Justin Drake

@justindrake

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If you run Geth, shave 400 GB of storage in two easy steps :) 1) prune pre-merge history with "geth prune-history --datadir <your dir>" 2) restart geth with "--history.chain postmerge"

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13th AMA from Ethereum Foundation Research → submit questions now, on Farcaster or Reddit → answers roll in tomorrow, Feb 25 at 2pm UTC https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1iw8ln8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_13_25_february_2025/ With two AMAs per year since 2019, EF Research (EFR) is committed to transparency. The team is packed with talent. Learn more about the 40 EFR members spread across 6 sub-teams at research.ethereum.foundation :)

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The Ethereum Foundation research team will host a Reddit AMA on Feb 25 at 2pm UTC. Got questions, casters? Submit them now :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6RCK2bNxMkCfmlzXYtA8upnT6DJjOK52RU65XP_Q1TNoanw/viewform

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Thank you Farcaster for spreading the word, and special thanks to the Telegram fairy who got me unblocked 🙏❤️ Today I have another mission I need help with :) I would like to buy the @justindrake Twitter handle. I'm willing to spend $10K on it—$5K to the owner, plus a $5K bounty to a coordinator who pulls off a trade. The owner barely uses the account. Coincidentally, he's in crypto and participated in NFTs and airdrops. A bit of sleuthing allowed me to locate him. I've tried messaging through a couple avenues but so far failed to reach him. To avoid several people reaching out to the owner I'll only give this mission to one person. Please message me to get the job, briefly explaining why you think you could get it done. https://warpcast.com/justindrake/0xc008d37c

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I have a favour to ask. My Telegram account has been partially restricted for weeks. I can't create groups or send DMs unless it's a reply. This is significantly affecting my coordination work. Radio silence from Telegram support—tried all channels I could find. For context I got restricted after creating a dozen or so groups titled "[zkVM vendor] + ethproofs.org". I'm guessing putting a link in the group names was the big mistake. If someone could help me get in touch with a Telegram insider I'd be extremely grateful :)

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I greatly enjoyed this episode with the new Bitcoin Suisse podcast. We touched on many topics related to ETH the asset and economics more broadly. https://youtu.be/lrFgjOc_Gkw

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A new book on hash-based SNARKs is out! snargsbook.org The book is a comprehensive treatment of the foundations of hash-based SNARKs. Definitions, theorem statements and proofs are rigorously covered from first scratch. A monumental effort by Ale Chiesa and Eylon Yogev—the fundamentals have never been stronger :)

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intersubjective -> intersub intersub faults intersub truth intersub token intersub security intersubly verifiable intersubly attributable intersubly slashable intersubly forkable

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SNARK ASICs are real :) https://youtu.be/URCH2d1cdyg

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Who are the best people at the intersection of AI engineering and crypto?

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my MEV agenda before ETH London :) * March 12: mev.market * March 13: Ethereum sequencing and preconfs roast * March 14: talk on shared sequencing at Pragma https://ethglobal.com/events/london2024 * March 15: chain abstraction workshop https://lu.ma/CA-standards-workshop-london

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1.5h technical presentation and Q&A on shared sequencing, decentralised preconfirmations, and based sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycLQCaqDsk

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BitVM gives 1-of-whitelist optimistic rollups on Bitcoin with 2-way BTC bridges. Defi and restaking can be replicated with BTC. Imagine: * BitDA like EigenDA, boosting DA past 4MB/10min * BitFG like FFG, boosting security past PoW Wait, it's all about monetary premium? Always has been. 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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At first it was just Taiko. In the last couple weeks two more projects embraced based sequencing—announcements coming :) As awareness grows and design details flesh out, projects seriously consider based sequencing.

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Shared sequencing is to execution what danksharding is to DA. Danksharding: removes asynchrony across data shards shared sequencing: removes asynchrony across VMs With both we can fix Ethereum fragmentation.

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Four 2024 technical breakthroughs towards fixing Ethereum fragmentation: 1) Removing the need for a hard fork for based preconfirmations. 2) Espresso making their shared sequencer compatible with based sequencing. 3) Polygon releasing execution aggregation techniques. 4) Accseal releasing the first SNARK proving ASIC.

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Yesterday we had the first community call on Ethereum sequencing and preconfirmations—recording coming Monday!

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the Ethereum Foundation research team will host a Reddit AMA on Jan 10 at 1pm UTC questions can be submitted now :) https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/191kke6/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_11_10_january_2024/

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New ethresearch post on based preconfs! IMO the missing puzzle piece for based rollups to win out :) The native Ethereum L1 sequencer is shared, decentralised, and available today! It's also the most natural, secure, simple, aligned, credibly-neutral sequencer. https://ethresear.ch/t/based-preconfirmations/17353/2

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The new due diligence process to join the Lido relay whitelist is surprisingly thorough. Expecting to get the ultra sound relay whitelisted next week.

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