Jack Farrington

@aztecnetwork Seems to be stuck for about the last hour.

Alpha is live. After nearly a decade, the first feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum is here. Developers can now build apps and contracts with ground-up customizable privacy, from execution to settlement. aztec.network/blog/announcin…

In an ultimate act of buffoonery, after Monad did not distribute to the leading NFT collection by far, they then restricted replies to their post about it. What a jerk move.

@Bankless @RyanSAdams @drakefjustin Proof of Work is already a treasure hunt. Doing nothing and allowing the salvage isn’t just aligned with Bitcoin, it is the ethos of Bitcoin.

LIVE NOW - Ethereum’s Quantum Plan Before Q-Day Quantum is no longer a distant thought experiment. @drakefjustin joins Bankless to unpack: - when Q-Day could actually arriv,e - why Bitcoin and Ethereum face very different quantum risks, - what Ethereum’s post-quantum roadmap looks like, - why this upgrade could be bigger than the Merge, - and how quantum could become Ethereum’s chance to lead. --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 When is Q-Day? 5:35 The moment quantum becomes crypto-relevant 10:11 How many qubits does it take to break crypto? 16:22 What a real Bitcoin quantum attack would look like 20:19 How much Bitcoin is actually vulnerable? 26:26 Burn, freeze, or salvage? Bitcoin’s impossible choice 35:06 Proof of seed phrase and Bitcoin’s post-quantum bottleneck 41:02 Ethereum’s exposure: smaller, but not zero 45:43 Ethereum’s tougher roadmap: three layers, three upgrades 50:29 The execution-layer plan: replace ECDSA without killing throughput 57:56 Post-quantum, post-AI cryptography 1:03:36 BLS, KZG, LeanVM, and the rest of the stack 1:06:42 Is this bigger than the Merge? 1:17:21 If Bitcoin stumbles, does all crypto stumble too? 1:19:35 “Quantum is not a challenge—it’s an opportunity” 1:21:27 AI, quantum, crypto and the 2032 convergence 1:28:04 Harvest now, decrypt later 1:30:09 Defensive accelerationism and Ethereum’s role 1:39:10 Stoicism, P-doom, and why he keeps building

@wholemars She’s mentally ill.

we’re still in the pandemic?

@TeslaBoomerMama Gary who?

No idea what I did this time, but I am blocked by Gary again. Men 🙄 Someone please explain to him that nobody is proposing a merger where Tesla buys SpaceX, but it's my best guess that SpaceX acquires Tesla (for many good reasons that I explained in previous articles).

@beffjezos Maybe you could print the Extropic chip at the Terafab.

Seems hard to argue with. Asymptotically, chips and energy are all that matter, and it's insane to bet against Elon in anything involving hardcore manufacturing or rockets.

@JoeTegtmeyer @elonmusk Sounds like we’re gonna need more pilots.

@elonmusk Thanks for the clarification! Can’t wait to see what’s next while watching this come online!

No, that’s just the little advanced technology fab, where we will be iterating on chip designs. We couldn’t possibly fit the Terafab on the GigaTexas campus. It will be far bigger than everything else combined there. Several locations for Terafab are under consideration. It needs thousands of acres and over 10GW of power at full scale.

@wholemars Like chocolate chip cookies.

Have a great weekend everyone. We have so much to be thankful for

@fundstrat I think Tom Lee (the drummer) has successfully called the same number of ETH bottoms.

$ETH

@Neverland_Money I hope @monad and @keoneHD read this and really internalize it.

@wintonARK But what am I supposed to do when my solar panel becomes empty after that first year?

a barrel of oil can provide as much electricity as a 400W solar panel does annually. a barrel of oil runs $92 and comes with a few minor logistical complications. this year the solar panel should run less than $90; you can order online, ships in a week.

@wintonARK @periodicaudio 🤣

@periodicaudio Now use that barrel to generate electricity…

Few people appreciate how lucky they are that their parents were already the correct religion.

When Optimus V3 is finally debuted, it should enter the stage dressed in an Optimus outfit and perform the exact same dance the human did when work on Optimus was initially announced. Then Optimus can de-robe and show his true form underneath. @Tesla @elonmusk @Tesla_Optimus

@elonmusk @gailalfaratx @barisakis @milichab @JasonBud xAI needs to build a Cursor replacement. As great as Cursor is, it already lags behind what should be possible today.

@barisakis @milichab @JasonBud Thanks for helping build xAI. If I could go back in time, you would be on the founding team.

Thrilled to welcome @milichab and @JasonBud to build what’s possible at XAI + SpaceX The AI products that truly transforms the world and delivers abundance for humanity won't look like today's tools. It demands first-principles rethinking, grand ambition, vastly more training compute—and crucially, 100X+ inference scale to serve billions in real time. What gets me out of bed every morning is the certainty that this future is within reach, but only possible within one ecosystem that innovates across energy, chips, data centers, AI models, space ships, internet, and humanoid robots.

@alice_nvr It’s just too bad that @monad doesn’t recognize its greatest native app more. Instead it throws tens of millions of dollars in incentives to entice a competitor to the chain. Pretty shameful by Monad really.

Neverland: - Relatively unknown at launch - Rejected early funding offer - Only 5K followers on X - Did not initially receive any external incentivizes But also: - #1 in fees generated on Monad - #1 in revenue generated on Monad - First Monad-native protocol to surpass $100M TVL - Highest trading volume of any NFT collection on Monad - First protocol on Monad to surpass $1M in revenue - #6 this week in revenue out of lending apps across ALL chains While others chase vanity metrics, we built through authenticity. We are not the same.

@marknorm He can be reached by pager.

@MarioNawfal I’m pretty sure Iran has been “6 months away from a nuclear weapon” since the 1990s.

🇺🇸 "Nuclear weapons" have been the rallying cry to justify literally anything imaginable. It's been nothing but "trust me bro" energy for decades😂

@ICannot_Enough “Would you like a receipt with that?” You’re always ready with one. It’s impressive.

For those wanting context on the “roadster bill of materials” debacle from the early days of Tesla— before Elon was CEO: (skip ahead to 4:45 if you’re in a huge hurry; but to understand the end, watch the whole thing)

@elonmusk @wholemars So if I have an AI3 car…?

Oh and it works in all AI4-equipped cars, so your car can do office work for you when not driving. We’re also deploying millions of dedicated Digital Optimus units in the field at Superchargers where we have ~7 gigawatts of available power.

Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this.