Everything is hard, until it’s not. Keep grinding.

In Paradigm's Ethereum client reth, the `on_new_head` method is a great way to understand how an ethereum client ensures it can apply a new chain update when a fork choice update is proposed. github.com/paradigmxyz/re…

Navy SEALs are the most elite warriors on Earth. Here's one thing their taught early on... The Backwards Law (how to get what you want by letting go):

Wow, kademlia is super cool

Don’t overcomplicate things. Keep it simple stupid.

Can't stop when it gets hard.

reth 1.0.6 is out! This release contains some bug fixes to op-reth and RPC, as well as various performance improvements. You can also try the new (experimental) engine API implementation with `--engine.experimental`. This improves engine_forkchoiceUpdated latency by over 100x!!

Okay fine, I'll learn abstract algebra

Gotcha, so we're assuming that when calculating discrete logarithms over a carefully chosen group, a specific elliptic curve, there just isn't an efficient way of calculating the solution. Making it a very good trapdoor function.

Random self-reducibility: A good algorithm for the average case implies a good algorithm for the worst case.

Not getting bogged down in the details keeps you free, but ignorantly so.

Just realized I’ve been using twitter wrong

The journey to finding yourself is so personal that almost no one will be able to tell you what you need to hear on purpose. If there is anything that could help, it will likely be uttered unintentionally, and only you can recognize its relevance.

First poly tree, long way to go but I'm enjoying this trajectory.