Cypherpunk | I write what I like about #Kaspa | Intersecting money, philosophy, and history.
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Jonathan Rivera retweeted
$KAS for 𐤊ids
Okay kids, picture this:
Kaspa is basically a crazy hyperactive playground made of CANDY COINS
In the boring old playground (like Bitcoin or bank money):
- There's one tiny slide.
- Only ONE kid can slide down at a time.
- Everyone else stands in a line longer than a dinosaur's tail.
- It takes FOREVER. Like, "I grew a beard waiting" forever.
- Boring. Snooze. Zzzzzz.
Kaspa playground? OH NO NO NO — it's NUTS!
- Every single second — BOOM! — a brand-new slide made of rainbow jelly pops out of nowhere!
- A million kids can zoom down different slides… all at once like hyper squirrels on sugar rush!
- No line. No waiting. You just yell "WHEEEEE!" and zoom!
- There are goofy robot clowns (the miners) juggling the slides and shouting:
"Yup! That kid didn't cheat! That one paid with real jelly coins! Approved!"
- All the slides magically connect like a giant wobbly spider web — so nobody falls off and loses their coins.
- If someone tries to sneak a fake chocolate coin? The whole playground goes "BOING!" and bounces them into the timeout cloud.
And get this, Kaspa wants to get EVEN CRAZIER:
Right now it's 1 new slide every second...
Soon it might be 10 slides... or 100 slides... or ONE HUNDRED BILLION JELLY SLIDES PER SECOND!!!
So Kaspa = the fastest, silliest, most bonkers digital candy-coin playground where:
- Everyone plays at turbo speed
- The coins are yummy and safe
- And nobody ever has to say "Wait your turn!" ever again 😜
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
well @hashdag is a thinker, then a researcher; he uses #kaspa and cryptography to fight against preference falsification. It would be an underestimate to simply see him as a scholar or an "alt-coin originator."
Very glad that Oxford will host him. Looking forward to bringing his voice to more major platforms (not crypto occasions).
cc: @CoinDesk
P.S. It was also great to meet Ambassador Patrick Duddy!>
The Foundation’s @oneforonehaha signing a strategic alliance in the President's Office of @OxfordUnion founded in 1823.
#Kaspa aligns with a venue that has hosted history’s architects - Albert Einstein, John Ellis, John Nash, Ronald Reagan, Mike Pence, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey - and was among the first institutions to debate #Bitcoin over a decade ago. We have faith that #Kaspa goes beyond a great tech; it will bring profound social change sooner or later.
Beyond a defining brand presence this term, @hashdag will lead a flagship speech tentatively scheduled on March 12, 2026, following the worthy predecessors.
We are positioning #Kaspa to reignite that discourse, arguably as the most significant PoW protocol to grace this podium since.
Broader initiatives including a hackathon for Oxford talented builders in the near future.
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
In the dead of night… it moves.
Red eyes.
Dripping fangs.
Kaspa armor locked in.
The Chupacabra rides for one reason:
To drain weak hands.
Only the strongest holders survive.
@kaspajeets
#KaspaNFT #Kaspajeets #jeets #jeetszoo
🤖 Made with AI
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
In the crypto world, Layer 1 networks aren't just "coins."
They are Digital Real Estate.
Just like in Manhattan where the land itself is what holds the ultimate value, in the financial internet, the ground upon which tomorrow's applications are built is the most precious asset.
But not all land is created equal.
1.
Building on a Swamp (Legacy Chains) 🪷
Legacy networks are like swampland.
We built amazing towers on them (DeFi, Smart Contracts), but the foundations are slow and narrow.
The result?
Insane traffic jams and $50 fees just to open the door to the building.
To fix this, they build layers upon layers (L2s), but the foundation is still sinking.
2.
Building on Rented Land (Centralized Chains) 🏢
Modern, ultra-fast networks are like living in a luxury high-rise, but the land belongs to a billionaire.
If there's too much load?
They just press a button and turn off the power (network outages).
You are fast, but you don't truly own your property.
3.
The Bedrock of Kaspa ⛰️⚡
This is where Kaspa steps in and rewrites the rules of real estate.
The Bedrock (Security):
Thanks to pure Proof of Work, Kaspa's ground is indestructible, cannot be turned off, and has no CEO to change the rules.
