Ismail Khoffi

PSA, new handle, finally: @ismail_k Retiring @ KreuzUQuer, which was never meant to be my real-name account.

@badlogicgames Cloudflare and pi-people drama is so wholesome 😅

my next project is the terraform of cloud agents. out of spite.

@renelubov @canbildik @zooko 🔥

@canbildik @ismail_k @zooko this is so good, goddamn

Movie trailer for the new movie named “πHard” starring Elon Musk, Neal Degrasse Tyson, Sam Bankman Fried, Steven Hawking, and Bill Gates. NYC Mayor Mamdani in a supporting part. Looks pretty good! I’d watch it. 🤣 x.com/HistoryBoomer/…

@IraninSA @snicklink isn't this your video?

And today’s popular music: “blockade” by Trump.

@itsolelehmann @w3_hub @renelubov 👀

I'm spontaneously hosting an AI x marketing event on friday at w3 hub in Berlin who are people I should invite to share workflows / join a panel discussion?? tag them!! pre-registration link in the comments

Given the NYT piece on Adam Back, I retweeted his denial of being Satoshi but this is actually more relevant to this debate and the industry IMO:

i'm not satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas.

We just wrapped up our team on-site. The entire Celestia team came together for a week of deep work on protocol and strategy. We are energised, heads down and building towards making Celestia’s Vision 2.0 a reality. We want to be better at sharing our work openly as it happens. To make sure we follow this through, we’ve brought on a new Head of Marketing who will help us do exactly that.

I joined Celestia (LazyLedger back in the day) bc I knew it was gonna be fucking hard. Ambitious projects aren’t built in crypto lifecycles, they take years. I joined with the intention of sticking by it, building it through *actual* thick and thin, and committing to something I knew was going to span much longer than a 2-year cycle. I wanted this. I wanted to know what it feels like to build a company from the beginning, and I *especially* wanted to know what it would feel like to stick by it when the inevitable FUD comes, when the market is in the absolute shits. Luckily, I get to do this alongside a team of people whose conviction in Celestia and in one another has only grown stronger. And yeah this might be cringe as fuck, but yeah every single one of us truly *loves* Celestia.

@AirdropGlideApp The only people throwing in the towel will be Celestia's fudders

@AirdropGlideApp @crypto_abyss @nickwh8te Look at all alts, not just "cosmos". And what do you mean by "un-aligning" here anyways?

@ismail_k @crypto_abyss @nickwh8te Even if the entire Comsos ecosystem, or anything connected via IBC, trends to zero by default?

Talk of Celestia being the next high profile project to throw in the towel. No posts on their X since February. The bear market has been brutal. Fun Fact, Celestia was the first massive airdrop where my X account really took off. I think I went from a couple of thousand followers, to over 30,000 in just a few months. Wild times.

@crypto_abyss @AirdropGlideApp @nickwh8te Nonsense take

@ismail_k @AirdropGlideApp @nickwh8te Just be an L2, man. It’s time.

Reports of Celestia's death have been greatly exaggerated. The team is as committed as ever, working hard, and unbothered by those chirping in the peanut gallery. Doesn't matter if it takes years, we are going to continue building for a world of abundant blockspace.

@AirdropGlideApp @nickwh8te I do not think it matters much for adoption or for winning. “Un-aligning” from cosmos (whatever that means) isn’t that relevant rn. If there are good reasons to swap out comet or cosmos-sdk we will but not because it’s trendy to distance oneself from the Cosmos ecosystem.

@nickwh8te Welcome back. Keen to hear of any roadmap if any. Any thoughts on the ongoing implosion of Cosmos at the moment? Will Celestia try and un-align from Cosmos in the future?

Zcash's comeback is extremely inspiring to me. After the early hype faded, the core team and community persisted through YEARS of seeming irrelevance, sticking to their vision of unstoppable private money. That conviction is now paying off. Celestia has the same DNA. A cypherpunk vision of abundant, unstoppable blockspace, verifiable by anyone in the world. The early hype has faded, but we have a cracked core team committed to the mission, ready to keep going for however long it takes. We'll see it through.

@zooko 👋🏼

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x402 this, MPP this - Since we have both support for x402 and MPP for @ondbai endpoints and love to use purl internally. We have added support for MPP in purl: