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Bram Cohen🌱

9 months

I'm taking a break from Twitter. Current writing is on

Engineering, math, and lots of random stuff. Click to read Bram’s Thoughts, by Bram Cohen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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13 years

"90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs"

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Chesa Boudin's recall is being portrayed as a debate about approaches to criminal justice. It isn't. It's liberal San Franciscans recalling a liberal DA because he sucks at his job (thread)

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@elonmusk If you're concerned about the environmental impacts you should sell all your Bitcoin which will increase the supply thus reducing the price, the rewards for mining, and the energy expended claiming them

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Ethereum was supposed to be the 'World Computer', with infinite on-chain scaling allowing people to use it as a real computational resource. This was always an obviously dumb idea. All on-chain validation has to be replicated by all full nodes, which extremely redundant. This

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5 years

Twitter shows that relentless negativity is toxic. Instagram shows that relentless positivity is toxic.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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2 years

People seem to have learned that risk free 20% annual interest is not a thing. Next they're going to have to learn that risk free 10% annual interest is not a thing.

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3 years

Farming is much, much better than mining

Mining vs. Farming, the Data Behind Being Green

Introduction Many opinion articles on cryptocurrency read something along the lines of “cryptocurrencies use resources, and thus they are bad.” We have to start here–Bitcoin kicked off the start of a...

www.chia.net

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5 years

I'm no longer in any way affiliated with BitTorrent and have never been affiliated with Tron or Justin Sun

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

4 years

I can confirm that Justin Sun is every bit the scumbag this article paints him to be

The crypto millionaire that acquired BitTorrent—and waded into the trade war

The Verge’s investigation reveals an attempt to use decentralization to escape accountability from both the US and Chinese governments.

www.theverge.com

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Bram Cohen🌱

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1 year

@NoCapCapitalLLC It's a clothing store

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5 years

Anybody know if Justin Sun is hard up for cash? He isn't letting the last payment for BitTorrent get out of escrow.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

Cryptocurrency centralization is like harvesting metal off a bridge: A slippery slope of free money which works great until suddenly it catastrophically doesn't

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Update on Chia pooling protocol development: We're working on the whole shebang: plotting, pooling, GUI, and testing end-to-end on testnet. Unfortunately it won't be ready by this coming Monday, but it will be done before the end of this month.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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3 years

Chia release 1.1.6 out, lots of improvements in this one

Release 1.1.6 · Chia-Network/chia-blockchain

1.1.6 Chia Blockchain 2021-05-20 Added This is the initial release of our DNS introducer. We built a far too simple basic introducer that we hoped to replace as quickly as possible with an introdu...

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Bram Cohen🌱

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2 years

Good morning everyone. It's my birthday today.

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@bramcohen

2 years

Worrying about how the perpetrators of these crimes are mostly poor and caring about their supposed backstory isn't criminal justice reform, it's just stupid. The vast, overwhelming majority of poor people don't steal and they're hurt by the ones who do

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

Working 120 hours weeks doesn't make you more productive. It just makes you a hot mess.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

@paulkrugman Ripple isn't actually a cryptocurrency, it's a centralized token accounting system, of the sort which any idiot could have set up 20 years ago.

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3 years

It's a bit emotional for me to talk about this, but I will say that Len posted pseudonymously on the cypherpunks list constantly, including at least one fleshed-out and long-lived handle, and even I didn't know what it was

Len Sassaman and Satoshi

We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?

evanhatch.medium.com

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Chia pooling protocol is out!

Chia Network

@chia_project

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We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.0 which includes the official pooling protocol. @bramcohen on our pooling protocol - - Release notes and download -

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Bram Cohen🌱

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6 years

For those of you new to the proof of stake game: Most existing proof of stake systems deployed in the wild have a single majority stakeholder who runs them as a benevolent dictator. Centralization fixes everything and proves nothing

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Bram Cohen🌱

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5 years

Bitcoin isn't outperforming altcoins because of 'sound money' or 'network effects'. It's outperforming because it has a core development group who are out-executing the competition. Please thank them.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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2 years

There's a myth in the general public that Know Your Customer programs are important for banking. This is incorrect (thread)

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

We're going to have a session on Chia Pools for Pool Operators on Jun 2 at 9am PST at

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@bramcohen

3 years

If you want to farm Chia, here's your starting point

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@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone. The sun is shining, the Chia blockchain is chugging along, and there continues to be no Chia investors capable of dumping tokens on the market

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

5 years

@crypto_skillz @danheld My source for this is that I don't have the fucking money and the escrow agency says they haven't gotten signoff. What's your source?

