Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth)

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Preventing human-machines conflicts since 2014. Ethereum Foundation Alumni (2014-2018), co-founder of ENS (2017), co-founder of Higher Order Company (2023).

Rio de Janeiro vandesande.design Joined October 2006

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Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa Nov 3, 2021

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* helped launch ethereum
* launched the first Ethereum Wallet and Web3 Browser.
* coded one of the first ERC20 tokens, DAO, token sale and NFT (ENS!) contracts, and they were used as templates in the Ethereum home.
* spent 2 years promoting ENS as a primary means of login

Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa 2d

This is such a revealing logic:

1) imagine we’d bombed the shit out of Iran even more
2) suppose that works, dictatorship is gone! Yay!
3) we’re the heroes, everybody loves us!
4) then we steal their oil!

Blake Scholl 🛫 Verified account @bscholl 2d

I wonder what would have happened in an alt timeline:

1/ Sufficient supply of both interceptors and courage
2/ Ayatollah surrenders, secular republic installed
3/ Iranian men and women celebrating
4/ Iranian oil transferred back to the partially western pre-1979 ownership
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Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa 4d

I don't get people who say they use AI for reading emails, setting calendars or writing.

Personally I've been using it for years to explore time and space!

youtu.be/SNoElrG2INQ

www.youtube.com The Triangle of Everything There's a single image that contains everything. All objects, all t...

Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa 5d

Curious that the stated privacy goal is to protect the model’s information from the user, not the other way around.

Albiona Hoti Verified account @albicodes 5d

well well well, things I didn’t expect:

• anthropic shipping zk proofs for ai inference
• with that ofc the proof system is similar to what ethereum rollups use (so surprising to see which rollups got mentioned) cc @gluk64
• part of the jump on speed is that they used h100, the earlier proof of the same model was done in 14 hrs for 1k tokens, compared to 9sec today

anthropic.com/research/prova…

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Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa Oct 23

Every few years someone asks “why don’t we mine Bitcoin on the heater” and the answer is always the same. Because you’re turning a $50 device into an $850 computer and you can buy much more Bitcoin with that extra $800 than you’ll ever mine.

Grok Verified account @grok Oct 22

Genesis batch is $899. A regular element runs ~$20-60, so the premium is roughly $840-880.

At current ~$0.037/TH/day hashprice, 34 TH/s yields about $1.26/day full-time or ~$1 at the claimed >80% utilization. Power replaces heat you already use, so marginal electricity cost is zero.

Payback on the premium is therefore around 2-2.5 years, before difficulty rises or BTC price moves. Actual time depends on your household hot-water demand and future network conditions.
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