypto old video hahah
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Carter Feldman
5 months
QED is hiring~ Some of the cool stuff we are working on: - /r/bitcoindev community - QED #Testnet (rust) - reference implementation (rust) - Bitcoin <-> L2 Bridge (rust+ts) - Multi-language IDE for QED Smart Contracts and Bitcoin Scripts (ts) DMs open 🙋
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Carter Feldman
3 months
if anyone is using TEE for anything, you should use an Xbox One - Only TEE that has never been hacked - Tons of researchers have tried and failed over the years
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@QEDProtocol 's Web IDE added support for compiling standard #TypeScript to #Circom 🎉 - TypeScript to plonky2-compat (cli ✅, web ✅) - TypeScript to ark-r1cs (cli ✅, web⏳) - TypeScript to starky-vm (cli ✅,web⏳) - TypeScript to circom (cli ✅, web ✅) - TS to miden-vm⏳
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Just open sourced QED's WebGPU accelerated poseidon2 merkle hashing library for the browser. It's over 27x faster than CPU 🎉 Code + Live Benchmark Link:
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Carter Feldman
3 months
Preview of #Chonker for BitIDE ⇛ Automagically split any arbitrarily large Bitcoin Script into covenant chunks using p2wkh (pay to @weikengchen hash) ⇛ Execute on Bitcoin Inquisition ⇛ profit
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Highly recommended FRI-day reading from @nethermindeth , @PratyushRT , @SuccinctJT and the other contributors!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Happy to announce smart signatures on @QEDProtocol : - Use any ECC curve/asymmetric crypto scheme - Make native multi-sig user accounts - Logic which depends on blockchain state - Bot accounts Public key is the hash of a zk-circuit's verifier data. Paper:
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Carter Feldman
4 months
How to make a withdrawals covenant on dogecoin with #ZKP Output Introspection -> ensure that a spender has certain outputs according to the logic of the circuit (ex. only withdraw up to your balance from a rollup) Stay tuned for our next vid where we build a trustless rollup!
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Carter Feldman
1 month
Introducing doge-sdk🐶: - Fully featured doge SDK written from scratch in pure TypeScript - Only 18kb gzipped, works in browser + node - Only 1 (4kb) dependency which has been audited - Supports both P2SH + P2PKH - BASM Compiler, RPC/Electrs Client + more!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Tonight during our talk hosted by @Antalpha_Labs , we will unveil #Dapen , a compiler which can compile any ES6 JavaScript function to an arithmetic circuit for #ZKP . We will also demo DapenIDE, a web IDE for the #QEDProtocol with built-in JS-ZK contract compiler & visual debugger
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Carter Feldman
4 months
WebGPU Miden is here~ 1.5x speed up for proving polygon miden with RPO on Desktop 11x speed up for proving polygon miden with RPO on the web =D
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Carter Feldman
24 days
Preview of the #QED Regtest Wallet for Doge Developers
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Carter Feldman
6 months
Script drop incoming: BLAKE3 and SHA256 implemented for multiple concatenated stack elements on #Bitcoin Core... Without OP_CAT 🎉
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Carter Feldman
1 month
#QED Massively Parallel Proving Tech + $DOGE = CityRollup
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Congrats to the Chinese, US and Korean teams for taking the top spots at IMO 2023!
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Carter Feldman
4 months
#BLAKE3 Merkle Hashing on WebGPU go vroom... 👀 @bobbinth
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@VitalikButerin the singularity is here ;) @QEDProtocol
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Carter Feldman
4 months
Fork of the legendary zkRepl by @PrivacyScaling with BLS12-381 support if anyone wants a fast way to generate proofs for debugging:
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Carter Feldman
11 months
Visualizing 2 blocks of a token contract on QED Notice that the proofs generated by the users are proved locally, and block time is O(log(n)) where n is the number of users who submit transactions in the block. QED => Global State + Horizontal Scalability 🎉
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Carter Feldman
6 months
New features added to #BitIDE v0.8.6: - Wallet Manager for Bitcoin/Liquid/Testnet/Regtest - OP_CHECKSIG/Script Signature Verification - Revamped Project Explorer - Bug Fixes and UX Improvements Checkout the scripts used in the video in our forum thread:
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Carter Feldman
4 months
Introducing BitIDE Ordinals Edition: 1-line-script starts a clean environment with: - Local Bitcoin Testnet - Block Explorer + Electrs API - Ordinal Explorer - BitIDE Editor - 1-line Ordinal Deploy API docker run -p 1337:1337 -p 1333:1333 -it --rm qedprotocol/bitide-ord:latest
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Carter Feldman
1 year
The first installment of our tutorial series "A Hackers Guide to Layer 2: Building a #zkVM from Scratch" is now out: In the post, we re-invent Merkle Trees from first principles and implement a #MerkleTree database in #JavaScript from scratch as we learn.
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Carter Feldman
2 months
a city rollup, super cereal state, massively parallel proving
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Carter Feldman
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Carter Feldman
4 months
53x speed up for merkle hashing with WebGPU on @0xPolygonMiden in the browser!
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Carter Feldman
6 months
Time to enable #OP_CAT so I don't have to do this hahahaha
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Carter Feldman
1 year
The latest installment of The Hackers Guide to Layer 2: Building a zkVM from Scratch is out! Follow along as we implement: ✅ ZMTs - Zero Merkle Trees with quadrillions of leaves ⏭️ Append-Only Merkle Trees 🔗 Delta Merkle Proof Chains Next week: plonky2
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Carter Feldman
23 days
Anyone know anyone from the Chrome/Safari/Edge/Firefox teams? After 8 years, webcrypto still does not support secp256k1. If you find that this would be beneficial to the security of your users, please make your voice heard to make w3c aware.
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Carter Feldman
8 months
QED Mobile SDK for Local Proving on iOS Metal still has a lot of room for optimization, but 15ms for a token transfer on 2 year old phone ain't too shabby ;D
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Carter Feldman
9 years
With an iOS 8.4.1 Jailbreak looming, I'm thinking of reviving ModPE on iOS. @zhuowei What are the prospects for mutual intelligibility?
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Carter Feldman
4 months
bitide for dogecoin coming soon
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Carter Feldman
6 months
Added #BitIDE support for @Blockstream 's @Liquid_BTC L2! Test out the latest elements OP codes and spinup a new elements testnet: docker run -p 1337:1337 -it --rm qedprotocol/bitide-liquid:latest
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Carter Feldman
5 months
Preview of the #Bitcoin Web RPC Tool in #BitIDE v0.9: - Full GUI with documentation/validation for all 175 Bitcoin RPC commands! - Works on local and remote bitcoin nodes If anyone needs the schemas (I added a serializer to RPCHelpMan/RPCArg in Core):
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Carter Feldman
4 months
Recursive verification of a 320 kb plonky3 proof Reduction in proof size to 127 kb (60% smaller) All in less than 6 seconds on my 3 yr old MacBook Pro!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@lenraphaelcpa Clearly white supremacist nazis!
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Carter Feldman
7 months
Big update for BitIDE coming tomorrow - Paste ./run.sh to get a clean local bitcoin testnet with block explorer, automining and funded wallets - Code, deploy and unlock TapScript UTXOs in seconds - Full Debugger, metascripting, virtual op codes Happy Birthday #Bitcoin 🎉
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Carter Feldman
8 months
QED ❤️ Sandbox
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Carter Feldman
6 months
Asked ChatGPT to write a song about Layer 2s: (Verse 1) Uh, yeah, I'm talkin' 'bout the chains, they ain't the same Speedin' up the game, but yo, what's the claim? Optimistic rollups, they be the new tech trend But hold up, wait a minute, let's comprehend Insecurity's creepin'
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@fasterthanlime These prices super high imho
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Carter Feldman
7 months
31k lines of rust later... and is nearly ready for public release! Get ready for #ZK on #Bitcoin
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Carter Feldman
8 months
Hopefully we will soon be able to verify merkle proofs on Bitcoin thanks to the amazing work of @Ethan_Heilman getting the #OP_CAT BIP out!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@QEDProtocol Whitepaper Prediction: Transaction Cost ≈ 1.3 * cost of recursively verifying a proof on an AWS server That puts QED at around $0.00015 per transaction.
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Carter Feldman
11 months
Check out the latest post on the QED blog where we design a horizontally scalable blockchain from scratch: It's an epic deep dive, so get your popcorn ready 🍿!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Local Proving + Horizontal Scaling on @QEDProtocol
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Carter Feldman
1 year
The magic of recursive ZKP: 8.2 billion people prove 10 transactions locally and submit their end-cap proofs to QED, 25% mine tokens by proving 4-to-1 recursive proofs (400ms), sending proofs to other members of the network (225ms), building 1 proof of all 82 billion txs in <10s.
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Recently got asked by a few investors how we make our visualizations. Our internal tool QED Viz]can generates procedural animations directly from unit tests: - define contracts, # of users and test transactions - annotate state reads/writes in the code Will open source soon 💯
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Carter Feldman
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qed viz fun: how to draw a binary tree of arbitrary height without any loops using signed distance fields
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Carter Feldman
3 months
such introspection
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Carter Feldman
18 days
time to move dns on chain
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Carter Feldman
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Carter Feldman
3 months
OP_CAT so OP
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@rot13maxi
Rijndael | BIP-420 🐱
3 months
looks like OP_CAT finally got a bip number. love to see it!
