DMac
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DMac
@DMacOnchain
Onchain builder. Brutalist dreamer. Clarity over noise. Head of Protocol & Engineering @irys_xyz
@PSkinnerTech Like the entire model has changed. I’m building something that is just me and AI. Before it would be me and half a dozen people. And we would have needed VC investment. Now I’m trying to see if we even need it.
Reticulum over Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) on OpenWRT with batman-adv. Multi-hop mesh. Sub-GHz transport. No internet required. This stack is getting interesting.
this is where openclaws are born btw
The scaling hierarchy in blockchains: Computation > data > state Computation is easier to scale than data. You can parallelize it, require the block builder to provide all kinds of "hints" for it, or just replace arbitrary amounts of it with a proof of it. Data is in the middle. If an availability guarantee on data is required, then that guarantee is required, no way around it. But you _can_ split it up and erasure code it, a la PeerDAS. You can do graceful degradation for it: if a node only has 1/10 the data capacity of the other nodes, it can always produce blocks 1/10 the size. State is the hardest. To guarantee the ability to verify even one transaction, you need the full state. If you replace the state with a tree and keep the root, you need the full state to be able to update that root. There _are_ ways to split it up, but they involve architecture changes, they are fundamentally not general-purpose. Hence, if you can replace state with data (without introducing new forms of centralization), by default you should seriously consider it. And if you can replace data with computation (without introducing new forms of centralization), by default you should seriously consider it.
Work with hardcore people on hardcore things.
99% of business books are trash and should be blog posts I've wasted a lot of time reading stupid ones, here are the ones that are actually useful: - only the paranoid survive (grove) - amp it up (slootman) - hard thing about hard things (horowitz) - score takes care of itself (walsh) - zero to one (thiel) - skin in the game (taleb, not really business book but can make it into one) - alchemy (rory) - confessions of an advertising man (ogilvy) - what you do is who you are (horowitz) bonus: - beginning of infinity (deutsch), which really everyone should read several times per year - biographies of other business people skip anything by grant, sinek, greene, maxwell or gladwell
