Simanta Gautam @simanta_gautam Twitter profile

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

3 months

We're cooking up some very exciting stuff @AlpenLabs Actively looking for more exceptional engineers that enjoy working at the intersection of math and engineering.

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@simanta_gautam

3 years

@tobi @sama Reminds me of Marshall Brain’s Manna where managers at a burger joint are replaced by AI before employees doing physical work.

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SNARKnado2 in Kathmandu 🔜 coming to you…

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3 months

Fantastic talk by @liameagen at Research Day on how far we can go with verifying over computing. This is the right path to bring arbitrary computation to #Bitcoin & broadly applicable to any peer-to-peer consensus system.

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I’ve been a long-time listener of the @zeroknowledgefm . Thank you @AnnaRRose and @tarunchitra for bringing us on to share our excitement around ZK + Bitcoin and some of our recent work at this intersection. 🫡

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@AlpenLabs

2 months

Hear about ZK on Bitcoin from our CEO @simanta_gautam and Founding Cryptographer @liameagen on the @zeroknowledgefm !

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Pairing verification…simplified. Wave goodbye to the final exponentiation 👋 Congrats @AndrijaNovakov6 @liameagen on the new paper! Very relevant to some upcoming work at @AlpenLabs .

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2 months

Anon, did you really think we’d stop at four rounds? Big announcement coming soon 👀 🦈

Alpen Labs

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4 months

SNARKnado 🦈🌪️: Four-Round Verification of SNARKs on Bitcoin We’re excited to introduce SNARKnado, a practical primitive for verifying SNARKs on #bitcoin that will power our upcoming rollup bridge 1/

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26 days

What an amazing group. 🫡 Starting now in the open-source stage #Bitcoin2024Nashville

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4 months

SHIP IT 🦈🌪️ 🦈 🚢 🦈 🦈 🌪️ SNARKnado is a key unlock for more practical & secure bitcoin scaling. It will power our upcoming execution layer for bitcoin.🫡

Alpen Labs

@AlpenLabs

4 months

SNARKnado 🦈🌪️: Four-Round Verification of SNARKs on Bitcoin We’re excited to introduce SNARKnado, a practical primitive for verifying SNARKs on #bitcoin that will power our upcoming rollup bridge 1/

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26 days

Captivating talk by @lightcoin on Bitcoin’s meta-problem & how to resolve this with validity proofs at #Bitcoin2024

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@simanta_gautam

3 months

1/ We started Alpen Labs in 2022 to build technologies that expand access to global payments and finance.

Alpen Labs

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3 months

Read about our Proof of Work — our team’s early efforts in bitcoin scaling & our path to ZK + Bitcoin. Includes the first public release of our original whitepaper “ZK Rollup on Bitcoin”.

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4 months

Awesome offsite with the @AlpenLabs US team. We have some very exciting things cooking 👀 It’s been awesome working closely with @lightcoin — he’s incredibly thoughtful & incisive, not to mention a stellar bowler.

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Wrapped up my first offsite with @AlpenLabs since transitioning from advisor to full time team member earlier this month. Given the conversations we had and other events that unfolded this week, I'm feeling more confident than ever in the importance of our work on bitcoin + zk.

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@simanta_gautam

4 months

Going to @btcplusplus ? Join us in the evening at the ZK Bitcoin happy hour!🍻

Alpen Labs

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4 months

Come hang out at our ZK Bitcoin Happy Hour in Austin on Thursday. We’ll be unveiling some of our recent work on bisecting SNARKs on bitcoin! Reserve a spot:

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27 days

“The Future of Bitcoin Scaling and Scripting” panel with @JeremyRubin @david_seroy moderated by @bergealex4

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@simanta_gautam

11 days

@Austin_Federa @alexeiZamyatin BitVM bridges work like this: 1. to withdraw BTC to bitcoin, Alice posts withdrawal claim (usually via a small SNARK posted on bitcoin). One week window opens to challenge claim. 2a. Happy (common) case: no challenges, withdrawal is finalized 2b. Unhappy (rare) case: Bob

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@simanta_gautam

4 months

Happy #bitcoin halving! We’re entering a new era where it’s more important than ever to build scaling solutions that expand secure access to bitcoin for all. Incredibly grateful to get to work on this with the wizards at @AlpenLabs !

