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First release candidate version for midwimble is available: Safeword. github.com/ciphernom/midwimb…
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What if I told you there's a post-quantum L1 live since February 2026, fully fair launched?
Zero elliptic curves, only hash-based signatures. No premine, no team tokens. No ASICs, GPU-minable. Every coin a power of 2 for privacy. Hidden mempool, so no MEV. Atomic swaps to Base already live.
Still under $1M mcap.
And CT hasn’t noticed yet.
Would you buy?
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Midstate ($MDS): A closer look at its genesis and fair launch
I've been digging into Midstate's launch history, reviewing the Rust source code, blockchain records, historical GitHub discussions and speaking directly with founder @cypherpunkgold.
Rather than taking the fair-launch claim at face value, I wanted to understand how it was implemented and whether the blockchain supports it.
Here's what I found. 🧵
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A popular concern says post-quantum signatures cannot run on the hardware wallets people already own.
@blksresearch implemented hash-based schemes on four popular devices. All four signed. SLH-DSA, the NIST standard, in about two minutes at worst.
blog.blockstream.com/hardwar…
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Quantum Wi Fi is no longer science fiction.
Physicists just successfully entangled quantum memories across 420 km of commercial fiber optic cables.
• Absolute security: Physically impossible to hack.
• Zero rebuild: Runs directly on existing fiber infrastructure.
• Historical milestone: The first practical foundation for a global Quantum Internet.
The next generation of the web is arriving faster than ever.
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$mds #midstate. the real alpha isn’t just the supply cap however; it’s the timeline.
365 days per HALVING.
50% of the entire supply will be minted in Year 1.
If you aren't running a Midstate Node THIS YEAR you are MASSIVELY missing out.
Midstate halves EVERY YEAR.
Year 1: 50% of all coins are mined.
Year 4: 93% is gone.
you are mathematically locking yourself out of the greatest accumulation phase by not running the node and mining.
Tick tock motherfucker. ⏳⛏️
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GM #midstaters!
Call for devs and testers of #midstate
Join the discord
Raise PRs on GitHub
Run a node
Develop smart contracts in the IDE
MINE WITH THE WEB WALET ON YOUR PHONE
LETS GET IT
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JUST IN🚨: A Quantum Computer Just Performed 2.6 Billion Years of Computation in 4 Minutes.
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切了几台机器去这里 @Midstate
Dev @midstate_dev 是个加密理想主义大胡子，前两天刚发长文阐述设计哲学：彻底放弃 ECDSA 和内存硬挖矿，用 BLAKE3 + WOTS/MSS + 百万步顺序 PoW，实现物理反 ASIC、共识防密钥复用 + Commit-Reveal 杜绝 MEV。追求“应用悲观主义”，刚性状态机、热力学限制，Pi 都能长期跑全节点。诚实承认权衡，但目标是真正去中心化、量子安全的电子现金。
我的观点：实验性项目，算力不卷、敢露脸的Dev，可以支持一下。
钱包：ciphernom.github.io/midstate…
矿池：midstate.tracethesignal.com/
博客：substack.com/home/post/p-199…
#Midstate #PoW #PostQuantum
抗量子矿币又又又来了， @cypherpunkgold 哈希基PQ路线抗量子币。主网3月份就开始了，Dev应该是这个人 @midstate_dev 粉丝量倒是挺多有12K，但是没有查到实名信息。技术层面看不是纯复制Fork项目，扫了眼Discord好像挖矿不太丝滑，感兴趣可以自己去研究。 #PQ #POW #挖矿
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🇺🇸 You can swap your IP address all day. The Windows installation underneath it still carries a dog tag.
That's the quiet lesson in the Peter Stokes case.
Stokes, a 19-year-old dual U.S.-Estonian citizen, is accused of belonging to the hacking crew Scattered Spider.
Prosecutors say his activity ran through a VPN proxy. The VPN did its one job, masking the network address, but it couldn't hide the machine doing the typing.
Microsoft records allegedly tied that activity to a GDID, a persistent device-level ID baked into a Windows installation.
It survives updates, and telemetry can link it to IP addresses and service activity over time.
Once investigators had it, the same fingerprint allegedly lined up with the VPN proxy, the victim's website, and accounts tied to Stokes across Snapchat, Facebook and Apple, plus travel records and timestamps.
The catch is bigger than one arrest.
A persistent identifier that nails a hacker works just as well on a journalist, a dissident, or an abuse victim.
Your VPN can be working perfectly while your computer keeps talking.
Sources: The Register, Tom's Hardware / Writer: Julie
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Hardware co-design reduces qubit count by factor 138x for RSA-2048 (191k superconducting qubits in 9 hours).
Excited to share our latest @qctrlHQ paper on heterogeneous architectures for #quantumcomputing!
By leveraging different qubits and #QEC codes we get huge wins for #RSA2048 - 9 days, 191k qubits, detailed accounting via a new compiler
arxiv.org/abs/2604.06319
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China’s quantum computer completed a task in 4 minutes that would literally take a supercomputer billions of years.
Chinese researchers have achieved a monumental breakthrough in quantum computing with their prototype, Jiuzhang. By counting 76 photons through Gaussian boson sampling, the system completed a calculation in four minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer billions of years. This achievement shatters the previous classical record of five photons, demonstrating how an intricate array of lasers and mirrors can outperform traditional silicon bits in complex processing tasks.
This milestone is more than just a speed record; it proves the viability of photon-based quantum mechanics in solving real-world challenges. From revolutionizing quantum chemistry to laying the groundwork for a secure, large-scale quantum internet, the principles of superposition and entanglement are moving from theoretical physics into functional technology. This shift promises to redefine our global computational limits, offering answers to mathematical problems once considered impossible to solve within a human lifetime.
source: Zhong, H.-S., Wang, H., Deng, Y.-H., Chen, M.-C., Peng, L.-C., Luo, Y.-L., ... & Pan, J.-W. (2020). Quantum computational advantage using photons. Science.
ALT China’s quantum computer completed a task in 4 minutes that would literally take a supercomputer billions of years. Chinese researchers have achieved a monumental breakthrough in quantum computing with their prototype, Jiuzhang. By counting 76 photons through Gaussian boson sampling, the system completed a calculation in four minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer billions of years. This achievement shatters the previous classical record of five photons, demonstrating how an intricate array of lasers and mirrors can outperform traditional silicon bits in complex processing tasks. This milestone is more than just a speed record; it proves the viability of photon-based quantum mechanics in solving real-world challenges. From revolutionizing quantum chemistry to laying the groundwork for a secure, large-scale quantum internet, the principles of superposition and entanglement are moving from theoretical physics into functional technology.
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🚨 Quantum Computers Are Coming… But Not Like You Think
Quantum computers have long been “science fiction.” They don’t just use 1s and 0s — they explore multiple possibilities at once.
Now, for the first time, they’re showing real-world power: discovering new medicines, solving puzzles classical computers can’t.
But here’s the catch — they’re not ready for daily use. What we see today is just the start… a tiny crack in a door that could change everything.
Are we ready for what’s behind it?
Source
Marr, B. Quantum computing trends that will shape every industry. