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@imrane It’s not the standard because it was actually work. Things that actually work never become a standard.

This idea is so goood I don’t understand how it’s not the standard. IPFS (distributed, self scaling), bloom filters and address centric.

@LefterisJP @mihai673 It's not too late. It's fully specified, open-source, and free of licensing restrictions. trueblocks.io/papers/2023/sp… My gift to the world.

not at all but I waited for more than 10 years for the clients to add indexing functionality and that has not happened. Incentives are not there and by now I guess they will never be. And things like trueblocks just never caught on though they should have. Again probably incentives

The indexers situation in EVM is pretty bad. And I am surprised how it's underdiscussed. Having access to correct history should be a must and not something hard to get or gated behind expensive apis. If you use etherscan you are fine. Their data is by far the most correct. But etherscan free does not work for @base or @Optimism. Now you may say no worries, use @bloskcscout or use @routescan. Good luck. For Base blosckscout is struggling to re-index the chain for months now. Routescan has given up. The reason is that it's really hard to index and they get no support from Base. Incidentally this is the same reason Etherscan has put both Optimism and Base behind a paid API. For optimism transactions before bedrock for both blockscout and Routescan return wrong data. They return no internal transactions for transactions that should have them. That means people relying on this data make wrong assumptions, accounting, taxes etc. I love etherscan and am super thankful for their persistence on accurate data. But ofc relying on only one indexer is not good. Not gonna lie the situation is pretty bleak for EVM history. I have personally stopped using the chains that are hard to index. For me data accuracy and its guarantee into the future is paramount.

The fact that even the all-powerful Claude 4.6 coding genius can't get timing issues correct for React is a powerful indictment of how fucking stupid and confusing React is.

@orbit_db Now that I think of it, though, they had funding. We need a Sun God.

@orbit_db Trust me. I get that deeply. I feel like the only reasonable thing to do is build for future generations. Lay the groundwork like the builders who laid the first stones on the pyramids did. They didn't live to see it, but they started something that lasted for 5,000 years.

We're hoping to fix this by building a platform which places the entire environment; app, data, ownership; back onto the user's computer. No more 3rd parties with an agenda.

new @METR_Evals research note from @whitfill_parker, @cherylwoooo, nate rush, and me. (chiefly parker!) we find that *half* of SWE-bench Verified solutions from Sonnet 3.5-to-4.5 generation AIs *which are graded as passing* are rejected by project maintainers.

@Corpetty Nice. Just found your site for the first time. Use Claude to update the links to your academic papers. I'd read them.

For a while I thought something was wrong with me. I had the relationships, the work, the purpose. And I was drowning in a loneliness that didn't make sense. So I wrote about it. About the armor men build, the armor women build, why neither of them can take it off, and what happens when someone finally sees it and can't unsee it. This is the most personal thing I've published. It's about masculinity, tenderness, and the courage it takes to stay soft in a world that rewards rigidity. bayesianpersuasion.com/posts/the-emot…

To combat the growing "age verification" threat to our personal sovereignty, users need to fully take back control of both the application they run and the data they store. This can be achieve by running decentralized software using a local-first, p2p data store.

Very cool proof of concept by EF researcher @nero_eth, our co-author on the stealth address ERC standards, demonstrating privacy preserving agentic interactions using stealth addresses. This leverages our SDKs under the hood. Very nice!

@austingriffith You found your people, Austin.

🤣 my ADHD ass is so good at flipping between seven different telegram chats talking to different bots doing different things all at once. 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞 let em cooook ⚙️

for the release of the Whole Earth Redux, I OCRed/indexed/embedded all 22,000 pages of the Whole Earth Catalog and built a searchable archive — it’s up at searchwhole.earth !

@avsa I sometimes walk the six blocks to City Hall to pay my city taxes at a teller window--no lines. It's literally 1,000 times better than using the internet for the same task. Plus, I get a paper receipt without having to use my flaky printer. I'm American.

Is “mailing a check” an actual thing Americans do in 2025 or is this only in tv shows?

I'm not sure I believe this (yet), but I've been thinking along these lines for a while. The argument that AI naturally builds on crypto rails seems like wishful thinking to me. Thoughts? ai.gopubby.com/anthropic-is-k…

@CupOJoseph Admittedly, this may be dated, but are you sure you want to use the word "all"? @tjayrush/trueblocks-comparison-with-alchemy-covalent-and-etherscan-8a0e68fa69d3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@tjayrush/true…

@banteg @CupOJoseph Or you use the unchained index, Jesus God

@CupOJoseph i must've missed the part where you can run alchemy on your computer? oh wait you can't. this is literally the symptom of the problem i'm describing. you can sync a 3tb node and it's still useless for account-centric querying unless you rely on some third-party indexers.

@banteg This is literally why I built the unchained index 10 years ago. Blockchain’s are not databases. Things that are not databases cannot serve applications. Something like the unchained index should be part of the node and should have been from the first day.

just had a mind-boggling realization that i had used and developed on ethereum for almost ten years and the default rpc experience hasn’t improved even a little bit over that time.

Rather than wait around hoping the city or other news orgs will start producing this info with the consistency and detail that we need, we’re just going to start reporting the news ourselves, hiring freelance writers for monthly meeting beats and publishing it all on Substack

@Degen_CPA I’m not sure of the math, but I think if you go 3/4 of the speed of light, then show your ruler to whomever you want to show it to as long as they’re stationary that would work as well. But maybe you have to be stationary. YMMV.

Hi guys, I want to buy a 12 inch ruler, that has all the marks on it, showing the inch, half inch, and quarter inch lines up to 12 inches. But I don't want it to be 12 inches, I want it to be 9 inches in total length, so that each inch is actually 3/4th of an inch. So like a 12 incher ruller that is fake, so that it would make whatever I'm measuring appear larger than what it is. Does anyone know of a place that would sell this?