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2 months

@alinush407 @_alekslarsen Even with fairly optimized OP_MUL emulation (current public benchmarks require 100K+ opcodes), Groth16 verification script with reasonable bits of security is many orders larger than a whole bitcoin block. We’d love to peer review QED’s work on this. Where is it?

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

4 months

Pumped to have @david_seroy on the @AlpenLabs team. David’s conviction and clarity towards building a better financial future is so energizing. He provided us valuable insights as an investor and now we get to work even more closely in realizing this vision. 🚀

David Seroy 🧙🏻‍♂️

@david_seroy

4 months

"Cypherpunks write code". I've officially joined @AlpenLabs as Growth Lead. -- I've spent the past four (4) years incessantly doom scrolling #Bitcoin Twitter. This place (and bitcoin specifically) ignited an insatiable curiosity for knowledge and freedom, which I'm forever

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

We’re recruiting for machine learning talent at Synapse! Tackling exciting challenges in systems engineering, computer vision, domain adapation, active learning, and more.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

6 years

Synapse raises $6M to bring neural net weapon detection to x-ray machines by @lucasmtny

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3 months

The combination of number theory + cryptography + engineering feels truly magical ❤️

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3 months

@0x_orkun @ercwl @lightcoin @citrea_xyz 🫡 Also want to give credit here to Trey at @AlpenLabs who was independently working on the earliest designs for Bitcoin rollups in 2022.

Bitcoin zk-rollups

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3 months

“Unlike traditional cryptography which tends to be mired by rent-seeking intellectual property which limits its adoption, e.g. Schnorr signatures in Bitcoin, SNARK research has remained free and open. This is a remarkable situation, and one that we cannot take for granted. No

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3 months

Following up on our previous post on the rise of SNARKs, we’ve penned this blog post summarizing the landscape of SNARKs today and how we got here.

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27 days

Excited for Fund 2! Axiom has been a fantastic partner for @AlpenLabs . Congrats @allenf32 @Big_Al256 @kitathinking !

Axiom

@axiombtc

27 days

Axiom is seeking to raise $75m for our second venture fund focused on the #bitcoin ecosystem. We are also excited to welcome @kitathinking as General Partner, @jamesob as Technical Advisor, and @adam3us as Strategic Advisor. link to full announcement in following tweet:

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1 month

🤯 🔜

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@david_seroy

1 month

Would be really cool if some team had a breakthrough to get past these limitations! 👀

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

I am deeply motivated by a need to understand myself - computational models of my brain to explain all the cognitive phenomena. Naturally, my interest in creating intelligent machines follows. @SuryaGanguli writes beautifully of the intersection here.

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@simanta_gautam

2 months

@bergealex4 zero knowledge proofs are nothing short of magic. It is a key primitive for: - robust privacy (see zkcoins & look out for new upcoming work from @AlpenLabs @blksresearch @ZeroSync_ ) - better fungibility - better UX (see projects like @zkp2p ) - diverse second-layer protocols

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

@natfriedman Cheap, secure biometric sensors for continuous monitoring of my vitals coupled with an analytics platform. Our bodies provide a lot of signal that, if captured & analyzed properly, could allow for better diagnoses, being in tune with physical health, etc. Ideally non-invasive.

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

5 years

50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 launch. What a special day & and a truly exciting moment for mankind. We must continue these endeavors and grow out of our cradle.

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Simanta Gautam

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4 months

@pumatheuma We’ll share some resources soon on BitSNARK (optimistic snark verifier primitive) at @AlpenLabs — builds on BitVM ideas but reduced challenge/response time. These primitives are still being developed. Atm & some telegram groups are the best place to

BitVM - Smarter Bitcoin Contracts

BitVM website

bitvm.org

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

4 years

Huge milestone!

Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis

4 years

Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science. #AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery:

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5 years

Great work by @quocleix 's team on using Neural Architecture Search (RL controller) to design more power object detection architecture. In the next 1-2 years, we'll primarily use machine-designed neural networks for most pattern recognition tasks.

