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ZK but no math | @ coinbase

New York, NY
Joined May 2021
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0/ 🔵 Hello world. Meet Base, an Ethereum L2 that offers a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build decentralized apps. Our goal with Base is to make onchain the next online and onboard 1B+ users into the cryptoeconomy. base.mirror.xyz/jjQnUq_UNTQO…
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john kiefner retweeted
there goes 2 hours of my life
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For every technology game-changer, there are millions of doubters. Tune out the noise and keep building.
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Sometimes I wish our language had tenses or other markers for levels of epistemic confidence. A one-syllable way to say: "I believe X because I have mathematical proof" "I'm underqualified on this topic, but my feeling is X" "My impression from observations so far is X" etc
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1/ Big announcement: we've been working with director Greg Kohs on a documentary about cryptocurrency and Coinbase over the last three years, and it will be coming out this Friday on Amazon Prime/iTunes/YouTube etc. See the trailer here: youtu.be/OXK5XKSxD1E
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john kiefner retweeted
Well, it happened. I accidentally pressed my joke Amazon dash button that orders a Kia Sorento.
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I went to @solanaspaces and can confirm that Solana pay facilitated me buying things.
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we are going to make an incredible amount of positive change in local communities with crypto over the next decade
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Pay Walls are meant to be broken.
Continuing to ship great features in down markets - in this case enabling lower friction commerce with crypto
Now Available: Instant (and free) payments to Coinbase Commerce merchants from your Coinbase account! We're removing some of the friction from the crypto payment process, and adding seven new crypto assets to be used for payments through Commerce.👇 blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-c…
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Please note that any open USDC orders on July 13 will be canceled and users will need to place new orders on USD books. Stay tuned to Twitter for more updates in the coming weeks as these changes begin to rollout.
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We're back with the eth2 updates! In the past month: • Ropsten testnet merged successfully • Difficulty bomb delayed until September; Merge expected late Aug-Nov • Beacon Chain experienced an unlucky reorg Dive into the full update 👇coinbase.com/cloud/discover/…
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