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Launch estimate update for chia pooling protocol: Currently the 17th of this month for both plot to pool and a pool prototype being out

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@bramcohen

2 years

What's needed is a deprioritization of victimless crimes which should allow for more resources to go after victimfull crimes. Shoplifting and bike theft are extremely victimfull crimes which have mostly economic incentive and have very strong deterrent effect

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

If you like Chia show your support by putting a seedling emoji 🌱 in your profile name

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@bramcohen

3 years

People keep asking why I don't talk about the price of Chia having gone down. The same reason I didn't talk about the price doubling before that. It's because I'm concerned with building real tech and let the price do what it wants in the short run.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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4 years

Here's Vitalik's opinions about the state of technology around cryptocurrencies. As you might expect, I think much of this is wrong-headed, and will explain (thread)

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

@ciphergoth @brokep @nickdothutton Rumor has it TPB uses some fancy decentralized technology to lower the load

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

San Francisco has truly gone downhill, and in worse ways than other cities. Retail stores shutting down because people openly loot all the inventory off of shelves and drug dealing being completely open in broad daylight are not normal.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

1 year

One of my happiest memories of having young children is taking them skydiving

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@bramcohen

2 years

We're making decentralized defi

Chia Network Launches Native Peer-to-Peer Trading Services for Wallet Holders

The Bram Cohen-founded company will partner with Stably to launch a dollar-denominated stablecoin on its blockchain.

www.coindesk.com

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Free mojos!

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

For some odd reason the 'Chia burns out hard drives!' is getting repeated as the fashionable fud. This is odd, because for the most part it's just plain wrong (thread)

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@bramcohen

3 years

People are asking me (a) Why do you need a pre-farm? and (b) Why don't you have pools working already? The answers are (b) Because it's been less than a month before we suddenly needed them ASAP and (a) to pay for the engineers who are building it

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Bram Cohen🌱

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2 years

Good morning everyone. For those wondering why Chia price seems negatively correlated with Bitcoin price: I have no idea either. The price does what it feel like. I keep working on tech.

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Bram Cohen🌱

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2 years

People sometimes ask what are the real use cases of cryptocurrencies. This is an honest question. I used to ask it myself. When they say the answers they're getting are bad they're being honest. Here are some better answers (thread)

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2 years

Before you go criticizing crypto by saying it's worse than traditional banking because it's put together with chewing gum and duct tape you should probably know that the whole banking system is put together with chewing gum and duct tape.

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2 years

When people accuse us at Chia of being 'greedy' here's the parts of the coin allocation they're complaining about: Airdrop to other coin holders: 0% Given to influencers for promotion: 0% pre-sold at a guaranteed discount to whales: 0%. We're so greedy!

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

Proof of Stake is decentralization theater

Terra 🌍 Powered by LUNA 🌕

@terra_money

2 years

The Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7603700. Terra validators have decided to halt the Terra chain to prevent governance attacks following severe $LUNA inflation and a significantly reduced cost of attack.

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@bramcohen

2 years

Chia's first patent granted (Don't worry, everything we do is Apache 2 licensed so it's open patents)

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Almost there with pool protocol!

Chia Network

@chia_project

3 years

We're excited to announce that today we are entering the second phase of our pool protocol release! You likely have a lot of questions, so feel free to join us on our Keybase, but do understand this phase is specifically targeted at pool *operators*.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

5 years

Dear Americans: Please stop being obsessed with entertainment industry awards ceremonies and form your own opinions about what's good

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning. Everyone who's been trying to contribute to Bitcoin but is frustrated by the ossification and maximalism is welcome to try out Chia which is based on all the same principles but is a generation ahead on tech and doesn't have the toxicity.

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@bramcohen

2 years

My suggestion as always is to not worry about coin price. Daily undulations are mostly noise, focus on building technology and a strong foundation for future value.

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@bramcohen

1 year

A whole lot of the investors freaking out claiming the SEC is involved in overreach no one could have foreseen refused to invest in my project because we wouldn't do an ICO. Not only that but they claimed that being a normal company accepting equity investment and doing an honest

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2 years

The thing which is awful about Boudin, and what worried me even before he started work, is his bizarre misunderstanding of criminal justice reform. He talks about deprioritizing 'quality of life crimes' which is, uh, missing the mark

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone. Big announcements today.

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@bramcohen

2 years

My hope is that whoever succeeds Boudin makes a big point of prioritizing crimes based on the amount of damage they do and the amount of deterrent effect of going after them. This isn't a partisan issue, it's just doing the job competently.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

1 year

Good morning everyone. The Chia blockchain continues to chug along

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

1 year

Good morning everyone. Happy Chia 2nd anniversary

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

Serious academic study of how to build, route over, and maintain Lightning Network is now very much a thing. Next actually using it will be a thing, and maybe someday the doubters admitting that it works will be a thing

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2 years

There's also people who commit crimes because they're violent and crazy. Those people need to be locked up. Sure, some number of them have mental illness and treating that is good. But medicalizing 'violent and crazy' is just stupid.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Some issues with ETH2 consensus "we obtain a third attack which allows an adversary with vanishingly small fraction of stake to cause even long-range consensus chain reorganizations"

Three Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum

Recently, two attacks were presented against Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum: one where short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain are used to increase individual validators'...

arxiv.org

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@bramcohen

3 years

I'll be doing a podcast on Clubhouse on Wednesday at 11am

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

The EOS screwup is not 'normal growing pains'. Not having a testnet is gross incompetence. Even if they deploy a testnet, they have lots more gross incompetence waiting in the wings which hasn't had the chance to become visible yet.

Kirill So

@kirso_

6 years

@el33th4xor The only one I found: a few references incl. the fact that some guy warned them and got laughed at...

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@bramcohen

3 years

Somehow a rumor got started that k32 will no longer be supported. This is completely untrue! k32 will continue to work for years if not forever!

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

7 years

I'm not exactly 'pro-core': I'm anti-bullshit and core has been consistently reasonable and their detractors have been consistently insane

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@bramcohen

3 years

An explanation of official pooling protocol

Official Pooling Protocol Launched

TL;DR: The new plot format has arrived. Upgrade to version 1.2.0 of the Chia Blockchain software to start plotting for pools now and be sure to set up a Plot NFT before doing so. Original plots will...

www.chia.net

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Congratulations to Bitcoin for joining the club of UTXO-based cryptocurrencies which have taproot enabled.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

1 year

Good morning everyone. Chia continues to be non-toxic

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@bramcohen

3 years

Chia's netspace is still over 35 Exabytes and trending stable to up. There are several hundred thousand full nodes. The consensus cannot be stopped.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

2 years

Chia FAQ: Why did the price of Chia go up/down today? 🤷 Will the price of Chia go up/down tomorrow? 🤷 When is the next big Chia announcement? Soon

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@bramcohen

3 years

Here's my attempt at hype: Chia is getting smart coins in negative three months. And thanks to the magic of negative time it's being done without a hard fork. Any journalists want to pick up the story?

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

5 years

Turns out 1% of all devices on the internet are running an FTP server which can be logged into with the user and password both 'admin'

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@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone. The sun has risen, the Chia blockchain continues to run without a hiccup, and the farmers are still getting paid.

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@bramcohen

2 years

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Chia continues to chug along with the reliability of a truly decentralized system.

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@bramcohen

2 years

People talk about KYC like it's sacrosanct. It is not. It's a program which should have been cancelled long ago on its own merits and discussing it in the realm of cryptocurrency is a cynical attempt by the banks to quash a potential competitor based purely on bureaucracy

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

Augur is a product which people want people to want but nobody wants.

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@bramcohen

2 years

If Ethereum hadn't gone down their whole Proof of Stake misadventure they'd have the option to switch to Proof of Space and Time right now, which is both proven and actually decentralized

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@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone. One neat and innovative part of the Chia NFT standard is it allows trades to be done directly on chain, either peer to peer or facilitated by distributed exchanges.

