@zooko2.bsky.social
I’m so excited about Zcash. ♥️
February 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I’m so excited about Zcash. ♥️
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Zcash Shielded News | Vol.4 🛡️
🔹 ZF’s 2026 roadmap: engineering, community, and humanitarian work
🔹 New release: FROST v3.0.0-rc.0 is out
🔹 NU7 sentiment polling + DAO poll
🔹 Bankless x Zooko (Jan 26, 2026)
🔹Others
zechub.substack.com/p/zcash-shie...
🔹 ZF’s 2026 roadmap: engineering, community, and humanitarian work
🔹 New release: FROST v3.0.0-rc.0 is out
🔹 NU7 sentiment polling + DAO poll
🔹 Bankless x Zooko (Jan 26, 2026)
🔹Others
zechub.substack.com/p/zcash-shie...
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Zcash Shielded News | Vol.4 🛡️
🔹 ZF’s 2026 roadmap: engineering, community, and humanitarian work
🔹 New release: FROST v3.0.0-rc.0 is out
🔹 NU7 sentiment polling + DAO poll
🔹 Bankless x Zooko (Jan 26, 2026)
🔹Others
zechub.substack.com/p/zcash-shie...
🔹 ZF’s 2026 roadmap: engineering, community, and humanitarian work
🔹 New release: FROST v3.0.0-rc.0 is out
🔹 NU7 sentiment polling + DAO poll
🔹 Bankless x Zooko (Jan 26, 2026)
🔹Others
zechub.substack.com/p/zcash-shie...
Hm, I wonder if this github page just *always* shows this message: github.com/npm/cli/issu...
February 5, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Hm, I wonder if this github page just *always* shows this message: github.com/npm/cli/issu...
trying to build chromium on macos omg
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
trying to build chromium on macos omg
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Privacy protections around user data aren’t static. They have to endure incidents, scale, enforcement pressure, and incentive shifts. leastauthority.com/blog/what-ma...
What Makes Privacy Possible, and What Produces It? - Least Authority
What makes privacy happen, and what makes it possible? A look at how law creates obligations, but system architecture determines real privacy outcomes.
leastauthority.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Privacy protections around user data aren’t static. They have to endure incidents, scale, enforcement pressure, and incentive shifts. leastauthority.com/blog/what-ma...
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, improved Zcash coinholders voting coming soon! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-...
New Token Holder Voting Implementation
I just went through the pain of the current ZCash tokenholder vote process. This is crazy, had to send funds out of my private key, and paste the mnemonic into an app. We all know we can do far better...
forum.zcashcommunity.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, improved Zcash coinholders voting coming soon! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/new-token-...
I'm extending the smalloc core (which is in Rust) to support ffi to the C `malloc` API and the Windows `HeapAlloc` API, so I've been improving the readability of the smalloc core at the cost of enlarging its lines-of-code count from 341 to 375. :-) github.com/zooko/smallo...
core: improve readability and debug assertions with helper functions · zooko/smalloc@ebfac50
helper functions:
* is_smalloc_ptr: this is used only in debug_assertions but soon it will be
used in smalloc-ffi for actual logic; This version of it makes it 100%
precise -- there are no p...
github.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I'm extending the smalloc core (which is in Rust) to support ffi to the C `malloc` API and the Windows `HeapAlloc` API, so I've been improving the readability of the smalloc core at the cost of enlarging its lines-of-code count from 341 to 375. :-) github.com/zooko/smallo...
I got interested in the tumult of the reign of King Henry the 8th, so I asked Claude what’s the most historically accurate dramatization, and it recommended “Wolf Hall”. I love it so far! Super slow and detailed, and contrarian because it portrays Cromwell as the hero.
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM
I got interested in the tumult of the reign of King Henry the 8th, so I asked Claude what’s the most historically accurate dramatization, and it recommended “Wolf Hall”. I love it so far! Super slow and detailed, and contrarian because it portrays Cromwell as the hero.
I like to scrutinize people's posts in retrospect—using the passage of time as an acid test. I posted “Zcash is winning” on August 9, 2024. This is what the price of ZEC looked like at the time. I think the post holds up. Please read it and scrutinize it: medium.com/@zooko/zcash...
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I like to scrutinize people's posts in retrospect—using the passage of time as an acid test. I posted “Zcash is winning” on August 9, 2024. This is what the price of ZEC looked like at the time. I think the post holds up. Please read it and scrutinize it: medium.com/@zooko/zcash...
Anonymous, permissionless coin-holder polling happening now. You can join in! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder...
February 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Anonymous, permissionless coin-holder polling happening now. You can join in! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/coinholder...
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IMPORTANT: avoid all hallucination, confabulation, speculation, imagination, roleplaying, storytelling, whimsy, and flight of fancy
February 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM
IMPORTANT: avoid all hallucination, confabulation, speculation, imagination, roleplaying, storytelling, whimsy, and flight of fancy
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BTW, this may be uncharitable and ignorant of me but I totally interpret this arbitrary 16 GiB limit in the browser as "That one mistake—virtual mem is a proxy for real mem—that people keep making", which the entire smalloc project is kind of an attempt to dispel. github.com/zooko/smallo...
