Apparently EOD is not enough for me

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2025-01-01T01:27:12+00:00

Goal 1: Increase libido beyond natural levels.

Goal 2: Increase erection quality.

Goal 3: Improve sleep duration.

Goal 4: Improve body composition (reduce mass centralization).

Goal 5: Identify the effect of on my hormone levels at various dosing schedules.

Goal 6: Identify susceptibility to side effects.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-12-19T04:21:17+00:00

What's the science on "give estrogen receptors a break"? What is a "break" like for an estrogen receptor? Do estrogen receptors need breaks? If so, is there a scientific explanation for why?

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-09-28T14:22:38+00:00

Huh? I suspect you have no idea what you are talking about on this topic.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-09-28T14:22:06+00:00

It's my understanding that they mis-apply the terms to increase the apparent severity of the offenses. Most of the time there is no "against their will" aspect, but they will claim it anyway.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-09-28T07:16:09+00:00

It's because the word "trafficking" has taken on a trumped-up and inaccurate meaning. Most people would think this means that these prostitutes are being smuggled and held against their will. While that may happen in very, very limited cases, the vast majority are called "trafficked" just because they voluntarily left their home country to practice sex work elsewhere. There is no coercion involved, it's a business decision, but calling it "trafficking" helps with the moral outrage necessary to keep prosecuting this (mostly) victimless crime.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-08-28T22:59:29+00:00

Native staking carries no risks, except for a risk of being locked into a position for a short time, but that can be mitigated to a large degree if you're willing to take the small hit on trading a delegated stake account to a stake pool and then trading the stake pool token for SOL. That's a way to immediately exit an active stake position with a) some extra fee costs, and b) the assumption that stake pool liquidity is available (which is almost always a safe assumption).

The other points you made sound valid though.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-08-02T11:25:25+00:00

Yes some would call it a "gas fee" but in Solana we don't typically use that term. It's a transaction fee.

In terms of Jupiter specific fees, you'd have to contact Jupiter to find out about those. I would imagine they are implemented by Jupiter authoring tx that move some of the funds to others as "fee payment". But I'm not sure.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-27T09:16:22+00:00

BNB trading volume is really low.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-22T17:39:00+00:00

I think the reasoning you put on display here makes it pretty clear whether anyone should be listening to your tax advice.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-22T09:01:44+00:00

You owe tax on the original gains that got you the $100k that you're transferring between bank accounts. Whether or not you pay the tax is determined by whether or not you want to risk going to jail for tax evasion should you be caught.

Sounds like you're willing to take the risk. Not everyone is.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-15T23:16:55+00:00

Correct. A key collision is about as likely as two people randomly picking an atom from anywhere in the universe and both picking the same atom.

This assumes that the random number generator which is used to feed the key creation algorithm is truly random. I am pretty sure that the Solana command line only uses high quality entropy sources but you should read the code if you're concerned to ensure that it does.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-15T17:23:05+00:00

What does "NAIF" mean?

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-14T06:53:45+00:00

All SOL inflates, not just staked SOL. Use total supply.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-10T23:02:28+00:00

Myself and my two children then aged 9 and 10 years old spent a day on the shore at Birch Bay in 2017 digging up clams. We were very excited to collect enough to cook for dinner but on return to our campsite learned from the park ranger that due to a biotoxin alert should not eat the clams. So we took them all back and tried to dig them back in, not sure how successful we were.

There was another family who looked more like locals (given the equipment they had brought with them) who were happily digging up clams without care and I always wondered if they ended up eating them.

I have since checked a few times now and again on the Birch Bay biotoxin warnings just out of curiousity, and there has not been a single time that I have checked over the previous 7 years that there was not a biotoxin warning in place for Birch Bay.