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@simanta_gautam

6 years

Performance of deep learning models grows logarithmically with volume of labeled training data, while cost of labeling data grows linearly. What does this mean? Exponential cost for linear improvement in performance. (1/3)

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2 months

@bergealex4 @0x_orkun @david_seroy @MarediaShehzan @GuthL Section 4.2.6 here describes unilateral withdrawal from the rollup using merkle proof. “take the hash of the <L2_account_data> to get the account leaf hash. Combine the account leaf hash with the cohashes in <withdrawal_proof>to construct the Merkle root.

GitHub - alpenlabs/Technical-Whitepaper

Contribute to alpenlabs/Technical-Whitepaper development by creating an account on GitHub.

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4 months

🙏 🙏

Waikit Lau

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4 months

When I met @simanta_gautam a while back, I was blown away by his vision for @AlpenLabs in enriching the BTC ecosystem in a secure manner. Our hope was a potential ETF would further separate BTC into its own asset class and halving would create a further need to diversify the

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Simanta Gautam

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2 years

The next generation of consumer platforms must differentiate human-generated content from AI-generated content. We’re on a path towards massive information pollution and our existing platforms don’t seem well equipped.

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3 months

Recent paper in collaboration with @AndrijaNovakov6 takes advantage of this asymmetry of cheap verification over expensive computation for more efficient SNARKs.

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

Had to squint to figure out whether I was looking at a surfboard on a car or just another autonomous car. #roadsofsiliconvalley

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4 months

@benthecarman 🙌 Thanks for coming out to the happy hour!

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

Exciting

Google AI

@GoogleAI

6 years

Announcing the launch of Dataset Search, a new way for researchers to find the datasets they need, wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page. Learn more at

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Simanta Gautam

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3 months

High praise from @jon_charb , one of the most impressive researcher & investors in the space ❤️

Jon Charbonneau

@jon_charb

3 months

One of the most impressive teams I’ve ever met building some of the most exciting stuff in crypto

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Simanta Gautam

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8 years

Can't wait to integrate the Jetson TX1 with our drone. Thanks @nvidia for the sponsorship!

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Simanta Gautam

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3 months

@Rob1Ham CAT and a way to verify SNARK/STARKs enables trustless two-way pegs (-> L2s with unilateral withdrawals) using relatively simple Taproot contracts.

Simanta Gautam: Towards a Validity Rollup on Bitcoin with Taproot

Siamanta Gautam from Alpen Labs presents: We will discuss the technical designs around building a ZK Rollup on Bitcoin to 1) enable more decentralized, scala...

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

5 months

👀 👀 👀

Alpen Labs

@AlpenLabs

5 months

OP_RETURN "Hello world!"

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

8 years

Congratulations to @clarifai ! Excited to see what's next.

VentureBeat

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8 years

Deep learning startup Clarifai raises $30 million by @jordannovet

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

@sama @sama I wonder how much Google is slowing down the rate of creative innovation by wildly driving up the price of engineering talent...

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

2 years

On a similar note: I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get good opinions on the web from real people. I’ve been adding “reddit” to the end of my search queries more and more.

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2 years

@elonmusk Single sign-on with Doge when?

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Simanta Gautam

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4 months

@Leishman 🙌 + few of us from @AlpenLabs will be there

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Simanta Gautam

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3 months

@mhluongo @lightcoin @AlpenLabs We wrote this over year and a half ago. Initial goal was just to gather learnings & expand on our specific design (Section 4), but paper ended up quite long. Despite that, we found many folks that were genuinely interested in better bitcoin bridge designs & rollups found this

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Simanta Gautam

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@bergealex4 @matthewjablack We get this because of validity proofs. A withdrawer shows a validity proof (few hundred bytes with Groth16) attesting to correct withdrawal when making a claim. If the proof is incorrect, then anyone can issue a challenge, and withdrawer must create a P2TR transaction where

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conceived in liberty 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@david_seroy @AlpenLabs @MITBitcoinClub @liameagen @treydelbonis

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@bergealex4 @0x_orkun @david_seroy @MarediaShehzan @GuthL Depends on the rollup state model. For simplicity: let’s say you support an account model using a merkle tree with ~4B (2^32) leaves and 32-byte hashes. Unilateral withdrawal would require ~1000 bytes in the witness.

