RicMoo (ricmoo.eth)
@ricmoo
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Mostly harmless. Alphabetized. Eats breakfast. Also, the author of Ethers.js and the Firefly Hardware Wallet. The future will be awesome. He/him. š»š
Toronto, Canada, Earth
Joined November 2007
Iāve just released @ethersproject v5.2.0, for all your custom-solidity-error and replaced-transaction-course-correcting needs. For more on what those could possibly mean, check out the latest highlights article. Feedback is always appreciated. Thanks! :)
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Hey all! Iāve just put together a quick article on our @ETHCapeTown hackathon project, a Contract Wallet which retains no on-chain bytecode. Wisp Contracts: The Magical World of Create2. All feedback is welcome. :)
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Rather than signing weird hashes in MetaMask, wonāt you prefer signing human-readable descriptions? āBid 4 Dai for CryptoKitty 1337?ā or āSend via ZkSync 1 ether to ricmoo.eth?ā Still a draft, but feedback on the discussions-to would be wonderful. :)
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Heya Ethers peeps! Ethers v6 is planned for Feb 2, but I need all possible eyes on it. Please update your apps, start spare-time projects, etc. My time is 100% dedicated to it until then. Expect bugs, but also quick turn-around w/ fixed npm releases. :)
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The home stretch. Iām announcing today the plan to move ethers v5 out of beta in 1 week (June 12). Iād love to see more projects migrate from v4 and help flesh out anything I missed and will be quite available for help, and will be updating the docs non-stop for the next week. :).
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Ahoy! Iāve finally posted my latest article! An example recovery technique to rescue the Ethereum user-base in the aftermath of a catastrophic post-quantum-computer Earth. With code. Feedback please. :)
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W00t! A big week for Ethereum JS libraries! Web3.js v4, Viem v1 and now the latest version of @HardhatHQ with Ethers v6 support is out! Huzzah! As usual, Iām available for migration help on Twitter, GitHub and Discord. :)
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Earlier this week my grandmother passed away at the age of 100 (joining my grandfather, 99). She will be dearly missed and was an absolutely incredible women, filled to the brim with love and always had hours of fun stories at the drop of a pin. Rest in peace, grandma. <3
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1/ Ahoy! A short thread and ātemperature checkā on funding Ethers and its future plans. I am a developer and not a business or marketing person, so all feedback is welcome. :).
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Color me a lucky papaya. A motor cycle just drove up on the sidewalk beside @yuetloo and myself and grabbed my phone after #DevConBogota. I clutched it *just* hard enough that as they pulled away, they lost grip and it fell to the ground a few feet away as they zoomed off. ššš.
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I just wanted to send a huge thanks to everyone who has contributed to my GitCoin grant. While being paid for my effort and proving open-source sustainability is wonderful, it is the warm-fuzzy from the proof that real-world humans actually value my work that makes it worthwhile.
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Heya! Just sending out a quick announcement, that Iāve released a new landing page (after spending far too much on a new domain name ;)) for ethers as a place to coalesce its tools, projects and spotlight all of those who help make it possible. :)
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A huge thanks to the @optimismFND for their Retroactive Public Goods allocation to Ethers! <3. My general policy is to not cash in Governance Tokens (unless necessary, beyond tax obligations), but looking forward to participating in the future of OP. :)
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I wonāt be straying far from my computer today, if you have a problem with ethers 5.4 or find an issue with its EIP-1559 support, reach out to me. :).
EIP-1559 support has been published in v5.4.0. As a result, TransactionResponse.gasPrice can now be null, so certain apps may need null-checks added. Please try it out and ping me (@ricmoo) if you have any issues. Iāll stay next to my computer all day. :)
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Iāve been accused of acting inappropriately and anti-competitively for closing an unmerged PR on @ethersproject, so I wanted to include a article to further explain my decision.
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Ahoy! Ethers v6 soft-launched a month ago and the few obvious problems have been sorted. Please try out v6.1 and open any further issues, as Iām keeping a very close eye on things. Expect a few more growing pains but also quick turn-around. Thanks! <3
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Iām collecting a list of tools, apps, etc. built on ethers. Reply to this tweet or send me a DM with a GitHub link, an image link (256x256-ish) and a contact e-mail address. The new ethers website is coming along and Iād like to show you all off. :).
