Living in the base(d)ment.
Munich, Germany
Joined July 2014
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We are governed by children.
I was "Fifth Wave" pilled by my friend @jimwavefive many years ago, but didn't think much of it. He was not the type to preach his ideas, but over time i've started to think of Jim as somewhat of a personal messiah. I'm feeling quite @mgurri -pilled. Elite/Nepos should be afraid.
Sadly true, and impossible to reverse with Germany's green agenda and yap-aholic, red-tape culture. The people at the top of Germany (and the EU at large) are the very archetype and creators of that which they hold in contempt.
Europe’s answer to China is always a committee, a regulation, a 5 year strategic plan and a press conference
China’s answer to anything is ship it tomorrow and figure out the rest next week
one side is trying to predict the future the other side is building it live and adjusting in real time, that asymmetry alone tells you everything about who wins this century
Gary Morris retweeted
My heart broke yesterday with news that my closest friend Jim unexpectedly passed away. He introduced me to web3, mentored me through it and kept me in this space with his inspiration.
Jim was dedicated to making this world better through the mission of web3. He worked tirelessly at @jimwavefive, but he understood something most people miss: technology means nothing without people. In a space where connections often feel transactional, Jim made himself available to anyone who needed him. He had a rare gift—he could see the best in someone and make them feel like that quality mattered. He made everyone in the room feel important.
Jim never gave up on you. When you hit the roughest patch where most others walk away, Jim did the opposite. He showed up. He always saw your human side and would never judge someone by the worst moment of their life. I will always remember you, brother.
My thoughts are with Jim's family and my heart goes out to them. RIP. You deserved so much more time and you will be missed greatly 💜
Friends, i have some terrible news.
Jim Cousins (@jimwavefive) passed away earlier this week.
A small number of his close friends, myself included, found out this evening. As did his family.
I personally chatted with Jim more or less daily. He missed our usual biweekly call some days ago, and then didn't return my messages all week. He was always a focused, disciplined and super busy guy. But this silence was very out of character for him.
As the days passed, I became increasingly worried for him. Today I reached out to others who had been feeling the same, and we arranged for someone to check on him.
Jim was well-loved, widely respected, and deeply connected. I can only imagine there are others out there right now who are worried by his absence. While I know that some people may have preferred to give this some time, I believe Jim would have wanted to spare his friends the uncertainty.
I’m not especially active here and I’m not part of every circle Jim built over the years. Please share this message in the hope that it reaches someone who has been left wondering, as i was.
The truth hurts, a lot. But being left in the dark can hurt just as much.
Gary Morris retweeted
We’re excited to be in Buenos Aires @EFDevcon this week to announce our next phase of decentralization with our @eigencloud restaking launch of the DIN AVS.
.@DINBuild has officially launched as an Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) on @eigencloud, marking a major step toward solving one of web3’s most pressing challenges: the centralization of infrastructure.
DIN enables permissionless onboarding for RPC node providers, network watchers, and Eigen Layer restakers, offering a new way to decentralize and economically secure RPC infrastructure for web3 developers and applications across 30+ networks.
This milestone builds on years of work from @infura_io, @MetaMask, and @Consensys, combining the reliability of trusted web3 infrastructure with the transparency and incentives of decentralized economics. 🧵
Gary Morris retweeted
Many thanks to the DIN partners who have been essential to the building, monitoring, and node hosting for DIN: @_0xFury @everstake_pool @Liquify_ltd @nodefleet @ChainstackHQ @ValidationCloud @CompareNodes @nodies_infra @northwestnodes @InfStones @SimplyStaking
Special thanks to @R_I_V_E_T, @alt_layer, and @eigencloud for their technical development, delivery, and collaboration over the past year.
DIN's AVS is live here: app.eigenlayer.xyz/avs/0x115…
@DINBuild will be activating Operator sets and their Lido Staked ETH ($stETH) allocations throughout the week while at @EFDevcon.
Gary Morris retweeted
Proud to be a launch partner as the Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) - built by Infura/Consensys - rolls out its Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) mainnet on EigenLayer, today!
@DINBuild @eigencloud
.@DINBuild has officially launched as an Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) on @eigencloud, marking a major step toward solving one of web3’s most pressing challenges: the centralization of infrastructure.
DIN enables permissionless onboarding for RPC node providers, network watchers, and Eigen Layer restakers, offering a new way to decentralize and economically secure RPC infrastructure for web3 developers and applications across 30+ networks.
This milestone builds on years of work from @infura_io, @MetaMask, and @Consensys, combining the reliability of trusted web3 infrastructure with the transparency and incentives of decentralized economics. 🧵
Gary Morris retweeted
And there’s a conceptual convergence forming.
There is no difference between politics and religion, emotional discomfort and physical violence, disagreement and blasphemy.
Celebrating murdering people for engaging in debate or drawing cartoons you don’t like? You’re in a cult.
Gary Morris retweeted
Big shoutout to the chads at @DINBuild and @infura_io - great working with you. Excited to keep building towards the decentralized future, together! 🚀
🛰️ Web3 Wednesday: Meet @_0xFury, a DIN Provider focused on delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure for a decentralized Web3.
mirror.xyz/0x048aad46e08bde8…
Their background in blockchain infrastructure spans nearly a decade, and they’re helping define the future of trustless RPC.
Gary Morris retweeted
Human beings need purpose. Everyone can agree to this. Human beings are also notoriously bad at creating their own purposes. Hence why people find meaning in work, creativity, etc. When all of these things are stripped away, the purpose crisis will be a biblical level crisis.
A mere 2 years later: Founder makes "the difficult decision" to dip out. Git, community etc is a wasteland. Who would have guessed!?
Gary Morris retweeted
You don't get selected to run on a permissionless network.
You just fkn do or you don't there is no selection.
Just sayin.
Gary Morris retweeted
Is there a better feeling as an Indexer on @graphprotocol than investing to improve your infrastructure/indexing stack and seeing this happen? The Indexer in this screenshot (not W5) is coming for your queries.
Gary Morris retweeted
Erigon 3 is insane for indie operators and homelabbers.
I cant think of a recent client revolution, since the introduction of Turbogeth as an alternative to Parity archive, that smashes the barrier to entry for running your own archive nodes completely out of the park.
Most of these machines are virtual ubuntu servers on contested baremetal with 8-32 cores and 8-64GB of memory. You don't need that much memory once your archive is at chainhead assuming your rpc load is pretty low.
Time to get an Erigon 3 archive node synced on a 1Gbps connection w/Ottersync:
⏲️ Mainnet archive: 2.7TB (w/blob archive!), at chainhead in 8hrs. This used to take a week on E2.
⏲️Polygon archive: 5.7TB, chainhead in about 22hrs (very memory-hungry after snapshots are downloaded). This used to take MONTHS on E2 and other clients.
⏲️Gnosis archive: 990GB, chainhead in under 4hrs.