Solana Legend 🎒💧@SolanaLegend
> be Anatoly Yakovenko
> spawn in the former Soviet Union
> move to US, witness dotcom boom, learn C
> enjoys comic books like Hellboy Vol. 1 with depth, story, and opinionated art
> plays Ultima Online, studies CS at university
> dotcom bubble bursts
> doubles down on being dev, joins Qualcomm
> spends 13 years in distributed systems developing code to push the limits of hardware
> giga brain systems engineer
> leaves Qualcomm in 2017 to work on deep-learning hardware, mines crypto on the side to pay for GPUs
> slams 2 coffees and a beer stays up till 4am one night
> finds a way to quantize time with proof of history
> finds a way for on-chain clocks to never drift, logical timestamping according to a SHA256 hash 🤯
> *massive breakthrough*
> transactions can be ordered and executed fast af
> decides to start a blockchain
> calls the blockchain Loom but the name is taken
> 0 fks given, name it after Solana beach where he and some other chads from Qualcomm go surfing
> focus on scaling with hardware and bandwidth
> launch during peak COVID, 0 fks given
> builds a completely differentiated blockchain that does more true TPS than all EVM chains combined
> can swim 3 lengths of a pool in one breath (with flippers on)
> Solana meant to be a DeFi chain but NFTs pop off majorly in 2021
> Solana summer, billions traded, coin goes parabolic
> stays humble, wears NFT merch of apes to big announcements and replies to DMs
> changes pfp every 2 days
> stays calm, never loses cool while the entire industry fuds his chain
> fixes downtime in 2022, network running better than ever
> gigabrains at top HFT firm start building a 2nd validator client called Firedancer, ultra optimized
> live demo of Firedancer doing hundreds of thousands of TPS, industry is blind, coping
> story just starting
