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Daniel Hong ๐Ÿช„

@unifiedh

at the intersection of computer architectures and building economies/universes

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Grateful to be part of this group of truly extraordinary human beings ๐Ÿซก @0xSigil da goat

I'm giving away $250,000+ in NVIDIA GPU compute to extraordinary technologists who we believe will make a dent on the universe Meet the 25 winners of the 2025 Extraordinary Fellowship Award ๐Ÿ‘‡



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These newgens dont know what old looks like

ShitpostRock's tweet image. These newgens dont know what old looks like

you might be old but are you this old

kezottle's tweet image. you might be old but are you this old


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Palantir is a lifestyle brand


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The future GDP ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ contribution of these 50 @extraordinary aliens will be $1 Trillion+ From domestic Rare Earth Metal production, space satellite communication, hurricane disaster defense, hyper-efficient photonics energy generation, DeFi to bank billions, technology to empowerโ€ฆ

0xSigil's tweet image. The future GDP ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ contribution of these 50 @extraordinary aliens will be $1 Trillion+

From domestic Rare Earth Metal production, space satellite communication, hurricane disaster defense, hyper-efficient photonics energy generation, DeFi to bank billions, technology to empowerโ€ฆ

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โ€œI have found people willing to tolerate any level of chronic pain in order to avoid acute pain. People would much rather lose slowly over five years than have the conversation that involves a dramatic change to stop losing.โ€ h/t @pmarca


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Ethereum has been completely shut down in Afghanistan. I think we neglect how dependent Ethereum is on internet access. A censorship-resistant "always-on" ledger isnโ€™t much help if a government can just pull the plug by shutting down the internet.

The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data. Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off. We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights. (Timezone CEST)

ProtonVPN's tweet image. The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data.

Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off.

We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights.

(Timezone CEST)


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Cloudflare introduces NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web. cfl.re/4msrZWd


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Fight Chat Control. You cannot make society secure by making people insecure. We all deserve privacy and security, without inevitably hackable backdoors, for our private communications. The fact that the government officials want to exempt themselves from their own law isโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ My fellow Europeans You have to fight ChatControl ๐Ÿ’ช Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats! metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcontโ€ฆ



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๐Ÿš€ Big news ๐Ÿš€ @coinbase and @cloudflare will be launching the x402 Foundation to establish x402 as the universal standard for AI-driven payments. Legacy payment systems werenโ€™t built for machines, but x402 changes that by embedding payments directly into web interactions,โ€ฆ

CoinbaseDev's tweet image. ๐Ÿš€ Big news ๐Ÿš€ @coinbase and @cloudflare will be launching the x402 Foundation to establish x402 as the universal standard for AI-driven payments.

Legacy payment systems werenโ€™t built for machines, but x402 changes that by embedding payments directly into web interactions,โ€ฆ

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Verifying bitcoin, with a STARK proof, on a Rasbperry Pi, in 25 milliseconds, the whole mainnet header chain, 16 years of history.

dimahledba's tweet image. Verifying bitcoin,
with a STARK proof,
on a Rasbperry Pi,
in 25 milliseconds,
the whole mainnet header chain,
16 years of history.

Running bitcoin



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Gemini API Caching causing over 1,000x overcharges! Caches with short TTLs are being billed INFINITELY, even after they expire. My account racked up 1.7 billion token-hours from this bug. I had to migrate my entire project & remove payment to stop the bleeding, after paying overโ€ฆ

stablefluffy's tweet image. Gemini API Caching causing over 1,000x overcharges!

Caches with short TTLs are being billed INFINITELY, even after they expire. My account racked up 1.7 billion token-hours from this bug.
I had to migrate my entire project & remove payment to stop the bleeding, after paying overโ€ฆ

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How to build a startup: >Build a janky product >Call random customers, pretend youโ€™re a big company, get a customer >Call new customers, tell them you already have other customers >Call other customers, tell them stories of how you helped customers Hopefully your productโ€ฆ


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Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them. For example, it's valuableโ€ฆ


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House of Doge, Dogecoin Foundation & CleanCore Solutions (NYSEAM: ZONE) launch 175M Dogecoin Treasury. globenewswire.com/news-release/2โ€ฆ


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it feels like almost a majority of SF gap year startup people are either depressed or leaning in that direction no one talks about it but the culture, social scene, and physical environment are not conducive to real, non-superficial happiness


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4chan is suing the UK government over their speech laws. The opening is quite something.

tobi's tweet image. 4chan is suing the UK government over their speech laws. The opening is quite something.

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Say goodbye to fiat. You can now buy your v0 credits with crypto.

v0's tweet image. Say goodbye to fiat. You can now buy your v0 credits with crypto.

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1/ Weโ€™re using zkVMs wrong. Weโ€™ve fixated on zkEVMโ€‘style reโ€‘execution, when the real win is proving invariants, not execution. x.com/spjoleh/statusโ€ฆ


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Disclaimer: the following statement is strictly an opinion of my own and does not represent the views of any organization Hey David, thanks for sharing this. You're right in the sense that PoS is not infallible and PoW have proven to work quite well enough by standing the testsโ€ฆ

unifiedh's tweet image. Disclaimer: the following statement is strictly an opinion of my own and does not represent the views of any organization

Hey David, thanks for sharing this.

You're right in the sense that PoS is not infallible and PoW have proven to work quite well enough by standing the testsโ€ฆ

Okay, maybe the term proof-of-stake doesnโ€™t clearly represent the fundamentals of what this is trying to achieve Itโ€™s more ZK-driven (ie a โ€œcryptographicโ€ agreement protocol), to reduce what needs to be agreed in the first place. Then there is a simple consensus gadget inโ€ฆ

I have been helping the @DogecoinFdn on Project Sakura, @dogecoin's proof-of-stake transition proposal, for the past month. While I cannot speak on behalf on the Foundation, my personal view is that: we should eventually transition to a system secured by math and cryptography,โ€ฆ



When correctly built, I believe @dogecoin can become the first interplanetary currency to perform transactions between different planets and moons

I have been helping the @DogecoinFdn on Project Sakura, @dogecoin's proof-of-stake transition proposal, for the past month. While I cannot speak on behalf on the Foundation, my personal view is that: we should eventually transition to a system secured by math and cryptography,โ€ฆ



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