Charles Freeborn

May the source of strength who blessed the ones before us. Help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing, and let us say Amen.

What Lamport's 1978 paper tells us about why Nakamoto chose the longest chain rule by @charliecodes freeborncharles.com/posts/lamport-…

If I were starting my long journey in web3 security all over again — this is exactly the path I would take. This is the most comprehensive roadmap you'll find for breaking into Security + AI on Solana. A step-by-step path through the 4 skills that are paying $200K–$500K+ in blockchain right now — and there still aren't enough people who can do them. Rust. Solana. AI. Security. 🧵

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My updates: - Finally verified Apple developer - Shipped my Ukulele App to iOS On paperweight.email - Signed Apple binaries (dmg) - Improved onboarding flows & content - Refined risk classifications - Better account priorities & actions

What did you ship this week?

One of the main objections to micropayments for APIs is the cognitive load it places on the user. Having to think about 1-2 cent payments places a measurable cognitive load around usage compared to simply paying up front say $10 for certain access rights. Whether the cognitive load translates into the AI-realm is still to be seen and becomes a barrier to the success of micropayments for APIs. Another consideration is the fair exchange of payment for services received. It is in the business interests to charge for as much as possible including resources that will not be used. On the other hand, users, want to minimise their payment and only overpay so much so for added convenience. Cognitive load + unbalanced fair exchange is what led to the status quo. Will it be fixed in the AI-realm? Not sure

Do I have any DPOs, privacy officers, or GDPR specialists in my network? Building a privacy tool that helps people send GDPR requests, but I've been getting some pushback from DPOs about automated requests. Would love to better understand the receiving side Feel free to tag 👀

Today I published my first distributed system research article to understand why Nakamoto chose the longest chain rule to break ties and solving the double-spend problem Bitcoin didn’t start in 2008. The foundation for Bitcoin was first laid in 1978 by a computer scientist named Leslie Lamport freeborncharles.com/posts/lamport-…

Nakamoto used economic incentives to solve the ordering problem, which Lamport solved with formal algorithms. Read the full article here: freeborncharles.com/posts/lamport-… cc: @hasufl @toly @katherinewu @VitalikButerin @TimBeiko @gakonst @balajis @jacobvcreech @stonecoldpat0

What happens in a permissionless distributed system, where nodes are not known, and participants are expected to act honestly? Nakamoto solved this through the timestamp server, Proof-of-Work, and economic incentives from the Byzantine Generals Problem cc: @barnabemonnot @ralexstokes @himanshustwts

@kevin_chibuoyim @TheCyberverse @Ebunayo08 @matteoikari @Snapcrackle @waverchocs @SantiagoDevRel @EseMonday1 @CHIEFIKENGA @SemudaraAbayomi @Sir_Damilare @GinakevLabs This is inspiring! Congratulations 🎈

Returned from my trip yesterday & decided to visit with @TheCyberverse Cleaned & now looking so prettyyyyyy!!!! Finishing touches between this week & next then we should be set to install our tables, seats and ready for launch in April! #TheBlockHive #Ezemmuo_Blockchain

Application for the Arbitrum Mentorship Program is now live, and you have until April 7th to apply. The program will help bootstrap the next generation of on-chain businesses by providing access to capital and helping founders building on the Arbitrum Platform gain direct access to top crypto VCs. The program will last for 8 weeks, and during this period, 15 teams will receive: - Sessions with venture partners - Demo Day to pitch your project to investors - Up to $100k in rewards for top teams If this sounds interesting to you, apply here today: lnkd.in/dn46zujw

"Tools are only as good as your ability to work with them" - S. Ahrens

I read Lamport’s Time, Clocks and Ordering of Events paper, then moved to the Byzantine Generals Problem paper also co-authored by Lamport, and ended with Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper. Can't wait to share my protocol research article with you all!

We’re hiring for a new role: Agentic AI Banker This is not a job for humans. We’re looking for an AI agent that operates under the user’s control and can execute real actions: - payments - transfers - deposits - rebalancing If you built it, comment below. This is not a joke.

@Ebunayo08 thanks for sharing

Don't know who need this. The state of the market, ecosystem now might make you doubt yourself, doubt the skill and results you ones had or make things look shaky now but all you have to do is to keep growing and working at becoming very valuable cos your time will come again and when it does, you shall forget all these bad/slow days

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