How to shoot yourself in the foot, using
@rustlang
:
You shoot yourself in the foot. Nothing happens to the foot because it wasn't declared mutable
#rustlang
(1/3)
Are you in SF? Tomorrow evening
@recmo
and I are going to walk through the magic of Zero-Knowledge Proofs with live-coding examples showing you exactly how they work and how
@0xProject
is using zk-STARKs to be the fastest DEX
In 2017 I fell down the crypto rabbit hole by going to the very first
@ETHGlobal
hackathon. So happy to still be part of the community and teach the next generation of makers!
👇My slides from today's summit on ZKPs & how to get started with them today✨
1/ We at
@ironfishcrypto
stand on the shoulders of giants — this project would not be possible had it not been for the monumental effort in cryptography from the Zcash team. 🙏
Check out my EthBuenosAires workshop talk on how to quickly build crypto-collectibles on Ethereum (using Magic the Gathering cards as an example) from scratch in under half an hour using
@openzeppelin
😄
Thank you much
@DystopiaLabs
for having me on your ZKP privacy summit!
Here are my slides to give you ammunition in understanding ZKPs, and to give an overview of where the research is headed!
I’m thrilled to be speaking at Messari Mainnet 2023! Join me at the event with
@messaricrypto
@messarimainnet
, where I’ll be speaking about the opportunity for privacy technology in web3 and Iron Fish’s place in its future.
#Mainnet2023
Crypto is becoming a certainty and privacy is becoming a necessity.
For the past two years, I have been working on Iron Fish to bring true digital cash to everyone.
Today, we’re announcing our public testnet ✨
Spin up your node and join the testnet! See you on Discord ;)
1/ After working for forever in silence, we are excited to announce the Iron Fish Testnet.
Iron Fish is a new cryptocurrency that takes no shortcuts on privacy and usability. ✨
📣This week,
@AnnaRRose
&
@_Prestwich
chat with
@leanthebean
, founder of Iron Fish. Elena talks about her journey from Ethereum into ZK to launch a private by default blockchain network.
Attending HackMoney Summit by
@ETHGlobal
? Interested in building DeFi apps with zero-knowledge proofs? Then check out my slides on how *you* can write ZKP based smart contracts today 😊
“We think everyone has the right to privacy in all aspects of life, even if the media and governments want to persuade you to think differently” —
@HeroMinerss
1/ Ecosystem Spotlight:
@Herominerss
, a leading mining pool for Iron Fish.
HeroMiners have been our long standing supporters, privacy advocates and mining experts in the Iron Fish community.
To learn more about their thoughts on Iron Fish and privacy
👉
🎤 Most crime is done with Benjamins, not the blockchain.
There's a reason why most dollars carry traces of cocaine 😤
(Can you find my cameo in the video? 😳)
Inspired by
@Lin_Manuel
, I produced a battle rap music video about centralized and decentralized currencies, pitting Alexander Hamilton against Satoshi Nakamoto.
Watch the full video: 👉
Trailer below.
We're hiring at
@ironfishcrypto
!!!
Come join me, Jason, Derek, and our amazing designer
@skylarlrichard
to build out Iron Fish — a privacy and usability focused new cryptocurrency platform
Yesterday Iron Fish launched it's very first testnet! We're floored by how many are running a full node ❤️
𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜! If you're interested in building decentralized privacy-first tech, check out our careers page! 🙂
1/ Announcing the
@chain_port
+ Iron Fish integration grant approval
Access to a privacy layer via Iron Fish is coming to all assets on 20 chains supported by ChainPort, including Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Base, Arbitrum, Cardano, and others 🙌
Thanks
@alexrkonrad
for this deep dive on
@figmadesign
! Super proud of everything the team has done to achieve
#7
on Cloud 100 list this year ❤️
Also,
@leanthebean
and I have some news... read on to learn more!
Ethereum is becoming a platform for people with 6+ figures of disposable assets to automate financial markets. The players with $800k+ are going to bid up gas so high, no one is going afford to try and mint the next CryptoPunks.
Macro economics look bleak, yet BTC more than doubled in the last year.
