the fun thing about solana is that since it's both scalable and open, there are many manhattan projects my current focus is equipping the chain with the best smart-contract privacy layer in crypto private transfers & defi -- at solana scale dm if you need privacy on solana

decentralization is a bad sell the reason is that it focuses on the absence of something rather than a concrete, perceptible difference gained from its addition humans buy presence -> i.e the gain of time, money, access, identity, status, and joy bitcoin does this well, and is arguably the only one to have done so the decentralization isn't why you buy bitcoin, you buy it because of what it promises you for some people, this is money free from the state; for others it's identity, for some insurance, for some status, and for most it's the appreciation of the asset and hence money decentralization is necessary for the selling point to work, but it is not the end itself so if you've made the choice to build on top of a decentralized platform, it is mostly useless to talk about it (except in so far as trying to avoid regulatory responsibility, which is fair), talk about why you are now different as a result perhaps that's asset selection, perhaps that's access, perhaps it's efficiency or composability or speed or security, but without something tangible you won't be able to sell effectively once you do this, you'll understand whether the thing you're building is useless or not because if there's nothing gained from the decentralization vector except putting the word itself in your tweets to signal virtue, then you are building the wrong thing

one of the most insane things that's ever happened to me me and my gf's family are both relatively traditional and old school and so the proper thing to do is to have a chat with the father and mother to get permission to eventually marry their daughter so I take a flight to their home city, dress up all nice, and even trim the beard (which is looking slightly like im about to commit jihad) without my gf's knowledge I even had to learn a bit of Russian for a few months so I can do it respectfully even though they can speak English anyway, it's going pretty well and I finally ask them and they say yes of course thats ok and that they weren't even expecting someone to still have the manners to ask them so to celebrate, I take out my phone and get a selfie with them that I'll later send to my gf to tell the good news while im doing that, I get a push notification from OKX that my long has been liquidated so I clear the notification and try taking the selfie again but notice that the dad is not smiling in any way anymore he goes: mert, I have changed my mind. I can not let my princess marry a moron who is not using @PhoenixTrade to lose money. shortly after, I was deported from the country

im a big fan of HL, jeff, & shoku they are excellent I have noticed though a certain class of .HLs, who are obviously new here, disrespect toly in increasingly cheap ways toly is a monumental mind in the trajectory of crypto ppl dont remember now but there was a long and aggressive period of time where we had to fight every single day, for years, to show that actually you CAN scale crypto to planetary scale and that the ethereum way is not the only option this took an immense amount of work in spite of tremendous setbacks and many near death moments but now the engineering bar in crypto is meaningfully different than before toly. solana has created hundreds of new startups and businesses the dude is rich beyond belief, has nothing left to prove, and instead of checking out like 99% of people here, shows up every single day and has fun doing it you can and should criticize many things about solana, but personal attacks against one of the very rare instances of a missionary founder is unserious and will do nothing but give solana founders free and limitless energy

Most private voting in all of crypto! Every vote is a private snapshot of your zcash balance. We use pir to get this snapshot. 1 zec = 1 vote Each vote is mpc encrypted, and split up so that your balance can’t be leaked if mpc got broken. Final result is publicly auditable

helius is the only solana-exclusive RPC for a reason that focus allows us to ship APIs like this for solana devs that are an order of magnitude better than anything else if 100x lower latency & fewer API calls weren't enough, we've now increased bandwidth 10x & reduced prices

Ansem: Zcash is Swiss banking in your pocket “Instead of having to look at different bank accounts and different places to store your wealth, Zcash allows you to have access to that at any point in time and take it with you anywhere” “If you have a billion dollars in Bitcoin and send somebody $100, anybody you sent that to now knows you have a billion dollars in Bitcoin” “If you have a billion dollars in Zcash and send somebody $100, they don’t know how much you have in your actual address” “That’s the core reason I think Zcash differentiates from Bitcoin” “In my opinion, Zcash is the second best store of value behind Bitcoin. Right now it trades at around a $7B market cap, so I think it has a lot of room to do well and a lot of room to grow” “In 2016, Bitcoin was around $200 and now it trades at $80,000. In 2016, Zcash was around the same price it is right now…”

I just built an advanced forensics terminal powered by getTransfersByAddress. It identifies rings of connected wallets and displays the assets transferred between them. Instead of clicking through tables of transactions, I can just query thousands of transfers instantly. These are the connected wallets who made over 4,000 SOL off of a memecoin a few days ago. I tracked where the funds went.

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