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Tim Bray

@timbray
61 posts
2022-08-29
News from the Merge front. Whatever you think of the tech and biz angles, this is high drama. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-08-29 View on X
New York Times

An overview of Ethereum's proof-of-stake upgrade, The Merge, which is expected to cut the crypto platform's energy use by 99%+, and some of the risks involved

2022-08-28
News from the Merge front. Whatever you think of the tech and biz angles, this is high drama. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
New York Times

An overview of Ethereum's proof-of-stake upgrade, The Merge, which is expected to cut the crypto platform's energy use by 99%+, and some of the risks involved

A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. Tweets: @timbray Tweets: Tim Bray / @timbray : News ...

2022-05-10
Better hurry, looks like maybe your last chance to buy $BTC north of $30K.
2022-05-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Bitcoin fell ~10% to around $31,000, its lowest level since July 2021, as investors flee riskier investments; Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and others also fell

[Waiting for the big $USDT print...]
2022-05-10 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic UST stablecoin, designed to trade at $1, after it fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there are 18.5B UST in circulation

Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.

[Waiting for the big $USDT print...]
2022-05-10 View on X
CoinDesk

CoinMarketCap: UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling as low as $0.60, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to support UST

Despite Loan From Bitcoin Reserves The Block : Crypto researcher unpacks why UST broke down and what happens next Brian Newar / Cointelegraph : Terra peg mechanism in doubt as UST ...

Better hurry, looks like maybe your last chance to buy $BTC north of $30K.
2022-05-10 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic UST stablecoin, designed to trade at $1, after it fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there are 18.5B UST in circulation

Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.

2022-05-04
Who could possibly have predicted this? https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-05-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

NonFungible: NFT sales fell 92% to a ~19K daily average this week from a ~225K peak in September 2021; active wallets fell 88% to ~14K from a November 2021 high

Is this the beginning of the end of NFTs?  —  1x  —  The NFT market is collapsing.  —  The sale of nonfungible tokens …

2022-05-03
Matt Levine rips Twitter's board a new one: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-05-03 View on X
Bloomberg

By accepting Musk's bid, Twitter's board showed they care more about shareholders than Twitter as a company or as a product

I'm sorry but more Twitter  —  You can tell a simple story about Elon Musk's pending acquisition of Twitter Inc. that goes like this.  Musk offered Twitter $54.20 per share in cash...

2022-03-18
Juicy media-processing benchmarks from DPReview highlight Apple M1 perf deltas between Pro/Max and effect of memory: https://www.dpreview.com/... My tl;dr: MBPro with a “mere” M1 Pro CPU & 32G is the sweet spot. Extra-heavy video *might* justify the M1 Max.
2022-03-18 View on X
TechCrunch

An interview with three Apple executives about the Pro Workflows Team designing and developing the Mac Studio, Studio Display webcam quality issues, and more

Apple's powerful, capable Mac Studio bears the fruit of a listening attitude  —  The seeds of the Mac Studio were planted 5 years ago next month …

Juicy media-processing benchmarks from DPReview highlight Apple M1 perf deltas between Pro/Max and effect of memory: https://www.dpreview.com/... My tl;dr: MBPro with a “mere” M1 Pro CPU & 32G is the sweet spot. Extra-heavy video *might* justify the M1 Max.
2022-03-18 View on X
The Verge

Apple Mac Studio review: compact design with lightning fast M1 Ultra and great port selection but expensive, not modular, and unimpressive graphics performance

This computer is a historic achievement  —  Apple's 2019 desktop release was supposed to be the computer that professional Mac users had been waiting for.

2022-01-10
“My first impressions of web3” by @moxie: https://moxie.org/... Very, very smart stuff, and considers issues I haven't seen anywhere else.
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

2022-01-09
“My first impressions of web3” by @moxie: https://moxie.org/... Very, very smart stuff, and considers issues I haven't seen anywhere else.
2022-01-09 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

The word “server” imo is not very useful in the blockchain context; it combines together a bundle of concepts that are best treated separately.

2022-01-08
“My first impressions of web3” by @moxie: https://moxie.org/... Very, very smart stuff, and considers issues I haven't seen anywhere else.
2022-01-08 View on X
Moxie Marlinspike

How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”  I don't think I've ever actually said the words …

2021-12-06
Dear world: It is perfectly possible to imagine a radically-decentralized Web and simultaneously disbelieve that basing it on blockchain is necessary or even desirable. But de facto, the term “Web3” now means “buy my cryptocurrency” and is thus polluted, probably beyond repair.
2021-12-06 View on X
Read Max

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct “is Web3 bullshit?” questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will “win”

The relatively modest number of people who follow me might find it interesting to hear that this touched a nerve; 100s of RTs, 220K impressions and growing fast. So, DWeb-enthusiast/blockchain-skeptic is apparently not an entirely-fringe position. Pleasant surprise. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-06 View on X
Read Max

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct “is Web3 bullshit?” questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will “win”

2021-12-05
Dear world: It is perfectly possible to imagine a radically-decentralized Web and simultaneously disbelieve that basing it on blockchain is necessary or even desirable. But de facto, the term “Web3” now means “buy my cryptocurrency” and is thus polluted, probably beyond repair.
2021-12-05 View on X
Read Max

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct “is Web3 bullshit?” questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will “win”

And is that even the right question? … Is web3 bullshit?  The hazy vision of new decentralized internet …

The relatively modest number of people who follow me might find it interesting to hear that this touched a nerve; 100s of RTs, 220K impressions and growing fast. So, DWeb-enthusiast/blockchain-skeptic is apparently not an entirely-fringe position. Pleasant surprise. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-05 View on X
Read Max

As Web3 takes proliferate, it's worth noting there are two distinct “is Web3 bullshit?” questions: an open-ended technical question, and whether it will “win”

And is that even the right question? … Is web3 bullshit?  The hazy vision of new decentralized internet …

2021-10-29
AWS growth 39% compared to ~15% across Amazon, while maintaining reported margin of ~30%. Amazon growth ex AWS is ~12%, margin slightly negative. AWS op income $4.883B other Amazon $-31M. So yeah, AWS is generating just over 100% of Amazon profits. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-29 View on X
About Amazon

Amazon misses with Q3 revenue of $110.8B, up 15% YoY, vs $111.6B est., net income of $3.2B, down from $6.3B YoY, AWS net sales of $16.1B, up 39%; stock down 4%+

SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.

2021-08-17
Hey, check it out: @bluesky is coming alive, to be led by @arcalinea. I'm super optimistic. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-17 View on X
The Block

Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative unveiled by Twitter in 2019, will be led by Jay Graber, a former startup founder and cryptocurrency dev

Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative unveiled by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at the end of 2019, has a project lead, according to a Monday announcement.

2021-08-16
Super interesting interview with Hanke of Niantic, which has more experience with AR-in-practice than any other dozen companies put together. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Also: The term “metaverse” has become unhelpful.
2021-08-16 View on X
Fast Company

Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare