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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

i constantly notice how everyone in crypto wonders, why did ethereum community choose rollups over sharding or solana-style vertical scaling? i tried to answer all these questions in my new article. no abstract phrases, only numbers and facts @viamirror

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Dr. Dankshard or How I learned to stop worrying and love rollups

You may notice how many people wonder why such a complicated solution was adopted for Ethereum scaling, maybe you’re even one of them. Like, why “rollups” if there are many other options, from...

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@alexhooketh

alex

9 months

@ChrisBlec it's substitution of concepts. in the video you pinned vitalik says that today most of rollups have backdoors that act as kind of training wheels for them. vitalik does NOT state that these backdoors are not temporary, in comparison with what you declare in your post.

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

so ethereum network can handle 190 TPS TODAY. without blobs or external DA thousands of nodes on raspberry pis and similar weak computers are still alive and well while verifying all these txs in real time the future of scaling

@anthonykrose

Anthony Rose (∎, ∆)

5 months

new high score @zksync

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@wasm3_engine damn do you accept donations?

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@Justin_Bons @VitalikButerin day 1 of me asking justin to read my comprehensive rollup scaling explainer with all rationales and calculations that objectively explain why we chose it over sharding or anything else

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Dr. Dankshard or How I learned to stop worrying and love rollups

You may notice how many people wonder why such a complicated solution was adopted for Ethereum scaling, maybe you’re even one of them. Like, why “rollups” if there are many other options, from...

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

just moved all my spending wallet funds to @getclave this is the gwei

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

unpopular opinion: if solana flips BNB it would actually be good for ethereum and web3 in general

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@bkiepuszewski it could just be me but it always seemed to me that many of those L2s aren't quite aligned to the ethereum goal, they're using whatever is hyped now without really caring about the tech external DA allows them to promote the project as a cheap ethereum L2 while it's barely an L2

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@alexhooketh

alex

7 months

@t87 @PicturesFoIder yeah it's worth also putting her into an asylum or a rehab but 14 years for two murders by negligence + dui is more or less fine, isn't it?

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@alexhooketh

alex

2 months

@yezhang1998 i believe it's incorrect to predict price in the actual market traded asset based on a testnet that has basically free tokens also L2s activity is totally incomparable in mainnet and testnet

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@alexhooketh

alex

7 months

@warpcast_ pls add direct ETH payment method, i don't want to pay 30% merchant fee when i already have crypto :(

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@arixoneth PR department with big capital

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@pseudotheos @Scroll_ZKP @aave users?

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@bkiepuszewski @Immutable post related

@gluk64

Alex G. (∎, ∆)

2 years

How has it become normal and tolerated by the community to call an optimistic rollup with no fraud proofs "L2" and "mainnet"? Hey anon, a recipe for success: - Make a fork of Polygon PoS - Launch it on mainnet - Call it "The first EVM ZK rollup live! (ZK proofs disabled yet)"

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@QwQiao this is because the ultimate goal of ethereum is not to make price go up but to change the world you won't make it with "fastest cheapest chain" narrative, it's not such a trivial task

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

I'm telling my friends and family I'm going to thailand for sex tourism because it's less embarrassing than admitting i'm into crypto

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

probably too simple but useful idea: make a DNS/TXT oracle through @Kleros_io decentralised court this will allow projects to use @zkemail with any websites that support DKIM without having to trust devs or anyone to update website keys who'll build it?

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@zksync unfortunately it's mostly those "helo zksync good project when 4irdr0p and you reward us loyal users please🙏🙏"

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

wondering if zksync era testnet will upgrade to blobs, it doesn't seem to use them yet even though sepolia has upgraded to dencun @albicodes @Ozhar @zkSyncDevs

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

it looks like @zksync is working on its own consensus layer. currently they don't have it because batch proposing and sequencing are on the single entity (dev team) 🧐

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@gluk64 @sgoldfed you misread it "why, with rising gas fees, L2s are critical to realize its [Ethereum's] vision"

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@DCbuild3r @vorot93 first rule of debates on CT: don't argue with a person who makes a living out of certain narrative

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@0xfoobar i like that all the recent arguments against ethereum on CT pretend that ethereum isn't being developed at all and there is no roadmap

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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

@zksync @LidoFinance time to vote against

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@arixoneth why "nothing"? the phrase "ethereum L2" looks brilliant in advertising!

