@shielded-nate.bsky.social
Oh snap!
Another cryptography-expert startup announcing their focus on private mobile wallet privacy+UX+performance 🚀 for Zcash.
Potential dovetail with Tachyon. Potential alternative?
Zcash is at a dev network size/speed inflection point!
Wanna know who/more? Come to Arborist calls. 😉
Another cryptography-expert startup announcing their focus on private mobile wallet privacy+UX+performance 🚀 for Zcash.
Potential dovetail with Tachyon. Potential alternative?
Zcash is at a dev network size/speed inflection point!
Wanna know who/more? Come to Arborist calls. 😉
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Oh snap!
Another cryptography-expert startup announcing their focus on private mobile wallet privacy+UX+performance 🚀 for Zcash.
Potential dovetail with Tachyon. Potential alternative?
Zcash is at a dev network size/speed inflection point!
Wanna know who/more? Come to Arborist calls. 😉
Another cryptography-expert startup announcing their focus on private mobile wallet privacy+UX+performance 🚀 for Zcash.
Potential dovetail with Tachyon. Potential alternative?
Zcash is at a dev network size/speed inflection point!
Wanna know who/more? Come to Arborist calls. 😉
zec.rocks rewards Zcash lightwalletd operators!
Sweet. I somehow missed that you can get rewards for running those.
They are a privacy/performance lynchpin, so having more operators helps resist panopticon-style adversaries.
Tachyon, IIUC, largely removes both the performance and privacy issues.
Sweet. I somehow missed that you can get rewards for running those.
They are a privacy/performance lynchpin, so having more operators helps resist panopticon-style adversaries.
Tachyon, IIUC, largely removes both the performance and privacy issues.
zec.rocks
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
zec.rocks rewards Zcash lightwalletd operators!
Sweet. I somehow missed that you can get rewards for running those.
They are a privacy/performance lynchpin, so having more operators helps resist panopticon-style adversaries.
Tachyon, IIUC, largely removes both the performance and privacy issues.
Sweet. I somehow missed that you can get rewards for running those.
They are a privacy/performance lynchpin, so having more operators helps resist panopticon-style adversaries.
Tachyon, IIUC, largely removes both the performance and privacy issues.
A bigger picture take-away I'm learning from Zcash Arborist is that some of the prior goals are getting pushed back a bit as multiple teams focus on performance and reliability with growing Zcash adoption and interest.
Nice Problem To Have!
Nice Problem To Have!
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A bigger picture take-away I'm learning from Zcash Arborist is that some of the prior goals are getting pushed back a bit as multiple teams focus on performance and reliability with growing Zcash adoption and interest.
Nice Problem To Have!
Nice Problem To Have!
Ooh, Zcash Arborist call goodies incoming:
Zashi team has sync benchmarking: https://bencher.dev/perf/zcash-speed/plots
Something I missed about considerable optimizations to proving?!
Zashi team has sync benchmarking: https://bencher.dev/perf/zcash-speed/plots
Something I missed about considerable optimizations to proving?!
Zcash Speed
View Zcash Speed continuous benchmarking plots on Bencher
bencher.dev
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Ooh, Zcash Arborist call goodies incoming:
Zashi team has sync benchmarking: https://bencher.dev/perf/zcash-speed/plots
Something I missed about considerable optimizations to proving?!
Zashi team has sync benchmarking: https://bencher.dev/perf/zcash-speed/plots
Something I missed about considerable optimizations to proving?!
I'm a simple fellow: if your cafe has decent coffee, is anywhere near my route, and you, the proprietor are working there, I am 100% your fan and will become a regular.
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm a simple fellow: if your cafe has decent coffee, is anywhere near my route, and you, the proprietor are working there, I am 100% your fan and will become a regular.
Pondering "supply chain hardening" similar to LavaMoat but at the "native binary" layer...
Is LLVM a feasible abstraction layer for cross-module safety restrictions?
(My main binary/vm linking safety awareness is WASM because that's a key design goal there.)
Is LLVM a feasible abstraction layer for cross-module safety restrictions?
(My main binary/vm linking safety awareness is WASM because that's a key design goal there.)
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Pondering "supply chain hardening" similar to LavaMoat but at the "native binary" layer...
Is LLVM a feasible abstraction layer for cross-module safety restrictions?
(My main binary/vm linking safety awareness is WASM because that's a key design goal there.)
Is LLVM a feasible abstraction layer for cross-module safety restrictions?
(My main binary/vm linking safety awareness is WASM because that's a key design goal there.)
