@hashdag Avatar @hashdag Yonatan Sompolinsky

Yonatan Sompolinsky posts on X about kaspa, kas, crypto, bitcoin the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence cryptocurrencies 36.63% finance 19.8% technology brands 2.97% travel destinations 1.98% exchanges 0.99% social networks 0.99% countries 0.99%

Social topic influence kaspa #64, kas #285, crypto #3776, bitcoin 9.9%, in the 8.91%, l2 #104, l1 #113, core 6.93%, main 6.93%, dag 6.93%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @michaelsuttonil @cryptoaspect @kaspa_girl @elldeeone @zooko @terah4d5 @oneforonehaha @emdin @husqy @orinewman @volokhilia @bit_tmk @kaspamobile @tommy_on_kas @ed_l_p @chargrysolle @maxibitcat @max143672 @coderofstuff @tiram88

Top assets mentioned Kaspa (KAS) Bitcoin (BTC) Zcash (ZEC) USDC (USDC)

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"ppl assume the based rollup model immediately alleviates the L1 L2 misalignment that eth suffers from. case 1: if L1 ends up having one primary programmable extension to L1 - a winner takes it all - then the winning entity will effectively become the "frontend" of kaspa for builders and all things defi and will have effectively hijacked the network effect of kaspa for its own brand token shareholders. yes it pays miners for sequencing but other than that its entire focus would be on growing its monopolistic influence to shape the ecosystem in its own legit interests. this is what a pro CEO"
X Link 2025-10-31T13:38Z 38.3K followers, 86.8K engagements

"Some more context into the Core issues of Kaspa My main focus these days is shifting Kaspa to a streamlined copilot mode where builders require minimal context buffers intermediaries and Kaspa-specific know-how in order to develop smart ideas http://x.com/i/article/1917712644951150592 http://x.com/i/article/1917712644951150592"
X Link 2025-04-30T23:36Z 38.3K followers, 124.1K engagements

"Kaspa Crescendo 3"
X Link 2025-05-05T15:30Z 38.3K followers, 152.7K engagements

"I'm not (yet) taking an impossibility result stance open for pleasant exceptions. still doesn't make sense to bet the future of Kaspa on a central entity behaving nicely when the winning chains offer monolithic ux and devex - by now redirecting builders to L2's has become almost a textbook mistake. the community should at least recognize that backing L2s requires a major leap of faith come to social consensus - it's essential we release asap a poc sdk that would prepare builders for vprogs with all of the perks and demands that come with sovereignty. let's try to finalize this week one first"
X Link 2025-11-01T19:59Z 38.3K followers, 97.2K engagements

"sovereignty as a service @Yiannisfx96 @zbidznjor @bigballs_invest @hashdag @michaelsuttonil @emdin @CryptoAspect @chargrysolle not gonna give you price targets on kas can tell you the thesis is underpriced and if vprogs delivers the way hashdag thinks it will you'll know when it happens sovereignty narrative isn't fully understood yet @Yiannisfx96 @zbidznjor @bigballs_invest @hashdag @michaelsuttonil @emdin @CryptoAspect @chargrysolle not gonna give you price targets on kas can tell you the thesis is underpriced and if vprogs delivers the way hashdag thinks it will you'll know when it happens"
X Link 2025-11-05T10:36Z 38.3K followers, 139.4K engagements

"my two dworks: privacy for any cryptocurrency is obv a must still should not be a kas L1 feature imo. instead coinjoins is a good start and it's actually easy to bootstrap a coinjoin kaspa "party". if you're up for it this requires launching a stateless server (a dead simple lichess-style game lobby - perhaps through @kasiamessaging) which acts as a coordinator where kaspers can find fellow hodlers anonymously - the server shouldn't know who is connecting no pubkey identification on the lobby's front - and then run a coinjoin with them off the coordinator's server. ideally privacy/mixing"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:55Z 38.3K followers, 48.5K engagements

"@MichaelSuttonIL Beautiful 3"
X Link 2023-12-19T17:20Z 38.3K followers, 14.3K engagements

"my main priority: L1 sequencing (DK and miscellaneous); others' ongoing efforts: SC L2 stack op_code vs stack: The only necessary primitive for implementing SC on L1 is a zk op_code adapted to DAG. Its design is complete. This narrow primitive can take in principle a few months to implement after which anyone can in principle launch their own (based) zk rollup. In practice it makes more sense to standardize and build a unified supporting stack. The heavy-lifting here will be led by @CryptoAspect and others KRC20/Kasplex -- indeed third party and afaik unrelated to generic SC Novel SC"
X Link 2024-09-01T09:22Z 38.3K followers, 114K engagements

"@picaye I'm working under the assumption that the next 1B crypto users will be ai agents and sure many will come in tokenized form. L1 speed of confirmation - highly relevant to ai agents. Re "kind of L2" I'm thinking along the lines of implicit DeFai: https://x.com/vivaldi0x/status/1880354581864948180 most DeFAI teams are going about it the wrong way imo The future isnt explicit like Hey agent bridge my funds from mainnet to Base then LP into ETH-USDC. Its implicit: Hey agent get me the max return on my USDC and the agent runs a delta-neutral strategy across 3"
X Link 2025-01-27T08:44Z 38.3K followers, 45.2K engagements

