ebfull

How do I verify the Sapling MPC?

What you'll need

1. Install the Rust compiler. A version from a year ago will work but the recent one is fine too.
2. Download the transcript from the Powers of Tau MPC. (See the links here.)
3. Download the params file from the Sapling MPC.
4. Check out the attestations for the Powers of Tau MPC. (Similar can be found for the Sapling MPC but participants chose various ways to distribute their attestations, they have not been coalesced into a single repository.)

Step 1: Verify Powers of Tau

andyrbell

# use ImageMagick convert
# the order is important. the density argument applies to input.pdf and resize and rotate to output.pdf
convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf

yogthos

#!/usr/bin/env lumo
(ns spacedl.spacedl
  (:require [cljs.nodejs :as node]
            [clojure.pprint :refer [pprint]]
            [clojure.string :as string :refer [join split starts-with?]]
            [cljs.core :refer [*command-line-args*]]))

(node/enable-util-print!)
(.on js/process "uncaughtException" #(js/console.error %))

taoeffect

"Instantly" Understand U.S. Monetary Policy

Well, maybe. If any of this is confusing, see the Resources section at the bottom.

U.S. Economic Policy In A Nutshell

Quick terms (might differ a bit from other sources):

• "T-bills"/"treasuries"/"bonds" (there are multiple types) = a promise (from the US government) to repay an amount of cash at a specific future date, with interest. These are not intended to be used as money to buy goods/services, but are a mechanism for "the fed" to manipulate interest rates, the amount of cash flowing through the economy, and the amount of cash that the government has to spend on things.
• "Reserves" = cash (typically cash that a bank actually has).

taoeffect

Clarifying The "Free ETC" Coinbase Confusion

I do not work for Coinbase and do not in any way speak for or represent them. This post was hastily written and is probably full of typos!

This is my attempt to clarify the possibilities that might be going on, based on various Coinbase employee statements.

First, I should highlight that there has been a good amount of confusion created by the replay attacks going on between the "two" Ethereum chains. So much so that it seems to have confused just about everyone, including me, as to the details of what's going on with Coinbase's ETH/ETC (and other ETH/ETC).

I put "two" in quotes because at the moment it's more like there are "1.25 Ethereum chains" because of the replay attacks, which are causing almost every transaction to get mirrored on the other chain. Replay attacks are possible because Ethereum's hard fork did not take steps to make Ethereum transactions invalid on the original chain. Instead, all transactions are valid on both chains unless specia

khovratovich

// Simple smart contract that allows anyone to send ether from one address to
// another in certain branch of the blockchain only.  This contract is supposed
// to be used after hard forks to clearly separate "classic" ether from "new"
// ether.
contract BranchSender {
        // Is set to true if and only if we are currently in the "right" branch of
        // the blockchain, i.e. the branch this contract allows sending money in.
        bool public isRightBranch;

        // Instantiate the contract.

rauchg

Minimum Viable Async with Node 6

With the release of Node 6.0.0, the surface of code that needs transpilation to use ES6 features has been reduced very dramatically.

This is what my current workflow looks like to set up a minimalistic and fast microservice using micro and async + await.

The promise

rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

m-ou-se

# Download latest archlinux bootstrap package, see https://www.archlinux.org/download/
wget 'ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/iso/latest/archlinux-bootstrap-*-x86_64.tar.gz'

# Make sure you'll have enough entropy for pacman-key later.
apt-get install haveged

# Install the arch bootstrap image in a tmpfs.
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
cd /mnt
tar xvf ~/archlinux-bootstrap-*-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1

markbeee

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	flags "github.com/jessevdk/go-flags"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"