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So happy with the latest batch! The case had a slight screen defect, so going back to 1.2mm, but the snap-fit tabs were spot-on and the purple solder mask really pops. Parts for another 180 are in the mail and after @yuetloo and I assemble and flash them next week, theyāll be
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So much indoors, so little excuse to not be strange. Hence, Rooted: far-too-easy-to-upgrade Ethereum contracts. Send bytecode to `v0.rooted.eth` to deploy. Self-destruct and send new bytecode? Deployed to the same great address but with brand new code. :)
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Absolutely honoured to have been part of the @CryptoKitties project at #EtherealNY and work with such a talented artist @guilegaspar to auction off Kitty 127 on a custom @hi_firefly Hardware Wallet raising $140k for charity. @ChristiesInc @EvanKeast @CodexProtocol
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My @optimismFND allocations, for those curious. Firstly, projects that I have used, depended on or that have been important to people I know in the space. I also reserved some votes for a few random small/single-dev projects; randomization ftw. Obviously abstained from Ethers. ;)
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As many have asked across several channels, Ethers is *NOT* affected by the @Ledger connect-kit exploit. Please check all your dependencies though and be safe. As a developer, be vigilant; this could always happen to _any_ project you depend on. Attackers have strong economic.
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Huge thanks to @ethstatus for the #cryptolife Hackathon last week! Weāve had some time to sleep and refactor/rewrite our project (19MB down to 5kb) and it is ready to safely serve IPFS content with cross-origin policies intact, optionally with @ensdomains.
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Just tossing out an ENS proposal for some feedback of an idea that @nicksdjohnson and I started thinking about last weekend, which is likely also a good litmus test for various delegateās interpretation of Article II; please ask Qās. :)
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PSA: Overflow vs. Underflow. 255 + 1 = 0: overflow. 0 - 1 = 255: also overflow. 3 / 2 = 1: underflow. Overflow is when you run out of bits to the left (magnitude; *pop pop*), underflow is when you run out of bits to the right (precision). Thanks. :).
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Wow! Such praise from @peter_szilagyi himself definitely makes the āachievement unlockedā list of my blockchain career. <3.
Going up the stack, @ethersproject has such an elegant interfacing to the chain and to wallet providers that it literally brings shame to even our own abigen generated stuff. Using it I can really feel how much work and effort went into it's design. Brilliant job everyone.
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I really feel the need to mute a certain CEO of Twitter; the random pushing of weird propaganda is getting ridiculous and every post tweeted seems to show up. But will muting him adversely affect my account otherwise? It seems like the type of play heād makeā¦.
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If we want to abandon blind signing, maybe I should start dusting off these EIPsā¦ :). Basically, let the contract describe (simultaneously) the human-readable description and the machine-readable data to sign. Described Data: Described Transactions:.
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If you have a 2 column database, with "word" and "definition", and a row for each word in the English language, this is a valid āfull dictionaryā. By adding an index to "word" it becomes an āarchive dictionaryā, which isnāt āfullerā, itās just a lot faster for certain operations.
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I just wanted to say a huge thanks to all the @gitcoin backers for ethers.js. There has been a huge uptick of interest, w/ over 50 backers in the last week. Itās been exciting to see my inbox filling with ānew grant supporterā emails, thanks! *heart emoji*
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Iāve already hit my monthly budget for hosting ethers; it is only the 5th. I am researching other CDNs and will be trying something out later today, but may have to discontinue hosting it myself. All files are also hosted on @cdnjs, but other recommendations are welcome. :).
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ENS is pretty much the original NFT, after all. :).
Vote now for the "Best Use of NFTs for Digital Identity" in the first annual NFT Awards. Community-nominated candidates include @joinFIO, @ensdomains, @3boxlabs, and @unstoppableweb. Winners will be announced on November 2nd at #NFTNYC2021.
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@crypt0snews Are you sure? A future 51% could unwind your exit and you would magically have it back again. :).
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W00t! Huge thanks to my very first GitHub Sponsor, @QuickNode! As promised in the tier rewards, here is proof Iām infusing myself w/ some much-needed caffeine. :)
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The latest round of @gitcoin grants is off and running, with lots of worthy projects which depend on the love from the community to really make them pop. Each dollar really does go a long way, matched quadratically by the CLR and more importantly shows someone you care. <3.
