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@trentdotsol

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

shall we ship some improvements today?

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@trentdotsol

5 months

hats off to everyone at @anza_xyz @jito_labs @jump_firedancer @marginfi and the ecosystem at large for all of their hardwork these last few weeks a special thanks to all of you plebs for being patient with us in the meantime

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@trentdotsol

2 months

@R89Capital place bets that allow you to profit off the most dystopian future that you can imagine. use gains to distance yourself from its most extreme instantiations

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

imagine comparing a controlled experiment, where the entire stack can be optimized for goodput, to a public network where every craterbrain with some incoherent typescript can hose the leader down with traffic that wouldn't succeed if it landed these people are taken seriously?

Tomer Weller

@tomerweller

5 months

@Austin_Federa No one in EF made statements about 50k tps in the years leading up to crypto kitties. Also, Ethereum had a functioning fee market throughout the congestion and you could land a TX with sufficient fees. This is not the same. Maybe it's just time to admit that you've been

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@trentdotsol

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you people are bad at active security incident analysis. sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

2 months

I just really like Solana the system design, the culture, the builders, everything

squatsalot.sol | X

@SquatsAlot420

2 months

I just really like Solana the system design, the culture, the builders, everything

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

good news! we've got some changes that alleviate the quic bottleneck bad news... we're getting pistol whipped by Amdahl's Law stay tuned. the cooks are in the kitchen

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

ackshually... in internal debugging, under worse conditions than mainnet beta is seeing, it's as bad as 5TPS! a patch we're testing takes that to 75kTPS. caveat being this has tx ingest isolated. there may be bottlenecks behind it as per @jump_firedancer 's amdahl's street justice

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@trentdotsol

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i've said it once and i'll say it again... if solana doesn't die as a single chain in a pile of burning asics, i'm going to be very dissappointed anyone who thinks we're tapped out on perf at L1 is not likely qualified to be launching an L2 4

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@trentdotsol

1 month

70%+ of stake is already patched. liveness should be protected

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

1 month

A critical patch is available for mainnet-beta. If you are comfortable building from source please follow the instructions below Instructions for building from source: If you are unable to build from source please wait for v1.18.22 binaries which will be

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@trentdotsol

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how can something that lives rent free in so many minds be centralized?

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@trentdotsol

5 months

if you or someone you love runs a TESTNET node, this message is for you please upgrade TESTNET validators to agave v1.18.11 to assist in further validating congestion improvements keep <5% delinquency, etc NOTE I SAID TESTNET IN CAPS TWICE DO NOT RUN THIS SHIT ON MAINNET BETA

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@trentdotsol

1 month

mainnet beta operators, man your battle stations

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

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A critical patch is available for mainnet-beta. If you are comfortable building from source please follow the instructions below Instructions for building from source: If you are unable to build from source please wait for v1.18.22 binaries which will be

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

1 month

mainnet beta operators, man your battle stations

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

Lmao! Entire solana core dev community was at an off site this week 😂😂😂

CryptoTrainer.algo | NEVER in your DM's

@CryptoTrainer2

4 months

@0xMert_ Algorand has 6X the dev activity of Solana over the last week. Build harder & cope less.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

i hereby tender my resignation, effective immediately

raj 🖤

@rajgokal

4 months

solana is crypto for the tik tok generation

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@trentdotsol

5 months

💯 this! a hand full of us burnt our weekend, some the last few weekends, grinding on the congestion issues. i won't name names to protect the innocent, but there is some great working being done in the shadows, where it's always done

austbot

@_austbot

5 months

Dear Solana core devs, I know everyone on twitter thinks @trentdotsol is the only dev working on this. I just want you to know I see you. I know you all are there. And while @trentdotsol is selling his soul on twitter yall are doing the real work of fighting the borrow checker.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

he still doesn't understand that congestion _is_ an economic bug after the implementation bugs are fixed, if we switch to a more efficient quic implementation, if we abandon quic entirely, there can still be congestion resources are not infinite. underpricing their demand is

toly 🇺🇸 | compressed

@aeyakovenko

5 months

Ahahhahaha. I’ll take networking bugs over economic bugs any day.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

3 months

don't expect the first one to work. labs was my fourth and i count that as extremely lucky

mert | helius.dev

@0xMert_

3 months

if you're in your 20s and you don't have children — quit your job and start/join a startup

