hawk777
Recent work on Veridium has not changed character. It continues to be brutally difficult, with problems having subtle causes that are hard to diagnose. Here is the short version of the recent progress: Switching from…
I'm feeling too exhausted and overworked to post updates lately. That said, I write this one tonight. I hope someone out there enjoys reading it. I'm entirely convinced that Veridium will have more firsts to boast than…
My last post mentioned the need to harden the VDF, Identity, and Ledger arithmetizations. I specifically expressed my concern that gate count inflation could destroy the 100ms verifier budget and/or blow up the…
It might work. That's why I'm here. Hopefully, you're here to do more than make proclamations of doom. That said, your opinion is the natural reaction for anyone who understands how most cryptocurrencies and their…
Hi everyone, I'm back with results from the dual-PCS compression work. The Veridium gossip certificate has been stabilized at 20.70 KB. The core breakthrough was decoupling the security parameters of the gossip layer…
Veridium almost came to a full stop today. I thought that recursive STARK aggregation would significantly compress the ledger under TensorPCS. Instead, I saw the payload shoot from 10 KB up to sizes that would never…
I'm proud to announce that today I finalized the STARK field alignment. I got beat up pretty bad on this. I couldn't figure out how to get the trait implementations to play nicely together. In the end, using a…
Progress Update: Today I finally decided on a name for the project. Then, I registered domains and secured accounts on various platforms to ensure future availability. Now, I'm proud to announce: Veridium Network by…
Hi, everyone. Progress update: Today was a productive mix of coding, generating mermaid charts, and policy planning. I also promoted my whitepaper to v3 to reflect the new binary ledger format. Today's applied research…
Thanks for the warm welcome! Even just a little external attention on this is enough to keep me going right now. It means a lot. Your point about these basement windows around me is well taken. Security is hard.…
Hey folks! Just kicking off my journey as a newbie here and wanted to say hi with a little intro. I used to hang around this place back in the day, like late 2010. I was totally hooked on Bitcoin and spent days diving…