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@kristofgazso They are JS objects, the > and < donāt really mean what you want them to. Upgrade to ethers v6, which uses ES2020 BigInt and that (equivalent) code will work fine. Thatās one reason Iām pushing people to upgrade; BigNumber woes are one of the most common issues people have. :).
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W00t! Super excited to officially announce my first official sponsor, officially! Such a huge thanks to @TallyCash for their support towards Ethers and looking forward to see their project flourish too! *bows back in gratitude* Thanks. <3 <3.
š Tally is proud to become the first official sponsor of @ethersproject!. We bow to its creator (& early @gitcoin-er) @ricmoo for devoting his work to public goodsš¤.
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Itās coming soon, to a conference near you! :).
just got our first case back for the rev.5 firefly! . the next step is to get it into the hands of developers at EthCC ā who wants one?
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On a related note, how many people would be interested in hacking an open-source hardware wallet at upcoming @ETHGlobal hackathons if Firefly devkits were available? Hardware projects are definitely not for the faint of heart under hackathon time constraintsā¦ :).
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Good grief! I havenāt even got this shameless plug of a tweet for GitCoin Grants (Round 10) sent out yet, and there are already 1.5k backers! You. All. Rock. Thank you so much. <3 <3
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Do you like smaller transactions? Less calldata? Less gas? Compact Signature Representation might be right for you. EIP-2098 is now in Review. Check it out. :)
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FYI: Please update ethers to v5.6.8 asap, to protect against bad BigNumbers (in very rare situations).
A recently discovered bug in the bn.js library hex string serialization affected the ethers BigNumber package in rare situations, but has now been fixed. Please upgrade asap to v5.6.8 to prevent faulty values. For more details or questions, see:
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So close!! Make sure you have updated ethers to v5.4 to reap the wonder and glory. :).
The next #Ethereum network upgrade, London, is coming. Learn more about EIP-1559 and other changes, and get ready by upgrading those nodes! š¦.
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Go go :).
#MostClicked.* @ethersproject playground.* @EthereumOnARM full @ErigonEth node on @Raspberry_Pi.* @TimBeiko ACD update.* @mkalinin2 @dannyryan turn off PoW spec merged.* @austingriffith quick start @solidity_lang guide.* @benjaminion_xyz what's new in eth2.
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What front-end libraries do people use with Ethers.js? Iām planning to put some of the OP RPGF towards a few categories of dependants that help out the ecosystem. :).
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Wow! You are all awesome! And quick! I havenāt even got to this shameless plug for my GitCoin grant yet and itās already alive and kicking with 243 contributors! Thank you everyone! <3 <3 <3
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Happy Holidays to all, from @yuetloo and myself! Here is our Christmas card we sent out this year, if anyone wants to print it out themselves (works best on card stock, 300dpi, folds into thirds). Reply with photos if you are ambitious enough to craft this paper. <3
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Please read! This will be going into ethers in the next minor bump if there are no technical concerns raised. And Iām excited for what it means. :).
I just submitted a pull request to move the EIP specifying the core component ENS's L2 solution, CCIP Read, to Last Call, the penultimate step to getting it final. Feedback on the standard is very much appreciated; speak now or forever hold your peace!.
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I kinda want to design an entire game around this optical illusion. Check out the Twitter account; it has plenty of awesome static images that feelā¦ unstatic.
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Love our new ENS Hackathon t-shirts with our custom ENS names on them! Go team @hi_firefly! #enshack
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Absolutely amazing @crypto_chicks #hackathon! It was a wonderful honour to be a mentor and speaker to such an incredible collection of talent and see so many great projects. Huge congrats to @ananyachdh; G-nome is awesome. Thank you!
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Ahoy! If anyone is bored and would like to help us beta test Takoyaki, itās deployed and ready on Ropsten (not mainnet, yet), and weād love your feedback and suggestions. :)
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Basic search is now available on now. The indexer and scoring is still quite primitive, but hopefully it will serve most of your purposes for now. As always, feedback/criticism welcome. :).
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@github @Microsoft After years of GitHub being the social network I cared about and groomed, this is about the worst news imaginable. Does anyone have suggestions for viable alternatives? Also time to figure out what tools I've used "Sign-in with GitHub" and nuke those credentials.
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@hudsonjameson @nicksdjohnson @matthewegould @unstoppableweb @ensdomains 3/ Then they started accusing me of conflicts of interests and using my position to bully them, etc. I upgraded them further to ābad actors and cognizant of itā and they inspired my first (and currently only) negative-vibes blog post.
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The latest @gitcoin round is up and this time itās decentralized! This alpha is only running a smaller collection of grants and is much less daunting to peruse. So wander around and help out some worthwhile projects. Shill alert: Ethers is on there too. ;)
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Never gonna give you upā¦.
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For the upcoming Ethers v5.6 release, which introduces CCIP Read (especially useful for ENS name resolution), Iām seeking some feedback on the default security policy:
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Huge thanks to the #Ethereum Foundation for their DevEx Grant toward the ethers.js library; we have lots of exciting new features, articles and tutorials coming soon which we can now focus on full time. :) @ethereumproject
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W00t! Iāll add details to the Ethers docs soon. :).
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And along with each round, I try to keep everyone up to date with the goings ons of ethers, so here are the March Highlights. Thank you everyone, you all make this possible and I canāt possibly articulate how grateful I am. <3 <3
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Ethers v6 is a bit behind schedule (6 months), as such the early choice to use BigInt *only internally* to provide compatible builds for non-BigInt platforms is becoming less important. Iām seeking feedback on whether to go all-in BigInt everywhere. Please reply with feedback. :).
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A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced that the world is going to roll me and I aināt the smartest tool in the shed. She was looking kinda dumb, with her finger and her thumb, in the shape of an āLā on her foreheadā¦.
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So glad I did some house keeping last week, like renewing @ensdomains names, moving tokens around, etc. at the bargain-bin prices of 30 gweiā¦ :).
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@hudsonjameson @nicksdjohnson @matthewegould @unstoppableweb @ensdomains 1/ I once referred to UD as ānot necessarily bad actorsā, at which time they wanted a call to quell my concerns and discuss ethers integration in exchange for a āsubstantialā grant. During the call, the bulk of their business plan was to lawyer up and use trademarksā¦.
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Post-DevCon goals complete: 90/90 frogdex. Thank you frog people! šø ā¤ļø
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Iāve just released the MulticoinProviderPlugin for Ethers, which enables full ENS multi-coin support for those who need it. Try it out and let me know if you have any feedback. :)
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This just showed up in my āon this dayā feed in Photos; that time we sold a @hi_firefly hardware wallet with the āCelestial Cyber Dimensionā @CryptoKitties on it for 203 ether, at the time $140 USD. @GuileTwa @evankeast @barinov
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Just finished my first round of contributions, finding a few projects I hadnāt heard of before, but piqued my interest. There are lots of worthwhile projects, so please peruse when you get a moment. :). @3loop_io.@blockscoutcom.@district_labs.@EthereumPython.@johnson86tw.
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Only a couple days left to donate to Gitcoin GR19. There are lots of worthwhile projects and $1 not only super-linearly amplifies their matching, but signals to them that what they do matters. Warm-fuzzies ftw. <3. My first round of contributions is in Infra: @EthereumOnARM.
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Frantically trying to complete my slide deck for ETHDenver, while simultaneously trying to maximize procrastination by perusing the Twittersā¦ So, just thought Iād send out a quick ālooking forward to seeing you all over the next weekā. :).
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Huge thanks to @BokkyPooBah for my new Mooncatā¦ Contemplating naming it "RicMew" or leaving it nameless, as cats march to the beat of their own drum and respond to their name with the same regularity as random chanceā¦
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FYI; Ethers does NOT have a token. If you see any appear on Etherscan, please report them as a scam. Do not interact with the contract and do not interact with any website claiming to be operated on behalf of Thanks. :).