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@FigoETH > Solana level tps *current solana TPS it's worth noting that max capacity of solana network will still be larger, tho not for long :-)

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@FigoETH > ETH already most secure chain in existence still not secure enough! ePBS, SLE, SSF, zking L1, ideally post-quantum cryptography => millions of nodes on mobile phones

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@alexhooketh

alex

2 months

@alexanderchopan we were researching this with @doganeth_en from clave email recovery is absolutely possible but it requires DNS oracles, since most email providers don't use DNSSEC. DNS oracles are complicated to implement in trustless/trust-minimised way

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@alexhooketh

alex

9 months

@evan_van_ness i think calling mantle a rollup is not very appropriate. mantle is optimistic chain with external (!!!) DA and (!!!) no fraud proofs. it even uses its own token as native currency of chain. how can we call a rollup something which isn't really better than BNB or polygon PoS?

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

so now zksync transactions cost 5 to 15 cents @ 25 gwei L1 gas, without 4844 dev experience and general UX are evolving rapidly thanks to stack flexibility and it's all on the most secure, decentralised, bulletproof blockchain system i'm so happy with current state of web3

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@arixoneth 32 bytes per field element * 4096 elements per blob = 128 bytes, but as far as i understood due to KZG each field should not exceed some modulo so technically each field is slightly less than 32 bytes and thus whole blob is ~125kb

EIP-4844: Shard Blob Transactions

Shard Blob Transactions scale data-availability of Ethereum in a simple, forwards-compatible manner.

eips.ethereum.org

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@antiprosynth approvals of a token exist on its smart contract if you have approvals of 100 tokens, you'll have to interact with 100 smart contracts it's only possible to do in a single tx with multicalls they're only supported in AA wallets get rid of EOAs!

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@getclave @the_matter_labs @class_lambda @safe @mirana @sandyzkp @anuragarjun @0xKofi @yush_g @dorukismen congrats!!

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@CryptoBonsai33 @tomuky zksync era was released two months before polygon zkEVM. and no, it's not faster or cheaper, mostly because zksync era is a type 4 zkEVM, and polygon is a type 3 zkEVM.

The different types of ZK-EVMs

vitalik.eth.limo

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@alexhooketh

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4 months

@0xsebastiena @zksync i have no merch but this is cool too

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@alexhooketh

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7 months

@bradmillscan > got rugged > "and I was hacked." sic

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4 months

@l2beat does it not count challenge times for optimistic rollups? op stack chains have 7 day delays for challenge window

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@alexhooketh

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5 months

@hildobby_ it didn't stop

@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

still up

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@alexhooketh

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5 months

@koeppelmann it isn't backed by big daddy company that develops most infra things in bitcoin

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@domothy nah he just clicked generate button in the EF's basement

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@drjasper_eth @EclipseFND @CelestiaOrg @arbitrum imo, we need to get used to external DA solutions anyway, because eth DA throughput will never be enough for the whole world. external DA isn't even that bad for zk L2s (validiums), because the data is basically needed for few minutes if not less optimiums should go obsolete tho

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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

@zksync tickets are sold out :(

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@LefterisJP you're free to suggest more accurate ways to calculate diversity

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@Pledditor ethereum's emission model was changed once during the transition to PoS over a year ago it has not changed since then and is completely controlled by code FUD harder (and ethereum foundation cannot "organize" the fork, it's ~10k nodes who do it)

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@evan_van_ness you forgot cardano in the fifth place

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@zackvoell @LukeDashjr are you guys trolling him or don't understand why empty blocks happen

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@luigidemeo not really you don't get any security *until* the batch is finalised, then it has the same security assumptions as rollups. it takes seconds to generate a zk proof to the batch, so finality can be made quick enough

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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