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

6 years

For startups where deep learning performance is a critical part of the product, addressing this issue is key. Often, more attention goes towards improving model architectures but it should go towards efficiently curating great datasets (esp in computer vision). (2/3)

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

3 years

Congrats @Mart1nSchneider , @MoritzW42 and the RemNote team! Proud investor and excited user.

RemNote

@remnote

3 years

Excited to announce our seed round! We've raised $2.8M led by @GeneralCatalyst to grow our team and build the all-in-one tool for thinking and learning. We're also launching our Redesign Update today - a complete product refresh. Check it out!

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6 years

Employing methods in active learning addresses the exponential cost issue. Mixed-initiative systems for data labeling also addresses this. Competitive advantage of a uniquely strong data pipeline usually beats that of a uniquely strong model pipeline in today’s AI landscape (3/3)

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19 days

@fede_intern OP_CAT + STARKS < OP_CAT + BitVM2 unless there is OP_CHECKSTARKVERIFY few

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3 months

@ipopflop @sxddnt @AlpenLabs We’re finding there may be ways to reduce below 4 weeks as we’re building SNARKnado. Clear tradeoffs in on-chain data during challenge vs num of rounds, amongst other possible optimizations.

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Simanta Gautam

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8 months

@BobMcElrath @brian_trollz @RSync25 Verify off-chain (L2) Simplicity execution on Bitcoin with a general ZKP-Verify opcode.

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Simanta Gautam

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4 months

@fede_intern @lightcoin @ercwl -> It’s great that impt questions are being asked & the debate is public. Kudos to @Dr_DAO_ @rot13maxi -> It’s not great that broad conclusions like ‘bitvm bridges considered unsafe” are being propagated without thorough research. A well-designed rollup bridge is an active

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@bergealex4 @matthewjablack Yes — maybe 2-3 BTC, but remains to be figured out. Would depend partly on how small the zk verifier script is on bitcoin, which impacts how much it costs to respond to the challenge. Room to optimize the verification script by 10-20X, which we’re working on. Also funds can be

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Simanta Gautam

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6 years

@chamath Nice recommendation! Delicious food and great service @BirdDogPaloAlto

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Simanta Gautam

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8 years

Really grateful for the open source deep learning community. Completely streamlines idea to creation for a lot of cases.

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8 years

@lasernite Right around then as well. Currently wrapping up my last week @clarifai

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4/ While the foundational pieces were there, we quickly saw a need for more robust second-layer protocols to make bitcoin more useful & accessible. We explored lightning, sidechains, and several other scaling solutions.

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2 years

@DegenTW_ @ViktorBunin One of my favorites is Greg’s post describing the potential of ZK proofs to improve privacy, expressivity, and scalability to Bitcoin. Since 2013, these proof systems have become much more practical/applicable. “I expect it will blow some minds”

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@lightcoin @AlpenLabs 6/ Our research efforts culminated in "ZK Rollup on Bitcoin", a whitepaper detailing our earliest designs for Bitcoin L2 which uses Tapscript contracts & ZK proofs to support a trustless bridge.

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3/ We found in bitcoin some of the most disruptive tools: a sound, self-sovereign money & a global, censorship-resistant settlement system.

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4.5/ (I suck at threads) Ultimately, this exploration led us to zk-SNARKs, cryptographic protocols that enable private, verifiable computation. We found that zk-SNARKs could improve privacy, scalability, and programmability of bitcoin securely.

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21 days

@bergealex4 @matthewjablack One fundamental difference is that Optimism requires up to 73 rounds of a bisection game that is be played between challenger and attacker to resolve a dispute. In the BitVM2 protocol, there is no bisection game. It’s one round.

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2/ Our personal backgrounds in Nepal primed us to see the need to disintermediate middlemen & lower the cost of cross-border payments.

