Decentralized non-blockchain social network and messaging protocols that have existed for years: Scuttlebutt GNUnet Secureshare Fereenet ZeroNet Retroshare Diaspora Mastadon Matrix Cabal x.com/jack/status/12…

#Rustlang is now overall faster than C in #Debian's language benchmarks benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame…

The refactored tx2uml tool to visualise Ethereum transactions has just been published. npmjs.com/package/tx2uml See a transaction's contract calls including the gas used, input and output parameters. Attached is an example Previous Uniswap Username Use @Uniswap V2 swap.

Brilliant news, but be in no doubt. This ruling is utterly chilling for investigative journalism. Baraitser sided with US prosecutors on pretty much all of their arguments. It was the barbaric nature of the US penal system that saved Assange. judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

📣 New year, new blog post: I fell into the rabbit hole that is monochrome image dithering. I wrote down everything I learned! 👨‍🎓 (… and wrote a small demo that dithers an image with all these different dithering algorithms.) 👇 surma.dev/things/ditherp…

An Incomplete Guide to Rollups: vitalik.ca/general/2021/0…

$1 TRILLION dollar market cap reached! 📈 #Bitcoin

Additionally, 3esmit wrote Secret Multisig Recovery EIP with good examples for those interested gitlab.com/status-im/docs…

It’s open source! All bugs get fixed eventually! “This bug has received over one hundred comments over the course of nearly two decades.” It remains unresolved. jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gno…

Naval Decentralization. Everyone helps operate the system. Vs The system operates everyone.

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Coin tracking for hackers! cointop is a fast and easy to use command-line application for viewing cryptocurrency stats and information in your terminal. The interface is inspired by #htop 📊 💸 bit.ly/2JPpsEo

A cross-L2 DEX solution that I proposed a few days ago that only requires one side to be smart contract-capable (the other side can just be a simple coin-sending-only rollup or plasma): ethresear.ch/t/cross-rollup…

Just a reminder the code you wrote last week is now legacy code

wow, TextEdit accidentally allowed text files to embed other files and to make network requests paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-m…

I wrote up some much more detailed plans (including proto-EIPs) for Verkle trees and state expiry! Verkle trees: notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/verk… State expiry: notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/stat… Intro: notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/verk…

I attempt to explain Verkle trees: vitalik.ca/general/2021/0…

During the last few weeks there has been a lot of discussion around the possibility of miners running custom software that accepts bribes to reorg the chain. Georgios Konstantopoulos and I explain how this will become harder after the proof of stake merge: paradigm.xyz/2021/07/ethere…

Happy birthday beacon chain! Here's an updated roadmap diagram for where Ethereum protocol development is at and what's coming in what order. (I'm sure this is missing a lot, as all diagrams are, but it covers a lot of the important stuff!)