⟠ iamgenchi.eth 🐂⭕️

@brankopetric00 Look at blacksmith

GitHub Actions cache saved us $2,100/month. The problem: - 200+ workflow runs per day - Each run: npm install (3 minutes) - node_modules: 800MB - Downloading dependencies every single time The solution: ```yaml - uses: actions/cache@v3 with: path: node_modules key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('package-lock.json') }} ``` The impact: - npm install: 3 minutes → 15 seconds - Build time reduction: 40% - Fewer billable minutes We then added caching for: - Docker layer cache (buildx cache) - Terraform providers - Go modules - Python pip packages Total monthly savings: $2,100 The cache is free (up to limits). The compute isn't. If your CI downloads the same thing twice, you're burning money.

iamgenchi.eth

@brian_armstrong Agree! (Almost) > Crypto needs to be treated on a level playing field with the rest of financial services If it needs to be treated the same, then we are bound to the same regulation. (That’s the problem)

After reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48hrs, Coinbase unfortunately can’t support the bill as written. There are too many issues, including: - A defacto ban on tokenized equities - DeFi prohibitions, giving the government unlimited access to your financial records and removing your right to privacy - Erosion of the CFTC’s authority, stifling innovation and making it subservient to the SEC - Draft amendments that would kill rewards on stablecoins, allowing banks to ban their competition We appreciate all the hard work by members of the Senate to reach a bi-partisan outcome, but this version would be materially worse than the current status quo. We’d rather have no bill than a bad bill. Hopefully we can all get to a better draft. We'll keep fighting for all Americans and for economic freedom. Crypto needs to be treated on a level playing field with the rest of financial services so we can build this industry in a safe and trusted way in America.

Anyone who thinks Michael Saylor is just a reckless maniac taking on debt to buy Bitcoin should watch this interview.

This is why $DOT is my biggest bet. Parity and Polkadot, led by Gavin Wood, have been delivering since the early ETH core days, when he served as the technical architect of Ethereum. No other team comes close, and that will matter enormously as blockchain technical breakthroughs continue to compound! JAM is ACTUALLY coming. Polkadot 2.0 IS here now, The Hub + PVM !! @paritytech IS the BEST Here’s what the last 3 years look like 👇 2023 Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS) pools live OpenGov launched Parachain auctions live Cross-chain messaging (XCM v3) System parachains introduced Asset Hub launched Bridge Hub launched Staking and governance migration groundwork Validator election improvements Runtime upgrade acceleration Light client improvements Parachain onboarding tooling matured Weight fees and benchmarking overhaul 2024 Asynchronous Backing Agile Coretime Coretime system parachain live Parachain lease auctions sunset Asset Hub positioned as the primary user chain Relay chain runtime slimming System parachain hardening Validator set expansion NPoS pools upgrades Block production latency reductions 2025 Elastic Scaling Multi-core execution on the relay chain Coretime on-demand blockspace XCM v5 – cross-chain swap and execute messages Bridge Hub upgrades Snowbridge v2 trustless Ethereum bridge Asset Hub smart contracts (Revive) Polkadot SDK unified releases JAM is a semi-coherent supercomputer that 35 independent teams are working on. There are no more block limits, JAM enables continuous execution! graypaper.com

Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020. Then the US made a phone call. Tether froze the wallets. Game over. Everyone's focused on the arrest. The real story is the lesson every finance minister on earth just learned in real time: Stable coins are a leash, not an escape. If someone can freeze it, it isn't money. It doesn't solve sovereignty. First principles: USDT is dollar plumbing without SWIFT. Faster. Cheaper. Still has a CEO. Still has a compliance department. Still picks up when Washington calls. This is why USDT adoption exploded, 71-year-old grandmothers in Caracas pay their HOA fees in tether now. But useful ≠ sovereign. The entire value proposition for sanctions evasion just got publicly falsified. Now do the game theory: You're Iran. Russia. Any country hedging against dollar weaponization. You just watched Venezuela's "crypto solution" get shut off like a light switch. Where do you put reserves now? USDT? Compromised. Yuan? Political strings. Gold? Try settling $500M across borders in 10 minutes. CBDCs? Same kill switch, government branding. There's exactly one asset that clears final settlement without asking permission from anyone. 21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No phone number. This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy. The most desperate, highest-stakes capital on earth just learned there's only one door. Price doesn't reflect it yet. It will.

