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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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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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Day 3, gm. What does the day hold? Conferencin’ energy starting to fade a bit, so gonna pace myself more today. The Hilton here has the best breakfast buffet btw.
No responses to my last tweet asking for best ELI5s on zk proofs and kzg commitments, so random googling it is.
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Flattered, thank you Phil. I aspire to Bruce’s model of eminence grise-ing in my next decade, where I get invited to do some gentle keynote scolding and low-key live meme-coining at zeitgeisty conferences in nice places 😇 #goals
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This Venkat thread reminds me of the kind of things @bruces would write from cypherpunk fairs in the 90s. twitter.com/vgr/status/157…
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Many people seem vaguely surprised to see me at a crypto conference. While it hasn’t been a strong thread of my public writing, it has been a huge part of my cozyweb conversations with friends. But lemme toss in links to a few of the things I *have* posted in public…
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1. Blockchains never forget (2017): ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blo
2. Bloodcoin (talk at Refactor Camp 2018), video: youtube.com/watch?v=ow43pF
3. Magic Beans (on NFTs, 2021) studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/magic-beans
4. Twitter mega-thread on my Web3 explorations (2021)
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Gonna make a thread of my ongoing slow journey (emigration? perhaps…) to Web3, along with my covered wagon full of Web1 and Web2 stuff. Including NFTs, DAOs etc. So if those topics annoy you, you can mute this thread.
Show this thread
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Also, the penultimate Refactor Camp, 2018, in Austin, was crypto themed, and had a bunch of excellent talks, all of which are on YouTube. I guess I can take frontman credit for that though others (, , )
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And finally, not by me, but wrote one of the best speculative economic futures articles, The Blockchain Man (ref to The Organization Man by William Whyte) on ribbonfarm.
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Okay, commercial break over, and I guess I should start thinking about heading over to the Agora. I have a couple of things on the calendar, but am otherwise at a loose end, so will probably be hanging out by 4th floor terrace area between talks, if anyone wants to find me
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First talk: Why Account Abstraction is a Game-Changer for Dapps by
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Account abstraction: Signer != Account
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L2 AA gets past limitations of best L1 support with EIP-4337. Starknet eg.
“Improves UX by 10x”… though it looks like tradeoff is 10x complex tryst stack?
Argent first wallet to support native AA
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Multicalls = can bundle series of tx as one without lots of approval clicks
Can have “social recovery” instead of seed phrase. Because account is a contract that can be programmed.
Power outage… coming back on now.
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Ok gonna go wander to see how outage is being handled
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Only top floor affected. Tripped breaker I guess. Will go somewhere else.
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We’re back… and speaker was not the one listed in program. Just caught kast slide of the AA talk.
Next, Borderless Africa by from Ethiopia
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