@HODLneverSODL @OscarByrne18 @antiprosynth @BTCGandalf i’m late but of these 72m “premined” ETH 60m is a crowd sale for BTC. other 12m went to EF, independent devs & researchers, dev teams, etc. now EF has ~250k ETH=0.4%/72m and if you think that project can be developed only by open source contributors for free you’re just dreamer

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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

@0xGumshoe let it flip BNB and XRP and the market will be perfect

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@domothy @bendrbang i believe premine is when the network goes public at block X rather than block 0 because dev team (kinda) secretly mined coins for themselves what happened with ethereum is more like a public presale, not premine

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@0xMert_ if you say "L2s are centralised" i can declare with certainity that your "for now" take is false since we seemingly don't talk about future at all if you're ok with unfinished solution today, i'll still stay with making world as decentralised as possible

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@alexhooketh

alex

2 months

@rafierszl @alexanderchopan ...fundraising

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@alexhooketh

alex

6 months

@arixoneth @0xMert_ @osmedoc99 eth kids gang💪💪

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@CryptoCocotX @intocryptoast @superphiz what does this situation have to do with decentralisation

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@alexhooketh

alex

9 months

@ChrisBlec do you have an evidence that backdoors/centralised parts of today rollups aren't going to be removed in the future? if so, i'd like to hear it. if not, it sounds pretty much like "covid lockdowns aren't going to happen" or smth about ethereum merge fud couple years ago

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@zen_llama @FigoETH

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@ryanberckmans that would make sense if circle didn't have its CCIP that allows to transfer native USDC between chains with basically same trust assumptions as USDC itself (since authority is the same) seizure take is weird, circle can even freeze the bridge contract if they want

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@louvaining @gluk64 immutable zkEVM

@bkiepuszewski

bartek.eth

3 months

It looks like @immutable launched the first zkEVM without a prover ? I mean, it's fine to launch anything, but saying it's "Ethereum security" seems to be another example of marketing way before the actual product ...

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alex

4 months

@Pledditor @brian_armstrong @VitalikButerin cope harder

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@0xMert_ eric built EIP-1559 tbh

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@kirkins @tookyfine @safetyth1rd @Jonas_ALA nova uses external DA, its fees are <0.01$ arbitrum one uses ethereum blockspace DA and its fees are around 0.10-0.20$

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

what happens if the whole anti-rollups crowd reads dr. dankshard, a comprehensive & exhaustive explainer on L2 scaling specifics with all rationales and calculations, made specifically for non-ethereum people? if you're one of them, give a try!

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Dr. Dankshard or How I learned to stop worrying and love rollups

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@evan_van_ness @viamirror do you know of other use cases? it always seemed to me that 18 day blobs are only useful for temporary sequencing storage for rollups, at least for now

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alex

4 months

@domothy lmfaoooooo

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alex

3 months

just spent all my spending wallet funds on donations this is the gwei

@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

just moved all my spending wallet funds to @getclave this is the gwei

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@mononautical you miss the point bitcoin community doesnt want to scale onchain. the point is to make decentralised non-custodial monetary system and move all custodial world (banking, credits) on top of it, so uhh... no inflation i guess? they're still to figure out the point of such roadmap

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@l2beat does it not include proof delays? era has 20 hr delay

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4 months

@luigidemeo summoning taiko knight @arixoneth

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4 months

@justinsuntron @VitalikButerin

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4 months

@0xz80 idk in my experience arbitrum and zksync have sorta instant txs while solana (although i only used phantom) sometimes didn't accept them for a few seconds

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@arixoneth if we take approximate space usage for zksync txs, 4844 gives us ~185 TPS with 3/6 initial blob config we can store up to ~915 KB in L1 block = ~440 zksync TPS, but this data would be expensive af because there's always huge demand for L1 blockspace

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@ryanberckmans you forgot one more thing the average L2 fee is 1/1000 of the average solana fee thanks to danksharding and improvements in ZK tech

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alex

4 months

@ecent18 i remember it was discussed somewhere but the problem is that it's difficult to detect a node's client since it can share whatever client id the user chose

