This is actually hard to believe, but I once spotted a gorilla vs 100 people who was running an Aztec validator in the wild. What’s the wildest place you’ve run a validator?

Free speech almost always costs something - personally, professionally, financially or otherwise - it’s why you see so many people staying silent in the face of the unimaginable, unyielding horror that has been inflicted onto Palestine. Bottom line.

Ethereum without privacy is like: The internet without the world wide web Cellphones without touchscreens Agriculture without a plow Electric cars without batteries Mathematics without a zero Astronomy without a telescope It's time we complete Ethereum.

Oh wow, Aztec community rolling into town hall 850+ strong. We're going to up our next swag order. 👕

The winner of this week's Aztec Dappnode was too busy installing this carpet to make it to the town hall. But even while wrestling with carpet glue, he managed to keep his node up and running. This is the spot on the carpet where ZENODE is going to setup his new dappnode

Finally a good use for potato batteries

Who's someone that is important to your life that I should be following?

This feels like hearing Paul McCartney’s first solo album after the Beatles broke up. Congrats abcoathup.eth 🐡 🛡️🦇🔊 on the first issue of ethdevnews after saying goodbye to weekinethnews

This community is unmatched. Show me another network with a meme machine like Fran ~ priv/acc, a content chronicler like Mr FOMO, and fire node operators like 0xRedd | CryptoNodeID, ZENODE, and Eren 🔥

Excited to officially welcome Roberto to the team as our new Community Lead! If you're in the Discord, you're already familiar with Medsea's impeccable work and dedication to building a unique and vibrant ecosystem. Please give him a big welcome ♥️

If you want to know what it's like to hang out with 1k nerds all at once, head to the Aztec town hall tomorrow. Drop a comment if you're going 👇

Aztec is shipping! Here are a few resources to get you started: Node operators: - head to testnet.aztec.network to join the validator set. 7k+ are already in the validator set & queue 🤯 - if you need to get a sequencer up and running, checkout the getting started guide:

Let this sink in: 17,607 total nodes running on Aztec testnet 9,726 validators in the queue to join the validator set 3,581 who’ve made it into the validator set and are proposing and validating blocks, slashing inactive validators You are not ready.

We don’t talk about Aztec’s early builders enough. I’m constantly blown away by conversations with these people. All you need is ~20 super cracked devs to build the core lego blocks and killer apps for an ecosystem to get ready to fly, just look at early Ethereum. Aztec has

View Aztec townhall winners, content creators, memers, node champions, and more from the comfort of your couch. These are the people to watch

I was out touching grass for one week, and of course Roberto had to go and throw a 2,000+ person party in our discord without me. The only good news is that we're doing it again this week.

Breathe in notification bells, breathe out full alignment

Got on the Aztec Wall 🔥

Aztec town hall tomorrow 🥹 Who’s released the best Aztec content this week?

Vibe coders are missing out on one of the best parts of learning to code: Giant coding books Entire forests were cut down to make these, but you really felt the weight of your learnings.