Won’t tweet the obscenely large sandwich I had for dinner. Ordered fries too not realizing it came with chips. To my credit I only ate half. But I will share picture of this 75% chocolate bar that I’m eating a bit off for dessert. Came with hotel room. Speaker perk I’m guessing?
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Verdict: good chocolate. If you’ve never been an invited speaker at a nicer conference, be aware that there’s often a nice goodie bag waiting at the hotel. Conference I spoke at a few times in Chicago came with a nice cab of popcorn, jellybeans etc.
Tomorrow I must swag hunt.
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gn wagmi etc
If you’re around, come to the meetup tomorrow if you can (linked up thread), or just say hello if you see me.
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Day 2, gm
What hath the day in store today? Well, for starters, getting breakfast with in a bit, so that should be fun.
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After fun breakfast chat, now catching back half of this panel on “notable security incidents since devcon V”
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I think this the first time seeing in the flesh after years of vaguely crossing paths online.
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Now talking flash loan attacks. Panelist is helpfully ELI5ing it before getting into it.
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Panelist arguing that flash attacks are more in MEV bucket (miner extractable value) than hacks/security exploits. So software working as intended rather than bugs. Just in very inefficient markets.
Though I’d argue algorithmic stablecoins are theoretically suspect too
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Third time I’m hearing this analogy between crypto dev and more safety-first tech fields like aerospace and nuclear. I bring it up whenever I can to exploit my aerospace cred 😎
This field needs an introduction to Perrow’s normal accidents theories
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Interesting distinction: DeFi is new classes of attacks, NFTs/consumer retail is simple, old attacks from 10y ago deployed against new classes of users. Commoditization curve of attacks?
Replying to
Next: Working Towards a Plural Public via Common Knowledge and Designated Verifier Proofs by
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This is at my level. Hybrid tech/social level. He wants to make digital shibboleth objects.
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Nice connection between Byzantine generals and common knowledge here
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This is a very good talk. Speaker Shrey Jain is Microsoft. In general quality of talks here has been very good.
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Apparently the reality.eth module for gnosis safes are essentially superuser bots that can be easily exploited if misconfigured
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Good stuff here. He won a bug bounty by white-hat stealing it from a honeypot safe set up by gnosis and then helping others defend.
Takeaway: Configuration audits should be a thing
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“Everything from traditional IT practices is also needed in compostable governance stacks”
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* composable 😆
Though why not compostable architect too? 🤔🤔
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Next adventure. Standing in line for lunch. Opens in 20min but line is already like 50 people long. Yesterday pulled monarchial above-the-law privileges to cut to front of big line towards end to get us lunch. Today I shall get my lunch the democratic way.
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The more you go to conferences the more you’re willing to shamelessly put creature comforts — food, drink, bathrooms, breaks, naps, sneak outs, introvert retreats, wifi… above both water-cooler networking and attending sessions.
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Vegetarian queue stalked waiting for new batch. I’m at front of it. Queue is not well marked so a lot of carnivores standing in wrong stalled line. Also lots of cutting in line and unauthorized forks and merges that would never be tolerated in my centralized monarchy 😤
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Worth the wait 😇
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I’ve noticed Latino cultures have thoughtful design intentions (queues, bathrooms, signage) but sloppy execution in the design of everyday things. Anglo cultures are the opposite: sloppy design, thoughtfully executed. East Asia is thoughtful on both, South Asia is sloppy on both.
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Considering doing exactly this. Next thing I’m planning to go to is 3:30
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Replying to @vgr
moving from "I'll attend every talk and network all day!" to "i feel like a nap at the hotel. lets do that" is the mark of a veteran
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Collected the minimum viable attendee swag on way back to hotel for nap time. Coffee, tote, large t-shirt in vitalik style. They were out of mediums. This is too big for me but had to take it. Maybe I’ll go to Hawaii 😆
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There seems to be tons of other booth swag available for those prepared to demonstrate Proof of Apparent Interest. I’m probably too old for that game. But maybe I’ll look to score a Proof of Genuine Interest thing or two.
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Pair of views: venue from hotel, hotel from venue
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Back after nap. In session on decentralized programmable keys. He previously did a weird talk at the last refactor camp.
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Distributed programmatic signing. Many nodes hold a key which can be used for either decryption or signing.
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Some big claims here I will have to dig into later. 🧐
Their mechanism opens up a lot of application design ideas, but breaks things like soulbound tokens and eth2 staking.
Big claim is trustlessly transferring private keys.
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Had a nice long stroll around the neighborhood with my Colombian friends and who hosted me last time I was here (in 2016 I think). They run … anyone looking to establish a base here should talk to them.
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Followed by evening meetup with a bunch of people… refactor camp alumni plus new faces. A few of us went to get tacos after. Verdict: as good as LA tacos 👍
And this endeth my Day 3.
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Suricata reunion post-stroll photo. is attending devcon and will be around tomorrow if you want to connect. Suricata runs incubator programs/cohort based courses etc. for startups/scale-ups in Colombia and beyond. I did my breaking smart workshop for them in 2016
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The big reflection I had today was that despite the idealistic talk of developing the LatAm ecosystem, events like devcon will be like flash floods if a few connected people don’t actually place bets by building a base here, making local connections etc.
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The other big thought I had from talks today…
ZK proofs are eating the world.
Every talk is zk proof this, zk proof that, zk proof fixes this, my dog ate my zk proof etc etc
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Hmm don’t know if I’ll have time for this, but Oscar shared this amazing looking vegan restaurant. Any vegans/vegetarians at devcon wanna try making it here for Friday lunch? I have prior commitments for all other remaining meals unfortunately foodbooking.com/ordering/resta
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Anyone know best ELI5 on zk proofs and kzg commitments? I’ve nibbled on a couple but haven’t found anything truly illuminating. Might put in some Study Time tomorrow.
Alright, gn. Livetweet continues tomorrow.
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