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What type of zu berliner are you?
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"Fuk bitcoins. Das ist unser Krieg."
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A fun math aside, on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers, and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so, one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register, but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails, other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven? Answer: log*(N) (yes, that's the iterated-log function) Why: In the first round, you go from N unproven workloads to N/5 unproven workloads In the second round, each remaining workload gets assigned 5 provers, so per-workload failure rate becomes 1 in 5^5. So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 unproven workloads In the third round, each remaining workload gets assigned ~5^5 provers, so failure rate is 1 in 5^(5^5). So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 / 5^(5^5) unproven workloads
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Bought my standard drink at starbucks (hot venti green tea) in Switzerland. Cost was 6.20 CHF. In 2014 it was 5.60 CHF. 11% price increase in 11 years = 1% annual inflation. Impressive job ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ!
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IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.
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How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368
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qwen3:0.6b goes through three possible answers to "I am god" in turn: * refuse * dad joke * agree
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A simple explanation of a/(b+c) + b/(c+a) + c/(a+b) = 4 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/11/abc4.html
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The math of when stage 1 and stage 2 make sense https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/06/stages.html
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CSS on my blog reduced from 5875 lines to 233 lines. https://vitalik.eth.limo/css/main.css Today is a great day for simplification. All software (incl law) should do this more.
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Simplifying the L1 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html
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Welcome to the full-EVM stage 1 gang, Base! https://x.com/l2beat/status/1917538671080923288
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Exciting to see Scroll become the first full-EVM ZK stage 1 rollup! https://x.com/l2beat/status/1916868363730444341
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3sf-mini: a basic implementation and simulation of 3-slot finality (many details of 3sf are of course still in flux; the goal is to create a minimal software package that makes it easy to understand 3sf and play around with options) https://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/3sf-mini
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Formalizing decentralization goals in the context of higher L1 gaslimits and 2020s-era tech https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/formalizing-decentralization-goals-in-the-context-of-larger-l1-gaslimits-and-2020s-era-tech/23942
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And my personal focuses for 2025: 1. Ethereum, particularly: (i) L1 long-term roadmap (eg. single-slot finality, long-term VM, statelessness, security / resilience / decentralization) (ii) full-stack security, open source and privacy: ensuring Ethereum is usable in a way that is highly secure, free of centralized intermediaries and privacy-friendly, incl higher up the stack (apps, wallets...) 2. Big-picture d/acc (see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html ): * comms tools, info and social layer, mechanism design eg. governance, pubgoods/open source funding * cryptography, OS, hardware, physical infra, bio defense Meanwhile areas that are important but where I am relatively less involved (and others excel): * @gakonst @ansgar.eth @dankrad and others are taking on practicals of short-term scaling (eg. 10x the L1 gaslimit within 2026) * p2p, block construction, other research areas * @hww @tkstanczak are leading many EF matters * proven app layer categories (eg. defi, payments/savings)
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Twin goals of EF: 1. Usage of Ethereum - but usage of a type where users are actually benefiting from Ethereum's underlying properties 2. Resilience and decentralization of Ethereum - viewed holistically, focused on addressing points of weakness anywhere in the stack
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"continue" might be the worst-named keyword in python. Like, consider this code: for i in range(100): if i % 5 == 0: continue print(i) It prints out numbers that are not multiples of 5. But if you give it to someone who is not experienced in python, they might think the exact opposite!
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Why I support privacy: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html
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