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2 years

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8 years

Giving a talk on visual attention & recurrent models at the Cambridge Innovation Center on wed! #computervision #deeplearning

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@_weidai working on it 🫡

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@bergealex4 @AlpenLabs @blksresearch @ZeroSync_ @zkp2p Engineering has tradeoffs. Then every once in a while, we discover ways to tame the elusive nature of prime numbers. It fundamentally reshapes the landscape of those tradeoffs. Consider the advent of asymmetric cryptography & its impact on scaling secure digital communications.

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2 years

@anaganath @MosaicML @exafunction @BananaDev_ @hiddenlayersec @dust4ai This is much needed to power the upcoming surge of AI companies. Missing @kolenaIO for T&E, a key piece for model iteration.

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4 years

@AnupKaphle And some fire!

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Simanta Gautam

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8 years

Testing the semi-autonomous build! #drones #mituav

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2 years

@woj_zaremba @prafdhar DALL-E <> @PraxisSociety wen? @sam_thapaliya @mprkhrst

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@norswap 🙏 Some cool improvements on this coming soon that I think will mark a fundamental leap in secure bitcoin bridges.

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2 months

@DiogenesCasares @AlpenLabs Thanks Dio! Excited for trust-minimized BTC yield 🤝

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2 years

@bergealex4 The key missing block is a trustless bridge, not a more secure trusted bridge. The key missing block is inheriting Bitcoin consensus, not introducing new trust assumptions for consensus. We need to invest more in scoping Layer 2 rollup protocols.

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@btc_overflow @david_seroy @web34provenance There will be cheaper txs & vaults on expressive rollups —> more practical & safer custody options for ordinary people over time.

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@0x_orkun Congrats @0x_orkun ! Great progress on the infra & an exciting milestone. Looking forward to the Clementine bridge integration & the iterations on the BitVM-based bridge design.

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@bergealex4 @matthewjablack It must cover at least the cost of the withdrawer having to defend the challenge (among other considerations to be figured out). That cost is determined by how much on-chain footprint is required by the withdrawer to defend a challenge, which is dependent on how small we can make

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2 years

@primalpoly Mughal illustration of a Persian story with Chinese influences! From the adventures of Hamza

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5/ Inspired by Trey Del Bonis’s ZK Rollup design and John Light’s ( @lightcoin ) report on Validity Rollups, we had also started designing ZK Rollups for Bitcoin back in 2022. Today, we all work together at @AlpenLabs in a shared mission.

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@lightcoin @AlpenLabs 8/ Read Full Blog:

Proof of Work - Alpen Labs

Early research efforts at Alpen Labs

www.alpenlabs.io

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8 years

Reminds me of

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Infrastructure for Deep Learning:

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3 years

@sam_kirschner @IanCinnamon ToaSty (Tax Optimization as a Service * to you *). personalized & comforting

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2 years

@sam_thapaliya @darian314 🙌🏼🙌🏼

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@TheGregYang #gregyang

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@bergealex4 @0x_orkun @david_seroy @MarediaShehzan @GuthL Sounds good! DMs open as you read :) The paper assumes several new op-codes, but we can get it to work with only one new opcode (general snark verifier opcode), just haven’t had time to update the paper. It *might* also work with only OP_CAT but not sure — pending more

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

3 months

@TheBlueMatt @peterktodd @david_seroy @kanzure If you post L2 state roots & ZK proofs of state transitions on L1 but keep DA elsewhere, sequencers *cannot* steal funds. Withdrawals can be frozen if the data is unavailable & sequencer censors, so you would need to have a well-designed escape hatch.

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

3 months

@muratkun @david_seroy @citrea_xyz ❤️

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

8 years

I think it's time I lower my exploration rate a bit #senioryear

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

8 years

Just ordered some oolong tea from a farm in China through @VerdantTea Pretty excited :)

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

4 months

@rot13maxi I dont mean to fri, but maybe we can hash this out

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Simanta Gautam

@simanta_gautam

3 years

@LM_Braswell @kolenaIO is building an interesting ML testing/QA platform. Born out of some real pain points we faced while productionizing AI models at Synapse. Talk to @_moelgendy !

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