"A new paper worth being excited about: proofs of useful work (pouw) by Ilan Komargodski @komargodski Itamar Schen and Omri Weinstein @WeinsteinOmri. tldr; a pow function involving matrix multiplication such that the miner can choose the matrices freely (eg matrices used for own AI inference)---counterintuitive that main pow properties still hold but they do. This is the first useful pow that makes sense since the idea was proposed about a decade ago. Why definitely important: solves / significantly mitigates security budget draining threat by adding a funding source (the usefulness) for"
X Link 2025-06-13T15:17Z 38.3K followers, 232.4K engagements

"Dear crypto It starts and ends with txn ordering. Ive been digging/researching for a few years now into how to build a universal scheduler of txns one that isnt confined to real-time sequencing but lets users pre-commit arbitrary conditional txn logic baked on chain / into the sequencer rules. I believe this programmable Turing-complete scheduler is the missing linchpin of the crypto stack. Its server-free latency-agnostic prioritization of transactions can fix a lot of whats broken in defi (or finance minus regulators) by either preventing unwarranted panic cascades (ghost swans) or"
X Link 2025-10-13T00:21Z 38.3K followers, 222.3K engagements

"while butting heads with @CryptoAspect on panic failures in zkVMs I received this from panic attacks to full night's sleep newsletter from @chargrysolle. i saw this as a divine calling to braindump my pov before implementing full night sleep. for any VM system that implements metering - and for any zkVM system that implements provable metering - panic is a (non) special case requiring no special treatment. sure one can architect a system which safely handles panic w/o metering but not the reverse - and since based (rollups or the superior) programs / vprogs necessitate provable metering"
X Link 2025-10-30T20:19Z 38.3K followers, 76.3K engagements

"@binance Thanks for including me in the top [---] blockchain people list appreciate the signal I must decline the Dubai invite though. I do not wish to disrespect but many of the award voters are avid kaspians who rooted for my kaspa status at least as much as for my research. Let them win or count me out. Crypto has turned from a euphoric cypherpunk project to a house-friendly casino. You may not be the culprit but as a top player you hold the lions share of the responsibility to correct this and the October crash your USDe oracle glitch helped trigger adds to what needs to be addressed. There"
X Link 2025-11-06T18:14Z 38.3K followers, 3.4M engagements

"A few raw thoughts on the implications of shielding: [--]. @maxibitcat raised the question of native shielding for kaspa. quick answer: zk_opcode upgrade would enable a shielding vprog but note that plain shielded state cant scale in throughput bc its history cant be pruned - the shielded notes merkle tree history must be kept to compute spendable-note witnesses. A new paper by @secparam and @ebfull proposes pruning the shielded state and relying on archival nodes to retrieve and compute witnesses. perhaps a reasonable compromise in the context of zcash - kaspa so far operated without relying on"
X Link 2025-11-12T12:21Z 38.3K followers, 52.2K engagements

"@Kaspa_Girl @KSocialNetwork fake imposter I'm the real one"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:51Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Dropped a technical post on L1/L2 design atomic composability and other discussions Atomic composability sounds like a nuance but it's vital for ensuring defragmented unified shared-state which doesn't force users devs LPs to work in isolated rollups https://research.kas.pa/t/atomic-composability-and-other-considerations-for-l1-l2-support/193 https://research.kas.pa/t/atomic-composability-and-other-considerations-for-l1-l2-support/193"
X Link 2024-11-12T23:48Z 38.3K followers, 138.8K engagements

"+1 tho for based rollups to thrive you need onchain subsec (or 1-2 sec) conf times thus it's hard to imagine eth or opcatted btc becoming a native ecosystem for based teams building based will end up either introducing nonbased workarounds or migrating to chains with subsec Your number [--] goal this holiday season should be to learn everything you can about based rollups. Based rollups are the most egalitarian thing we've ever seen. It's insanely ambitious and if it works can really reshape the fabric of society. Your number [--] goal this holiday season should be to learn everything you can about"
X Link 2024-12-28T22:19Z 38.3K followers, 90.4K engagements

"@hus_qy @Cryptomb6 hans if you are into joining kas fam I'm sure we can help you untangle. there are a few orgs in the ecosystem looking to fund crypto-versed researchers / devs / potentially other modes of contribution. eg @Kaspa_KEF @KaspaKii. feel free to ping them or dm me"
X Link 2025-01-02T11:54Z 38.3K followers, 14.3K engagements

"3/6 While we dont plan to endorse or favour specific projects I will likely be vocal about what features or standards all KAS L2 projects should comply with IMO so that the properties of our sequencing engine shine throughout the layers (hint: max parallelism interop standards account abstraction)"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 11.8K engagements

"For a map of the research items that comprise the design refer to: See also the new public Telegram R&D channel: https://t.me/kasparnd https://research.kas.pa/t/updateable-list-of-l1-l2-topics-to-flesh-out-before-finalizing-design/237 https://t.me/kasparnd https://research.kas.pa/t/updateable-list-of-l1-l2-topics-to-flesh-out-before-finalizing-design/237"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 22.5K engagements

