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Ad-hoc State Simulations in Ethereum with Erigon Overlays

Erigon has introduced a powerful new feature called overlays, enabling ad-hoc state simulations of contracts. This allows users to replay the state with modified bytecode across any given block ran...

Posted by manifoldfinance on August 17, 2024

Rationality Is Self Defeating

Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems Excerpt Many blockchain and cryptocurrency fans seem to prefer building and analyzing decentralized systems in a rational or “greedy b...

Posted by Bryan Ford on November 21, 2022

Optimal autonomous organizations

Imagine if the holders of Chipotle shares had to elect the next new burrito flavor

Originally posted on https://graymirror.substack.com/p/optimal-autonomous-organizations In 2022, the distributed autonomous organization is sort of a thing. DAOs exist. They are not a joke. B...

Posted by Curtis Yarvin on October 12, 2022

High Resolution High Throughput

High resolution, high throughput (pt 2) source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frankmcsherry/blog/master/posts/2017-03-01.md This post is about the second of two issues I outlined a while ...

Posted by manifoldfinance on October 11, 2022

Differential Dataflow Pt1

Differential dataflow roadmap source https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2016-07-26.md I’m going to take this post to try and outline what I think is an important directio...

Posted by manifoldfinance on October 10, 2022

File locking in Linux

File locking in Linux Introduction Advisory locking Common features Differing features File descriptors and i-nodes BSD locks (flock) POSIX record locks (fcntl) lockf function Open file descrip...

Posted by Victor Gaydov on October 5, 2022

Questions For New Tech

Questions for a new technology Given that coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development it is a pressing area to invest in, especially as your team scales....

Posted by manifoldfinance on October 4, 2022

Pricing Transaction Costs

Gas Pricing Notes and Suggestions Carrying over from the issues we have: DO NOT TRACK GAS USED VIA WRAPPER: gas used through a wrapper contract is not accurate with Multicall due to EIP-2929...

Posted by manifoldfinance on September 28, 2022

The Allowchain

The Blockchain and the Whitechain

The blockchain and the whitechain - by Curtis Yarvin “There is one centralized whitelist of registered addresses.” The libertarian dream of crypto isn’t dead yet—but we can see its death from...

Posted by Curtis Yarvin on May 25, 2022

Is Folk's theorem the Blockchain's nightmare

Is Folk’s theorem the Blockchain’s nightmare? source, https://youtu.be/WsrzWuA0xdo Editors Note: Could not find these slides, so these are my own notes. There is more content than this in th...

Posted by Bruno Mazorra on May 20, 2022