Today's update on the security margins of SHA-256, SHA3, and BLAKE3: hashsma.sh
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Maths as a field of endeavour is turning into the Truth Mines that Greg Egan wrote about in Diaspora. That's also including the questions about whether we want to organically understand things or just have the understanding 'grafted' onto us.
If you had Zcash years ago, please read this. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recover-an...
ποΈ What should Zcash governance look like for the next decade?
π οΈ In this hands-on workshop with @alexisroussel.bsky.social and Jason McGee, small groups will build their own governance models from scratch and see how they'd hold up in the real world.
ποΈ A few places left - apply nowβ zfnd.org/zcon7/
omg the Rust standard library does not come with a deterministic, stable RNG? That's dumb.
What a glowing farewell for Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, and well-earned: www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...
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sheesh!
(Update)π‘οΈ What technical threats should Zcash be preparing for?
π£οΈ @daira.bsky.social, @defusesec.bsky.social,
@zooko2.bsky.social, Dev Ojha & Arya on where Zcash's defenses stand and where more investment is needed. Moderated by Andrew Miller.
π Oct 27β29, 2026, CancΓΊn
Apply now: zfnd.org/zcon7/
Me: benchmarking secure hash functions Anthropic:
Come one, come all to the next Zcash Crosslink Workshop! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...
Play long-term, positive-sum games with long-term, positive-sum people.
reading this skeet was such a rollercoaster nice :3
So apparently there's some app on Solana that has been giving people tokens backed by ZEC, and apparently there are tens of thousands of people who chose to receive this reward. Well now there's a whole HOWTO for those folks, thanks to bentertainer and ZecHub: zechub.wiki/using-zcash/...
Zcash β Nym: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/revised-ny...
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I'm looking forward to when I can use a cheap distilled Chinese flash model that talks just like Opus 5.5.
SIMD good
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