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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/06/30/epochslot.html

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https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1806036301009011054 Seeing so much hate for this diagram that would have been accepted as common wisdom 5 years ago makes me sad, and makes me somewhat more scared for the future of the world. I hope we can snap out of this mode of thinking soon.

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In multiple European cities now I see taxis being allowed to use the bus lane (while of course regular cars are not). What's the policy justification for this?

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Interesting thread on UK vs France from the other app. I am curious, do locals of either country agree? https://x.com/bswud/status/1804899087197564950

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On the other app: "Look, here's a really impressive Al dog" "Nonono that's just a really impressive Al video deepfake of an Al dog"

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To me, the most underrated counterargument to the Pascal's Wager is that it ignores that your actions can have consequences on either side of zero. Once you take that into account, many things move from "seeming no-brainer" to "totally undecidable omg what the heck do l do"

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The galaxy brain chain doesn't end there. The next step is realizing that the line "news is propaganda" is itself propaganda to make social media dwellers think they're safe because social media is not "news", and absorb social media propaganda more uncritically. https://x.com/ModernDadSG/status/1803553694723756431

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It's really underrated how 4 years ago the worst ethereum UX problem was that transactions would often take like 10 min to confirm if you get unlucky with the gasprice, and that problem just completely went away with EIP-1559. Today transactions reliably confirm in 5-20 seconds. https://x.com/post_polar_/status/1803406902430236907

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There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch…), and living in Singapore. In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform. In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

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I feel like off-chain ZK applications are really undervaluing the potential of just using STARKs, including for privacy-demanding use cases. These days a STARK is < 100 kB, for off-chainтuse cases that amount of bandwidth is utterly trivial compared to the client-side prover time savings that come from using STARKs.

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New way to encode a profile picture dropped: https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675 320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

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So many people in the replies here are totally missing the point. Yes, there is an infinite number of valid possible answers for i i. But EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS A REAL NUMBER. https://x.com/mathladyhazel/status/1800905395961241811

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Fun posters and graffiti from Berlin, thread. "Do not exceed the target of 180 degrees!"

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Why is this "ethereum conference locations suck" discourse I've seen a few times on the other app completely ignoring that devcon is going to be in thailand? Also EDCON in Tokyo end of Jul.

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Welcome @optimism to the club of stage 1+ L2s! (meaning, L2s where the proof systems actually have teeth) I'm looking forward to seeing many more L2s join this club soon, especially some ZK ones.

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When debugging a ZKP verifier, make sure to keep checking not just that the proof verifies on valid inputs, but also that the proof verification returns an error on invalid inputs (or with nonsensical tweaks to the verification mechanism).

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