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@blainemalone
Day 53:
great listen: reason.com/podcast/2025...
we’ve had privacy by default since genesis. Only recently has the word been dirtied by those arguing for more government intervention.
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Day 49:
reimbursing gas sponsors in erc20 tokens is under utilized in crypto apps today.
normalize having not needing eth in your wallet. encourage more apps/wallets to use 7702.
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Day 48:
r,s,v
if you haven't been burned by the 'v' value at least once in your crypto career you're not signing enough txs
Day 47:
I once had a colleague early in my career tell me that no problem in our field is unsolvable. The truly hard problems live in research. He also said he’d never faced a problem he couldn’t solve, because when in doubt, he could always reduce it to a state machine. That stuck with me. Fearless debugging is what
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Day 47:
I once had a colleague early in my career tell me that no problem in our field is unsolvable. The truly hard problems live in research. He also said he’d never faced a problem he couldn’t solve, because when in doubt, he could always reduce it to a state machine. That stuck with me. Fearless debugging is what ...
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Day 46:
when in doubt, crack open ethereum magicians
eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7821
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Day 45:
Location change. Back in Ireland for the holidays.
@cloaked is taking shape, excited to keep building and share an early version as soon as we can!
Day 44:
Out of all the code I’ve been writing recently, whenever I go back to Solidity and cutting-edge crypto libraries, I find that LLMs have a hard time. In many cases, they aren’t able to arrive at a meaningful solution and I’ve got to do a lot more hand-holding. e.g. Foundry libs, Porto relayers, smart contract a
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the answer is crypto. not the emergent meaning of the word, the original one.
the “crypto” that embodies cypherpunk values isn’t expressed through thought pieces or tweeting. it’s expressed through cryptography research and open-source code.
the most obvious counterculture movement of the last 10–15 years has been bi...
Grounded intellectual work, when it happens, if it ever happens again, is uncomfortable. It tells you things you don't want to hear, makes arguments that threaten positions you hold, points out problems you'd rather not see.
The public intellectuals of the past, at their best, did this.
Our current crop // slop doe
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Day 44:
Out of all the code I’ve been writing recently, whenever I go back to Solidity and cutting-edge crypto libraries, I find that LLMs have a hard time. In many cases, they aren’t able to arrive at a meaningful solution and I’ve got to do a lot more hand-holding. e.g. Foundry libs, Porto relayers, smart contract assembly.
Day 43:
Full transaction history per account is done. It’s been great seeing how fast this came together. I built a similar feature in 2019 and it took about a month. This took roughly a week.
Next up is the infra that lets users actually spend. We’ve decided to lean into 7702, so we’ve been surveying who’s making re
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Day 43:
Full transaction history per account is done. It’s been great seeing how fast this came together. I built a similar feature in 2019 and it took about a month. This took roughly a week.
Next up is the infra that lets users actually spend. We’ve decided to lean into 7702, so we’ve been surveying who’s making re...
Day 42:
today we hit the 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month limit.
TIL:
- parallelism doesn’t save you minutes. it all still counts.
- rounding happens per job, not per workflow. so a job that runs for 6 seconds counts as 1 full minute. (this sucks, i don’t make the rules)
- you can add an actions budget so th
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Day 42:
today we hit the 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month limit.
TIL:
- parallelism doesn’t save you minutes. it all still counts.
- rounding happens per job, not per workflow. so a job that runs for 6 seconds counts as 1 full minute. (this sucks, i don’t make the rules)
- you can add an actions budget so th...
Day 41:
qr code generation is scary in crypto.
i was doing some poking around and it seems like most apps are using https://github.com/kozakdenys/qr-code-styling. if there ever was a critical library to double and triple check, it’s this one.
a single nefarious commit and your users are sending funds to an attacker.
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Day 41:
qr code generation is scary in crypto.
i was doing some poking around and it seems like most apps are using github.com/kozakdenys/q.... if there ever was a critical library to double and triple check, it’s this one.
a single nefarious commit and your users are sending funds to an attacker.
Day 40:
I bought two domains from EuroDNS two weeks ago. Payment cleared and the money left my account. A few days later they re-listed the same domains for 10× the price I paid.
Customer support was useless. After a lot of back and forth, they marked the case as resolved.
I re-bought the same domains on Nnamecheap
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Day 40:
I bought two domains from EuroDNS two weeks ago. Payment cleared and the money left my account. A few days later they re-listed the same domains for 10× the price I paid.
Customer support was useless. After a lot of back and forth, they marked the case as resolved.
I re-bought the same domains on Nnamecheap ...
Day 39:
This is from a tiny sample size and it’s hard to draw any conclusions from the data, but I believe passkeys allow for the best crypto UX today. However, not many people understand the security model they bring. I’m hoping to see more wallets default to passkeys.
I get that seed phrases are a necessary evil th
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farcaster.xyz/barmstrong/0... coincidence!
Day 14:
I believe over the next 1–2 years we’re going to see a deluge of privacy-focused crypto wallets. At first glance you won’t be able to tell them apart from your favorite wallet today.
All the necessary primitives already exist to deliver great privacy UX (stealth addresses, privacy pools, gas/account abstraction
