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ALPHred is a stack-based virtual machine designed for Alephium , used to execute smart contracts on the Alephium blockchain. The need for a specialized VM arises from Alephium’s unique stateful UTXO ( sUTXO ) model, which supports the Ethereum style account model for handling contracts state, as well as the Bitcoin style immutable UTXO model for secure assets management. ALPHred also introduced…
In a world that often chases perfection – whether in our work, our relationships, or the objects we possess – there lies a certain beauty in imperfection. This paradoxical notion is something I’ve come to appreciate deeply through my relationship with a particular timepiece: the Mark 1 version of the Explorer 1 (Reference 214270). While some may see its flaws as detracting from its value, I have…
Marc Andreessen famously attributes the proliferation of internet advertising today to browser’s lack of built-in payment support from the beginning. He calls it the original sin of the internet . The downstream from advertising, he argues, is everything people are anxious and worked up about today: privacy, user data collection, misalignment of the incentives, etc. The assumption is that if…
Logs in Ethereum are very useful since they are the underlying mechanism for events, which is the recommended way for smart contracts to communicate with the outside world. They also provide a significantly cheaper way to store data on-chain. As an example, the following code snippet from the UniswapV2ERC20.sol contract emits a Transfer event whenever a transfer of tokens takes place. event…
Alephium is the first operational sharded blockchain that brings scalability, ETH-inspired smart contracts and dApps capabilities to Bitcoin’s proven core technologies while ensuring better performance and improved energy efficiency. Alephium is one of those rare gems in the crypto space that has solid innovations, high code quality and great mindset for decentralization. The project comes with a…
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If there exists a superintelligence system that posesses all the knowledge and truth of the world and is able to always process it with the most “optimal” algorithm, no matter what circumstances are, perhaps planned economy would become a better mechanism for resource allocation and growth generation than market economy. In fact, if such a superintelligence system happens to have the capacity and…
In The Shawshank Redemption , Brooks Hatlen was released from the prison after being locked up for 50 years. He finally regained his liberty and yet his inability to adjust to the outside world gives him constant fear and desperation. He commited suicide. The freedom from the constraints of the prison killed him. Similiarly, after Booker T. Washington was emancipated as a slave, his initial…
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One of the most popular arguments against Emacs is that it is “a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor”. The promotion of the idea of “Living in Emacs” by some of the hardcore Emacs users only make this argument more compelling. At the first glance, using a single program for “everything” does seem to contradict the Unix philosophy , which favors single-purposed programs that…