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@zooko

Freedom maximalist. Good vibes only.

Boulder, Colorado, USA, Earth z.cash Joined March 2008

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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko Oct 5

Announcing hashsma.sh! 𝟘 𝟙 ❒ 🔨

Strengthen cryptography with AI.

Cryptography—both current and post-quantum cryptography—depends on hashes. SHA-256? SHA-3? BLAKE3? Nobody knows if they are secure. We're going to find out!

Come help accelerate scientific research!

HashSmash is an open science-acceleration project in collaboration with @yukonresearch, @eigenlabs, @projecteleven, and @ShieldedLabs.

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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko 17h

I just re-read this brief, stimulating essay predicting either the end or the next beginning of America.

Ben Landau-Taylor Verified account @benlandautaylor Jul 17

New post: The Fourth American Republic

So far there have been three different American political systems. Each functioned well for a while, then eventually decayed. Will we see revival and replacement with a fourth system, or will our decay continue?

benlandautaylor.com/p/the-fourth-a…
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko 17h

I think this result strongly suggests that quantum computers do *not* have an exponential advantage when attempting to break secure hash functions. Gg, CRQCs.

Physical Superintelligence @psipbc 2d

Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.

psi.inc/research/aaron…

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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko 18h

The first ZEC ever in the Zcash Network Sustainability Mechanism. :-)

Zecblock Data Verified account @zecblock_bot 1d

🟨 Milestone: Zcash's NSM reserve has grown 1 ZEC since NU7.

60% of transaction fees now go to the Network Sustainability Mechanism instead of miners. It's up 1.01 ZEC (about $1K) as of block #3,546,650.

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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko 1d

Hey, if you're interested in hashing a whole bunch of data super efficiently, could you please look at this sketch of an API and tell me if it would fit your use case? It supports: incremental, multithreading, batching, limited memory, back-pressure. github.com/servil-softwar…