Giacomo Milligan

Running bitcoin

@pcaversaccio “They don't even try since they can always LLM it” This applies to everything, even your “contrarian view” of not going down the slop engineering route. You basically said nothing

idk man, maybe it's just me but most devs/engineers nowadays are simple translators not true understanders. We're drifting away from a first-principles-based world toward prompt-to-slop engineering where the prompter can't even challenge the output lol. This fucking concerns me! Too many don't understand (or already forgot) how computers work. Ask them how program memory looks and you get nothing. They don't even try since they can always LLM it. IMHO true knowledge and _first principles_ build great things, everything else is temporary slop. My contrarian view is that in the age of LLMs you gain a real edge by not going down the slop engineering route.

@0xz80 They’re desperately trying to fit in with “the cool kids”

@giaki3003 anyone outside of big tech will throw up if you pitch anything JVM related

it’s actually really sad that big tech gave everyone JVM-phobia and now we’re all missing out on one of the greatest programming experiences of all time

@0xz80 I don’t think anyone got JVM-phobia. A majority of production code runs on JVM or JVM-like rails

it’s not as good devx as common lisp but what you lose in devx (and it’s not much tbh) Clojure more than makes up for in its modern syntax and JVM interop

@k1z4_ Great way to ruin the conversation around legitimate solvency questions with some good old misinformation!

600% APY on USDT staking at MEXc After so many red flags, this screams insolvency. They’re cooked. Stay safe. Stay away.

An exciting update from myself and @benediamond (eprint.iacr.org/2025/2010). We show that the 𝘶𝘱-𝘵𝘰-𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 proximity gaps conjecture is 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲. More precisely, given any pair c, d we construct codes whose error grows faster than nᶜ / (q ⋅ (ρ η)ᵈ).

My article was published in @blockspace "For bitcoin mining to survive, we need to rethink L2s" (their title) Imminently, (next 5 or so years), L2s will drive: * 99.99% of miner revenues * the sale price of every ASIC * the fate of @BITMAINtech @Whatsminer_MBT @canaanio

Quite the turn-out for @Truthcoin’s debate with Lightning advocates at @tabconf.

@RHBcrypto @Arn_Wintermute My brother in Christ the picture you posted shows buys and sells

@Arn_Wintermute You’re not buying and selling, you’re extracting every last penny and putting as much downwards pressure on the coins you guys MM, it’s not a coincidence the general sentiment about your company is what it is, you guys make it this way and you’re proud of it

Feels like May 2021 Liquidity looks great Which MM just went bye bye?

@premium_pst @Impose_eth They are

@Impose_eth I wonder why these rats aren't in jail

this tweet lives rent free in my head

@AdamBorco @abdelstark It’s magnitudes more than 25ms… I really don’t understand the point of a comparison like that

@giaki3003 @abdelstark I meant it just as a comparison

Verifying bitcoin, with a STARK proof, on a Rasbperry Pi, in 25 milliseconds, the whole mainnet header chain, 16 years of history.

@AdamBorco @abdelstark The whole point is to not sync headers

@abdelstark Pretty sick, do you have a benchmark on how long does a header chain sync take on raspi?

@abdelstark @Ingo_zk 's ICICLE v4 with the CUDA backend enabled cuts this down by half (probably more)

NEW WORLD RECORD. WE CAN PROVE THE WHOLE BITCOIN BLOCK HEADER CHAIN IN 6.5 HOURS. FOR $13.5. YES, WE HAVE PROVEN 16 YEARS OF BLOCKCHAIN HISTORY OF A $2 TRILLION ASSET FOR LESS THAN A BIG MAC COMBO MENU. STWO, FASTEST PROVER IN THE WORLD, BACKBONE OF STARKNET.

@XBitcoinBytes @palmBTCx I wonder if you can answer a simple question for me. Please interpret this phonetically: due ewe no wart the date ears?

@palmBTCx 1 Bitcoin will be worth 1 Bitcoin…but the value of everything outside of Bitcoin will crash in comparison …by holding Bitcoin, your purchasing power will grow.

I’ve thought about it a lot and there’s no scenario where Bitcoin does not reach 1 million in the next 5 years.

> copy other people's homework > claim that they made it themself classic move, ollama

@ollekullberg @EmbyHQ Well, strictly speaking, zero transaction fee blockchains have existed for almost a decade. Although it is a novel and interesting approach

@EmbyHQ Yeah, there is a lot to say about Chromia. Many rather unique things in there. For example: The zero transaction fee was a completely new concept AFAIK when it was introduced

Chromia is a network of nodes running your blockchain, and it is accessible via normal REST calls. The only tricky part is that any transaction sent to the network must be encoded into “GTV” and signed with your private key, something regular devs don’t know how to do.

@levelsio @SimonTheNoob @official_php I guarantee you Ubuntu isn't as common as one would think

@SimonTheNoob @official_php 99% just use vanilla Ubuntu man

Things I never understand about Open Source Software: > apt update > apt install -y software-properties-common > add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php > apt update > apt install php8.4 Why one guy called Ondrej control all PHP installs? Why doesnt @official_php organziation do this? What if he dies?

@PolyesterMather @kai_fall I think we are all shocked because compiling once a day only really applies when your workflow is extremely slow or monolithic (eg focus on a single giant “feature” every day, or just do one thing per day)

@giaki3003 @kai_fall I don’t feel like I’m saying anything that crazy. My great coworker who comes from Go hits compile every few minutes so I know people do this differently.

@PolyesterMather @kai_fall This must be some sort of troll

@kai_fall I get that a lot of people seem to like Go because of the compile time but I never understood why it matters. I think I compile once a day or so when I'm done with a feature? I'd rather have better keyhole optimization than a fast compile.

@danrobinson legend

Here is my testimony from the Senate Banking Committee last week I focused on the promise of DeFi—which does for trading and lending what stablecoins do for payments—and how market structure legislation must not inadvertently harm it Link to longer written testimony in 🧵

@tauraamuix @MachoXV @LukasHozda @Malix_Labs I was asking because of point 2 ("this is a free added bonus side effect"), this makes it seem like its a "bonus" reason for using V - if we subtract this, the only argument is you avoid overhead from hooks, am I reading your post correctly?

@giaki3003 @MachoXV @LukasHozda @Malix_Labs

> be helix-lang > "Advanced Memory Tracking (AMT): a novel approach to borrow checking that diverges significantly from the strict model employed by languages like Rust" > written in c++