I sometimes like seeing who will call me out when I’m speaking confidently.
I have to reaaaaaaaaaallly dumb things down for that to happen, in person. Its not even people ignoring its like people willing to repeat the incorrect thing I said!
I only noticed when I was making deadpan jokes and pepple couldnt tell. And so it began.
Oh I got that part, its just in a thread about crypto enthusiasts and professionals we are really wondering what/why 0x is being used for because this crypto professional didnt notice the extremely high correlation while using it in their other unrelated persona? kind of absurd, but its nice how polite everyone is being about it
I did .sol several months back. I never registered an ENS for that name, or the equivalent on Solana. One of the ironies though is that smart contracts on Ethereum and EVMs are mostly written in Solidity which makes .sol file extensions. Funny for a Solana namespace to use .sol
I also did one of the 3, 3 variations in support of various Ohm forks or other trends, many on that list have .eth and a variation of (3, 3)
people just went back to something simpler
it was a fun, and lucrative, trend
now I just have a Kevin as my profile pic, because its hilariously goofy and such an absurd story
different projects, mostly NFT collections, are bigger than ever. rotatoooooorrrrr
you really don't know how other crypto people think?
every interaction in the wildly popular EVM space has 0x prefixed to it, for all EOAs, for all transaction IDs, for all smart contracts, and for several large projects and several thought leaders in the space
the consensus model does not require the 0x prefix to resolve a transaction destination but pretty much nobody knows that (some regional wallets omit the 0x), and it is almost purely cosmetic
everyone has unlimited unique addresses associated with each recover phrase, just use a different one. in Metamask its as simple as clicking the dropdown for "new account".
you have plenty of options for this:
1) withdraw from an exchange directly to the virgin address and never send funds back to the ENS one (except when you want people to know something, like to pump an NFT or token, similar to how state mandated Elon Musk ownership disclosures pumped Twitter)
2) “launder” (obfuscate) once and never look back to the ENS address. Withdrawing from Tornado.cash doesnt expose one of your addresses expose to initiated the transaction, so Tornado Cash will do an internal transaction (smart contract moving Ether to an individual address) with no link to one of your funded addresses.
Or just reset Metamask and make a new recovery phrase with a whole new set of unlimited unique addresses. this reduces any temptation to accidentally send to your ENS address.
you still have access to the ENS name and address. so just use it when you want.
there is no reason to reuse addresses and its comical that being married to an address has become default behavior.
just pin your code to specific versions, the package manager, build tools and linter can just give warnings and case study examples about why the warnings are relevant
Satoshis first bitcoin blocks dont have a signature that matches known hardware. It doesnt matter if it was general processors like cpus or application specific integrated circuits.
And my original post wrote that bitcoin works in trusted environments, and maybe they didn't know that meant small networks of humans trusting each other with private keys off of the blockchain even though that was the only context possible, now they know so we’re just intentionally talking past each other at this point
yeah, I have, there are so many ways to elevate or downrank any altrustic version of Satoshi, or a dead/hiding Satoshi, or an incompetent Satoshi that lost private keys, since its also possible for there to already be an extremely rich Satoshi that doesn't have any incentive to look back
Exactly. Anybody that mined those earlier blocks on the weird unknown hardware was also able to mine on known hardware under another identity.
so
A) Satoshi has other earnings, in bitcoin, that was held long enough to make Satoshi extremely rich, and sold under their normal known identity. While never needing to associate with the other identity.
B) The private keys to the bitcoin mined in those original blocks were sold for cash over the counter for very large amounts to funds with longer time horizons. Bitcoin can operate in temporarily trusted environments. Bitcoin price has tanked every time very old Bitcoin is transferred onchain, so there is no need to transfer them onchain. We would never know.
I was at a mixer recently and talking about digital assets with some other people at the table, I dont even think I said “crypto”, and this person from Amazon bee-lined into a holier than thou crypto[graphy] discussion as if there was ever any confusion. Followed by the distinctly corporate “enterprise blockchain has legs” before continuing their obscure irrelevant cryptography discussion. Of interest to them and not “big ole bad cryptocurrency” not noticing the relative morality of working for an exploitative corporation for decades.
This matches the level of socialization I’ve experienced with cryptographers my whole life.