BTC & Kaspa enthusiast | Kaspa Miner & Node Operator | Sharing thoughts on the future of PoW blockchains 🚀 #Kaspa || Not Financial Advice
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Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
Just FYI
It was my idea to build an Wikipedia page for @hashdag around dates of his talk at @OxfordUnion. I believed doing so will be helpful to build Y as a leading figure for crypto, which is something (i think) he deserves and would be good for #kaspa in general.
I have to give credit to a community memeber known to me as “n2sinn” from Australia, who voluntarily built and page, did the submission, and get it published under assistance of other community members.
A week ago... (see screenshots below)
I have one question for you @Avivz78
Do you agree with this description of Yonatan Sompolinksy @hashdag?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
kaspa:native with privacy (and vProgs) would be the most complete network in the world.
At first, I felt there was nothing to gain from your transaction data being public. But now I’m not so sure.
@KaspaAce made some compelling points on this recently, citing Zcash and noting that privacy coins depend on cryptography to prove the supply is correct.
A bug in Orchard existed for 4 years, and
was exploited with impunity. This is the only real case I’ve seen against privacy.
We would need a way for the network to remain auditable and verifiable.
I don’t know enough about computer science to know- is that possible?
kaspa:native needs one more upgrade- and it’s privacy.
The fact that $ZKAS is getting any traction proves there is demand, and frankly I agree.
@WellerOlaf has started the Kaspa Privacy Initiative with this goal.
Please show your support!
(Or tell me why you think it’s dumb)
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
I’ve been looking into Kaspa again, and Toccata is more interesting than I initially realised.
It didn’t just make $KAS faster.
It added programmable UTXOs, covenants and native ZK verification to the L1.
The interesting question is what you can actually build with that combination.
Privacy? I guess it depends on how it’s implemented.
IMO, once you hide the state, you become more dependent on the cryptography proving that hidden state is correct.
Zcash is a good example. Orchard had a bug sitting there for about 4 years that could've let someone mint counterfeit ZEC inside the shielded pool. Their own devs said there's no cryptographic way to prove it wasn't exploited.
The fix? Seal the pool and force every coin out through a public turnstile. They basically had to bolt transparency back on just to check the supply. And that check still isn't done.
That's the part I don't love about this narrative.
With Bitcoin or Kaspa, the state is transparent. Kaspa prunes old history, but the current UTXO set is still right there to inspect and verify. Cryptographically mapped to genesis.
Privacy has real use cases. But for base layer money, I'll take transparent, publicly auditable state.
Don't trust. Verify.
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
toccata added a native ZK proof verifier to kaspa’s L1.
an app can do expensive calculations off-chain, then submit a proof that it followed the programmed rules.
a covenant checks the proof and makes sure the transaction applies the proven result.
kaspa calls this inline ZK.
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
You can tell kaspa:native is pumping, so many people back on crypto twitter.
Big shoutout to everyone who showed up every week these last years, it wasn’t easy.
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
the first vprog on kaspa
Tic-tac-toe is live on Kaspa testnet: the first vprog, a verifiable program with real execution and real settlement, running since yesterday.
You can play it here: vprogs-tt.izio.fr/
(Requires private key and some testnet funds)
We still need to review and merge a stack of PRs, however this is already a working POC. UI/UX was never a priority; the frontend can be enhanced or built separately
I'm gonna work on mdBook covering the parts of the system I consider meaningful and a workshop on vprogs and building apps on top
For Devs: this is the invitation. Play the game, read the code, build your own vprog.
Game code: github.com/biryukovmaxim/vpr…
vprogs framework: github.com/kaspanet/vprogs/t…
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
new update dropped
Kaspa v2.1.0 is out [Link in the reply]
All node, mining, and infrastructure operators across mainnet and testnets are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
This release introduces P2P Protocol Version 11, extracts a standalone ZK SDK, and reflects an ongoing focus on proactive defense-in-depth across the node architecture.
Key Highlights:
• P2P Protocol Version 11 & Chunked IBD: Large Initial Block Download (IBD) payloads (including Pruning Point Proofs, headers, and trusted data) are now streamed in 20 MiB chunks. This eliminates message-
framing bottlenecks and timeouts during node sync, backed by overall safety limits and transfer timeouts, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with Protocol 10 peers.
• Standalone ZK SDK: Zero-Knowledge proof and script-generation tooling has been extracted into a dedicated crate (kaspa-txscript-zk-sdk). It adds support for RISC Zero Groth16 and STARK verifier generation
with dynamic or static image IDs, bounds control proofs against oversized inputs, and resolves cross-platform build issues.
• General Hardening: Comprehensive defense-in-depth upgrades across the node, including stricter P2P message and block limits to guard against DoS vectors, a workspace-wide arithmetic safety audit to
eliminate overflow risks, enhanced stratum bridge stability, and tighter consensus validation.
These structural safeguards significantly strengthen node resilience and provide higher confidence in overall network security.
Bitcoin $BTC took a design limitation and, by necessity, turned it into a design philosophy. It took me a decade to see it. And a few more years to act on it.
Slowly more and more people are waking up to this.
Kaspa Ace 𐤊 retweeted
this KIP-12 is superseded by KCC-12.
goal: dApp doesn't need to integrate browser wallet 1 by 1.
If you own a dApp (/want to), or you own a browser wallet, please read the proposal and add your thoughts (not LLM thoughts, we can do that on our own)
Small, yet notable acKnowledgement of A Special project by @tyler.
