Paul Dowman

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Starting strength. I haven’t seen the basics covered in such meticulous detail anywhere else

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We often get asked "wen ZK?" Little known fact: OP Mainnet is ZK-provable today. So... why haven’t we already thrown fault proofs away and turned into a ZK rollup? I think this is the wrong framing for the question because it focuses on a specific technical architecture rather than the user value: - Better theoretical security - Secure low latency bridging Our goal is to continuously improve the security, speed, reliability that our users receive on a per-cent basis. But ZK is not the only way to do so! I'd love to switch to ZK one day. But the following must be true for it to be a net-beneficial switch for users: 1. Lindy/ de-risked cryptography 2. Sub-cent transactions 3. EVM equivalent Til then, we continue to invest in greater security, lower latency, and even more scalable blockspace. Today, that's done with fault proofs. In the future, maybe a combination of fault proofs and zk proofs! We are certainly investing in both! (So much gratitude to our brilliant partners at risc0, sp1, and O1 Labs)

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(Since the preview didn't render.... it's an image of a Windows desktop. 😂)

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Alright /teams... a recurring topic around here. Thoughts? https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

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For anything infra, if it's not open source it's not good for the ecosystem.

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Definitely do! Same for anyone in /mountains

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I do! Are you around here too? Always down for a hike with any Farcaster people, lmk if you’re in town.

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gm from the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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“Effective managers hand books to their team. Not so they can be reminded of high school, but so that next week she can say to them, ‘are we there yet?’” https://seths.blog/2008/05/how-to-read-a-b/

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“early-career employees are a cheap call option on talent that's expensive to acquire later. When hiring slows down, that variance compresses, and the option value of the early hires takes a big hit.” https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-supply-chain-of-talent/

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“When the causes that people are passionately behind are more important to them than the system for making decisions, the system is in jeopardy.” - Ray Dalio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pick-side-fight-keep-your-head-down-flee-ray-dalio-53fpe

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Too many people running hubs! A good problem I guess?

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Sounds like it might be near me (Canmore), which mountain is this? I want to go there 😀

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Beautiful! Where is this?

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Some feedback on hubble logs: 1. Do they need to be JSON? I think human readable is important. They can still be parseable. The nested JSON with `\` is especially bad. 2. I assume "type": "err" means it was from stderr, but it's confusing, especially these ones with an empty message (and it seemed hung too). 3. Instead of the numeric "level" in the nested JSON in the message, a human readable level (info/warn/error/critical/etc) would help a lot. 4. There's so much. Verbose output with "debug" level is fine, but it should be easy to change that or at least use grep (can't even use jq because of the nested JSON). Thanks for listening ❤️

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They do have this though, which is good: https://obsidian.md/blog/verify-obsidian-sync-encryption/

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At least the encryption for cloud sync should be open source. Hi @kepano

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1/ Deeper Dive into my Long Form Post/Cast on why I’m more bullish than I have ever been about crypto. https://x.com/jerallaire/status/1803432989113593890 “Public blockchain infrastructure has evolved into its 3rd generation, providing global scale network computers that can handle large scale applications with trusted data, transactions and compute.” My mental model for blockchain networks has always been network operating systems. This is one of the most important things to help people understand what’s happening with this new infrastructure layer on the internet. The way that most “important people” (e.g. MSM, policymakers, people running big financial institutions) filter the concept of “blockchain” is typically hyper narrow – it’s a technology for “cryptocurrency”, which is “mostly bad and useless”, and even as a technology its never been proven to be useful for anything other than constructing online casinos and proliferating scams.

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gm from the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We still have snow

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