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ā¦and as a bonus release, Iāve finished the initial Ethers Playground, meant to simplify playing around with the Ethers API in a sandbox. Still lots of features to come, but it is usable. :)
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Ahoy all! Iāve put together a short ārecent updatesā article for ethers and am hoping to publish these far more frequently for those that donāt have the time to follow every issue on GitHub. Feedback is always appreciated! Thanks! :)
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Ahoy! The @gitcoin GR13 round is alive! So Iām once again shilling my grant for @ethersproject, but please snoop around a bit; there are plenty of yet-to-be-discovered gems, and even a small nod from a stranger makes an open source dev feel appreciated. :)
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@nicksdjohnson When they wanted into Ethers, I raised the concern of them needing to add TLDs, since names donāt expire the landscape of useful names would just get slowly consumed over time. They assured me it would never move beyond .crypto and .zil. Bullet dodgedā¦.
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Just a quick announcement about the release of ethers.js v4; now in TypeScript and lots of new great little features here and there. :)
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@makoto_inoue @ensdomains ENS is the biggest game changer I can imagine; it solves so many issues facing the interwebs today and enables so many new opportunities for craziness/awesomeness, itās hard to contain my excitement. :).
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@hudsonjameson @nicksdjohnson @matthewegould @unstoppableweb @ensdomains 2/ Afterwards I said Iād call around to their other integration partners for feedback; none had anything positive to say, and each āthey gave us a grantā story sounded like a cautionary tale. The got upgraded to ābad actorsā in my books, and I didnāt integrate themā¦.
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Hey all! Iāve just posted an article on Merkle Air-Drops; using Merkle-proofs for efficient and wide token distribution without congesting the Ethereum network. Thoughts? :)
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As for Ethers, I just wanted to send a quick āomg thanks!ā to the 1,893 people that have already contributed. It is unbelievable, and I appreciate you all. That warm-fuzzies signal really keeps me going. :). So, omg! Thanks! <3.
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Come find meā¦ :).
we have a bunch of fireflies to giveaway to anyone who wants to hack on one at @ETHGlobal Brussels this week. who wants one?
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Not wanting to get flagged as a spam, I wonāt tag all the projects, but Iāve linked to my GR20 donations. Only a few hours left to get in on @gitcoin GR20 and make a few projects you care about feel loved. That warm-fuzzy that someone out there cares makes a huge difference. <3.
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Awesome!! Iāve been looking forward to this and Gƶrli has now been added to the InfuraProvider in ethers.js (@ethersproject). With `ethers.getDefaultProvider("goerli")` you now connect to Etherscan *and* INFURA. :).
Announcing Gƶrli Testnet Support!
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Iāll be going on soon! Full disclosure, I prepared the wrong talk, so I threw this slide deck together in the last hour. Expect typos. :).
We're only 2 hours out from the #ETHOnline DevTools Summit!. Join us for an afternoon packed with insights on the building blocks of the Ethereum ecosystem, featuring some incredible people. 12:00pm ET -
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When coding, there is no such thing as a "small change". There are plenty of concise, highly efficient ways to unintentionally break thingsā¦ :).
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Heya! Just posted a quick article to give an update on the public beta of v5 for the ethers.js library (@ethersproject). Basically try it out and complain; please feel free to file issues for bugs, feature requests or questions. :)
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There are still a few āTesting Ethers: NFT Collectible Robotsā left; if you see me walking around and want one, just come say hi. :)
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Adding EIP-2718 to ethers now and as I read it over again have one quick suggestion for the authors; can we also add that the transaction type 0x19 is reserved so that there is no future collision with EIP-191 and any existing or future signed data?.
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Just a quick reminder that the latest Gitcoin round is nearly over, and even a dollar helps with the CLR matching. Iād also like to start a list of āprojects that use ethersā, so if you contribute consider leaving a comment about what youāre working on. :)
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A āmust readā if you want to understand the current state, how it was arrived at and next steps. I would like to further emphasize, that *all decisions were made based on feedback from the entire team*. There were a lot of discussions and over 4 hours of emergency meetings.
During the weekend, many people raised questions about the different roles Brantly held and the decision-making mechanism around who decides what, so I would like to dissect it a bit. Please read first.š§µ/.
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Five days leftā¦ Every little bit helps out and makes a project feel loved! For my little stroll through OSS: @eff @eth_limo @ethleaderboard @fileverse @Givethio @LeastAuthority @RevokeCash @skywinder @TallyHoOfficial @umbracash @vyperlang @wighawag @WTFAcademy_ @zkREPL.
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