🚨 I was just targeted in a sophisticated phishing attempt that almost got me. But I got the scammer on a live call (video recording below), strung him along, and trolled him with Kim Jong Un gay porn while dissecting his $3k/month malware kit. Buckle up, this gets wild. 🧵👇

How many times would a person be ok with explaining the same thing over and over again...? This is one of the beauties of AI. I've asked it to explain quotient polynomials at least 10 times now, with different examples. Thank you.

It's time for Last Call for my ERC! The standard suggests a new way to encode a transaction hash with a chain id. This will enable things like forwarding a query to the correct blockchain explorer, based on just one string. User no longer needs to be asking "give me the

My secret superpower is being confused. I get confused about ZK concepts, spend an eternity understanding them and then try to teach it to others. We desperately need more learning material for the "simple people" who are not expert cryptographers. Like me. After talking with

Who am I? What do I do? - Freelance developer obsessed with ZK and Solidity - I research, design architectures and hack on implementations - Write loads of educational ZK material that even makes people smile sometimes 😄 I'm open to various dev projects, ideally ones that

Can a (ZK?) protocol have partial soundness? Or is it always all or nothing? Imagine a protocol that has perfect soundness, except for one minor detail. Because of that small thing, the protocol is not secure. Does this make the whole protocol useless? I started considering

Do you like the way I write and explain complicated topics? frankmangone showed me his article stash and it's full of very similar explanations. So if you want a lot more of the stuff I write, go check out his site! medium.com/@francomangone…

I had a fun thought experiment the other day. What if I decided to deploy a Aztec mainnet alone? In theory, there's nothing stopping me. Most of the code is probably open source so I could just take the pieces, run them and call it Aztec. The fun thing about

Wanna build ZK stuff? Don't reinvent the wheel!

Time for September freelancing update! 💸 Once a month I give an update on the previous month's earnings, projects and plans. So here goes for September. What did I do? - Finalized my STARK prover project that had been hanging for over a year - Continued RareSkills article

What the heck is Lagrange interpolation? Just published an article describing it in more details, but here's the short version. 👇 Say you have a few measurements of something. Temperature, scores, money or just points on a chart. Interpolation is a method that helps you

I somewhat understand why people get confused by crypto, and ultimately scammed. Here's me trying to swap some assets to USDC in Uniswap Labs 🦄

Create your own contract dashboard! Or admin view. Or whatever simple interaction you need! Much more powerful than the rudimentary interaction options available in Etherscan.

What a wonderful feeling. I got to go read crate documentation! Without AI! Sometimes AI just fails miserably in its task. When the fifth prompt keeps on using the same shit, it's time to throw out AI and go all-fashioned. Read some docs. Write some code. Refreshing.

Oh look, a new, finalized ERC! Wouldn't it be great to know the context whenever you see a transaction hash? Someone needs to tell you the network/chain where the hash is generated. Otherwise you just have to check all options manually. This standard establishes a way to encode

So, umm, I somehow thought we are the clients of headhunters? Is it normal for them to just ignore us? Is this normal policy nowadays? No, I didn't respond to this proposal. If they can't be bothered to answer their clients, why should I bother to answer them?

A client asked to add the Tron network to their small project. Easy enough, since it's an EVM chain, right? I had written some contracts for Tron a million years ago, and I remembered that part was pretty much like EVM. So I figured it's a rather regular EVM network. How wrong

Oops. But I'm sure we've all made mistakes - who wouldn't have accidentally minted 300 trillion dollars once ?