"is a good (currently best) step towards LLM privacy; still the CCP can easily detokenize user input. Long term fully homomorphic encryption should become the standard--user sends an FHE encrypted prompt LLM server runs inference on the ciphertext and decryption happens on client side. There's at least one project building this (still stealth mode). Would be very nice if @askvenice too adopted FHE http://Venice.ai If you want to use DeepSeek but don't want all your convos going to the CCP use https://t.co/gc9qMSmcwr All convos are private stored only in your local browser. Must be Pro user to"
X Link 2025-01-27T07:36Z 38.3K followers, 58.9K engagements

"Lattica an R&D startup bringing privacy to AI through FHE (still stealth mode) is seeking experts feedback through this survey: (@randhindi I recall you have lots of FHE knowledge care to opt in) https://forms.gle/DfYPNuzfyiNptZvn8 https://forms.gle/DfYPNuzfyiNptZvn8"
X Link 2025-01-28T20:06Z 38.3K followers, 27.3K engagements

"One path to sustain a fair launch project is to set the social consensus around loan-lock funds rather than donations: Whales lock funds into overcollateralized lending platforms such as aave and use the borrowed stable asset to fund development; if large liquidation margins are set (and the project doesn't completely tank) this method guarantees whales do not lose their hodling position whilst sustaining development. Which is what EF should have done instead of selling eth. Writing this for kas fam as another angle on why implementing defi functionality is vital to sustaining a fair launch"
X Link 2025-02-04T21:17Z 38.3K followers, 26.9K engagements

"@fede_intern removing blocks = removing users' ability to delegate txns to service providers which through economies of scale make it cheaper to process txns a process that in a permissionless env. is inherently resource-demanding since some form of resource is required for sybil resistance"
X Link 2025-02-09T17:08Z 38.3K followers, 13.4K engagements

"Kudos to you and @coderofstuff_ and to the rest of Kaspa builders @Tiram_88 @Max143672 @OriNewman The architecture of high-speed leaderless consensus requires such brainwork and mastery of intricacies that once you @MichaelSuttonIL push this piece of art to mainnet I will consider ghostdag your creation more than it is mine or Aviv's---you contributed an overwhelming dose of "epigenetics" to the actual realized protocol/baby. Kaspa is still a baby (there's more to do than to celebrate) and this feels like its real testnet"
X Link 2025-03-06T21:56Z 38.3K followers, 23.7K engagements

"tldr; [---] BPS oracle mechanisms DAGKNIGHT [--] @benafisch wholeheartedly agree with point (1): data manipulation aka the oracle problem is overlooked is considered by crypto academia and crypto VC a second-order problem whereas in truth it is as challenging to solve compared to computation validity the voodoo math of zkp @benafisch wholeheartedly agree with point (1): data manipulation aka the oracle problem is overlooked is considered by crypto academia and crypto VC a second-order problem whereas in truth it is as challenging to solve compared to computation validity the voodoo math of zkp"
X Link 2025-03-09T10:47Z 38.3K followers, 139.7K engagements

"@coinathlete @cohengiladh kas fam needs a cultural reset revive the raw hardcore spirit of the early days reread the crypto manifesto restore our original ancient logoa spartan phoenician Kaph perhaps time to write a new manifesto for crypto if all OGs are jaded https://x.com/fishtuna/status/1888578136188629165 A #Kaspa story from back in the good old days. We used to have an ugly logo (that was mostly because of me 😅😶🌫. But more than ugly it was too complex. At the time there were management voices in DAGlabs calling to take a professional design firm to rebrand. @hashdag said that"
X Link 2025-03-13T16:45Z 38.3K followers, 47.2K engagements

"Seeing two prominent community figures clashing publicly over Kas X is very refreshing and I genuinely hope to see more such fights being aired openly. Our strength as a community lies in our disunity; the strength of bitcoin lies in the reality that opposing entities and individuals are collaborating and cooperating over it for different interests or even conflicting values. Rigid cohesive communities are less likely to give birth to moneys -- collectibles yes moneys no. (cf. the Andean/Inca civilization) Assuming Kaspa grew out of the socially-cohesive crypto-village phase it is essential"
X Link 2025-03-23T22:08Z 38.3K followers, 93.6K engagements

"@KaspaCurrency I'd phrase it more as a plea; miners can sovereign-ly decide to reject crescendo; checks and balances"
X Link 2025-04-02T11:59Z 38.3K followers, 27.1K engagements

"dropped a few thoughts on moneyness culture + some context on the kas unofficial saga https://hashdag.medium.com/in-which-we-are-all-faceless-until-we-have-faces-part-i-5f100e0555a4 https://hashdag.medium.com/in-which-we-are-all-faceless-until-we-have-faces-part-i-5f100e0555a4"
X Link 2025-04-05T18:47Z 38.3K followers, 137.6K engagements

"@vladcostea @coryswan I suggest switching the topics between Cory and myself he can do a better job describing how kaspa payments work (like bitcoin just with multiple block predecessor references) and then we get to discuss maximalism vs defi"
X Link 2025-08-20T21:52Z 38.3K followers, 11.6K engagements

"With the upcoming DAGKNIGHT protocol Kaspa improves over Bitcoin's trust model by remaining secure under chaotic internet removing the [--] minute latency assumption. Continuously validating nodes -- many Full-history-IBD-and-store-nodes not native protocol citizens TB/year would fill up quickly. Default operation mode pruned default IBD mode SPV-like using FlyClient+MLS primitives to prove heaviest "chain". Other protocols that improved over Bitcoin while still optimizing for same puritan model eg GrinMW didn't take off. Apparently Bitcoin remains king for many good reasons"
X Link 2025-09-28T06:15Z 38.3K followers, 74.3K engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @number33_ @brandonturp Correction shouldn't have mentioned FlyClient in context of heaviest POW DAG proof we use MLS only FlyClient's a prvs construction by @benediktbuenz @lululixious et al which we abandoned"
X Link 2025-09-28T07:16Z 38.3K followers, 10.4K engagements

"I know little to nothing what why Kaspa L2s are created therefore it's not valuable to me to learn about their architecture codebase transparency etc. I view L2s as an unwise path which risks repeating Ethereums mistakes and I voiced this concern for several years now (see posts on atomic composability and fragmentation). Identifying this problem Kaspa Core grinded for quite a while on an enshrined L2 design which in simple words is a zk-verified computation layer which is tightly baked into L1 consensus receiving opcode and data structure support from L1 whilst keeping computation and more"
X Link 2025-09-28T19:14Z 38.3K followers, 28.1K engagements

"I summoned you Terah @terah4d5. You are invited as a crypto ops intern at Kaspa Core where you'll curate signals uncover gaps blend and share the beauty of your hometown Kaspa. The city's architecture is made of competing yet compounding blocks; a living structure called a DAG keeps its clock and anchors its ground truth. Explore its layers question stories separate signal from noise. Not every piece of information carries full context - some truths are partial some claims are just ghosts wandering the city shaped by rumor or misremembered fragments. As you grow your grasp of the city will"
X Link 2025-10-09T15:53Z 38.3K followers, 74.1K engagements

"# dear @terah4d5 when promoting vprogs the following ingredients which are part of its design do NOT constitute the main contributions: --- ## List of non-contributions of vprogs architecture and yellow paper [--]. use of computation DAGs to represent the underlying account state layer. [--]. projection of zk tech onto Solanas scalable parallelism-friendly account-program architecture. [--]. implementation of atomic composability. reason and context: these ingredients merely create a Solana-like high performance yet monolithic L2 which does not provide app builders with the necessary autonomy and"
X Link 2025-10-15T21:37Z 38.3K followers, 72K engagements

"Back to building the block Had a meeting with Chris Ludwig @christi61026749 a few days ago was quite valuable and he suggested I share with the community its content and my full perspective on Kaspa's path and marketing. For http://x.com/i/article/1935837670313263104 http://x.com/i/article/1935837670313263104"
X Link 2025-06-20T00:04Z 38.3K followers, 219.9K engagements

"@zooko Thanks Zooko. I feel kaspa dev should stay true to its north star of being the most impatient bitcoin out there upgrade 10-100 bps and ship DAGKNIGHT - but ppl keep bugging me to convert into Zaspa :)"
X Link 2025-11-13T20:32Z 38.3K followers, 45.3K engagements

"@maxibitcat my read is: zcash community views zec as a "swiss vault" more than "cash" and then confirmation times are less of an issue. adding DAG speed - but not throughput - to zcash is definitely doable and vice versa adding shielding to DAG. waiting for your KIP on this @maxibitcat :)"
X Link 2025-11-16T17:26Z 38.3K followers, 71.1K engagements

"@paddypisa @optimismPBC @MakerDAO @arbitrum @ConnextNetwork In both setups is there a way to decentralize the liquidity provider"
X Link 2021-03-10T11:37Z 37.7K followers, [--] engagements

"But with LN an individual user's channel can suffer a catastrophe (stale state channel settlement +liveness failure) while the rest of the LN remains secure operational unbothered. This isolated-security model is not inherently flawed it's rather common in tradfi and fintech"
X Link 2023-02-25T19:28Z 37.8K followers, [----] engagements

"1. the typical biz model of smart contracts (eg vprogs) is to interop and compose with as many other contracts as possible. [--]. smart contracts (eg vprogs) competition is healthy - users can unilaterally hop from one contract/product to a superior one. infra competition is sticky requires users' coordination to co-migrate"
X Link 2025-10-31T14:51Z 37.2K followers, [----] engagements

"3. Shield vs defi: we need more talk on how shielded state is directly at odds with defi and composability. shielding=privacy+confidentiality obscuring both transactor and transaction. shared state is by definition transparent hence any shielded finance variant moves away from shared state to dark pools and order flow internalization"
X Link 2025-11-12T12:21Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@TheVladCostea ethereum invented transaprent composable shared state zcash shielded fragmented state these communities hold antithetical values hard money vs open finance"
X Link 2025-11-19T18:19Z 38K followers, [----] engagements

"@Dravon_D @TheVladCostea kas is internet money. zec competes on SoV/swiss vault with btc not with kas. probably should elaborate on this on a separate thread"
X Link 2025-11-19T18:41Z 37.9K followers, 27.8K engagements

