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student of biology, chemistry, and anything that computes. gears-for-brains engineer. wannabe researcher. working on scaling privacy and symbolic meta learning.
🦠 Joined July 2009
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evan 🌸 Verified account @evansforbes
the foundations of modern chemistry were laid by mad alchemists trying to turn lead into gold

many naively pursued riches until death or bankruptcy, accidentally producing something far more valuable and useful

It would be poetic to finally master transmutation
Marathon Fusion @MarathonFusion Oct 21
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production.

And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025.

We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.
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evan 🌸 Verified account @evansforbes
you might recall @jadler0's talks about resource pricing w/ smart contracts

the same concepts apply to p2p networks!

IFF we can verify that every byte is useful and carefully budgeted, then it's actually perfectly safe to send Gbps of bandwidth to randos on the internet
Zakura Verified account @ZakuraZcash Oct 20
Zcash nodes must stay useful under attack.

Here’s how our new P2Pv2 stack uses resource budgets and backpressure to limit the work peers can trigger.

zakura.com/engineering/p2…
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