🚨News on the $26M Truebit exploit - classic Solidity addition overflow hack (old Solidity compiler, v0.5.x) Secure your old smart contracts - make sure they are not missing key under/overflow checks

We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: 1. Ideally figure out an index to track that's better than USD price 2. Oracle design that's decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of money 3. Solve the problem that staking yield is competition Tracking USD is fine short term, but imo part of the vision of nation state resilience should be independence even from that price ticker. On a 20 year timeline, well, what if it hyperinflates, even moderately? If you don't have (2), then you have to ensure cost of capture > protocol token market cap, which in turn implies protocol value extraction > discount rate, which is quite bad for users. This is a big part of why I constantly rail against financialized governance btw: it inherently has no defense/offense asymmetry, and so high levels of extraction are the only way to be stable. And, of course, it's a big part of why I refuse to give up on DAOs entirely. If you don't have (3), then again you have a few percent APY suboptimal return rates, which is quite bad. The possible paths to solving (3) [treat this as enumeration of the solution space, not endorsement] are basically: (i) reduce staking yield to like 0.2%, basically hobbyist level (ii) create a new category of staking which has yield almost as high as regular staking, but which does not have the same slashing risk (iii) figure out how to make slashable staking compatible with usability as collateral (does it mean that slashing risk somehow passes on to stablecoin and CDP holders, so both of those need to stake and trust the same delegate?) If you're going to try to reason through this in detail, remember that the "slashing risk" to guard against is *both* self-contradiction, *and* being on the wrong side of an inactivity leak, ie. engaging in a 51% censorship attack. In general, we think too much about the former and not enough about the latter. Also remember that a stablecoin cannot be secured with a fixed amount of ETH collateral; in the event of large drops you need to be able to handle rebalancing (though of course you could choose to partially drop this goal in a clever way, eg. if ETH price moves too much you stop earning staking yield until you take some other action)

i genuinely think everyone in this space should immediately switch to using Vim. DPRK started abusing VS Code hooks that run _automatically_ in the background when you open a folder. ZERO fucking user interaction required _after_ trusting the repo (the trusting part is important here). Yes, read it again. ZERO. INTERACTION. REQUIRED. so what happens is the following: they (in the usual case the Contagious Interview group, meaning some fake recruiting guy) share GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab repos containing a `.vscode/` subdirectory with malicious hooks. the one example I share here executes a fake font that's actually heavily-obfuscated JS and will absolutely rek you. all your fancy software that feels "convenient" makes tradeoffs. those tradeoffs are now being abused to silently rek your devices. use Vim. and use Qubes. Thx.

@MarcJSchmidt Please look at x402 agents should pay too simple as that. x402.org

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay. I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it. Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence. Two of the most common OSS business models: - Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...) - Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more. The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't. Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing. Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly. The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement. My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

@ErikVoorhees @coinbuildco @base Got it thanks

@coinbuildco @base Correct that would bankrupt us lol

People are discovering that DIEM gets you access to all AI models for free, in both the Venice.ai app or API. • Claude Opus 4.5 • GPT 5.1 • Gemini 3 • Nano Banana Pro • GLM 4.7 • Many others Buy at Aerodrome on @base aerodrome.finance/swap?from=0x83…

@ErikVoorhees @alexisonchain @base @ErikVoorhees if $1/day is unused, does it accumulate?