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alex

4 months

@arixoneth if we only took DAS process (which is probably not possible to separate from the whole system), i think so when we implement verkle trees and enshrine zkEVM to L1, it'll be completely possible to run a succinct node on our phones. that's basically an endgame

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@icebergy_ it was abandoned in favor of rollup scaling, because it's pretty complicated technically and way less efficient than rollups community realised that even if we make sharding, shards will just be used as data storage for rollups bc latter have much more throughput

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@alexhooketh

alex

3 months

@Myu_Unix @domothy @vorot93 pretty much, the (very important!) difference is that work that consensus entities do is actually useful since it allows massive scaling, rather than just random hash with certain properties

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@alexhooketh

alex

2 months

@craigstoe @antiprosynth @sassal0x and how long do we care what some government says?

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4 months

eth use secp256k1 for signing txs with your keys it is cool but no secure chips in your phone they only support secp256r1 RIP7212 proposes to add it on L2s (rollups) as a precompile so projects on top of them can use it so far everything is going well

@0xmamedai

まめだい / mamedai 🐼🏴

4 months

2回読んだけど内容わがんね…

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@BitPaine 24 word seed is mostly about making it impossible to bruteforce the seed when you know all words but don't know the order. with 12 words it's possible (12!=479001600 attempts), with 24 words it's not (24!=too big number)

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@alexhooketh

alex

4 months

@evan_van_ness lmfaooooo

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4 months

@arixoneth at least it's not in geth lol

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5 months

@owocki zk rollups fix this!

Rollup interoperability is crucial for ethereum future

I feel anxious about current state of rollup evolution. No, it’s not about rollups’ training wheels or too high fees. I’ll talk about why we don’t feel Ethereum when we’re on rollups. Why don’t we...

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@FigoETH until 2020 ethereum endgame was sharding, then community realised that rollups can scale much more than shards, and now we're here

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5 months

@metaproph3t @arixoneth @StrategicHash zksync once had 434 TPS peak on mainnet

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3 months

@SolBeachBum @Ethprofit @ercwl pretty much

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3 months

@yezhang1998 @zengjiajun_eth @Scroll_ZKP @0xPolygon i'm pretty comfortable with recompiling my project with custom compiler to get significantly lower fees for end user tbh

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alex

4 months

@1914ad @domothy everything i don't like is a shitcoin

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@BitPaine @AviFelman i left bitcoin community for ethereum because i stopped believing in the future of the system that finds it completely acceptable to keep all people's daily routine drowning in corruption, politics despotism, custodial finance & web2 but with BTC ticker on the right

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@alexhooketh

alex

5 months

@arixoneth @FigoETH zksync will release decentralised sequencing in q2-q3 2024 it's generally much simpler to make zk rollups decentralised bc you don't have to deal with ddos attacks on fault proof systems

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@alexhooketh

alex

9 months

@ChrisBlec what??? what even remotely similar i said? to be honest, now it's looking like you just want to switch from topic. so i'll repeat my question - why do you think L2s' training wheels aren't intended for real-use testing at early stages and will be kept in the future?

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alex

5 months

@arixoneth lmfaooooo vampire attack on shitcoining

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9 months

@zerion @zksync bruh

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4 months

@dAnconiaMining @zerohedge who are they 10k node runners?

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5 months

@Justin_Bons @aneiosi it's possible, it's just inefficient and less secure than rollups

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5 months

@DoganEth they're trying to overtake mantle by shittiness

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alex

3 months

@doganeth_en @haydenzadams @boredGenius he explained it in the same post - they're less transparent, thus the bug in circuits is much harder to detect in case of the attack i believe this is preventable with multi proofs, but unlike ORUs they bring significant additional costs to transactions

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3 months

@arixoneth no idea why it happens but it seems like most transactions fail i wish solana not to go down🤞

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3 months

@ashekhirin @r_krasiuk farcaster's yearly plan costs the same as twitter's monthly plan

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3 months

@alexanderchopan wait how does it appear in your appstore

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6 months

@smeet_bhatt @RyanSAdams zoom out

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