🤓Me (in Chinese): “Here is 120 yuan.”
👴🏼Shopkeeper: “Please pay with WeChat Pay.”
🤓Me: “Sorry, I don’t have that. I only have cash.”
👴🏼Shopkeeper, bewildered: “Eh? You speak Chinese... you look Chinese... but I see you are not Chinese.”
Optimist Prime
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Optimist Prime
@jinglejamOP
CEO OP Labs & Co-founder Optimism.
Joined August 2014
- This is the Ulam Spiral. All the dots are prime numbers, placed on a square lattice of integers. Nobody knows why these patterns emerge.
- I recently learned about "crown shyness". It's when trees are being hella cute about personal space & so polite that they won't touch the foliage of another tree.
- NYC blockchain week preview: Presenter: “We’re building a tesseract chain, wormhole nodes & range proofs that enable you to transcend galaxies & bend space-time to create a new decentralized era of financial computing.” Investors: “Yes, fabulous. Totally get it.” 👏🏼💵💰🤡
- At Consensus: ICO investor rattles off a list of ICOs. Me: “I haven’t heard of any of those.” Him: “What!? Really? Storm is huge. Top 100.” Me: “Wow I guess I really need to get current.” Him: “Oh yes. CURRENT is also hot right now.” 🤔🤨🤦🏻♀️
- Story time! Highly requested: Once upon a time we were working on an EVM to OVM transpiler. After weeks of intense EVM debugging we realized this level of abstraction could easily get us 90% of the way there, but the last 10% would be monumental. We needed a different approach.*reads* *gets excited about L2* wait, @realGeorgeHotz thanked at the end?? Really?? (he jailbroke the iPhone & the PS3 online network) I need explanation ma'am @optimismPBC! medium.com/@optimismPBC/l…
- “Which cryptocurrency would you like to pay with today?” @ The Boba Shop in SF
- Replying to @jinglejamOPThe above is actually a mix of different prime spirals (still dope), THIS is actually an Ulam spiral (also still dope): Original mathematica sim here: community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1…
00:00- Hey everybody - I would like to apologize to the community for inadvertently causing some nodes to fall out of sync on Ethereum last night 😬. Here’s the timeline of events and our takeaways:
- Chess is the crypto equivalent of golf.
- Replying to @jinglejamOPHe reduced our stress tenfold. Gave us an injection of morale when it was low and we were overworked. Most importantly, he reminded us that we were solving interesting problems and to have FUN doing it. And that... is the story of how George Hotz saved our asses!
- I've been thinking a lot about "if you don't tell your story, others will tell it for you". So - I'm usually quiet on these topics, but I can't be quiet about this. Talking about Ethereum unification and actually doing something about it are two very different things. TheThe tide is shifting. Top L2 teams are starting to signal Ethereum-wide coordination and neutrality in earnest. Less Superchain, more Ethereum. But shout out to Steven & @offchain who have been consistent on this from Day 1, when no one else had the conviction.
- Aya is one of the reasons I joined Ethereum. She had just stepped into her role during an extremely chaotic time for Ethereum. Folks called it the "Miyaguchi Restoration". I saw a role model & a welcoming community. It's easy to forget the wins during market downturns but let's
