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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 18h

If you had Zcash years ago, please read this. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recover-an...

zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a glowing farewell for Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, and well-earned: www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: benchmarking secure hash functions Anthropic:

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you have some Zcash, years ago? Read this now!! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recover-an...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Vitalik’s essay “Galaxy-Brain resistance” may be an instant classic. It’s highly relevant to today’s headlines, and you should read it right now! But it may also be timeless. “Galaxy-Brain” is a disease. This is how to be resistant to that disease. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow, these slides are fantastic to just read through and contemplate. 😍 thomasdullien.github.io/about/slides... Thanks, @halvarflake!

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

haha this is fun. now i know why everyone succumbs to ai psychosis instead of getting their work done

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm feeling grumpy today so it feels good that I can allcaps at grok. He doesn't mind. He knows I'm not yelling *at* him, I'm yelling *near* him.

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please read what I said about Zcash two years ago, when its price chart looked like this. I still stand by every word. “Zcash is winning”: medium.com/@zooko/zcash...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ZEC going from $0 to $17bn in less than a decade is important, because Zcash is important for society. A civilization requires three coordination primitives to survive and prosper: communication, computation, and money. Zcash is money. Money for an infinite civilization.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash?chart=type%3Dmarket_cap%26mode%3Dline%26timeframe%3Dmax

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A major advantage that bench-allocators has over mimalloc-bench is that it produces pretty graphs: github.com/zooko/bench-... (Thanks to a suggestion from Sean Bowe, and thanks to help from Claude Fable 5.)

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Donations (made anonymously, in Zcash) to help families hit by the Venezuela earthquake: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-for-...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What a time to be alive. 😂 x.com/bl4sty/statu...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1. If you're the green shape on the left, and you're engaging with a troll/hater/crazy *in any way* then you are part of the problem. This includes quoting them to criticize or argue. ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wow, this is perfect! Great explanation! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-0... I'll add two things: ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I *think* what's going on here is that one guy's AI, possibly with the guy's actual human help, is talking to this other (human) guy on a Zcash discussion forum thread and using it basically like you'd use a github PR. And it's working! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/lwd-mixnet...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wow, this is such a cool contribution to the Zcash Crosslink feature-net! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cool article combining history, philosophy, and technē. Someone showed me this because of my interest in efficient cryptography: “The Most Expensive Number in Engineering // How to put a price on the limits of knowledge”—https://surjan.substack.com/p/the-most-expensive-number-in-engineering

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Huh. GPT-5.6 Sol is better than Fable 5 for software engineering (with me, the way I do it, and the way I ask the AI to help), but Fable 5 is *way* better than GPT-5.6 Sol at documentation and graphical design. Here's an example of the difference in graphical design:

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is a science experiment. Trying to post these images over JetBlue WiFi from 37,000 ft with Nym in fast/vpn mode.

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yay! Zcash community-wide polling to assess support for the next major upgrade. There are several good panels/caucuses that will hold votes, plus anyone who has Zcash in the Ironwood pool can vote anonymously! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-coinho... forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcap-nu7-p...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The next Zcash Crosslink workshop! Come one, come all! :-) ❤ forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Come on…come on…come on…https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/c/blake3_avx512_x86-64_unix.S

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you! This is *exactly* what I asked for. Except, I don't understand what it is telling me. Want user experience feedback on this? foryou.club/playground?u...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

However, I'd also suggest that advanced nuclear could also, in maybe 10 years, produce a better result than solar+storage. (Because "batteries" aren't enough for reliable large-scale power.) Check out what GPT-5.6 Sol just told me when I asked it about the diversity of current experiments:

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

latest: x.com/zooko/status... ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

here's some historical data about cost of battery: oldest: x.com/zooko/status... ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@spacecowboy17.bsky.social Is there a way I can ask "Why did For You Feed show me this?". Here's a post the For You Feed showed me, and I want to know why. bsky.app/profile/doll...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(BTW, here’s a neat fact: among the many things that the Granovetter Diagram accurately models is the Fil-C memory-safety system. :-)) 🔚

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now suppose access-to-Carol is implemented by knowing Carol's public key? People are starting to use this technique more and more nowadays! The latest and greatest is Iroh's "Dial Keys, not IPs". iroh.computer ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bob gains access to Carol if and only if 3 things are true: 1. Alice has access to Carol. 2. Alice has access to Bob. 3. Alice chooses to share Carol-access with Bob. That's it. That's the entire rule. ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Granovetter Property is super simple, super easy to understand, and it models a whole bunch of important issues in security (including, by the way, a potential solution to the modern scourge of supply-chain attacks). What is the Granovetter Property? It fits into one tweet: ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The property that I'm going for is The Granovetter Property from object-capability access control theory. By a quirk of mathematics, public-key-cryptography automatically provides the Granovetter Property! *Unless* you publish the "public key"! 😭 ⤵️

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Anyway @zfnd.org . @just announced an upcoming vote that will have a *major* influence on the next year or two of Zcash's evolution! And, an opportunity for you, if you qualify, to join the ZCAP: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcap-nu7-p... 🔚

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🤔 fzakaria.com/2026/07/30/t...

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh, here's the answer to "how many tens of millions of dollar's worth of ZEC": zechub.wiki/dashboard About $63 million dollars worth of ZEC. 🤩

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zooko2.bsky.social @zooko2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh boy. The Zcash Coin-Holder-Controlled Retroactive Grants program is back! I've lost track of how many tens of millions of dollars worth of Zcash are potentially available to retroactively reward people/orgs who've contributed. It's a lot! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/call-for-p...

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