Working at glow.org - the token that constructs solar farms. Discord at discord.gg/glowfnd
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With just one solar farm, Glow has tripled its carbon credit production. $1.6 million in on-chain revenue, and a carbon impact equivalent of 60,000 adult trees. DePIN is here to stay, and it's here to change the world.
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Mark Zuckerburg is a billionaire because he has the ability to control whether your child prefers Coke or Pepsi.
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Twitter banning transparency tools like the Nanci Pelosi Portfolio Tracker is a big red flag
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A government that has every intention of protecting the rights of its citizens has nothing to fear from technology that guarantees those rights.
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MA regulators ban surge pricing for Lyft and Uber.
Result: people stranded at the airport for hours (trains already stopped), nobody wants to drive at 1 am for regular rates. Ride sharing wait times are 30+ minutes for most of the day.
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New Executive Order is out. Already one notable item:
Any AI model that required more than 1e26 floating point operations or 1e23 integer operations to build must report to the government.
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PornHub making massive policy changes today due to pressure from credit card processors.
Not regulators. Not government authorities. Not elected officials. Visa and MasterCard.
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When elections come up in 2022, we will have a website published that states how each incumbent voted on key crypto bills and proposals.
We will know, and we will vote accordingly. 15% of Americans own crypto.
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As far as I can tell, Brantly was terminated for being Catholic and stating Catholic beliefs.
I'm not Catholic, but it doesn't sit well with me that a supposedly inclusive community has exiled someone for being part of a group that includes 1.2 billion people.
True Names Limited (TNL), the nonprofit that funds and organises development on @ensdomains, has terminated the contract of Brantly Millegan effective today.
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The floodgates have opened. Thousands of signups for portal accounts, and we're now onboarding TBs of data per day.
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I spent the past year of my life working on Glow. I'm excited to announce that, in just 10 days, Glow is launching on Ethereum Mainnet.
If Bitcoin was a country, it would be the 36th largest energy consumer in the world. Glow adapts the same incentive model for solar panels 🧵
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On the heels of the biggest disaster in crypto history - where a custodian defrauded over a million people - Warren proposes a bill that would require every coin to be managed by a custodian.
the new warren bill is a disaster. it would do nothing to prevent the next ftx. coincenter.org/the-digital-a…
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DeFi today struggles because the frontends are centralized, giving devs the ability to hardfork contracts, steal user funds, and censor specific tokens.
With Homescreen, you can eliminate dev control over frontends. Demand end-to-end decentralization!
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Google is now contacting our hosting providers and requesting they pull our servers due to malware being distributed through the filesharing layer.
Google has too much power.
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The Sia Foundation has been firm that there is no room for me in leadership. I realized that I can never be happy putting an enormous amount of passion towards someone else's vision, and that means I will be leaving the Sia ecosystem.
May we both prosper in the next chapter.
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The 4 horsemen of the cryptocalypse:
Money, Smart Contracts, Data Storage, Privacy
2 have hit mainstream, and the other two are on their way. Data storage in 3 years or less, Privacy in 7 years or less. All 4 will be household names.
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Glow just pulled in $1.6 million in on-chain revenue in a single day.
That is perhaps the most on-chain revenue ever collected by a DePIN in a single day.
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One of the greatest superpowers you can have as an engineer is a willingness to deep dive the documentation.
Spending 3 days reading 300 pages of technical notes can net you 3 years equivalent experience. You suddenly just know everything.
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The extreme willingness of young money to flood into unregulated assets is a sign of how heavily regulation has choked out the traditional markets.
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Just found a way to do yield farming on Siacoin that actually makes sense and really improves the marketplace for storage.
I'm rather caught off guard by this discovery. ETA late 2021.
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You become a politician when you start spending more time thinking about what you are going to say than thinking about what you are going to do.
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Apple has always had the power to do an overnight update that starts scanning your phone and sending information to police.
Trust reduces as society scales, which is why trustless systems are so important.
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I joined Bitcoin during the bear of 2011, while the price fell from $30 to $1. I stayed through 2012, when the price fell from $260 to $70. I was there for mt gox, when the price fell from $1200 to $200. And I was there for the fall from $20,000 to $30,000.
This feels like 2014.
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There are more bad actors in the crypto leadership than good. There are more bad actors in VC leadership than good. There are more bad actors in Congress than good. Power attracts bad actors, and power corrupts.
This is why we decentralize.
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A top school tells you who was the best when they were 17. This decreasingly a useful indicator for who is the best at the professional stage.
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When you read things like this, you should realize that even when AWS is not down, Amazon has the power to de-platform people from their own homes.
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The next generation of crypto is coming. The brightest stars of the next cycle will all show up in the next 24 months, and they will show up with fully functional, consumer-ready products. Our parents will flock to crypto the way they flocked to Facebook.
The future is bright.
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That moment when people start to come to you for partnerships rather than the other way around.
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Acquiring USDC has been a nightmare. Chase stopped my wire to Coinbase. Also my second wire, then froze my online banking. Then they stopped my in-person wire. Then Coinbase bounced my wire from Mercury. Twice. Finally got a wire through via Schwab. Then Coinbase froze my account
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2022 will be the year of "you weren't as decentralized as you thought you were, and now regulators have taken control of your network".
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Looks like siasky got completely pulled off of the internet again. I've been waiting for the right moment to publish a blog post on all the troubles we've had keeping a censorship resistant storage network online, but it seems I waited too long.
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I got distracted by greed and lost money.
Wait no we've been building the whole bull run, Skynet is doing better than ever.
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In 1913, anyone with annual income below $20,000 (~$400,000, inflation-adjusted) would have paid 1% in taxes.
Total government tax revenue was ~3-4% of the GDP. I couldn't find a ton of data, but historically 1-5% seems to be roughly what non-oppressive governments tax.
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Probably the same way the ass-backwards crypto regulations have been enforced:
very little clarity
lots of enforcement actions
no idea whether its actually protecting the public
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Intel SGX root key dumped. SGX is not secure, and neither are other TEE platforms.
Intel HW is too complex to be absolutely secure! After years of research we finally extracted Intel SGX Fuse Key0, AKA Root Provisioning Key. Together with FK1 or Root Sealing Key (also compromised), it represents Root of Trust for SGX. Here's the key from a genuine Intel CPU😀
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Skynet will punch Google in the face harder than Amazon punched Sears in the face.
If you know, you know.
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If I understand correctly, Dfinity / ICP has voted to take copyright infringing material off of their Blockchain, completely debasing any assertion of decentralization.
forum.dfinity.org/t/upcoming…
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If you use a Mac, Apple knows every application you run, what time you run it, and where you are when you run it, and the latest update circumvents VPNs so Apple can know your real IP address.
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We are excited today to announce official support for 100 GB files on Skynet. This was a surprisingly difficult thing to support, and is in fact NOT supported on the vast majority of centralized filesharing services.
Here's why it's hard: 🧵/
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If you are browsing the web using Chrome, you are browsing Google's version of the Internet.
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Most people doing TEE research don’t seem to understand: A brand new Scanning Electron Microscope costs under $100,000
The cost of breaking a secure enclave is estimated to be between $10,000 and $250,000. You can’t use TEEs as blockchain infra, they will be broken.
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Got pulled over by the cops today on my morning run for "running suspiciously fast". It took about 6 cop cars and 4 different conversations, but eventually it was conceded that I was probably not suspicious and that I could continue running very fast.
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Big Technology is not your friend. It's an active adversary that works hard to control every dollar that you spend. It has 4-12 hours a day of your attention that it can use to plant ideas and manipulate your opinions. But very few people seem to understand this.
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The Internet sprung up under the noses of the establishment. They didn't realize how important it is, so they let the early winners write the rules. The rules now make the Internet a feudal state, yet people don't see it because it's not physical feudalism.
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Using a centralized frontend for defi is like going to a nightclub with no fire escape. It's fine until it's not, and then it's really not fine.
A better standard already exists: homescreen.hns.siasky.net/ - demand it the way you would demand seatbelts in a car.
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Amazon's decision to de-platform Parler should fly a huge red flag to every devops dependent on them.
How do you know you aren't next? Especially if you compete with one of Amazon's other products or services, how do you know you aren't next?
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Ritchie just showed me his latest compiler generation stuff. When I was aghast at all the instructions it generated (probably no more than a normal program, to be fair), Ritchie said “don’t look at it. That’s binary code. You’re programming in C now.”
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Skynet is NaaS: Nothing as a Service.
No servers, no clusters, no bills, no configuration, no downtime. Only clean running "it just works".
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Why is Skynet so fast? Because we have top tier engineers who spend half their professional life neck-deep in traces, profiles, dashboards, and simulations. We've re-written the download algorithm from scratch 6 times.
It's fast because we spend every day in the trenches.
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I love when an 87 year old can single handedly shut down technological progress.
I bet this guy still has a landline.
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Apparently storage proofs in Filecoin take 18 hours to construct. In Sia/Skynet it took about 20ms.
Then @lukechampine
wrote some assembly code to get it down to 7ms
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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We spend time and money on decentralization because we don't trust our government to protect our digital rights. They haven't earned that trust, and they continue to not earn that trust.
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Glow has once again smashed the record, doing $3.4 million in on-chain revenue in a single day.
Details in 🧵
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Today I learned that in rust, if you put example code in your documentation, that example code will get compiled during the test suite to ensure that your examples are working.
Absolutely amazing feature.
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We ask "what if the developers turned evil tomorrow?" because that's exactly what happened with Facebook. And Google. And Apple. And Microsoft. And many, many more.
"The developers will turn evil soon" is a good threat model that reflects the real world well.
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Modern NFTs are really missing an RPG element. Sure I can become a bored ape or a coven witch, but then what? I want some way to grow with time, some way to accumulate status.
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Announcing Glow, a new proof of work protocol focused on generating carbon credits at scale.
glowlabs.org
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The traditional web would have you KYC before being allowed to operate a website if they could. We're nearly at that point already.
Don't let that become a requirement.
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Disappointed by Filecoin? Skynet got your back.
Disappointed by Dfinity? Skynet got your back.
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You can't be yourself when someone you don't trust is watching you. And that's why I don't like Google. I don't like Dropbox, or Android, or Amazon. Everything I do online is being watched by an entity that I fundamentally don't trust.
Pursue freedom. Pursue decentralization.
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I choose to work on crypto because its the one place where I feel like I could make a difference at a global level.
Climate change, wealth gap, misinformation, and even the erosion of personal freedom all feel like they stem from a broken economic design. Crypto can fix this.
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People who think they are upset with energy consumption are actually upset with sustainability.
There is nothing wrong with increasing humanity's energy usage by 1000x, so long as it is done sustainably.
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Somehow people got comfortable with allowing a single public corporation being able to man-in-the-middle the entire Internet.
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DAC stands for Data Access Controller. It's a new data management paradigm we've developed for Skynet applications that massively reduces the effort required by both users and developers alike to safely and securely share data between applications.
More to come.
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When platforms like YouTube ask content creators to make more shorts, they are basically asking people to sell crack.
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Grinding through some kernel code tonight. Finishing up the meat of the build system. You type 'make', and then it builds a whole self-hosted, self-referencing operating system that exists purely in the cloud.
Had to build everything from scratch as nobody has built this before.
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In about 15 minutes I'm going to give an in-depth talk on a new Decentralized Identity protocol we've built and are releasing today.
It's big, and it lays the groundwork for the future of data management on the Internet.
airmeet.com/e/60d585e0-970c-…
Come join us :)
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When we get euphoric we forget to watch for vulnerabilities and broken designs. We faceplant, we come to our senses, and we build back better.
What you lost was money. What you kept was experience. Most of you have 50 or more laps left on this planet. That's a lot of time.
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Dogecoin is a celebration that we have the freedom to choose any money we want. We buy doge not because it makes sense, but because we're merely glad that we can.
Reject anyone that wants to take that away from you.
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For the past 30 days, the total amount of in-use data on the Sia network has been increasing by an average of 13 TB per day.
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We are in a twilight where governments and corporations have started making heavy use of mind control (via data collection + ads) to shape society but the general population hasn't realized yet just how potent modern behavior manipulation has become.
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On IPFS, data is only available if someone with a high uptime node says "I will run my node 24/7 and make this available". No user does this. You can use a pinning service, but that's both centralized and a single point of failure.
Use Skynet. DMs open.
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There are two types of people in crypto. People who "get" Skynet today, and people who will regret not getting it earlier.
The first wave was Bitcoin. The second wave was Ethereum. And the third wave is Skynet.
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We will be announcing a 🔥new technology for DeFi, only possible on Skynet. Don't miss it.
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One of the hardest things about running a twitter account is that speaking in absolutes results in better engagement, even though nothing is absolute and everything has considerable nuance.
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Today is a turning point in history where the decentralized web starts to eat the centralized web. With SkyDB it's now possible to build full social media apps and web apps on Skynet, comparable to YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter
A new era is upon us. We are proud to announce the launch of SkyDB - the final building block by Skynet that enables next-generation applications to compete with the siloed centralized web.
blog.sia.tech/skydb-a-mutabl…
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Sia network appears to be under a syn flood + dns reflection attack with spoofed IPs. 350+ hosts offline, and almost 1/4 of network all storage. Seems like all files are still enjoying 100% uptime.
The team is awake and working on a solution.
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We made an internal decision earlier this month to pursue 1:1 parity with IPFS. It seems like we're only a few weeks away from achieving that in full. As far as I understand, any app that currently works on IPFS will work on Skynet with no changes at all starting in August.
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Skynet's approach to building a better Web3: blog.sia.tech/skynets-approa…
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Seems like the overwhelming concern of the day is privacy. And I have bad news about that. Privacy is really tough. Its the difference between making a boat that floats and doesn't let water in and making a spaceship that flies and doesn't let air out. Magnitudes more difficult.
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FTX is not a reason to be bearish. Relative to the size of the industry, it is a smaller catastrophe than Mt Gox. To be equal to Mt Gox, we'd have needed either Binance or Coinbase to fail as well. FTX is bad, but we will bounce back. The technology hasn't changed.
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I've been getting more comfortable with my Framework laptop and my Graphene phone. 🧵
For those who don't know, these two devices are on the bleeding edge of 'freedom tech'. The framework is a right-to-repair laptop, and Graphene is a smarphone OS with no Google, and no Apple.
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Just finished a 5.5 hour all-team meeting discussing Skynet monetization. We are exhausted, but the machine is moving.
People should be (and will be) able to monetize their contributions to the Internet - whether that's code, videos, music, or a snarky comment in chat.
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The days where a megacorp can snap up your favorite application without your consent will soon be behind us.
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Congratulations to @Filecoin for passing Ethereum in fully diluted market cap.
$233 billion at that stage of product is an impressive feat!
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