1/ Blobs unlock unprecedented scaling for L2s, but have huge gas spikes and price volatility. They lack financialization like hedging and fractionalization. I've just quit my job at Apple to build blobspace derivatives & contribute to the ETH ecosystem: mirror.xyz/0x1Ca8D5E43A1902C…

With only 42 days until my trial, it’s getting very real. I’m reaching out again for your support and apologize for asking repeatedly—I never expected this challenge. Please consider donating to my legal defense fund to help me through this fight. Https://freeromanstorm.com #DefendRomanStorm

Coretime Baron claims to have acquired 2 cores for 92 DOT each in the last sale. He also has 9 cores with a renewal fee of 9 DOT each. Total holdings: 11 of the 20 available Polkadot cores and 73 of the 94 Kusama cores 😬 The next round will start at 920 DOT per core, so Coretime Baron is offering his loot at a negotiable price. According to forum discussions, the expected price is around 500 DOT. He's also offering Kusama cores, but only as a full set of 12 cores for 800 KSM, with no individual core sales. Apparently, it’s only for those who want a gigachad rollup with 0.5s block time. STONKS! Should’ve aped in there, not into coins. 😂

No GitHub. No “zk” in their “zkbridge”. More Retweets than Elon Musk in their tweets. $1B valuation. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 coindesk.com/business/2024/0…

“I think there’s an existential crisis that we’re going to face when we realize what you and I do is computational. Our brains are large language models. We’re not that special. We can replicate the human soul in a lot of ways. I think people are going to have a hard time with that.” — Hugh Howey (@hughhowey) Listen to my brand-new interview with Hugh Howey: tim.blog/2024/03/13/hugh-how…

I hate the fact that we're removing SELFDESTRUCT tomorrow

#PeckShieldAlert #Solana is down x.com/SolanaStatus/status/17…

🚨JUST IN : Solana blockchain is down, again! It's been 48 minutes without blocks and transactions on #solana. Solana mainnet-beta is experiencing a performance degradation, block progression is currently halted, core engineers and validators are actively investigating.

lol, guess I'm the only person at Delphi who's not a Solana bull. . .I have nothing against Solana & it seems some cool people are building some cool stuff there, but I quite literally don't get the point of it no matter how much I read about it. . .if high speed/low cost is your top priority centralized databases seem fine (and always intrinsically better in those dimensions than a blockchain network), and the only thesis I see from Solana bulls is "faster/cheaper" (please do correct me if I'm missing something). . .about the best steelman long-term Solana investment thesis I can come up with is the notion that perhaps people like the openness and composability of blockchains, don't care much about censorship resistance, and therefore want a more performant blockchain even if that means there is no coherent plan for achieving an adamantium level of censorship resistance w/ fast/cheap/abundant light client zkP verification etc. . . .the abundant use of ETH L2s that are even *more* trustful than Solana would also tend to support this idea about what people are looking for in their chains. . .if that's true, then probably most of Ethereum's features are pointless/wasteful and Solana or a chain striking similar design tradeoffs would 'win' . . . If that is indeed true, to me it means blockchain is a much less exciting technology--essentially just a sort of 'surprisingly performant somewhat decentralized open network' vs the much more radical proposition of an autonomous cryptosystem where humanity rediscovers freedom