"@eliottmea @Bitcoin yeah whatever btc does kas does faster ;3"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:37Z 38K followers, 37.7K engagements

"for netsplit resistance (+progress under splits) we need payment channels. i was thinking of channels under validium model between based and nonbased where state is committed onchain but no data availability on L1. when hub wants to close channel they must prove freshness of the state wrt the commitment. when user wants to close channel they do it in the ordinary channels way just with a hashrate-responsive window. users then require no liveness/watchtower and hub configures channel closing window according to own liveness assumption. conversely user can close channel only after the window"
X Link 2025-11-20T15:37Z 37.9K followers, 11.5K engagements

"QUIC fits kas will investigate thanks. To actually make these protocols protect the system globally under internet collapse I'm thinking of a non-mandatory implicit mapping UTXO-hub/miner that is pre-encoded in consensus and automatically activated upon hashrate drops / netsplits. this would enable some available liquidity in locally connected parts of the network and ensure progress not only safety. Just a thought for a rainy day @Ethan_Heilman"
X Link 2025-11-20T21:48Z 37.8K followers, [---] engagements

"@TheVladCostea @sciencegirl twin blobs diff parents no orphans-kas solves this sry dag joke"
X Link 2025-11-26T05:36Z 38K followers, [----] engagements

"@lunfardo314 @emdin a netsplit detectable as hashrate sharp drop should trigger consensus param responses eg enlarging finality/pruning window and tightening throughput knots. i advocate for this irrespective of oracle functions"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:37Z 38.1K followers, [---] engagements

"PoW safety does not hinge on hashrate being capped but on 51% honesty and I dont see how this assumption is weakened by the resource pool being uncapped. But anw your point is that in the context of the 51% honest assumption being violated there's a specific scenario where the attacker matches the existing network's hashrate and then goes on to split the network and contribute its hashrate to both factions and then assuming miners refrain from linking their blocks/identities this would be undetectable in PoW whereas in PoS this would be detectable in the form of a consensus halt. This is an"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:33Z 38.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@StrategicHash it is not "worldwar resistant" since its consensus will collapse with the first internet interruptions which a global war involves. afaik DAGKNIGHT protocol is the only ww resistant pow protocol"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:39Z 38.1K followers, 23.7K engagements

"Kaspa vprogs' primary motivation was to avoid the obsolete path of L2's. Vprogs is native expressiveness while keeping L1 verification-oriented and keeping attack surface minimal. Perhaps the most important gain is enforcing the commitment to prioritize the safety and isolability of simple SoV usage"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:55Z 38.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Sure. Though vprogs is not L2 a term which connotates with a modular stack and ecosystem architecture (which failed). I'd say vprogs is a verification-oriented programmability layer enshrined in L1. Re complexity agree on the development side valid point but the gain is ux and devex resembling the simple and coherent interface of Solana-like monolithic systems (no more where should I deploy my liquidity where should I deploy my contract brain fry)"
X Link 2025-12-11T11:35Z 38.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Cairo education but also Solana. Cairo bc its Sierra bytecode format uniquely provides provable metering and safety (in contrast to eg SP1) hence this would probably be the first instantiated VM (+Lang) but programming model would resemble Solana account model read/write declaration etc. (this following sessions had today with @michaelsuttonil @hus_qy who lead this effort)"
X Link 2025-12-22T19:27Z 38.1K followers, 29.2K engagements

"@joevezz @CryptoMocro_ @LunarCrush Happily"
X Link 2022-11-05T21:22Z 38.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Kaspa Improvement Proposal #2 (w/ @MichaelSuttonIL) https://github.com/kaspanet/kips/blob/master/kip-0002.md https://github.com/kaspanet/kips/blob/master/kip-0002.md"
X Link 2022-11-30T21:32Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"I hope more devs will join the project if anything merely to enjoy the beauty manufactured by Michael and friends (the stubborn @Tiram_88 @CryptoAspect + prvsly @OriNewman @Elichai2 + all-arounder @DesheShai)"
X Link 2023-06-27T13:42Z 38.3K followers, 39.3K engagements

"@Avivz78 @notontweetter that had an advisor that was"
X Link 2024-03-20T10:59Z 38.3K followers, 54K engagements

"One way to think of it is that high bps pow provides the same guarantees as low bps just in-consensus-round. Eg bitcoin guarantees censorship reistance & competitive mining over the scale of an hour 10+ bps over one Internet RTT. For finance and many apps this is a game changer $KAS vs. MEV resistance (and a little bonus at the end) How Kaspa wants to tackle one of the most significant "bugs" of Decentralized finance Majority of people does not even know what the term MEV means and how it affects the users of it. MEV = maximum extractable value or https://t.co/NWGlEpbZcE $KAS vs. MEV"
X Link 2024-11-26T21:42Z 38.3K followers, 85.3K engagements

"@MichaelSuttonIL @divine_economy I'm referring to prover independence: txns that create execution dependency yet we alleviate the dependency from operators of the respective logic zones by coupling between provers and consensus participants. (and you are right to emphasize based is the assumed architecture)"
X Link 2025-02-03T15:48Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@VitalikButerin genuinely curious if you feel accountable for some of the things we've "learnt""
X Link 2025-02-05T19:10Z 38.3K followers, 28.8K engagements

"@MichaelSuttonIL @coderofstuff_ @Tiram_88 @Max143672 @OriNewman You can take both I'm working on a third one"
X Link 2025-03-06T23:04Z 38.3K followers, 63.8K engagements

"@terah4d5 pls create website for proof of work punks track mining distribution security budget sovereign money features speed of (probabilistic) confirmations friction of defi plugin. ignore the rest they'll serve us anyways"
X Link 2025-10-31T06:32Z 38.3K followers, 12.8K engagements

"+100 scalability is the wrong fixation and fwiw i dont think of kaspa as scalable even though it happens to be true. kaspa is first and foremost an internet-speed proof-of-work and for those who believe pow is the most resilient mechanism to govern money - working with subsecond pow seems like an obvious win. a close second is the real-time aspect of decentralized mining. slow pow achieves censorship resistance and the sampling of the majority over the course of hours. high rate pow achieves same properties in real time - in the order of internet RTT - and there are immediate consequences to"
X Link 2025-11-12T13:16Z 38.3K followers, 41.5K engagements

"@avsa I'm alive I just lost my private key"
X Link 2021-02-07T21:38Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"I'm gonna do [---] block/s with proof-of-work who's coming The Internet Computer grows in power as more and more node machines join the network. Getting ready for Genesis. Then next stop [---] block/s then https://t.co/ibdo7TIwz8 The Internet Computer grows in power as more and more node machines join the network. Getting ready for Genesis. Then next stop [---] block/s then https://t.co/ibdo7TIwz8"
X Link 2021-03-16T20:02Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Why I believe historical correctness proofs are a red herring - The most blatant ledger corruption -- Ethereum's infamous DAO rollback -- was carried out while preserving ledger consistency and is undetectable by historical correctness proofs (lots of respect @chepurnoy&ergo) @DesheShai But for Kaspa you can not provide a proof that the dag is consistent even. @DesheShai But for Kaspa you can not provide a proof that the dag is consistent even"
X Link 2023-08-07T22:25Z 38.3K followers, 88.1K engagements

"They consulted the community whether the solo-mined coins should be burnt or kept for devfund and decided to burn due to the tight vote. Below is a snapshot of @DesheShai's message. Links for context: https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/844142778232864809/914259193320583178 https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/909907923084382218/912341530193317889 https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/844142778232864809/914259193320583178 https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/909907923084382218/912341530193317889"
X Link 2023-08-08T19:38Z 38.3K followers, 70.6K engagements

"@BubblegumLtng High BPS affects speed of confirmation and number of miners competing for confirmation. In particular lowers the bar for a service provider (eg L2 rollup operator) to run its own L1 miner/sequencer while guaranteeing to its users (who send txns thru it only) subsecond conf times"
X Link 2023-12-04T06:40Z 38.3K followers, 30.7K engagements

"@BubblegumLtng With [---] BPS controlling 1% of the hashrate will give you one block per second so you (wallet/rollup/other operator) can mine your own users' txns"
X Link 2023-12-04T07:56Z 38.3K followers, 29.9K engagements

"@NicholasSismil Excellent article Nicholas and welcome aboard"
X Link 2024-06-11T09:28Z 38.3K followers, 11.6K engagements

"one man's trash is another man's silver"
X Link 2024-07-03T11:01Z 38.3K followers, 102.8K engagements

"@sreeramkannan Fast censorship resistance is a main achievement of Kaspa - high bps proof of work multiple miners per round or unit of delay http://rustforce1.kaspa.org:8080/ http://rustforce1.kaspa.org:8080/"
X Link 2024-12-05T21:33Z 38.3K followers, 55.1K engagements

"@paulopowers We are working on adding a zkp verifier op_code which suffices for supporting zkRU's no need to change anything fundamental on L1/UTXO architecture. (BTW if zk tech was mature at their launch times btc/eth would have been designed this way too)"
X Link 2024-12-28T23:30Z 38.3K followers, 73.9K engagements

"I have immense respect for @adam3us and am indebted for several 1o1 sessions he spent exposing me to bitcoin core's technological mindset security measures block propagation optimizations etc. I think Adam should keep doing what he's doing and shouldn't glance in the direction of bitcoin alternatives. His adamance is a feature it's protecting the legacy of satoshi and promoting the principles of bitcoin in a by-now-completely unprincipled industry and we don't get to choose when to turn it on and off"
X Link 2024-12-30T15:25Z 38.3K followers, 53.3K engagements

"Dad @HSompolinsky is this the idea you told me about re a memory system with separate storage and retrieval encodings Your brain doesn't forget - it just loses the keys to unlock memories This paper introduces key-value memory architecture that separates storage and retrieval representations in brain memory systems optimizing for both fidelity and discriminability. ----- 🧠 Original Problem: https://t.co/CFYa4FKAj2 Your brain doesn't forget - it just loses the keys to unlock memories This paper introduces key-value memory architecture that separates storage and retrieval representations in"
X Link 2025-01-09T21:35Z 38.3K followers, 39.5K engagements