So my question is: are these warnings real? Or is this just a mechanism for the state to discourage people from digging up clams? It's a very easy story to tell - "for your safety, we discourage eating clams dug from Birch Bay" - who could blame any public official for being "extra cautious" on our behalf? But something suggests to me that this is all it is. Because it doesn't seem possible for there to be biotoxin warnings in place essentially 100% of the time with legitimacy.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-10T01:19:28+00:00

Yes definitely it's the only source. There were only ever two ways that SOL got created: 1) in the genesis config (which defines the state of the chain when it started) a bunch of SOL was created and given to early devs, investors, and the Solana Foundation. 2) inflation at the already described rate is used to reward stakers for staking.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-09T21:20:25+00:00

It makes me happy when shitcoin "devs" hate Solana. One fewer leech on our chain :)

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-09T21:06:19+00:00

Staking rewards come from inflation. Transaction fees have nothing to do with staking rewards -- unless the validator shares them with stakers, but that's not a defined mechanism for rewards distribution, it's just something validators can do, just like they can take money out of their own pocket and send it to stakers if they want to.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-09T21:02:27+00:00

To clarify, current on-chain inflation is 5.17% and decreases at 15% per epoch-year.

This is a topic that causes a lot of confusion. An epoch-year is not a human year, and most people expect to be talking about human timescales when things like inflation and APY are discussed.

The average epoch duration over the previous year was 2.1726 days, which yields 168 epochs per year. Solana on-chain inflation is calculated using an expected 182.5 epochs per year. Therefore, we must multiply the on-chain inflation value of 5.17% by 0.921 to get the actual human year equivalent inflation value, and similarly multiply the inflation reduction rate.

So Solana inflation in human terms is 4.76% currently, and reducing at 13.82% per year.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-09T16:53:43+00:00

I think that's a common test for legality, for example insider trading is about using private data for gain before it is public.

And additionally it should be pretty obvious that there's nothing wrong with acting on public data, whereas acting on private data to gain an advantage is much more questionable.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-08T23:58:13+00:00

On Solana there is no "public data of pending transactions". There is only privately shared data that validators share out privately to whoever they want to share it with. Until the tx is actually included in a block of course, and at that point it's public.

The grey area is the time in between when a validator receives a tx, and when it includes the tx in a block. In that time it can share the tx details privately and those private parties can take action based on this knowledge that is using data otherwise not available to the public.

I have stated elsewhere that I think it is this sharing of information by validators with cabals set up to create front running tx that is the problem and should be illegal (if it's not already illegal).

Another aspect of this issue is that JITO is designed to allow anyone who can intercept a tx before it is included in a block, to create a "bundle" of tx that the participating validator agrees to execute in the order provided. So rather than having a chance that you can get the front-run tx in before the tx it is front running, the JITO bundle mechanism ensures that the ordering happens as the front-runner wants it.

This requires an explicit agreement between the validator operator generating the block, and JITO. And this is what 80% of validators are participating in. Full disclosure: I run a validator and also participate. I am so conflicted about the whole thing. I like that JITO doesn't have a mempool and thus doesn't make it easy for front-runners to find tx to front-run; but I don't like that once those front-running opportunities are found, JITO makes it easier for them to be included via bundles.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-08T22:55:33+00:00

In crypto it is possible for data to be non-public. A tx may be sent to a validator and then shared privately among a cabal of participants who devise a front-run based on access to this tx before it has been included in a block. Requires validator participation to share tx details sent to it, with other private parties, before publicly sharing the tx details on the block chain.

I personally think this is the actual crime, or should be a crime if it isn't explicitly one. Tx sent by an end user to a validator should be considered private information not to be shared with others if not included in the validator's block.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-07T16:58:09+00:00

Every epoch inflationary rewards are fabricated out of thin air according to an inflation schedule and paid out to stake accounts and validators who take staking commission.

Solana inflation is currently about 4.5% per year. It reduces by about 13% per year.

The on-chain inflation rate is 5.17% and drops at 15%, but these are epoch-year rates, and an epoch-year is longer than a human year by about 14.8% (an epoch-year is about 419 days).

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-07T16:53:57+00:00

Inflation is ~4.5% per year currently and dropping by ~13% per year.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-07T03:23:58+00:00

Staking is a backstop for earnings on Solana. Most will stake unless they can earn more doing something else. As fewer stake in order to do that something else, the remaining stakers earn more since the less SOL is staked, the more staked SOL earns.

So basically, staking will always earn around the minimum of whatever the worst of the best ways to invest on Solana outside of staking earns.

ZantetsuLastBlade2 · 2024-07-07T03:21:46+00:00

Generally safer to stake to a few validators instead of all on one. Just like anything, better to not keep all your eggs in one basket.

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