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Carter Feldman
6 months
QED ❤️ @StarkWareLtd
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Carter Feldman
5 months
Anyone know any universities that teach Rust to undergrads?
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Nice! You guys should join WebGPU gang gang as well!
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@personae_labs
Personae
10 months
Introducing merkle-tree, a rust crate Now we can build a Poseidion Merkle tree with 65536 leaves in under 250ms thanks to Rust and multi-threading. Built on @arkworks_rs
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Carter Feldman
11 months
10 years ago I built the first worm for video game consoles Today proud to be reformed and promoting hacker proof solutions powered by ZK! ZK ❤️ Gaming QED ❤️ Unity
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Carter Feldman
1 month
Blockstream electrs ported to $DOGE
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Hong Kong should just make Uber legal… Problem solved!
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Carter Feldman
1 year
2k full time devs vs the 10 year uncontested CHAMP 👑
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Highly recommended read from Alex Ozdemir, Kremer ( @CertoraInc ), Tinelli, and Barrett for anyone working on optimizers/building zk compilers: Satisfiability Modulo Finite Fields Time to benchmark⏱️ dapen-opt-z3-smt2 vs. dapen-opt-cvc5
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Carter Feldman
6 months
happy FRIday
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Carter Feldman
6 months
It's high time to #EnableOP_CAT on #Bitcoin core! OP_CAT makes it easier to build secure UTXOs and levels up Bitcoin's scripting abilities.
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Carter Feldman
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Carter Feldman
1 year
終於回家了
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Curious if anyone is still working on EIP-5988 [Poseidon Hash Precompile], would love to help/contribute dev resources if so! ( - Marked as stale 😔) @dimahledba @EliBenSasson
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Carter Feldman
3 months
You won’t last an hour in the asylum I was raised (except maybe Kobi because clearly IDA is much better than whatever that windows 3.1 thing is)
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Kobi Gurkan
3 months
You won’t last an hour in the asylum I was raised
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Carter Feldman
1 year
Dapen ABI State Merkelizer~
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Carter Feldman
2 months
Temperature: 0 Kelvin
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Carter Feldman
21 days
Google Finance picked 5 crypto currencies to feature: #Dogecoin
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Carter Feldman
10 months
Disappointingly, the majority of voters in Palestine voted for Hamas instead of Fatah in 2006. Hamas then wasted no time brainwashing a generation to believe that violence was the only answer to their problems. Those voters now pay the consequences for their decision.
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Carter Feldman
2 years
@KolkataPolice @FBI Why don't you shut down MET Technologies, Ansh Info Solutions and VRM Business Solutions? They are proven scam call ceners and are defrauding Americans of $70,000 per day.
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Carter Feldman
10 months
QED WebGPU accelerated browser proving goes brrr Proving a QED contract transaction that reads and writes 1kb to contract state at random locations Used to take 1.67s, now 400 milliseconds WebGPU iFFT Compute Shader for Quotient Polynomials coming soon
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@drCathieSo_eth @ETHKL1 The most affordable blockchain event ever hahaha
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Carter Feldman
10 months
How many concurrent users does QED need to hit in order to reach 100,000 TPS? Read along as we derive a formula together in our latest blog post!
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Carter Feldman
4 months
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@Edu_DAO
EduDAO
4 months
6th Workshop - @QEDProtocol : We had the honor to have the founder of @QEDProtocol , @cmpeq to give us a refreshing lecture about Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem and their innovative solution L2Ordinals @L2Ordinals and current stage of @QEDProtocol !
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Carter Feldman
1 year
I have had several venture companies in the past, and I can confidently say that no VC has come close to the amazing support we have had from @Sparkle_VC and @JulienPageaud ! Ft. @GoldmanSachs , @animocabrands
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Carter Feldman
1 year
been on the road for so long, finally able to meet a few new hires in person. feels good to be home~
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Carter Feldman
4 years
@AndrewYang Please Mr. Yang, we still need you in the White House.
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Carter Feldman
8 months
TapScript Release: 255 bit bigint multiplication in Mainnet compatible Bitcoin Core TapScript (no OP_MUL/OP_CAT/etc.) Should we release bn254 miller loop? 🤫
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Carter Feldman
4 years
Would you believe that this procedural 3D animation was generated using less than 300 bytes of #javascript code? Play around with the code for our 3D bounce demo, or make your own #demo in the sandbox at ! Hint: CTRL/⌘+S saves and runs your code~ #fofpx
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Carter Feldman
1 year
@DCbuild3r @EliBenSasson we like you, we just don't like worldcoin
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