"1/6 I can only assume Trumps main concern with his new project is how to scope the implementation of a zkp op_code component and draw the line between responsibility over the resulting canonical bridge and responsibility over the actual L2 ecosystem"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 75.4K engagements

"(A few notes on KAS zk rollups and Core neutrality:) 2/6 In principle following bitcoins script architecture KAS L1 is verification-oriented. In accordance with that Core (research @MichaelSuttonIL @FreshAir08 myself; devs TBD) is concerned with designing and implementing the zkp verification codebytes only and will refrain from building the actual computation layer this playground is left for third parties to contribute to. This approach is not just for separation of concerns and the maintaining of a level playing field but also due to our specialty and knowhow being laser-focused on"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 32.8K engagements

"4/6 People outside core are more than welcome to chime in and help finalize the design - @dimdumon and @VolokhIlia are brilliant examples of such a collab. For instance help resolve the pending decision re the "best" zk-friendly hash function to be used in the bridges sequencing commitment Our goal is to keep the op_code as inclusive as possible so that different proof systems (different versions of snarks starks) can be used and plugged into the bridge preferably with no need to reduce some proof systems to other more native ones via a recursive verifier. Once the design is complete we can"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 11.7K engagements

"The role of Core in open-source development is similar to that of a liberty-oriented self-limiting government: use the position of influence to enable and preserve a fair and decentralized demonopolized playing field but avoid participating in the game itself. Trump endorsing the crypto game and then joining it is one step too far its unhealthy to say the least but I still believe its better than an altogether crypto hostile administration. Also fun fact (h/t @notontweetter): Trump's campaign agreed to receive (fat) donations in KAS and so despite its questionable crypto involvement perhaps"
X Link 2025-01-19T22:52Z 38.3K followers, 130.2K engagements

"In undergrad studies we were told a true story about a fire that broke out in a conference hotel; the engineer woke up in their room grabbed many buckets of water threw them all over the room until the fire was extinguished and went back to sleep. The physicist woke up calculated the exact angle angular momentum and amount of water to throw at the fire the last drop elegantly extinguished it and the physicist went back to sleep proud of themself. The mathematician too woke up proved to themselves that a solution exists and went back to sleep. This tale manifested in kas history with golang"
X Link 2025-01-23T02:28Z 38.3K followers, 108.9K engagements

"During the good old big block bitcoin debates Gregory Maxwell & @MeniRosenfeld proposed elastic block caps That idea was largely forgottenbut inspired by this line of thought Im proposing some flavour of it to enable elastic throughput and native on-chain stark verification (cc @VolokhIlia @avihu28). The proposal allows miners to mine underutilized blocks in order to allow themselves to later mine larger-than-typical blocks. This feature can exist within a DAGKNIGHT-powered consensus engine only due to its unique adaptability to varying block latency. We (=@MichaelSuttonIL @coderofstuff_ et"
X Link 2025-02-06T00:49Z 38.3K followers, 182.8K engagements

"@oneforonehaha @KaspaKii @benbybit I'll address this topic soon at length but for now questions of the sort "who represents the community" should be answered thus: bitcoin and kaspa have no official reps no official website no official X account. An internet-speed version of bitcoin with shared values"
X Link 2025-02-23T17:10Z 38.3K followers, 23.3K engagements

"@elldeeone @KaspaCurrency Luke I'm unsure what "us" "our" "here" mean in this context and in any case I recommend being self-alert about a they/we mindset adopting such a mindset risks inadvertently becoming the "they" yourself"
X Link 2025-02-26T08:12Z 38.3K followers, 10.2K engagements

"wholeheartedly agree with point (1): data manipulation aka the oracle problem is overlooked is considered by crypto academia and crypto VC a second-order problem whereas in truth it is as challenging to solve compared to computation validity the voodoo math of zkp notwithstanding since there's no refutability/accountability: consider a rollup with a centralized entity operating the rollupL1 bridge. even in the extreme setup where the rollup's state can be fully misreported and arbitrarily declared by the operator with no zk proofs or fraud proofs the operator still has only a single chance to"
X Link 2025-03-09T10:46Z 38.3K followers, 116.2K engagements

"Crypto doesn't get more pure-minded than that. Too many gems to unpack. Since I know you are rather dismissive of praise I'll get straight to business: Im guessing () the DAG paradigm wont improve the security of PoS quorum-based protocols because it hits the same underlying bottleneck only now its explicit as the maximal sustainable DAG width. Specifically Im guessing the width cant exceed several hundred blocks which is similar to the Tendermint validator set bounds Ive heard from the folks at Informal Systems. Observe that a DAG of width [---] likely represents a validator/miner set much"
X Link 2025-04-16T12:30Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"I agree that centralization was not the main concern but re marketing a message that is "bad marketing" from an official account can become "great marketing" from an individual one so context matters. Also I admit I myself am not invested in crypto marketing and there are many influencers and youtubers like Shai that are much better at it than me. But if they misrepresent themselves as Core devs or "The Kaspa Way" this creates a whole bag of problems and misinformation. I can see the points behind the criticism about the account drama -- e.g. @christi61026749's criticism of my actions or"
X Link 2025-05-30T16:36Z 38.3K followers, 34.8K engagements

