Vitalik Buterin

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Multidimensional gas pricing: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/05/09/multidim.html

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Optimal typing speed wise is probably: 0 0 0 0 0 <press and hold Ctrl> A C V V V V V V V V A little more fail-safe is: 0 0 0 0 0 <press and hold Ctrl> A C V V V V A C V V

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I can't find this confirmed on any trustworthy media? What's the evidence for this?

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An EOA can pretend to be a smart contract for the duration of a single transaction. This lets you do smart contract things, while still keeping your existing wallet, today (or as soon as it's included).

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(I should mention this is *much* less of a problem on farcaster than on the other app)

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How do FHE practitioners deal with the fact that whenever you mention "homomorphic" anything, stupid people on the internet act like it has something to do with homosexuality? Is there some other term that we're supposed to use? Use "FHE" without ever unrolling the acronym? Something else?

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Also a toy implementation of one scheme here: https://github.com/vbuterin/research/blob/master/tensor_fhe/homomorphic_encryption.py

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Since a lot of people are interested in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) recently, re-upping my article from 2020 that goes into how the math works in depth: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/07/20/homomorphic.html

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GM! May the fourth be with you! 🎉

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Yay, we have a winner! Changed my email, it works now.

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Github's contribution tracker seems to be very misleading. It shows very little activity, but I've made many commits to ethereum/research each day in the past week alone. Any idea what's up?

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I actually tried, but firefly was bugged at the time and only posted it to twitter.

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I forgot "terrapunk"; also an underrated one imo. https://nasjaq.substack.com/p/the-terrapunk-manifesto

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"z-axis tribe" "progress movement" "transhumanists" "technoprogressives" All better branding than gray. Though I actually think adjusting the substance somewhat, making it more playful and welcoming and less stern, the sort of thing that you would instinctively want to represent with bright colors, would be ideal.

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This could be an interesting survey subject. Give a list of examples, including minor variations ("EthDenver", "EthDenver if its website was on IPFS via .eth.limo", "EthDenver if all ticketing was on-chain ERC721s"...), let people rank from 0% to 100%, and analyze the results.

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2 + 2 = 0 2 * 6 = 11 3 / 5 = 9 3² + 8² = 11² 420 * 61779 = 1 It's the new math. If you use it, it becomes much easier to make proofs of things. If you know, you know.

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If you keep decomposing, every question turns into one where you agree on problems, but disagree on prioritization (is problem X large enough to be worth solving it with method A which creates another problem Y...?) Once at that level, you agree X is a problem, and even if you think it's minor you can try to go solve.

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I agree but then again I'm the sort of person who doesn't notice the difference between watching movies in 1024x768 and anything higher.

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But also beware of latent heat :) When the water starts boiling, it's a long long way away from actually boiling away fully.

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Network states that pre-assume that they need to have tokens will fail :D

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