Overheard date in Brooklyn last night
Him: "I work on such big data sets I had to get a new computer so Excel could keep up."
Her: "If it fits in Excel, it's not a big data set."
Austin Federa | 🇺🇸
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Austin Federa | 🇺🇸
@Austin_Federa
cofounder of @doublezero | increase bandwidth reduce latency | be kind | fmr strategy @solana | Everything's Computer
- Replying to @Austin_Federahell hath no fury like a women in tech
- #Solana devs, join @toly, @buffalu__, @dadadadaffy, and @leolukde tomorrow at 12pm ET for a technical conversation on network performance.
- PSA: Solana mainnet beta fell out of consensus and the validator network couldn't recover.
- Replying to @toly and @frankdegods
- Some Personal News: After four years on the Solana project, I have taken the leap and cofounded @doublezero – a new protocol setting out to solve a problem at the heart of the internet, and at the heart of high performance blockchain: global, base layer connectivity. It's notAnnouncing the DoubleZero protocol and network – a decentralized framework for creating and managing high-performance permissionless networks. DoubleZero is not a new L1 or L2, it is a new global base layer network – an N1 – optimized for blockchain and distributed systems. 1/5
- Got approved (not preapproved) for a mortgage on a house by my primary bank. Get a call after contract is signed that their head of risk has decided to revoke the approval because I work for @SolanaFndn and we "do crypto selling" Explained we are not an exchange or issuer. We're
tech and crypto founders: keep telling your stories of debanking. blot out the sun. don't let the critics pretend it didn't happen. don't let them marginalize you because you're not the "perfect" victim. make it impossible for them to deny. - The Solana network is, once again, being battle tested with a huge influx of traffic. Bug fixes are rolling out over the next week, and things will start to improve. But there is no silver bullet and no "finished" – we expect demand will continue to increase, which will require
- What an unbelievable day. I'm thrilled I can finally share what a skunkworks group of engineers have been working on. Introducing Solana Mobile Stack – the word's first open-source Android framework for web3 development. Oh, yeah, and Saga. A flagship web3 Android phone.
- I’ve been so impressed with @weremeow and the @JupiterExchange team with their practical and honest communication in the run up to next week. It’s a master class in how web3 differs from web2. But behind the scenes there’s 31 people from defi, infra, wallets, data scientists,
- I'm baffled how anyone can join this industry and maintain a myopic zero sum mindsets. Crypto needs more capitalists, fewer mercantilists and feudalists
- I work for @solana and I'm still blown away every time I submit a transaction. So fast. So cheap. Instant confirmation.