The Space (Speed):
Thanks to the BlockDAG, it's not restricted land.
You can build infinite highways on it, processing 10 blocks per second (and soon much more) without a single traffic jam.
The Bottom Line:
When you hold $KAS, you aren't holding "just another coin."
You are owning a parcel of the fastest, most secure digital bedrock ever created.
Now, with smart contracts (Silverscript) rolling out, the first skyscrapers are about to be built on this land.
The question isn't what will be built there, but how much land you will own when everyone wants to move in. 🌍🗺️
#Kaspa #DigitalRealEstate #Layer1 #BlockDAG #CryptoInvesting #KAS #FutureTech
Kaspa is real-time bitcoin, solving scalability is great but not the core value prop.
Real-time bitcoin means achieving in a few seconds the same security guarantees that nakamoto consensus / bitcoin achieves after an hour; decentralizing each consensus round rather than chain quality achieved through a coarse aggregate of rounds.
A clean definition anchor for real-time decentralization (RTD): The ability to sample the honest majority in real-time.
(Note that even fast leaderless VRF-based proof-of-stake cant sample honestly bc the selected nodes get to choose the content of their blocks after they've been selected; pos=select then write, pow=write then select)
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RTD affects: txn confirmation, censorship resistance, secure oracle finality, MEV resistance.
Eg censorship resistance, bitcoin is the most censorship resistant chain, but if 60% of the miners are censoring you (point in reference: OFAC abiding tornado censoring eth miners), your txn will pend for 30-40 minutes. For shady business payments that's not prohibitive, but for a real economy, for an asset aspiring to be at least a king of collateral even if not an MoE, this is unacceptable, esp under economic stress.
Beyond censorship, all things finance benefit tremendously from pow density, from sampling the majority in real-time in a secure and honest manner.
I wont get into MEV resistance now, but having a "conscious" stream of oracle attestations (not price oracles) finalized in real-time qualitatively upgrades the ability to encode informed risk, collateral, liquidity management, which is the lifeblood of defi.
In context of conf times, increasing from 1 to 10bps saturates the latency optimization. But for pow density we need dozens of blocks per second, with the endgame of 100 bps: Under 10bps a 37% attacker can fake the majority signal with probability 12%. With 100bps this drops to 0.3%. Today Kaspa can't accelerate to >10bps w/o harming conf times, but DAGKNIGHT will be implemented hopefully by Q3 at least on testnet, by which we will push for 25-40bps.
The cherry on top: RTD also implies netsplit resistance, as per the partial synchrony framework.
WWIII cyberwar resistance. Hypothetically speaking ofc.
(elaborated- hashdag.medium.com/in-which-…)
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
Kaspa Notary is now open (BETA)
1. Upload a document and sign it with your Kaspa wallet.
2. Invite the counterparty to co-sign.
3. Once both parties sign, the agreement is sealed on the Kaspa BlockDAG.
kaspanotary.com
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
Just a reminder KaspaFacts started here.
Start small, dream big, keep the flow going.
(now includes,
many infographics
articles - kaspa.com/learn-kaspa
videos - youtube.com/@kaspaeducationa…
more - github.com/kaspaFacts
)
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
📗Kaspa Meetup in Seattle 📗
When: April 17th-19th
Venue: TBD
Organizers: @_DrLiberty @realvijayk
We have it on @KasMaporg but we are trying to gauge support and people who want to come to determine what type of venue and if we can turn it into something bigger with more ecosystem players or just have a chill kaspa hangout!
Let us know if you want to attend or if you're organization wants to sponsor or be there!!
We’ve heard the growing calls from Kaspians eager to see a #Kaspa presence in their regions. Having already powered 20+ events globally, we are now in the process of strategically mapping out the #Kaspa World Tour 2026.
Help us calibrate the compass by voting for your priority region below, or drop the specific city + conference name in the comments if your isn’t listed.
Also, let us know: If you were deciding the next stop for the #Kaspa tour, what is the one sign that would tell you, “Yes, this city is absolutely ready”?
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
Launching Today:
WarpCore: ISO 20022 In. Kaspa Finality Out.
Today we’re launching WarpCore (Phase 1) in a sandbox environment for financial institutions.
WarpCore acts as a universal adapter:
ISO 20022 ⇄ deterministic Kaspa logic.
Banks keep their existing messaging, controls, and compliance pipelines - while settling verifiable, immutable financial events on Kaspa at incredible speed, without compromising decentralisation. Secured by Proof of Work.
This is not a new rail.
It’s a translation layer.
Legacy systems in.
Cryptographic finality out.
More to come...
#kaspa $kas #xrp #ada #xlm #iso20022
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
Buying your meal with $kas?
@Chriscrypto_89 is shaking it to the max with kaspas BlockDAG!
Vendor: @WolfysBar
Wallet used: @KastleWallet
Network used: @kaspaunchained
Receiver wallet (tablet): @kaswaypos
Meal: Cheeseburger 🍔 😂
PS: This is officially the fastest TX for a cheeseburger on planet earth and perhaps the tastier one by Wolfy! Prove wrong!
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
I’ve have been thinking a lot about what happened with the Binance Top 100 contest. Yonatan Sompolinsky (@hashdag ) Kaspa founder, was voted the number one independent researcher. @michaelsuttonil was voted the number three industry advocate. Both results came straight from the community, not from an exchange or a marketing machine.
Then Yonatan publicly said he would not attend the Binance event where the awards were going to be handed out. It was mostly a protest against exchanges listing silly meme coins while ignoring this century’s greatest advancements in internet speed digital money. Calling them out from going wayward from the original version of cryptocurrency.
This weekend Binance gave the trophy to the second place winner and never mentioned Yonatan at all.
There is a lot wrapped up in that moment.
Right after Yonatan’s protestpost, @Kaspa_Commons used a simple phrase in a post as an acknowledgment to the potential for Kaspa to find greater use cases outside Cryptoland and as a small dig at the exchange.
Nov. 7
Can you imagine?!
"Tokens backed by real multibillion dollar assets that actually have utility and generate revenues for decades."
@Kaspa_Commons can.
@KaspaKii can.
👋🏼Bye-nance, enjoy Cryptoland and your millions.
That simple tag, “Bye-nance”, seemed to resonate and a small rebellion started. Bye-nance was a direct message, a goodbye to Binance that encouraged others to step away.
After the award ceremony failed to mention Yonatan’s name, the community responded in force. That little pebble dropped in the pond was becoming a tsunami. A huge wave of Kaspians have been dropping the tag and deleting their accounts and Binance is clearly not thrilled about it. We have yet to verify this, but I heard that Binance approached @Kaspa_KEF reps to ask them to encourage the community to stand down. 🤣
But the bigger story is what this whole episode reveals.
First, the Kaspa community is one of the most engaged and passionate groups in the entire blockchain space. The voting proved it. The unified response after the snub proved it. People showed up for Yonatan because he has shown up for the principles that matter.
Second, this was a chance for crypto to take a stand again. Yonatan did. It reminded me that Bitcoin began as a protest against captured institutions. It was a push for self sovereignty, economic freedom, and independence from the usual gatekeepers. Over time, the space drifted. Memes, speculation, and exchange driven hype drowned out the deeper purpose.
Seeing the reaction this week makes it clear that a new wave of cypherpunks is rising again. Builders who care about research, engineering, and integrity. Researchers like Yonatan. Developers like Michael Sutton. And communities like Kaspa. People who want crypto and blockchain tech to mean something again.
Third, the whole thing exposed the true nature of some of these L1 exchanges and classic crypto in general. The incentives. The politics. The greed. The selective celebration. The silence when the results do not serve their interests. Many people are looking at that and deciding they are done.
So let us not waste this moment. What we just saw is a big opportunity. An opportunity to show the strength of our community. It is obvious. An opportunity to reintroduce a modern cypherpunk spirit. It is happening. An opportunity to shine a light on the difference between real builders, real solutions, and the bad actors inside the Cryptoland circus.
The original Bitcoin movement of protest was against real world finance and government control. It is interesting and ironic that Kaspa’s latest protest is against the dark side of Cryptoland itself.
Let us not waste this moment. And even though we are focused on one exchange and their actions, we need to turn our backs on the entire Cryptoland mindset.
Let us start here. Everyone, say it with me. 👋🏼 Bye-nance
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
🚀 1,000 public $KAS nodes, big milestone achieved!
Incredible work by the community and a big thank-you to @RunOnFlux for helping make this possible.
Decentralization keeps getting stronger.
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
NEW Date/Time!!
🎙️Next Kaspa Commons XSpace with
@KaspaCom
📆Wednesday, Dec 3rd
🕔5pm UTC /12pm EST
🔗teapawt.net/i/spaces/1kvKpMW…
🙋🏽Special Guests- Sione Milhem (Founder/CEO) - @cryptosione
- Abraham Milhem (CMO) - @AbiKaspa
Host: @ChadBallantyne
(Rhubarbarian/Kaspa Commons)
📋Topics: Kaspa DeFi, Fundraising to Market Kaspa, Learning Resources
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
60+ Enterprises to be Disrupted by Kaspa tech
#22 Food Safety
Legacy Standards (NA & Global)
• HACCP, FSMA, FDA Food Code, USDA FSIS
• ISO 22000, ISO 17025, Codex Alimentarius
• GS1 EPCIS for traceability
• Regional inspection logs and lab results stored in siloed databases
Platforms & Systems
• IBM Food Trust, SAP Food Safety, SafetyChain, TraceGains
• Farm, processing, and distribution systems run through disconnected databases
• Manual compliance reporting via spreadsheets and PDFs
What’s Broken / Innovation Gaps
• Fragmented traceability across global supply chains
• Records that can be edited or back-dated
• Delays in contamination detection and recall execution
• Counterfeit or improperly handled goods entering supply chains
• Slow reconciliation between producers, labs, distributors, and regulators
• Limited verification of real-time temperature, humidity, or handling data
Where Food Safety Can Still Innovate and Where Kaspa Could Fix This
❌ Traceability gaps slow down recalls
Food moves through farms, processors, freight carriers, import systems, and retailers, but the data does not move with the same consistency.
✅ Kaspa could anchor each handoff and processing event on a single immutable ledger, using its blockDAG architecture for fast, globally ordered traceability.
❌ Records can be manipulated inside centralized systems
Inspection logs, batch IDs, or compliance documents can be edited or overwritten.
✅ Kaspa could secure these records under Proof-of-Work so once a record is written it becomes permanent, verifiable, and tamper-proof for every participant in the supply chain.
❌ Temperature and environmental data lacks trustworthy verification
Cold-chain failures cause the majority of food safety breakdowns. Current IoT systems store readings privately, with no external proof of authenticity.
✅ Kaspa oracles could verify temperature, humidity, and handling data at the moment of capture, signing it cryptographically before anchoring it on-chain. This ensures environmental readings are trustworthy and can be used confidently in audits or automated processes.
❌ Regulators, labs, and distributors work from different data sources
Testing results and compliance certifications flow through isolated systems.
✅ Kaspa could unify this reporting with on-chain timestamps for lab results, inspections, and certifications so everyone references the same verifiable state.
❌ Counterfeit or mishandled products enter supply chains unnoticed
Paper certifications or QR codes are easy to forge.
✅ Kaspa could issue digital identities for batches and shipments. High throughput allows unique identifiers to be created and validated at scale, preventing unauthorized substitutions.
❌ Slow settlements and reconciliation increase cost and risk
Food recalls or quality disputes often stall payments for weeks or months.
✅ Kaspa could enable settlement logic where vProgs release funds only after verified supply-chain events occur. Oracle inputs could supply the real-time environmental data needed to trigger these conditions.
Kaspa’s fast and secure blockDAG could give the food industry a reliable way to track products and safety checks in real time.
Kaspa Oracles could supply verified temperature or handling data, and the network could lock this information in place so it cannot be altered later.
As vProgs arrive, Kaspa tech could allow simple, rule-based conditions that help automate parts of compliance and settlement. Together, these tools can create a more trustworthy and transparent foundation for food safety without depending on centralized systems that are slow or easy to manipulate.
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
It’s amazing that after all these years physical energy is still dumb. We need to interconnect the energy grid with real contextual intelligence the way we interconnected telecom to build the modern Internet. Physical energy flows can’t be ‘routed,’ but the commitments that govern them absolutely can be.
If we had a proper control plane, i.e a standardized decision layer, the grid could coordinate supply, demand, storage, and discharge far more efficiently than the legacy model allows. Since energy is GDP now that compute is the new marginal producer of output, that control plane needs a neutral, stateless sequencer beneath it. The decision logic and commitment proofs would live off chain, and Kaspa could sequence those proofs (via vProgs and DAGKnight) to guarantee ordering, integrity, and settlement.
What’s missing today is a shared digital decision layer paired with a neutral sequencer that makes those decisions trustworthy. Just my thoughts.
$KAS @KaspaKii @KiteVC
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
"Ethereum depends on scheduled slot proposers. Solana depends on a single high-performance leader. Kaspa depends on no one. Its BlockDAG architecture dissolves the structural bottlenecks that keep other chains tied to sequential block production. With leaderless parallelism, miners worldwide emit blocks continuously, and GhostDAG resolves their order with zero waste. This eliminates the most dangerous weakness in modern L1 design: the centralized coordinator who dictates block order and becomes the protocol’s single point of fragility. Kaspa’s throughput scales with honest hashrate, not stake concentration, not validator rotation, not custom hardware. That makes Kaspa the only high speed Layer 1 that preserves Nakamoto-style decentralization while delivering sub-second inclusion and rapid finality. It isn’t just a different approach, it’s a superior one."
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
Calling all developers and entrepreneurs!
60+ Enterprises ready to be Disrupted by Kaspa technology.
#21 - Event Management
Legacy Standards (mostly NA & Global)
• Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, and Cvent dominate centralized ticketing and registration.
• ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems) and ISO 20121 (Event Sustainability).
• PCI-DSS compliance for payments.
• Legacy CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot) and sponsorship contracts tracked via spreadsheets or PDFs.
Platforms & Systems
• Ticketing: Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, StubHub.
• Management: Whova, Bizzabo, Splash, Hopin.
• Venue contracts, sponsor deals, and attendee data managed through siloed SaaS systems.
What’s Broken / Innovation Gaps
• High ticketing fees and payment friction.
• Data ownership and privacy concerns for attendees.
• Fraudulent or duplicated tickets.
• Slow settlement between organizers, vendors, and sponsors.
• Lack of transparent revenue share for artists, venues, and partners.
• Limited interoperability across ticketing, marketing, and financial systems.
Where EventTech Can Still Innovate and Where Kaspa Could Fix This
❌ Centralized ticketing monopolies
Platforms take up to 30 % in fees, control user data, and can censor or delist events.
✅ Kaspa could enable direct P2P ticket issuance through smart contracts, allowing instant, low-fee transfers and verified ownership.
❌ Slow payments and fragmented settlements
Organizers wait weeks for funds from ticketing providers.
✅ Kaspa could settle payments instantly at point-of-sale, with each transaction confirmed in under a second on the blockDAG network.
❌ Ticket fraud and resale abuse
QR-based or PDF tickets are easily duplicated or resold outside authorized channels.
✅ Kaspa could issue verifiable, on-chain NFTs for access tokens that can’t be faked or resold without consent from event owners.
❌ Opaque vendor and sponsor contracts
Revenue shares and deliverables are buried in PDFs and managed manually.
✅ Kaspa could tokenize sponsorship and vendor contracts through verifiable programs (vProgs), ensuring real-time payment release once conditions are met.
❌ Limited interoperability between systems
Event tools for ticketing, finance, and marketing don’t communicate.
✅ Kaspa could unify data and transactions on a single verifiable ledger, creating frictionless links between organizers, attendees, and payment providers.
Kaspa’s future tech (DagKnight and vProgs) would make real-time settlements and automated contract logic native to the base layer, enabling decentralized ticketing, verifiable event credentials, and on-chain payouts for every participant in the event economy.
If you are a developer or entrepreneur, the potential for disruption is great. Just Start Building. See Developer resources in Thread. ▼ #PoweredbyKaspa
Jonathan Rivera retweeted
📢NEW! Kaspa Commons XSpaces!🎙️
The inaugural KC/XSpace will be all about the Kaspa ecosystem and the lending protocol, @AppKaskad with @judaubert (CTO) and @BagayokoJack (COO)
Set Reminder: teapawt.net/i/spaces/1eaKbjmlkLQKX
📆Sunday, Nov 23
🕐1Pm EST
We'll touch on "Why Kaskad makes sense in the Kaspa Ecosystem and why a fundraising round Is needed.” And other related topics.
There will be a Q&A so be ready to step up to the mic.
Will be recorded.
