Quintus

@quintus

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DRM for order flow

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The geth team is hiring 👀 AFAIK, this is the first time they’ve had a public job posting..! If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to core Ethereum development in a context where your only concern is what is best for the long term health of the network, this is for you 🫡 https://jobs.lever.co/ethereumfoundation/8d9b1823-ba67-4195-a673-e11a85a48d62

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Defi-Hellman coin exchange

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He has books and fans lol

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I learnt about that from Bunnie’s work!

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TIL there is a massive building in Switzerland that uses X-rays to create detailed images of computer chips, detailed enough to check if they have been tampered with So cool @quintus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9H8F5A4xXc

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There’s a book related to this! https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/publications/what-money-cant-buy-moral-limits-markets

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Don’t like TEEs They’re my PET peeve

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Edginess as a cybersecurity measure

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My team launched our first live service today: a service that creates Merkle-Patrica Trie account inclusion proofs for Ethereum along with every block, using Binius. Currently it's still a proof-of-concept, but one day soon this approach will bring fast stateless clients to Ethereum! https://www.irreducible.com/posts/ethereum-state-proving-service

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I'd love if someone could point me to some writing/data on the topic. There's definitely more to be said about export controls and taxes, but I'm not sure I'm qualified

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Almost every time, successful investigations rely on bank accounts being pulled. Not just of politicians, but of service providers for the government and those they interact with, trying to find a kickback payment. A guy in our neighbourhood is selling his house. Two cars with tinted windows pulled up and a big man offered him 15% more for the house if he was willing to take cash right there and then. He declined (out of principle one would hope), but also because its really hard to meaningfully spend that kind of cash. Its hard to get it into the banking system without suspicion My point is that there are real benefits to being able to relegate certain actors to only using physical cash and for digital transactions being trackable. I realise there are people working on middle paths like mixers in which you can prove the origin of funds is not from a blacklisted address, but I'm never really part of any discussions which take the downsides of naive digital cash seriously and think about mitigating them

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I don't know if many in the crypto space have really thought through the tension at the heart of permissionless money There are real downsides to permissionless, private money. Perhaps (I believe) they are outweighed by the upsides, but most of us don't really think about the downsides. I'm from South Africa, but live in NYC. When I sit in NYC, it makes complete sense that you'd want to build a financial system to which access cannot be denied and surveillance of which is not possible. Canadian truckers, Navalny and Operation Chokepoint are motivating examples. Headlines telling about dirty russian money or iranians using crypto payment rails to avoid sanctions feel like vague points at best and boogiemen from power hungry governments with hammer-nail-like regulatory appetites. Currently I'm in SA. Here the biggest problem is corruption by far. I happen to know some people who are involved in the investigations that go after corrupt state officials... 1/2

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I don’t think we disagree There’s a spectrum of trust assumptions: having to trust the OS and the firmware is worse than just trusting the firmware and auditing the OS The idealised point at which you run fully auditable logic is not really populated because basically all hardware (and low level software) is closed I just don’t think people necessarily use this nuance when they think about stuff. They think OS GH implies you know with certainty whats running when you execute a program

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TIL that some farmers in South Africa are replacing guard dogs with ostriches They’re fast, quiet and have a nasty kick with 10cm talons (4in) on each foot. One guy told me he found a would-be sheep thief with their stomach cut open one morning

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Sharing this in an attempt to pull you deeper into wonderland https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ztee-trustless-supply-chains/4033/1

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Sure its reasonable to expect that most chips you buy won’t do you in tomorrow But there are plenty of examples in recent past of hardware backdoors and we simply don’t know if there aren’t dormant backdoors in other devices Your hardware may not be sending your private keys to the NSA but the reason for that isn’t because your wallet is OS, its because Intel or whoever else in the supply chain is choosing not to insert/use backdoors

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Yeah don’t disagree. Just some hyperbole to get the juices going I do think that people underestimate what closed lower levels of logic means tho

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