Is it BTC that's appreciating against the dollar, or is the dollar depreciating against BTC?
@bhut_head
@ironfishcrypto
About the same as any other L1. However we love the ironfish folks as they used to rent desks in our space in SF when we had it
Ever wanted to run a full node for a cryptocurrency network but found it too hard? For Iron Fish you can do so from an app and get access to full on-chain privacy 🙌
1/ 🎉 Big news! The Iron Fish Node App is now officially live!
The user-friendly app allows anyone to run a full node directly from their desktop. Privacy technology just got a whole lot easier.
Learn more and get started 👇
@a16zcrypto
ZKPs are cryptographic tools that allow one party (the prover) to prove to another party (the verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any other information. ZKPs are used to prove honest computation making them essential building blocks for privacy and scalability.
3/ And special thank you to
@zooko
who encouraged me to join Team Privacy when I started the project. Privacy is going to be the most important topic of our generation, and we need as many people on our side.
FishHash is 100% community drive and community created brand new memory hard hashing algorithm for Iron Fish.
Great to see miner miner adoption publicly stated ahead of the hardfork to activate it 🙌
Love privacy?
Most private way to get $IRON is to mine it, and Kryptex mining pool officially announces their support for Hardfork-1 and FishHash, the new memory hard algorithm for Iron Fish, scheduled to activate at block 503,338 (est April 2nd)
Does the US export cars? No. TVs? No.
The
#1
export US has is innovation and companies.
I’m *shocked* at all the negative sentiment coming from the public blaming the *startups* that can’t make payroll due to the SVB collapse on platforms like Twitter (a former startup).
Iron Fish is the only mainnet launched L1 ZKP-based privacy chain today that has private custom assets, specifically built to be the privacy solution for *all* other transparent chains.
This is why we’re building privacy for crypto.
😄 Check out my Proxy Patterns talk at
#zepcon0
(if you're interested there's an accompanying blog article on the same topic ). Please excuse the sexy voice as I was recovering from a cold 😂 Enjoy!
5/ Bitcoin has about 10k fully active listening nodes — an impressive number! And yet our bet is that we can increase that number even more if we make running a full node as easy as opening a browser tab.
2/ The Zcash team and community are also some of the most welcoming, open, and kindest people in crypto. Special thank you to
@feministPLT
and
@ebfull
for taking the time in answering our cryptography questions. They are truly masters of their craft.
💰 The Biden Administration plans to impose a punitive tax on crypto mining.
As per the federal budget proposal, miners would have to pay 30% of their energy expenses, 'for costs they impose on others.'
Share your thoughts on this in the comments. ⤵️
1/ Phase 3 of our Incentivized Testnet is live! Whether you want to keep your information public or private, that should be your choice, on any chain. This final phase debuts our multi-asset support.
Learn how to join here 👇
open up new version of Slack
see 53 unread notifications. 😱 oh my.
read 4 of them.
...
now 10 unread notifications.
might be unoriginal to criticize a major app update, but this version feels pretty immature 👇
Allow me to be more helpful to
@SlackHQ
customers than their entire support apparatus:
If you’re using the native Mac app, here’s how you disable their dogshit user-hostile redesign:
6/ Our journey has only just begun (testnet launch today!), and our goal to engage with makers, developers, miners, privacy advocates & thinkers (ones that think about block syncing algorithms and zero-knowledge proofs for fun)!
Join the conversation 👉
4/ We want to take Iron Fish where no other privacy has gone before — into the browser! Privacy traditionally has been deemed "hard". Running a full node has traditionally been "hard". We aim to address both.
Phase 2 of the Incentivized Testnet has been up for 2 weeks! Our stats so far:
• 12801 active participants
• 1,623,680 transactions and counting
• >10.5k *concurrent* nodes online
• > 24k blocks
• > 1k unique miners per day
We’ve had some amazing community contributions for Iron Fish, but this one I think about a lot. How crazy that someone made a mural of Iron Fish in my hometown of Volgograd, Russia 🤯
Thank you so much again
@SpaceGemBlog
🙏❤️ means so much. Благодарю.
