CEO & Engineer @YourPlace_Inc | Former SpaceX, AWS, Coinbase, IBM, Hubspot

USA
Joined April 2026
*AI shows up* #infosec industry: "aAaAAhhh! AbAnDoN aLl PrInCiPaLs!!!"
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Interview: "What's the big-O complexity of your algorithm?" Real Life: "Claude, my program hangs when I do the thing. Fix that."
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grown men with computer science degrees after typing "plz fix" and hitting enter
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I asked @grok to make an image of @brian_armstrong and @elonmusk having a nice day at the fair And it gave Brian hair 🤣
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I would be a billionaire
Replying to @elonmusk @SPCX100T
>$1000T now appears to me to be in the set of possible outcomes, whereas before I had thought it was not. And the second derivative of that probability vs time is rising fast, albeit from a tiny base.
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Boomers be like, "I'm gonna teach my 40 year old son how to develop good moral character by being Scrooge McDuck and letting them live in poverty That'll show them!"
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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Watch cryptography devolve into one-time-pads lmao
homies i am irresponsibly fully allocated in crypto and i hope as much as the next person that the bunker mode scenario is just an overreaction but ima tell you straight up, your coins going to zero is the least of your concerns if public key cryptography is broken
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Relying on Social Security is building your house upon the sand
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I have never met a person who regretted paying off their house early
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Some days I think to myself, "what a relief that I'll have social security avaliable at 65!" And then I remember, nooo
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I'm decompiling and rebuilding #SimTower into #Rust Runs on #Windows, #Linux and #OSX and will run in a browser Added some quality of living fixes like widescreen support and mass building & pricing About 40% done - #decomp #recomp #gaming github.com/0x9090/OpenTower
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#codex + #ghidra + ghidra-mcp is my new #reverseEngineering stack
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#LinkedIn is asking me for ID verification I don't want to do it Guess that's goodbye
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Ok, hats off, this is genuinely based. Private AI inference with usage enforced through zero-knowledge proofs instead of accounts, identity, or surveillance. This is exactly the kind of weird cypherpunk infrastructure Ethereum should be building.
Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities. Read more below
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There is no such thing as "closed source" anymore
i had opus 5.5 and astra pull the source code for call of duty world at war and port the classic og zombies map over to web check this shit out
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Guess it's time to build a 5090 rig
🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just cut the $200 Pro subscription plan's compute allocation by 50% "In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan" it’s unbelievably over
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Replying to @InsanityBit
I did the first security reviews for Firecracker when we were building it, and it's so obvious that it's the right sandbox for these agents If we can keep Spectre and Meltdown contained, we can keep some agent contained too
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#Bitcoin pushing into 100k territory
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