zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ

Zcash is winning. @zooko/48579b89770e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@zooko/48579b8… ⤵️

@theyknewww I view zec as complementary with btc. Each offers something the other can't provide alone.

@bkbollinger @robustus x.com/zooko/status/1…

@bkbollinger @robustus Honored Hodler!

I asked Claude to analyze how much of the original Zcash founders-reward/dev-fund that was issued from mining rewards during 2016-2024 has likely been sold to date (informed by an analysis of zec's price action & various price peaks & trading volumes):

reloading twitter and b*sky to see if anyone has taken me up on my Twisted Rust proposal yet or wants to argue about it

@robustus Not only have I never sold a single one of my FR, I have consistently bought more since then. @zooko

This is also a pitch for why someone should have their AI port Twisted Python to Rust + mio. :-)

Twisted Rust Here's my pitch for why if you're starting a new codebase in Rust today, you should use the fully-synchronous model (a la Twisted Python) and don't use Tokio and `.await`. github.com/zooko/TwistedR…

@danrobinson @n1ckler @robin_linus Oh, right. Thanks. But… doesn’t the same mechanism solve both problems? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Btw Zcash devs at ZODL and ValarOrg (not my org) are working on “quantum recoverability” which is related.

@zooko @n1ckler @robin_linus No, this is about protecting P2PK addresses or other ones where the key is already public even before you try to spend

Why is "PACTs" suddenly getting so much hype? Isn't it basically the same idea Jeremy published a couple of weeks ago? delvingbitcoin.org/t/commit-revea…

@zooko Yeah. I think you're right. A decade of distribution; what's left is mostly an ideological holder base. Also like early(ish) bitcoin times.

@robustus Thanks.

@zooko That tax story is painful. But your donations probably did a lot for people, and for zcash.

@danrobinson @n1ckler @robin_linus Isn't that the same problem?

@n1ckler @robin_linus Those are solving a different problem! They’re about ways to safely allow spending from P2PKH addresses whose keys haven’t been revealed yet (but would risk getting sniped during a spend)

Or at least every weekend day.

Every day I search twitter and b*sky for new discussions about the design of the `smalloc` memory allocator (github.com/zooko/bench-al…) and every day I find bupkis.

If your favorite software projects have *not* been releasing security patches recently, either the developers are godlike or nobody’s been looking for bugs using AI.

Do you regularly use a different Git host than GitHub? (Bonus points if self-hosted)

🤘 near.fm/song/35a2bba8-…

So my oldest was supposed to debate the AI datacenter issue in HS debate, & the water was the main issue, & I tried to convince her to debate the water issue itself vs. what to do about it, & she's like I can't do that b/c no one will buy that the issue itself is fake.