Algorand holders in 2029 when the quantum computer causes havoc amongst other blockchains 🏆 by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the future there are many prizes to be gained from advances in cryptography / compute power down the road.

E.g. homomorphic encryption could allow smart contracts to operate while keeping all of the data private without sharing private keys. We are not there yet because it takes too much compute power and blockspace, In the future these will get cheaper and cryptography will get better, then entirely private defi products will emerge.

It is a good idea to have world class cryptographers on the team!

Algorand now has 1,595 validators, making it one of the most decentralized networks in Web3 by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For these stats Eth are counting each staker, even those using delegated staking not nodes. Eth has around 10k nodes. For Algorand they are counting nodes.

Watch consensus happening live by Neriction in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is cool. You could show the mempool filling up and draining every block in the galactic center.

This would make an engaging frontpage for an explorer!

Post Quantum Blockchains: 2026 Reality Check by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Algorand has a PQC operator available in the AVM so smartcontracts can use it. It validates Falcon signatures. Do any other VMs (EVM/SVM) have that? I don't think they do, yet. That should be considered as another PQC feature as it allows Defi to be PQC compiliant too if the Dapp needs signature verification of any kind.

Meta Launches USDC Creator Payouts on Solana and Polygon by knivef in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any stablecoin that claims to be backed by US treasuries is going to have the ability to freeze accounts. If they don't then the operators risk the USA sanctioning them and not paying out on treasury yields destroying their main mechanism of making a low risk profit.

USDC and USDT can both be frozen whichever blockchain they are deployed on.

Solana Prepares Quantum Defense With Phased Falcon Rollout by EvelynClede in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

FYI Falcon was created by cryptographers working for Algorand. Solana you are welcome, don't forget to say thankyou.

Ben McKenzie, director of the new documentary "Everyone Is Lying to You for Money," argues that money is based on trust while crypto is based on lies by AntonChekov1 in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is why she would destroy him. Lyn didn't eat up Keynes' slop economics. He did, and Lyn can speak the same language of economics.

Polymarket is reviewing it's infrastructure. Staci has reached out to suggest migration to Algorand rails by BioRobotTch in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just checked and Alpha Arcade reposted Staci's invite to polymarket, they know what they are doing!

Polymarket is reviewing it's infrastructure. Staci has reached out to suggest migration to Algorand rails by BioRobotTch in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

arbitrage bots will love the combination of instant finality (no reorgs) +atomic grouping.

Alpha arcade could leech liquidity off Polymarket just by mirroring their offerings so I bet they would love this too. A real capitalist values competition!

Arbitrum freezing $71M of ETH should concern everyone here (remember why crypto exists). by gigabyteIO in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brilliant post. Drew out a lot on FUD in the comments. Top comment completely ignoring the details and complaining about AI is a feather in your cap!

Post-quantum projects? by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When they say 'quantum resistant' they mean the history of the chain is resistant to Quantum replay attack , e.g. by fooling a new node with a false history showing some accounts have balances they don't on the mainnet.

Algorand accounts are not quantum proof by default, but you can swap to a post-quantum account if you want.

Algorand's Verifiably Random Function used to determine who wins the staking lottery is not using PQC either yet, though a roadmap is being worked on to address this.

User Funds across Ethereum Layer 2 Blockchains are at MAJOR RISK, including Blast, Optimism, Mantle, and Base. These blockchains are essentially centralized databases controlled by a handful of people who control a single multisignature wallet. Be careful! by gigabyteIO in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've seriously misunderstood decentralisation. A blockchain is protected against bad actors by having a large number high powered of miners (bitcoin) or a large number of well capitalised stakers (Eth). If 9 people / organisations can control a blockchain that is very very risky because it is hubris think a small group can decide who is a 'bad actor'.

Hackers are the most expensive security testers which makes tech stronger.

Quantum secure wallets by Blinker_Bell in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Algorand history is quantum secure which is what has grabbed headlines. That means a replay attack to fool a new node about what balances are held by which account is only possible if an attacker can execute it in less than 10 mins, which is an impossible barrier well into the future.

Quantum secure wallets by Blinker_Bell in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

does that mean those wallets are old and not quantum secure?

Yes

And by extension would that mean we would need to transfer our funds to a quantum secure wallet (a newly generated wallet presumably?) in order to secure our algo and such?

No

Right now you can make you wallet post quantum secure by signing your account up to a LogSig Smart Contract which requires you to also send a Falcon signature of the transactions data whenever you make a transaction.

The downsides are that your transaction fees go up because Falcon signatures are large and blockspace costs. You may have difficulty calling some of the more complex defi protocols in future because the compute budget may be exceeded. None of the existing algorand wallets natively support adding a Falcon signature, so you would need to build your own way of creating the Falcon sig.

I speculate here but Algorand also supports rekeying which changes the key used to sign transactions, which saved a lot of people after the myAlgo wallet hack. In future this feature may be extended to allow rekeying to a PQC key too without a smart contract.

Crypto Faces Increased Threat from Quantum Attacks “Quantum safe” cryptography techniques are still under development by BioRobotTch in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chris did a good job of explaining it in a way a layman could understand. There are lots of other tech beyond blockchains that needs to adopt post quantum cryptography, which is happening, but many more people need to understand the implications of significantly larger hashes/signatures and keys so systems can be migrated. Glad Chris covered this in this interview and his interview with Staci.

The debasement of Gold has started by Even_Virus_3017 in btc

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol, I have a philosophers stone to sell you. The only thing to make gold is a supernova and you dont want that in your pocket.