AI reminds me of that.

When I was 6 years old, in 1979, my dad brought home a computer that he was building at his employer, Texas Instruments. Little 6-year-old me immediately fell in love with it. It was magic. Unlimited possibilities. It made me into a wizard. I never got over that feeling.

I love moving walkways.

principled actors can coordinate acausally, while actors that merely align based on loyalty must negotiate

I would also love to see the results from all other sorts of machines and operating systems. Zcasher John tried it on a teeny little Raspberry Pi but one of the benchmarks failed to complete. :-/ But it'll probably work on most machines/OSes!

Y'all got your hands on one of them shiny new Apple Silicon M5's yet? Please run this script: github.com/zooko/bench-.... It should produce output like this: github.com/zooko/bench-.... Post your results!

I can never remember where I left my reading glasses or my car keys, but someone just mentioned “To Kill a Mockingbird” to me and I somehow knew exactly where it was in my Wall of Books.

It's pretty cool that Jeff Dean independently came up with this same rough rule-of-thumb of 10X that Brian and I did. :-)

Huh! Interesting idea from @JeffDean: design your system to scale by 5–10X but not more. This reminds me that Brian Warner and I came up with the rule of thumb that once your system scales 10X then you'll hit an unknown-unknown: something will break that you hadn't thought of. x.com/olshansky/st...

It's pretty cool that Jeff Dean independently came up with this same rough rule-of-thumb of 10X that Brian and I did. :-)

Huh! Interesting idea from @JeffDean: design your system to scale by 5–10X but not more. This reminds me that Brian Warner and I came up with the rule of thumb that once your system scales 10X then you'll hit an unknown-unknown: something will break that you hadn't thought of. x.com/olshansky/st...

Context: bsky.app/profile/zook...

"Hello, World" from the Bootstrap Board The deal is signed. The governance dispute is resolved. We can now focus on execution. This post introduces the Bootstrap board to the community and outlines our near-term priorities. What Bootstrap...

First post by the Bootstrap Board after the split between them and Zcash Open Development Labs (ZODL): forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/hello-worl...

Hoot 0.8.0 released! - Scheme in WASM https://lobste.rs/s/uclhr1 #lisp #wasm

THIS JUST IN: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives Girl Scouts of America until next Friday to "center lethality" in next-generation scouting curriculum, or be designated a "supply chain risk", prohibiting the US military & contractors from buying or consuming Girl Scout Cookies.

just like in Alien

Proposed NSM update ("Long term security") The NSM was previously referred to as the Zcash Posterity Fund and the Zcash Sustainability Fund. It doesn’t need another name change. If the word “burn” is creating confusion, we can instead describe...

Shielded Labs's position: strengthening Zcash's long-term sustainability and capture-resistance is *urgent*, because we have an opportunity to attract long-term investors *now*, and long-term investors are attracted by certainty and sustainability. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/proposed-n...

Zcash Ecosystem Digest | March 1st

🔸Zodl Wallet Goes Live in App Store
🔸Zcash Foundation Q4 2025 Report
🔸NU7 Polling Results: Where We Go From Here
🔸CipherPay, New Payment Processor for Zcash

Full Digest + Network Stats:

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& using same double-speak as NSA used, Trump's Pentagon would likely testify to Congress & public, under oath, that private comms of US citizens not "collected" - even if intercepted, decoded, stored, read by AI, & subset forwarded to human analysts - based on a peculiar deceptive def of "collected"

Is it weird to say that coding with agents feels more...organic?

It feels more like tending a garden than building a house. You plant seeds (write specs), water them (poke it along), pull weeds (refactor messes).

It's a different skillset but very informed by existing knowledge.

This has been your regularly-scheduled Zooko Grocery Prices Tweet.

(Ok, so it is not currently as great as it could be and should be, Costco hotdogs notwithstanding.)

I unironically believe that cheap stuff, and especially cheap food, is one of the best things in the universe and part of what makes America great.

Newsflash! Hot dogs are still $1.50 at Costco

zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ on X: "@ThorTorrens Sometimes I see people complaining about what the Algorithm shows them, or the fact that the Algorithm gets changed without their control, and I wish I could just give them a link where they could browse what I see. What I see is good, not bad!" / X @ThorTorrens Sometimes I see people complaining about what the Algorithm shows them, or the fact that the Algorithm gets changed without their control, and I wish I could just give them a link where they could browse what I see. What I see is good, not bad!

Hey bsky/atproto peeps. Can we haz a special kind of link which lets you browse bsky “through someone else’s eyes”? Like, see what they see when they browse?

x.com/zooko/status...

Futarchy as Trustless Joint Ownership | Umbra Research Futarchy as Trustless Joint Ownership

For some reason I hate the word "futarchy". (It means: you're going to be governed by the future!?) So I'm going to call them "Decision Markets". But anyway, this blog post does a good job of explaining the rationale and walking through an example: www.umbraresearch.xyz/writings/fut... HT Sacha

New rule: if you send me junk mail, it has to be flammable. I need more paper for starting fires in my wood-burning stove.

Zcash Foundation Q4 2025 Report The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Our Q4 2025 report provides an overview of the work undertaken by ZF’s engineering t...

Your regularly scheduled transparency report from The Zcash Foundation is out: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-foun...

For those who don't know, there are also already multiple other independent and well-funded Zcash orgs, including the Zcash Foundation and my employer—Shielded Labs (shieldedlabs.net/)%E2%80%94plus several non-independent orgs. This is one of Zcash's many underrated superpowers.

A message from the Bootstrap board The Bootstrap Board is pleased to confirm that a resolution has been reached regarding the governance of the Bootstrap Org and the future of the Zashi assets previously developed by the Electric Coin ...

Hooray! Peace treaty achieved. One Zcash org has split into two completely independent orgs supporting and advancing Zcash in different ways. :-) forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-message-...