@alexisonchain @base No, came later (aug) We essentially removed the free inference attribute from VVV and imbued it into a derivative token DIEM, which allowed us to simplify the deal: 1 DIEM = $1/day VVV holders can mint DIEM (that's where all DIEM comes from)

@eastdakota @Cloudflare @Polkadot that’s the fight.

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

@coinbureau The new clears the old. Only a matter of time. Gary know that.

🇪🇺ECB RULES OUT BITCOIN RESERVES Christine Lagarde says Bitcoin will not be included in any EU central bank reserves. “Reserves must be liquid, secure, and safe, and not linked to money laundering or criminal activity.”

@IronSage_ @bryan_johnson is that correct?

Grounding is one of the most powerful yet underrated health practices that exist. It improves literally every function in your body, it's completely FREE, and outperforms 99% of supplements. The Science of Grounding:

@PestoPoppa @ErikVoorhees The more subscribers go from cefi payment to DeFi payment and lock VVV, the more scarce VVV becomes. This boosts the price of VVV. There is then no incentive to unstake so VVV now has more probablity that liquidity will stay low. @ErikVoorhees loves experiments

@ErikVoorhees So who is actually paying for the compute? How is it sustainable?

100 VVV = Venice Pro Account 1. Buy on Coinbase or Aerodrome 2. Visit venice.ai/token and stake 3. Enjoy Pro indefinitely When you're done, feel free to sell the VVV. If price is flat, you got Pro for free. If price went up, then you actually got paid for Pro 🌅 @AskVenice

The Imaginary Zero-Commission Validators A Polkadot Forum user recently pointed out that a so-called zero-commission validator is earning around 47 DOT per day. This isn’t an isolated case. Similar patterns have been observed where validators earning 78, 98, or even 117 DOT per day and still continue to advertise 0% commission. While this might look attractive at first glance, it sends the wrong signal for building a healthy and sustainable @Polkadot network. TL;DR: what happened At the time of writing, there is a UI issue where around 10 validators appear to have accepted zero commission, but when rewards are calculated, they are actually charging up to 10% commission. This creates confusion for nominators who believe they are supporting zero-commission validators, while in reality, they are paying standard fees. Some argue that these validators are intentionally operating at a loss to grow their business, hoping nominators will stay loyal when commissions increase later. Polkadot is a decentralized and permissionless system, and anyone is free to run a validator as a business; transparency still matters. Ethical and moral clarity is essential for long-term trust in the ecosystem. What’s the Solution? 1. First Do Your Own Research (DYOR) As a nominator, you should always evaluate validators beyond commission rates: > Do they have a verified on-chain identity? > What is their history and contribution to the Polkadot ecosystem? > How consistent is their performance? 2. Use Better Tools Make sure to use the PAPI staking optimizer, built by @Joseptec and his team. It helps nominators: > Select high-performing validators with competitiveAPY > Avoid validators that frequently switch commissions

@Gbbigbuy @Polkadot @Web3foundation @TheKusamarian Not your keys not your vids. There is something to learn here. Maybe someone can invent web2 login split as a web3 multisig. The content should have clearly been owned by Polkadot as it was paid for by Polkadot. Essentially, this content is not owned by Polkadot.

What`s happening here Polkadot? - Youtube all videos deleted @TheKusamarian" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@TheKusamarian - Twitter 0 posts - KusDAO Discord - closed What is going on here: @Polkadot @Web3foundation @TheKusamarian / Anon // Asking for a friend

I have used the holidays to finish a favorite side project: a short online book containing all that I have learned and know about #Web3 and #blockchain in the last 7 years. Hard to ever call it "done," but I am ready to share it with the world: blog.kianenigma.com/what-blockchai…

Over the holidays, Kian Paimani (@kianenigma), one of Parity's OG engineers, did something quietly impressive. He distilled 7+ years of hands-on experience in Web3 and blockchain into a short online book. Not theory, not hype, but lessons earned by building. This is the kind of work that rarely fits into release notes, yet shapes how systems are designed. Worth your time 👇 blog.kianenigma.com/what-blockchai…