It's fun (scale, productivity!) and scary (supply chain attacks) to watch the docs dot rs build queue to see how many crate updates are awaiting docs generation. Either rust has gotten a lot busier, or maybe it's Monday rush hour?
https://docs.rs/releases/queue
https://docs.rs/releases/queue
Queue - Docs.rs
docs.rs
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's fun (scale, productivity!) and scary (supply chain attacks) to watch the docs dot rs build queue to see how many crate updates are awaiting docs generation. Either rust has gotten a lot busier, or maybe it's Monday rush hour?
https://docs.rs/releases/queue
https://docs.rs/releases/queue
My favorite FLOSS constructerfuge is "irc nerd sniping":
Setup:
- channel is "l33t"
- If noob asks a question: no answer.
- If noob posts claim/proposal, ignored.
Solution: Sockpuppet 1 asks the question, SP 2 answers incorrectly.
l33ts cannot resist correction.
Use wisely.
Setup:
- channel is "l33t"
- If noob asks a question: no answer.
- If noob posts claim/proposal, ignored.
Solution: Sockpuppet 1 asks the question, SP 2 answers incorrectly.
l33ts cannot resist correction.
Use wisely.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My favorite FLOSS constructerfuge is "irc nerd sniping":
Setup:
- channel is "l33t"
- If noob asks a question: no answer.
- If noob posts claim/proposal, ignored.
Solution: Sockpuppet 1 asks the question, SP 2 answers incorrectly.
l33ts cannot resist correction.
Use wisely.
Setup:
- channel is "l33t"
- If noob asks a question: no answer.
- If noob posts claim/proposal, ignored.
Solution: Sockpuppet 1 asks the question, SP 2 answers incorrectly.
l33ts cannot resist correction.
Use wisely.
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RIP Internet
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
RIP Internet
Features for my fantasy of a revision control tool:
- somehow self-sustaining economically
- UX-driven design
- local-first, decentralized, 1 cryptographic identity per repo
- private by default
…
- somehow self-sustaining economically
- UX-driven design
- local-first, decentralized, 1 cryptographic identity per repo
- private by default
…
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Features for my fantasy of a revision control tool:
- somehow self-sustaining economically
- UX-driven design
- local-first, decentralized, 1 cryptographic identity per repo
- private by default
…
- somehow self-sustaining economically
- UX-driven design
- local-first, decentralized, 1 cryptographic identity per repo
- private by default
…
In the latest example of the set of Zcash contributors rapidly expanding and decentralizing, some new (to me) folks have shown up with a new (to me) full-source bootstrapped reproducible toolchain called StageX and are hardening major components.
Especially crucial as supply chain attacks ramp up!
Especially crucial as supply chain attacks ramp up!
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In the latest example of the set of Zcash contributors rapidly expanding and decentralizing, some new (to me) folks have shown up with a new (to me) full-source bootstrapped reproducible toolchain called StageX and are hardening major components.
Especially crucial as supply chain attacks ramp up!
Especially crucial as supply chain attacks ramp up!
Since the CT sleuths figured us out, I've decided to defect and reveal the full plans and methods of the Great Zcash Pump-and-Dump:
Phase 1: The Pump - We realized the best way to make the pump super massive was to deploy a permissionless system with "digital scarcity" so the marks would FOMO.
Phase 1: The Pump - We realized the best way to make the pump super massive was to deploy a permissionless system with "digital scarcity" so the marks would FOMO.
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Since the CT sleuths figured us out, I've decided to defect and reveal the full plans and methods of the Great Zcash Pump-and-Dump:
Phase 1: The Pump - We realized the best way to make the pump super massive was to deploy a permissionless system with "digital scarcity" so the marks would FOMO.
Phase 1: The Pump - We realized the best way to make the pump super massive was to deploy a permissionless system with "digital scarcity" so the marks would FOMO.
The @ShieldedLabs Crosslink milestone 4a ripped:
- fixed 2 major bugs from ms3
- much easier UX, ~x3 participants on the BFT roster
- our new custom-fit BFT proved more stable than prior sdk
- we experienced a BFT safety failure from a known design gap (not a BFT bug)
Buckle up: 🧵
- fixed 2 major bugs from ms3
- much easier UX, ~x3 participants on the BFT roster
- our new custom-fit BFT proved more stable than prior sdk
- we experienced a BFT safety failure from a known design gap (not a BFT bug)
Buckle up: 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The @ShieldedLabs Crosslink milestone 4a ripped:
- fixed 2 major bugs from ms3
- much easier UX, ~x3 participants on the BFT roster
- our new custom-fit BFT proved more stable than prior sdk
- we experienced a BFT safety failure from a known design gap (not a BFT bug)
Buckle up: 🧵
- fixed 2 major bugs from ms3
- much easier UX, ~x3 participants on the BFT roster
- our new custom-fit BFT proved more stable than prior sdk
- we experienced a BFT safety failure from a known design gap (not a BFT bug)
Buckle up: 🧵
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#ZingoTips Changing the language of your Zingo! wallet is super easy. 🔄
Follow this #tutorial and let us know how it goes 💚
#Zingo is digital money in your pocket
Follow this #tutorial and let us know how it goes 💚
#Zingo is digital money in your pocket
October 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#ZingoTips Changing the language of your Zingo! wallet is super easy. 🔄
Follow this #tutorial and let us know how it goes 💚
#Zingo is digital money in your pocket
Follow this #tutorial and let us know how it goes 💚
#Zingo is digital money in your pocket
My todo app had an outage, so it was a fine time to reread this classic:
https://outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/frog-and-toad-together-a-list/
https://outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/frog-and-toad-together-a-list/
Frog and Toad Together: A List
This morning I decided to visit my blog and saw that Thursday was a big day for Out of Our Minds to Yours! Most of the visits were to a post I did last year on “Frog and Toad: Stories that Mi…
outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My todo app had an outage, so it was a fine time to reread this classic:
https://outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/frog-and-toad-together-a-list/
https://outofourmindstoyours.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/frog-and-toad-together-a-list/
When I first heard of Culdesac Tempe, I loved the idea, but the initial photos looked bland / flat.
It's really nice to see how it's growing up. The layout, architecture, and landscaping make it look waaaay more appealing.
Kudos to the devs & residents!
culdesac.com/tempe/
It's really nice to see how it's growing up. The layout, architecture, and landscaping make it look waaaay more appealing.
Kudos to the devs & residents!
culdesac.com/tempe/
Culdesac Tempe
The first walkable neighborhood of its kind in the US designed to connect residents, local shops, and all that Tempe has to offer.
culdesac.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
When I first heard of Culdesac Tempe, I loved the idea, but the initial photos looked bland / flat.
It's really nice to see how it's growing up. The layout, architecture, and landscaping make it look waaaay more appealing.
Kudos to the devs & residents!
culdesac.com/tempe/
It's really nice to see how it's growing up. The layout, architecture, and landscaping make it look waaaay more appealing.
Kudos to the devs & residents!
culdesac.com/tempe/
A review of firefly dot social after a couple sessions of use:
Crossposting has worked, and that by itself is a major value.
Crossposting has failed sometimes, to bsky. (Expired token error.) Just a transient bug?
Incoming works well for FC + bsky, no X.
Good enough to continue. Keep it up devs!
Crossposting has worked, and that by itself is a major value.
Crossposting has failed sometimes, to bsky. (Expired token error.) Just a transient bug?
Incoming works well for FC + bsky, no X.
Good enough to continue. Keep it up devs!
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A review of firefly dot social after a couple sessions of use:
Crossposting has worked, and that by itself is a major value.
Crossposting has failed sometimes, to bsky. (Expired token error.) Just a transient bug?
Incoming works well for FC + bsky, no X.
Good enough to continue. Keep it up devs!
Crossposting has worked, and that by itself is a major value.
Crossposting has failed sometimes, to bsky. (Expired token error.) Just a transient bug?
Incoming works well for FC + bsky, no X.
Good enough to continue. Keep it up devs!
Pondering how we can make Zcash a significant proportion of the global money supply. On tech:
- network security scales w/ value stored/xfer'd
- strongest possible privacy
- txn throughput supply as high as possible
- issuance/supply constrained & known
- as unfuckwithable as possible
What else?
- network security scales w/ value stored/xfer'd
- strongest possible privacy
- txn throughput supply as high as possible
- issuance/supply constrained & known
- as unfuckwithable as possible
What else?
October 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Pondering how we can make Zcash a significant proportion of the global money supply. On tech:
- network security scales w/ value stored/xfer'd
- strongest possible privacy
- txn throughput supply as high as possible
- issuance/supply constrained & known
- as unfuckwithable as possible
What else?
- network security scales w/ value stored/xfer'd
- strongest possible privacy
- txn throughput supply as high as possible
- issuance/supply constrained & known
- as unfuckwithable as possible
What else?
