Having to wait a whole week for the next Reborn As A Vending Machine episode instead of just binging the entire series… it's like being in the 1990s again.

The downside of being one of the co-authors of a published scientific article is that now I keep getting spam emails supposedly inviting me to become a reviewer of some random, probably fake, journal.

I'm in San Francisco going to all the side events during SBC week. Would be cool to meet up with any Bitcoiners or Nostriches around while I'm here.

Why does the state of Alabama keep trying to invent new ways to kill death row prisoners rather than just shooting them? It's that easy. Just use a firing squad.

Really hope chemical engineers start working on ways to filter out PFAS and similar compounds from water and preferably neutralize or destroy them. Hopefully on a large scale.

The more I learn about ZKPs, and STARKs in particular, the more I realize that this represents a technological transformation that may rival the invention of the electronic circuit. ZKP applications go far beyond simple transaction rollups. The correct execution of any Turing-complete system of any magnitude can be verified super-efficiently, in a completely private way. Add in the quantum resistance of STARK, and it's no longer hyperbole to say that it could be the defining information technology of the next century.

What if you made a blockchain for waffles? Investors please contact me if you want to get a 1% stake in my WAFL whitepaper for only $3,000,000.

Thinking about getting a new phone with eSIM. It just seems so much more convenient for international travel and/or carrier flexibility.

I refuse to use the PayPal stablecoin with a built-in rug right there in the badly outdated and insecure Eth smart contract. Who are they trying to fool?

Some researchers have already figured out the best way to simultaneously scale Bitcoin's transaction throughput and implement a post-quantum signature scheme. Essential reading.

IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

Aggregating and thresholdizing hash-based signatures using STARKs

This work presents an approach for compressing hash-based signatures using STARKs (Ben-Sasson et. al.'18). We focus on constructing a hash-based t-...

"Budget sequestration" "Fiscal cliff" "Debt ceiling" They are fooling us. Fiat currency isn't real. These words have no actual meaning.

Room temperature superconductors aren't real and can't hurt you. Until they are. At which time they will be used to build quantum computers that break all current widely deployed public key cryptography and the hurting will be massive.

Superconducting quantum computing - Wikipedia

A real laugh from people who apparently don't even believe in capital letters! https://antisoftware.club/manifesto/2022/06/27/cryptocurrency.html

I wonder if there is a computational class of problems which is easy for a quantum computer to compute forwards, but hard to invert, while also being hard to compute forwards on a classical computer.

Don't scan my retinas! Don't scan me, bro!

Seems like the layoffs situation isn't really improving. Recession is probably already underway.

Amethyst feature request please: automatically filter out any posts matching the regex .*airdrop is live.*