😎- April 12, 2024

Hope we can see more *STAGE 1* Rollups

If you wait for the news -- you'll be wrong or late.

Easy question: When did the Roman Empire fall?

Answer: 476 AD.

Hard question: When did Roman society recognise the Roman Empire had fallen?

Answer: For most people, it didn’t happen until centuries later.

Why?

This is one…

What a wonderful year!

2024 will be the best year ever

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Stage separation!

Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches

pour•teaux I'd say a big area of potential alignment is working harder and together to support non-blockchain freedom+privacy tools. E2E messaging (with no phone number req), internet anonymity, E2E collaboration tools, secure operating systems (graphene, qubes?), open hardware, open VR...

Deeper dive on L2->L1 and cross-L2 reading. Much more technical than the previous post, but gets into some ideas on how it could be implemented.

There's a lot of value in identifying better strategies for L1 <-> L2 interactions and standardizing them.

vitalik.ca/general/2023/0…

Is Bill Nelson right? I think he is. “Next Stop in Space Race 2.0 – South Pole of the Moon” spaceref.com/science-and-ex…

True. And Starship has more than 6x the number of engines of Saturn V

The Soviet moon rocket N1 (first-stage boost) also had 30 NK-15 engines, creating 4,620 tons of thrust. But they never succeeded