Your network-enabled dev tool is awesome, but I bet it follows this anti-pattern:
1. user enters command
2. checks network for latest stuff
3. uses latest stuff.
Instead, do this:
1. user enters command
2. uses latest local stuff
Later, user uses explicit "update" which taps net.
✊ Local-First
1. user enters command
2. checks network for latest stuff
3. uses latest stuff.
Instead, do this:
1. user enters command
2. uses latest local stuff
Later, user uses explicit "update" which taps net.
✊ Local-First
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Your network-enabled dev tool is awesome, but I bet it follows this anti-pattern:
1. user enters command
2. checks network for latest stuff
3. uses latest stuff.
Instead, do this:
1. user enters command
2. uses latest local stuff
Later, user uses explicit "update" which taps net.
✊ Local-First
1. user enters command
2. checks network for latest stuff
3. uses latest stuff.
Instead, do this:
1. user enters command
2. uses latest local stuff
Later, user uses explicit "update" which taps net.
✊ Local-First
I'm experimenting with firefly dot social which aggregates posts from X, bsky, and farcaster!
I expect all 4 accounts have lower security; but if it works, so worth it for long-tail engagement.
Don't see X posts yet. Will my post appear on X?
I expect all 4 accounts have lower security; but if it works, so worth it for long-tail engagement.
Don't see X posts yet. Will my post appear on X?
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm experimenting with firefly dot social which aggregates posts from X, bsky, and farcaster!
I expect all 4 accounts have lower security; but if it works, so worth it for long-tail engagement.
Don't see X posts yet. Will my post appear on X?
I expect all 4 accounts have lower security; but if it works, so worth it for long-tail engagement.
Don't see X posts yet. Will my post appear on X?
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A point on how we educate the youth to seek truth:
When I was starting to write papers in middle school in the early-mid 2000s, we were taught: never solely rely on Wikipedia, and independently validate claims even if the Wiki answer is good, to get used to building our own independent synthesis. +
When I was starting to write papers in middle school in the early-mid 2000s, we were taught: never solely rely on Wikipedia, and independently validate claims even if the Wiki answer is good, to get used to building our own independent synthesis. +
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A point on how we educate the youth to seek truth:
When I was starting to write papers in middle school in the early-mid 2000s, we were taught: never solely rely on Wikipedia, and independently validate claims even if the Wiki answer is good, to get used to building our own independent synthesis. +
When I was starting to write papers in middle school in the early-mid 2000s, we were taught: never solely rely on Wikipedia, and independently validate claims even if the Wiki answer is good, to get used to building our own independent synthesis. +
Zcash Arborist call, intermittent thoughts / notes: Zashi team has been busy improving performance/quality of the backend due to a big influx of users.
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Zcash Arborist call, intermittent thoughts / notes: Zashi team has been busy improving performance/quality of the backend due to a big influx of users.
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All crew,
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
All crew,
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
I am an optimist and have great faith humanity can come together to overcome the greatest of obstacles in our path!
It is to this end I call you to unite in a great mission: let us make websites which can link to other websites with Uniform Resource Locator technology!
#web1.0
It is to this end I call you to unite in a great mission: let us make websites which can link to other websites with Uniform Resource Locator technology!
#web1.0
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am an optimist and have great faith humanity can come together to overcome the greatest of obstacles in our path!
It is to this end I call you to unite in a great mission: let us make websites which can link to other websites with Uniform Resource Locator technology!
#web1.0
It is to this end I call you to unite in a great mission: let us make websites which can link to other websites with Uniform Resource Locator technology!
#web1.0
I'm glad people are working on AI alignment!
I look forward to their results, which presumably will come after they or a predecessor has succeeded at human alignment.
(-which is why I appreciated this approach: www.winwinpodcast.com/p/47-emmett-... )
I look forward to their results, which presumably will come after they or a predecessor has succeeded at human alignment.
(-which is why I appreciated this approach: www.winwinpodcast.com/p/47-emmett-... )
#47 - Emmett Shear - Why Nature Holds the Answer To AI Alignment
And why the big labs are probably going to fail...
www.winwinpodcast.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm glad people are working on AI alignment!
I look forward to their results, which presumably will come after they or a predecessor has succeeded at human alignment.
(-which is why I appreciated this approach: www.winwinpodcast.com/p/47-emmett-... )
I look forward to their results, which presumably will come after they or a predecessor has succeeded at human alignment.
(-which is why I appreciated this approach: www.winwinpodcast.com/p/47-emmett-... )