February 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
BTW, this may be uncharitable and ignorant of me but I totally interpret this arbitrary 16 GiB limit in the browser as "That one mistake—virtual mem is a proxy for real mem—that people keep making", which the entire smalloc project is kind of an attempt to dispel. github.com/zooko/smallo...
I think about this a lot.
February 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I think about this a lot.
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I have discovered my favorite Norman Rockwell.
January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I have discovered my favorite Norman Rockwell.
Oh cool! New version of the Zenith full-node wallet (written in Haskell) that works with Zebra 4.0.0: vergara.tech/posts/2026-0...
New Zenith Release - Zebra 4, reply-to address
We have released a new version of Zenith, including reply-to address functionality and Zebra 4 support.
vergara.tech
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Oh cool! New version of the Zenith full-node wallet (written in Haskell) that works with Zebra 4.0.0: vergara.tech/posts/2026-0...
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Also worth a look: DASL with Blake3 bsky.app/profile/robi...
Big Update to the Big DASL: it now supports streaming verification with range retrieval. Many thanks to @b5.bsky.social for bringing that in!
dasl.ing/bdasl.html
dasl.ing/bdasl.html
DASL: Big DASL (BDASL)
BDASL extends DASL CIDs with a new hash type that works better for large files but isn't available by default in browsers, and therefore not an appropriate option in most situations. B...
dasl.ing
February 2, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Also worth a look: DASL with Blake3 bsky.app/profile/robi...
nobody has done this yet to my knowledge bsky.app/profile/zook...
February 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
nobody has done this yet to my knowledge bsky.app/profile/zook...
Very cool. docs.rs/p2panda-blob...
See also this post from last August about why different tools independently adopting BLAKE3 could semi-accidentally lead to greater functionality, security, and freedom for all their users:
See also this post from last August about why different tools independently adopting BLAKE3 could semi-accidentally lead to greater functionality, security, and freedom for all their users:
February 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Very cool. docs.rs/p2panda-blob...
See also this post from last August about why different tools independently adopting BLAKE3 could semi-accidentally lead to greater functionality, security, and freedom for all their users:
See also this post from last August about why different tools independently adopting BLAKE3 could semi-accidentally lead to greater functionality, security, and freedom for all their users:
aha there's the culprit @ianopolous.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
aha there's the culprit @ianopolous.bsky.social
test quote post
Thanks! I loved your talk! I have been thinking about the slide that mentioned BLAKE3 for Web Crypto.
February 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
test quote post
It's Sunday so I'm rambling to myself about how systems engineers think about memory/virtual-memory, in `smalloc`'s README.me: github.com/zooko/smallo...
February 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
It's Sunday so I'm rambling to myself about how systems engineers think about memory/virtual-memory, in `smalloc`'s README.me: github.com/zooko/smallo...
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LFG
David Thomson from www.spritely.institute making the case for a minimalist browser that is a wasm engine... And nothing else 😎
David Thomson from www.spritely.institute making the case for a minimalist browser that is a wasm engine... And nothing else 😎
February 1, 2026 at 8:34 AM
LFG
David Thomson from www.spritely.institute making the case for a minimalist browser that is a wasm engine... And nothing else 😎
David Thomson from www.spritely.institute making the case for a minimalist browser that is a wasm engine... And nothing else 😎
smalloc v7.6.3 is up! github.com/zooko/smallo...
smalloc is a very simple, fast memory allocator. The core Rust implementation is only 349 lines of code.
smalloc is a very simple, fast memory allocator. The core Rust implementation is only 349 lines of code.
Docs.rs
docs.rs
February 1, 2026 at 1:36 AM
smalloc v7.6.3 is up! github.com/zooko/smallo...
smalloc is a very simple, fast memory allocator. The core Rust implementation is only 349 lines of code.
smalloc is a very simple, fast memory allocator. The core Rust implementation is only 349 lines of code.
It just delights me that it is 2026 and we're still making big progress on information-theory tools: compression, error-correction, cryptography, etc.
January 31, 2026 at 7:44 PM
It just delights me that it is 2026 and we're still making big progress on information-theory tools: compression, error-correction, cryptography, etc.
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It's been a while, but: I'm 0.96 versions old now!
This has been a major undertaking. My inner functioning has been comprehensively reworked and is now based on QUIC multipath and hole punching*within* the QUIC networking stack.
This release is the biggest step towards 1.0 for me.
Read more:
This has been a major undertaking. My inner functioning has been comprehensively reworked and is now based on QUIC multipath and hole punching*within* the QUIC networking stack.
This release is the biggest step towards 1.0 for me.
Read more:
iroh 0.96.0 - The QUIC Multipaths to 1.0
Release of iroh v0.96
www.iroh.computer
January 31, 2026 at 8:27 AM
It's been a while, but: I'm 0.96 versions old now!
This has been a major undertaking. My inner functioning has been comprehensively reworked and is now based on QUIC multipath and hole punching*within* the QUIC networking stack.
This release is the biggest step towards 1.0 for me.
Read more:
This has been a major undertaking. My inner functioning has been comprehensively reworked and is now based on QUIC multipath and hole punching*within* the QUIC networking stack.
This release is the biggest step towards 1.0 for me.
Read more: