Huge wave of purple nostalgia seeing the return of the arch

Users treat exuberant fees as a defacto liveness failure. To those users Ethereum was down for all of 2021.  Ethereum fees were so bad that 99.5% reliability but guaranteed low cost was better, and thats how solana managed to get pmf.

Headed to ETH Denver?

Come hang out with us IRL on Friday, February 28th, at 6 PM (MST) for Linea After Dark!

📅 Friday, February 28th
⏰ 6:00 PM (MST)
📍 Beacon RiNo: 2854 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205

https://lu.ma/lineaafterdark

This is a solid demonstration of Railgun's privacy pools mechanism working in practice, allowing Railgun to avoid serving proceeds of crime without using any snooping / backdoors.

How it works:

* Anyone can deposit into Railgun.
* After you deposit, there is a 1 hour period during which various algorithms detect whether or not the deposit likely came from what the algorithms consider to be criminal activity.
* If your deposit passes the filter, then after 1 hour you can use ZKPs to withdraw privately (but ideally wait longer to get a good-enough anonymity set).
* If your deposit fails the filter, then you can only withdraw back to your own address. There is no risk that your funds will get frozen/seized, you just can't benefit from the privacy pool.

If you disagree with Railgun's filters, anyone is free to fork and make their own pool with their own rules, though if you can't get reasonably wide public support you're going to have a tiny anonymity set.

https://x.com/officer_cia/status/1889642583971733983

Today, we hand-crafted an Enron Egg, marking a historic milestone for the future of at-home nuclear.

the state of web2 social today:

spend years building an audience 

finally decide to monetize

dump a token on them

really? we can do better.

Parenting

some personal news: we're having our first baby

we expect him (!!) to come in early march and i'll be more offline than not for the month after, then reducing travel this year. excited to bring another builder into the world.

the @base core team is full steam ahead.

Zora

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x39cdded7ea5f855ef8f1653edc19f231de8602a8/2

1 hour of Ethereum traffic last night (L) this morning (R) intriguing to see similar hubs & spokes. Which are they?

Creators

OpenAI launches o3-mini while DeepSeek’s R1 continues to fuel market debates… new tools, new workflows, new ways to think creatively

im back on this app, im terrified of kaito yap farmers and im in hiding here for a bit

We're collaborating with /itookaphoto on a brand new Round to celebrate photography on Zora.

To participate:
1. Post on Zora
2. Cast it to /itookaphoto 

Only posts created on Zora after Jan 28 2025 are eligible. 

https://rounds.wtf/itookaphoto/i-took-a-photo-and-posted-it-on-zora-1

React Native

Expo Router v4 with native bottom sheets is so nice

Would anyone here like to work with me on a pro-AI artistic/creative manifesto? I want to come up with a statement or doc that distills how we could view AI positively in an ever-changing era. In a way, a response to anti AI folks (especially artists). DM me if you’re interested. I started a WhatsApp group. Was thinking doing some Zoom calls, working document, and then working on pushing it out there to press etc.

Base

Mint: The Network is the Product

Proceeds will go to an awesome builder. Who should I pick?

https://zora.co/collect/base:0xc49d51a7980e9b13936e22cb1b1babe144137c5a/1

Yogi

@yowgi