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@bramcohen

3 years

Chia already has taproot and graftroot in the standard transaction format

Aggregated Signatures, Taproot, Graftroot, and Standard Transactions

In Chia we’re using BLS signatures which enable noninteractive signature aggregation. In this post I’ll explain how that fits into the system as a whole, what practical benefits it provides, and how...

www.chia.net

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@bramcohen

3 years

Chia plotting demands are causing the quality of SSDs to improve

I have no interest in mining Chia but new super-long endurance SSDs have caught my attention

Sabrent's Plotripper SSDs are rated to last up to 18 times longer (or even more) than most other consumer models.

www.pcgamer.com

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@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone

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@bramcohen

3 years

New Chia plotter is quite a bit faster

World record 24 minute plot!

SlothtechTV Discord: https://discord.gg/cPeET594C3THANK YOU MADMAX!!!! PLEASE DONATE TO THIS MAN.Github Repo: https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotterGrea...

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

6 years

Despite what the ripplesplainers claim, XRP is pronounced 'Ripple'. Ripple ripple ripple. It also isn't any more decentralized than a web site which has mirrors.

𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗

@haydentiff

6 years

@bramcohen @paulkrugman Ripple is a private company. XRP is a decentralized, digital asset. Ripple did not create XRP, they are holders of XRP.

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2 years

A small amount of throwing the book at a few people for doing them would dramatically reduce the problem (and in the case of bike theft would likely literally get rid of most of the perpetrators)

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@bramcohen

3 years

Thanks to everyone who participated in the reddit discussion of what the XCH single character symbol should be. The winner is the seedling emoji: 🌱

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@bramcohen

6 years

Top chess engine gets stomped by one made by the Deepmind team

Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 150 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

www.chess.com

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

8 years

Your password is insecure. Please capitalize the first letter and add a digit to the end.

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@bramcohen

3 years

Mainnet is live!

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@bramcohen

3 years

This is a graph of Chia's netspace growth to date. It looks normal until you realize that the Y axis isn't absolute size, it's daily percent increase.

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Bram Cohen🌱

@bramcohen

3 years

Just because you've managed to fool your Chia client UX into saying you've got lots of space doesn't mean you're going to get lots of rewards from the network. Also making a fake screenshot of your bank web site saying you have a million dollar balance doesn't make you rich.

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@bramcohen

1 year

Good morning everyone

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@bramcohen

2 years

We're hiring people to do smart coin development at Chia. Don't worry if you don't have any Chialisp experience, nobody else does either

Careers at Chia 🌱 | Notion

Our story • Open roles • Perks & benefits • In the news • Company FAQ

chia-network.notion.site

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@bramcohen

3 years

@AWice Ethereum is more like Altavista

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@bramcohen

3 years

A presentation on status and plans for chia pooling protocol

Chia Pools for Pool Operators

We will be discussing the new Chia pooling protocol. This is a venue for developers of pools and not for end user questions.2:43 - Introduction5:38 - Technic...

www.youtube.com

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@bramcohen

1 year

I got started on Chia because I couldn't bear to contribute to Bitcoin's energy usage. Now I'm taking the opportunity to make smart money a real thing

Chia Network

@chia_project

1 year

🌐 The Chia blockchain is built for everyone, by everyone. So in celebration of its 2nd anniversary, we’d love to hear your Chia story. Are you building, farming, or simply developing for fun in the Chia ecosystem? Tag us or reply here to share your story!

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@bramcohen

1 year

Good morning everyone

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@bramcohen

2 years

Good morning everyone

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@bramcohen

3 years

There isn't any hidden message about when pools will be released in the puzzle. It's just called that to front-run the inevitable responses to anything I post. Pool protocol is almost done and will be released very soon.

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@bramcohen

6 years

Maybe the recent Bitcoin run is due to Saudi princes trying to get their shit out of dodge

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@bramcohen

3 years

It warms my heart to see Lightning actually deployed in real commerce

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@AaronvanW

3 years

Just walked into a McDonald's in San Salvador to see if I could pay for my breakfast with bitcoin, tbh fully expecting to be told no. But low and behold, they printed a ticket with QR that took me to a webpage with Lightning invoice, and now I'm enjoying my desayuno traditional!

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2 years

Good morning everyone

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2 years

Good morning

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