One of my favorite posts from @robinhanson: "Spaceship Earth Explores Culture Space"
www.overcomingbias.com/p/spaceship-earth-in-culture-spacehtml
By inventing, trying out, and having competitions between different cultures, we're doing something that's every bit as meaningful as space exploration.
Exploring circle STARKs
vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/23/circlestarks.html
Thank you to @StarkwareLtd friends for the kind support in understanding these concepts!
See also my implementation at github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/circlestark
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?