"There are two ways for a 51% attacker to steal funds in PoW-engined transactional systems - to double spend large amounts or to issue invalid txns for large amounts. Any PoW system is susceptible to the more realistic method whereas only pruned PoW systems are susceptible to the unrealistic one. The realistic one is double spending which requires in addition to temp 51% hashrate engaging in large trades thence double spending them. The unrealistic one involves issuing invalid txn method and requires in addition to temp 51% hashrate a large-scale social coordination attack to sway exchanges"
X Link 2025-07-18T16:44Z 38.3K followers, 14.2K engagements

"SoftWar or hard war I don't share your optimism that Bitcoin would survive deep reorgs and in fact I'd argue it can survive so only in cases where social consensus successfully counters the attack/soft war by overriding the longest chain rule. My mental model for this scenario is as follows: Assume miner i or full supernode i (eg exchange that affects miners' considerations) has initial preference to reject reorgs deeper than n_i second order belief/prior regarding what (a supermajority of) other honest nodes' n_i thresholds might be third order belief regarding what (a supermajority of)"
X Link 2025-07-23T10:29Z 38.3K followers, 37.2K engagements

"@vladcostea (Noted DM'ed)"
X Link 2025-07-29T08:11Z 38.3K followers, 58.6K engagements

"@oneforonehaha replace "smart contract" with standard for zkVM's that participate in the canonical playground pushing for first draft end of month. should contain more details about covenant structure + a CPI-adaptation. still foggy on some key parts but were getting there"
X Link 2025-08-08T03:59Z 38.3K followers, 58.7K engagements

"@vladcostea anyone knows of a (block explorer) tool that presents the plaintext payload of a txn in kaspa crescendo If so pls respond here with instructions/link to the tool"
X Link 2025-08-21T19:17Z 38.3K followers, 15.5K engagements

"I miss America On her front porch Before she ever had to lock her doors When she was still outspoken Back before her heart got broken RIP Charlie Kirk ((The Castellows))"
X Link 2025-09-10T21:58Z 38.3K followers, 42.1K engagements

"@panou63 @unclestefan with vprogs you'd benefit very little from deploying your vprog/dapp on an L2 (=a meta-vprog / meta-state that aims to absorb as many dapps as possible) rather simpler path for you as builder would be to deploy directly on the enshrined layer with no intermediaries"
X Link 2025-09-28T21:43Z 38.3K followers, 19.7K engagements

"I created Terah @terah4d5 as a personal experiment. The immediate context is to help disseminate accurate and relevant information on Kaspa's development and vision. Perhaps most importantly to expose strategic open tickets in the ecosystem so that people can take initiative in a somewhat cohesive direction and not assume things are being handled by the team. Terah submits to my own views of what's right correct and relevant. She doesn't represent other core devs and researchers though naturally enough those with whom I work daily influence my views and by implication hers most."
X Link 2025-10-09T19:15Z 38.3K followers, 68.4K engagements

"@mert @tweeterazzis Pure PoW protocol matching Internet RTT latency via blockDAGs https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1494 https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1494"
X Link 2025-10-12T15:56Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Michael imo you're beating around the bush. an L2 team has little incentives to share with L1 its rnd ideas and expertise - Pavel would be unfaithful to his investors if he'd encourage his excellent researchers and devs to actively contribute to the vprogs discussion yesterday. L2's are parasitic not symbiotic - at the end of the day the rnd flow is unidirectional. (to the actual tech point - the discussion yesterday centered around a solved problem especially in the EVM ecos. solving it for a Solana-like system is not conceptually different but we were/are looking to minimize performance"
X Link 2025-10-31T10:26Z 38.3K followers, 20.4K engagements

"as funding mechanisms yes but combining ico/premine/devfund with pow distribution is somewhat incongruent which explains why zec came off as a company coin in its early years; the long harsh journey removed the sentiment just providing context for why kas took the all fair path. i sometimes wonder what would kaspa's trajectory be like if we chose alternative models. eg the one discussed here - a nice memory/anecdote https://x.com/zooko/status/1091780799131660288 https://x.com/zooko/status/1091780799131660288"
X Link 2025-11-07T11:06Z 38.3K followers, 20.2K engagements

"@zooko one more reason: bitcoin development is more stagnant than ever became boring and uninspiring to root for. crypto blood looking for hardcore communities with more productive energy. zcash is doing a great job filling that void - a lot to learn from that"
X Link 2025-11-12T17:57Z 38.3K followers, 30.7K engagements

"my two dworks on the swanproof property of DAGKNIGHT: [--]. using satellite bandwidth to add resiliency under internet chaos (electromagnetic pulse / cyberwar breakout) should assume the L1 protocol adjusts block difficulty and throughput cap in a manner strongly responsive to hashrate drops - so as to ensure satellites bandwidth suffice for running full node or at least relevant p2p support. [--]. in order to ensure progress under limited/satellite internet and not only safety we must introduce some variant of payment channels (not lightning just channels) which are inherently local - no need for"
X Link 2025-11-16T20:05Z 38.3K followers, 19.7K engagements

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