Want access to IRON (
@ironfishcrypto
) through mining but don’t have your own mining hardware?
@NiceHashMining
now supports the Iron Fish algorithm so you can buy hash power and use your favorite pool to mine IRON. 🙌
More news for the Iron Fish ecosystem! 🐠
@NiceHashMining
, a leading hashpower marketplace, now supports the Iron Fish algorithm! This means you can buy and sell Iron Fish hashpower to mine $IRON 🔗 👇
Great (and much needed) re-branding by Elad:
FAANG -> MAMAA
Hopefully it’ll help dissuade young people from retiring to MAMAA companies right after school
🎉 Big news!
🚀 I'm excited to announce that Socket has raised a $4.6M Series Seed!
⭐️ Read our blog post announcement:
⭐️ Read the in-depth TechCrunch exclusive:
🧵 Thread ⬇️
1/ Excited to see Orya—grant recipient from Iron Fish—to build out a private NFT launchpad (powered by
@ironfishcrypto
) unlocking for the first time ever in crypto history for users to launch their own private NFTs.
@Cointelegraph
wrote about
#crypto
accessibility. We think about this at
@ironfishcrypto
a lot — we have a long way to go, but even at the command line tool level it takes just 1 command to install and run Iron Fish.
#privacy
I'm so impressed with how much progress we've made in understanding our biology and genetics. Huge congrats to
@noor_siddiqui_
and
@OrchidInc
for launching and giving parents more confidence in starting a family :)
We believe every couple that wants to conceive, should be able to do so confidently.
Announcing Orchid, a first-of-its-kind, ultra high resolution genetic testing system for couples.
Multiple transactions in that block liquidated positions on Compound, like this one — essentially purchasing ~$975k of cETH with ~$860k of DAI, making well over ~$80k of profit even with the staggering $30k transaction fee.
🤯🤯
✨ HUGE NEWS! ✨
🤖 Introducing Socket AI – ChatGPT-Powered Threat Analysis
@SocketSecurity
is using ChatGPT to examine every npm and PyPI package for security issues!
🤯 In just 2 days, we confirmed 227 vulnerable and malware packages, all discovered with the help of ChatGPT
Some long awaited changes finally made it to Solidity!
This release features several major and long-awaited changes, such as possibility of accessing dynamic data returned by function calls and error messages on reverts/requires 😍
@rivatez
@dpinsen
Honestly, I'm hard pressed to come up with many publicly traded companies with women leaders. It's a rarity. Looking at startups however, even though women raise significantly lower VC capital, female led companies generate higher revenue 🤷♀️
4/10 I believe the lack of privacy is actually the cause of a lot of the crime in crypto today. The more personal info you put out the better criminals can target you for scams and theft. And that is the vast majority of crime in crypto today (78.5% per
@chainalysis
).
I'm thrilled about this, we are extending libp2p with WebRTC support and compilation to WebAssembly. You will be able to run a full node in a browser tab! No need to install software!
FULL NODES IN THE BROWSER!
This is something I've wanted since before the bitcoin whitepaper.
@mhluongo
@DavidJN79
@CReckhow
@keep_project
That is a very good point. I was struggling a bit for this presentation since it was so short to get the full breadth of what ZKPs are, and focused on ones we have more tooling for. Maybe you can some more general ZKP examples here?
@PhABCD
My banner pic definitely fits that model. It was from a few weeks before I quit my job to pursue crypto fulltime, being surrounded by people I respect after a talk about smart contract proxy patterns. Why shouldn't I use it?
Most private way to get $IRON is to mine it, and in just 5 min you can learn how.
New tutorial on setting up a testnet miner and joining a mining pool in preparation for the upcoming algo hardfork change coming to Iron Fish mainnet early next month. 👇
@dwr
What an incredible insight into Coinbase's extremely unique scaling requirements. Super fascinating how the team dealt with the problem. Thank you so much for sharing this!
We are doing an Incentivized Testnet Catch Phrase Contest!
Join our discord for the details:
And if you haven't already signed up for our Incentivized Testnet, well, don't miss out!