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If you are onchain you would recognize that ethereum gas costs are breaking all time lows, such as recently being 2 gwei. While solana keeps breaking all time highs in terms of transactions. Mert is absolutely right.

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imo the most harmful thing for ethereum recently has been the "make ethereum great again" messaging it implies and concedes that ethereum is inferior — it is purely free marketing for solana you do not need to make ethereum great "again" — it is already uniquely differentiated with its decentralization and security — not to mention the ETF and colossal market cap you need to show the market why it's different and why people should care — consistently and you need to do it with a super simple idea, because complex ideas don't spread you are not going to be a better solana than solana, but you can easily be a much better ethereum

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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What laptop are you using?

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Protip: you can come in to Brussels through Amsterdam. Passport control line in AMS is negligible (at least at 5AM, though I'm sure it's not too bad at other times either), and it's only a 2h train ride straight from the AMS airport to Brussels.

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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/06/30/epochslot.html

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It's pretty wild how well AI can animate memes

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Wow that's truly amazing!

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New way to encode a profile picture dropped: https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675 320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

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Congratulations on the success!

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Welcome @optimism to the club of stage 1+ L2s! (meaning, L2s where the proof systems actually have teeth) I'm looking forward to seeing many more L2s join this club soon, especially some ZK ones.

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An important part of cultural awareness is understanding that different cultural spheres can use the same word in different ways. For example, in most European languages, "actual" means "current", and "concurrency" means "competition". In the crypto space, "DAO" means "project", and "official" means "scam".

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Warn people about normie too. It is mintable apparently

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