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@trentdotsol

5 months

he doesn't know that i like it

toly 🇺🇸 | compressed

@aeyakovenko

5 months

@0xMert_ 😭😭😭. Patches 🔜. Whipping @trentdotsol as hard as I can

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

kinda funny how mad everyone is about ore. it's actually pretty elegant

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@trentdotsol

5 months

tfw you say, "there's no way we can safely ship anything before the 15th," in private. it comes it public like this and makes headlines

mert | helius.dev

@0xMert_

5 months

ETA for patch: April 15th

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

this is a terrible idea but, as the @solana slogan goes, "all of the bad decisions, were the right decisions"

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

PSA: always fix that janky code when you first notice it. it will 100% come back to bite you when you're trying to ship something totally unrelated under pressure

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

which is more bullish rt for reach, this is important

congestion

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

remember, these are improvements to swqos. their impact should scale with breadth of adoption. don't expect a major change in unstaked tpu traffic reliability keep delinquency under 5% while upgrading we have more in the pipe. stay tuned

Solana Status

@SolanaStatus

5 months

The v1.17.31 release is now recommended for general use by MainnetBeta validators. This release contains enhancements which will help alleviate the ongoing congestion on the Solana Network.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

i'm gonna keep saying it until you guys start thinking it, "do not interrupt the enemy while they are making mistakes"

mert | helius.dev

@0xMert_

4 months

just realized other chains are now *checks notes* posting jobs targeted exclusively at onboarding other chains' developers 😭 guys I will give you a hint: this is not the way to do that

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

kinda torn about whether to ask @HardhatChad to re-enable @OreSupply mining so we can evaluate the efficacy of the changes in v1.17.31 🤔

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Evanss6

@Evan_ss6

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Base has no competitive projects and Eth isn't performing too well. Coinbase should have used Solana for Base instead.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

3 months

congrats @0xMert_ !

DEGEN NEWS

@DegenerateNews

3 months

BREAKING: $1.46 TRILLION AUM INVESTMENT FIRM @FTI_US DIGITAL ASSETS ARM @FTI_DA DROPS REPORT ON SOLANA DEPIN PROJECTS @Hivemapper AND @helium

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@trentdotsol

3 months

wait... is there a prediction market up for time to first xss wallet drainer?

Solana

@solana

3 months

Today, we connect Solana to the entire internet. Vote, Donate, Mint, Swap, Pay — use Solana, everywhere.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

a lot of low quality information sources with high follower counts on this site. how'd you people let this happen?

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@trentdotsol

5 months

ackshually... in internal debugging, under worse conditions than mainnet beta is seeing, it's as bad as 5TPS! a patch we're testing takes that to 75kTPS. caveat being this has tx ingest isolated. there may be bottlenecks behind it as per @jump_firedancer 's amdahl's street justice

ELDAR

@EldarDRM

5 months

@Cointelegraph Yet those proponents are also happy to accept those bots transactions (not failed ones) towards Solana TPS. Meaning that actual real TPS after taking them out is around 15 TPS! Things are not what they are presented to be. Solana's 'fake it until you make it' is laughable

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@trentdotsol

5 months

last week i took a break from the congestion of today to get a demonstration of what the congestion of tomorrow might look like. nothing short of remarkable work from the cracked team @jump_firedancer !

CANTELOPEPEEL

@CantelopePeel

5 months

firedancer gossip: done

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@trentdotsol

5 months

they told you all that 1.18.12 includes improvements for congestion on the primary tpu, right? get those TESTNET nodes updated so we can see how they look.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

we do a little decentralization

mert | helius.dev

@0xMert_

5 months

there is literally nothing more Solana than the core lead dev quote tweet dunking the founder of the chain 😂 you would get stoned for this on certain chains and spontaneously combust due to -99 alignment

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

3 months

So how do I use this? pip install?

Solana

@solana

3 months

1/📣Breaking News: @PayPal USD (PYUSD) is live on Solana! PayPal USD stablecoin issued by @Paxos will leverage Solana and token extensions to serve over 30m+ merchants, empowering users with fast and secure stablecoin transactions.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

a friendly reminder to merge your mergeable stake accounts. there are idle lamports in there how do you merge stake accounts? ask your favorite wallet vendor why they don't make it glaringly obvious. it's good for the user and good for the chain

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

from the replies i guess it's not obvious but, this is a _process_. shipping a release does not deploy it to thousands of nodes. that requires thousands of humans to do things. some (rightfully!) requiring their own QA first. your continued patience is highly appreciated!

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

shall we ship some improvements today?

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

this industry has strange success metrics

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

3 months

Fun fact: this is also how we picked values for most of the constants in the code base

toly 🇺🇸 | compressed

@aeyakovenko

3 months

How to do easy research on solana. Make up some numbers and post them without any sources, and someone will correct you

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@trentdotsol

5 months

i dunno how to break this to you, but your private rpc is worthless if it isn't stake-proxied via swqos

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@trentdotsol

4 months

wow. waitlisted for solana house. no respect

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@0xMert_ the bun stays on

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@trentdotsol

5 months

making @aeyakovenko cry in the debug channel. ama

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@trentdotsol

5 months

i don't understand this "put ore on testnet" intiative. the technicals are irrelevant. it's the economic incentives. we've observed and replicated the spamming strategies its mainnet-beta deployment motivated. there is zero to gain from a testnet deployment. pure distraction

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@trentdotsol

3 months

> be me > listen to validator operators complain about stake not flowing to them by magic > suggest that talking about solana technicals on bird app might be valuable (to avoid doing it myself) * years later * > end up on bird app anyway > operators are all shilling LSTs

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@trentdotsol

5 months

ONE! MORE! HARD! QUARTER!

raj 🖤

@rajgokal

5 months

I haven’t been this pumped since the depths of covid lockdowns when we launched solana.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

be like @Tristan0x . optimize your programs before i get my way and the protocol charges fees directly for compute. your users will love you. hats off to the @ZetaMarkets team for taking the initiative!

Tristan

@Tristan0x

5 months

1/ Solana's transaction landing issues are a huge problemo for us running a DApp that handles 4m+ txs/day and requires active liquidity. So devs did something about it, and shaved 75% off our maker order compute which according to @RealSpaceMonkey has 2x'ed his success rate 🥇

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@trentdotsol

4 months

the solution was right in front of us the entire time

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@trentdotsol

4 months

Never trust the robots with the easy stuff

Austin Federa | 🇺🇸

@Austin_Federa

4 months

Never trust the robots with the easy stuff

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@trentdotsol

1 month

they’re fighting over vanity metrics weaponized by seo clickbait use the chain. have fun online

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@trentdotsol

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writing a simd

GURGAVIN

@gurgavin

26 days

YESTERDAY STARBUCKS FIRED ITS CEO AND HIRED A NEW ONE AND ITS STOCK WENT UP 25% TODAY VICTORIA SECRET FIRED ITS CEO AND HIRED A NEW ONE SENDING THE STOCK UP 16% + $VSCO

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@trentdotsol

5 months

apparently i'm following a lot of canadians. how did this happen?

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@trentdotsol

2 months

@rexstjohn thank you for respecting social distancing

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@trentdotsol

3 months

legit idiot, reporting for duty

CryptoISO

@crypto_iso

3 months

$SOL offers zero value and just attracts legit idiots. Fine you can trade it but my lord the reputation of that chain is embarrassing.

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

so i hear your priests have been leading you astray tell me about this congestion

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@trentdotsol

2 months

in proof of work, all of your users are power users

toly 🇺🇸 | compressed

@aeyakovenko

2 months

But seriously folks, you need to reward power users that love your product and derive a value from it that exceeds the rewards.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

i'm hearing you people want updates from anza reply with the topics, 'cause there ain't shit in my timeline

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@trentdotsol

4 months

32.4% if you're still experiencing congestion, tell you favorite validator operator to get their shit together

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

lest we forget... only 23% adoption so far

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@trentdotsol

2 months

chat, why won’t the attendant at the luxury watch boutique approach me?

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@trentdotsol

2 months

"never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" ...unless you're engagement farming

Wazz

@WazzCrypto

3 months

Amazing how Solana went from $75-100 BILLION DAILY stablecoin volume to $7 BILLION daily in 1 day!! Might it be because the data was totally fake??? Like how I've been talking about all these months?? And by the way even at $7 Billion 90% of the volume is still fake

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@trentdotsol

5 months

devnet's down. tell your dev friends

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

3 months

the true limit to scaling an L1 is commitment to early engineering mistakes

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@trentdotsol

5 months

ok so who's responsible for all of this misplaced hype around agave v1.18?

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trent.sol

@trentdotsol

4 months

Instead of retweeting good content from small accounts, just copy paste it and tweet it yourself

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@trentdotsol

1 month

first day back from vacation and i'm going to need another vacation

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@trentdotsol

4 months

you guys are gonna get liam firewalled by jump legal

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@trentdotsol

1 month

@0xrooter cosmos team infighting isn’t appealing to a broad enough audience to be considered entertainment

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@trentdotsol

3 months

@aeyakovenko i'm going to sound like a shill, but @OreSupply

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@trentdotsol

3 months

lol. lmao

JC

@delzennejc

3 months

Solana Foundation has removed some validators from validating Solana. This is ridiculous! Permissionless? Decentralized? What a joke! "Solana solved MEV!" They're just liars and grifters.

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@trentdotsol

4 months

imo the biggest barrier to solana's early adoption was our stubbornly eschewing industry standard language for "better" names. for the shit that doesn't matter, just meet people where they are

joey

@joeymeere

4 months

please stop calling Solana programs smart contracts

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@trentdotsol

5 months

apparently the followers are too left curve for this one it is an analogy to Marchetti's constant in transport engineering. that people accept a constant daily travel time, regardless of travel speed. they will trade improvements in travel speed for longer travel distance

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@trentdotsol

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tl;dr on simd-0096 preliminaries: the rationale for burning 50% of tx fees (not "rent"!) today is to discourage leaders from manipulating block content so as to induce an increase in fees collected. without a burn, manipulation is free as the leader is paying themselves to do it

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@trentdotsol

4 months

people seem to think i'm bd/marketing now. fml

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@trentdotsol

1 month

i would recommend this to everyone

Jacob Creech

@jacobvcreech

1 month

While I do not recommend this to everyone, you can optimize your Solana programs using asm - 4CUs - ~1.3kb total size - 8b of ix data Absolutely wild

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@trentdotsol

4 months

ok so the only reason that 1.18.12 improves program deploys is _if_ you pass --use-rpc _and_ you have an rpc provided with swqos. it didn't fix it by magic. it added the override flag. if you don't have both those things you're in the same place as all previous versions

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@trentdotsol

5 months

remember, this is the shit devs are dealing with

trent.sol

@trentdotsol

5 months

to be clear, the "or later" is a function of testing proving the changes are safe to ship. we're pretty happy with internal results so far. obv those results only extrapolate so far wrt their effectiveness on a public chain

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@trentdotsol

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launching a token here to buy @jitolabs faster ci machines

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@trentdotsol

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and that's where @Neodyme came from

toly 🇺🇸 | compressed

@aeyakovenko

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🙄Back in my day I would force push a 15k line PR with a whole VM implementation and a single word comment, “fix”.

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@trentdotsol

5 months

@samvwaal "rent" has been dead for like a year. it's more like a "state bond" now that all accounts have to be what has historically been called "rent-exempt." that said, all constants are bugs and fixed economics are bullshit. this is definitely in the pipe, but we have hotter fires atm

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@trentdotsol

3 months

i see that compression is the current decentralization

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@trentdotsol

1 month

@ItsDave_ADA well you see you start by understanding that decentralization has several dimensions. then you pull your head out of your ass. then you use emergency contact details to let people know that there's an emergency it really is quite simple

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@trentdotsol

5 months

i now understand how so many of you get your wallets drained. "keypair" really is just a word to you isn't it?

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@trentdotsol

5 months

"every dapp should run a validator" is The Way ™️

pete compute/acc

@ProfitFry

5 months

Why every dapp should run as a validator and use LST like @DriftProtocol . Should make this more common practice

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@trentdotsol

2 months

yo @elonmusk , wen usb-c charging for tesla? this is a deal breaker for me

Tom's Hardware

@tomshardware

2 months

World's first Thunderbolt 5 cable launched, 120 Gbps and 240W charging for $23 — Cable Matters new cable available now

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@trentdotsol

2 months

stay vigilant

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@trentdotsol

5 months

there are several bugs in this ping infra that make it misleading 🧵

crypto_finder🎒🐲

@pythonkid_

5 months

@WMArtings @0xMert_ @R89Capital @trentdotsol This shouldnt look like this

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@trentdotsol

5 months

how much more does solana congestion need to improve before trading firms stop beefing in my timeline?

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@trentdotsol

1 month

imagine hiring a pr firm. further imagine wasting technical staff’s time with low effort fud. the digital golden rule is “don’t get confused” retardio

Clouted

@CloutedMind

1 month

@Flip_Research this is so perfectly laid out with data that you just know mert and toly in the war room with some solana devs and a PR firm cooking up some response thatll probably be along the lines of every blockchain having faulted metrics and how facts arent facts or sum idk

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SVM is a marketing term. no one agrees on them minimum feature set nor degree of compatibility required to qualify