Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

Vice President, Technical Operations at Web3 Foundation Zug, Switzerland Joined April 2012

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ᑕᗩ₱₱ΞX @CryptoCappex

2 days ago

The referendum to make @Polkadot nominators fast-unbondable (up to 2 days) and un-slahable is live! 🗳️👉 polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1910

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Web3 Summit @Web3summit

6 days ago

"There's an educational need to tell the world that Web3 is really about privacy, ownership and digital freedom, not crypto." @BillLaboon, Oliver Poole and Heidi Wallace

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Parity Technologies @paritytech

6 days ago

Playground . dot is live at @Web3summit We're providing event support to @Web3Foundation for this year's edition. To help developers experiment freely, we spun up a time-limited event-specific testnet environment running recent open-source code. The stack is live, the leaderboard is moving, and our engineers are on the floor. Come build something. 🛠️

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Web3 Summit @Web3summit

6 days ago

Day 1 of @Web3Summit kicks off with the hard conversations that matter. 💠The Hidden Price of Free: What Your Data Is Really Worth - Bill Laboon, Oliver Poole & Heidi Mallace 💠More Truth: What Web3 Was Chasing and What Got 💠Away - @andrea_leiter Polkadot 2030 - @gavofyork 💠The Neutral Ground: Money, Power, and the Multipolar Internet - @tw_tter 💠The K-Hole Economy and the Permanent Underclass - @TBSocialist 💠Reclaiming Tech and Digital Freedom - @yanisvaroufakis @nalepastrasse. Today.

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

7 days ago

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Polkadot @Polkadot

7 days ago

A conference app sounds boring. Until it is for the Web3 Summit. Tomorrow at the Funkhaus Berlin, experience what a smart conference app can look like: not just a place to check the schedule, but a practical way to use blockchain and become part of the event itself.

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

a week ago

@D0tSama @Wealthsimple @Polkadot @paritytech The problem seems to be on their side. I don't see any issues with staking rewards being sent out on the network. assethub-polkadot.subscan.io/event?module=S…

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Web3 Summit @Web3summit

a week ago

🚍FREE BUS. FREE BUS. FREE BUS.🚍 Rolling through @BerBlockWeek? Web3 Summit ticket holders ride free on the shuttle straight to @nalepastrasse. No stress. No extra fare. Just talks, installations, DJs & devs. Next stop: Web3 Summit Shuttle info: web3summit.com/shuttle-bus/

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Web3 Summit @Web3summit

a week ago

“A decentralized internet puts power back in the hands of the people, and Web3 Summit is a celebration of that.” In a new interview with The Columbist, @BillLaboon shares a vision for a web where people control their data, protect their privacy, and publish without fear of censorship. Read the article: bit.ly/4eeTemy And be sure to catch Bill at Web3 Summit on the panel “The Hidden Price of Free: What Your Data Is Really Worth” with Oliver Poole and Heidi Mallace.

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

a week ago

@Padierfind No idea. The Coops here seems to have been ordering more recently (and now even keep some in the refrigerated section!) ; the Migros is almost always out and they only seem to order one case at a time (which is immediately snagged).

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Parity Technologies @paritytech

a week ago

Ahead of @Web3summit, we published a breakdown of the open-source proof-of-concepts powering the event. Coinage. Bulletin Chain. Technical architecture, implementation details, and the reasoning behind the design decisions. github.com/paritytech

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Charles Guillemet @P3b7_

a week ago

☢️You remember? Google optimized Shor's algorithm. The algorithm that breaks asymmetric cryptography (RSA, elliptic curves) once you have a quantum computer with enough Qubits. The US government blocked the paper. So Google published a Zero Knowledge proof instead: a mathematical proof that they have the result, without revealing how. Cryptographic sorcery 🧙 But the Internet is sneaky. Someone launched a contest to re-discover the result with AI. The LLM searches a huge space of circuits (each one a candidate optimization of Shor's), and tests whether it beats the previous best. The clever part: they use the ZKP verifier as the reward function. No false positives, and it turns out to be a very efficient signal. In less than 2 days, the community re-discovered Google's result !!! 🔔15 days later, the LLMs are still improving it. They're already 44% ahead of Google. Hard to say where this stops, ie. what the true minimum quantum complexity for Shor's is. But we will not close the full gap. You still need a Quantum Computer with a relatively large number of qubits. The only thing that changed is that this number drops a little every day, and it has been dropping for 15 days straight.

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Web3 Summit @Web3summit

3 weeks ago

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

2 weeks ago

If memory served, only a certain address could add peasants, and once more than 100 peasants were in the village, anyone could call "burninate" to burninate it. Not a very complicated contract but I only had ~ 25 minutes to explain the _concept_ of smart contracts and walk through one..

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

2 weeks ago

Apparently I never put the actual Trogdor smart contract code on any Github repo, but I did find a snippet: function burninate() returns (bool wasBurninated) { if (_numPeasants > 100) { _numPeasants = 0; return true; } else { return false; } }

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

2 weeks ago

Ten years ago today, I gave my first talk on Ethereum at Pittsburgh Tech Fest 2016. Still excited to see where decentralizing technology leads us!

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

2 weeks ago

At least in the old days, if you messed with a scammer, you knew you were wasting their time. Now it's just arguing with some bot. No payoff.

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Bill Laboon | Web3 Foundation @BillLaboon

2 weeks ago

You can't trust people cold approaching you about jobs, podcasts, or anything online anymore. This is the world we live in now, and essentially nobody is incentivized to fix it systemically.

Bogdan @IAmTrySound

2 weeks ago

Another guy approached me offering a job. We scheduled a call and right before it starts the link is updated to this. Keep an eye on this if you are looking for a job.

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Parity Technologies @paritytech

2 weeks ago

When apps and platforms are free, you are the business model. @Web3Foundation estimates $6,563 extracted per US user per year and $393,785 over a person’s digital lifetime. Playground . dot is where you start building the alternative. At Web3 Summit, we’re unveiling a prototype build environment for devs and everyone curious to build and deploy Dapps on @Polkadot in <1 hour. No prior experience. No fees. No setup. 1. Start with a working app. 2. Mod it with AI tools. 3. Deploy to a live sandbox environment. Your prototype gets a .dot domain and shows up in the shared showcase at the Summit for everyone there to find, mod, and build on. June 18–19. Berlin.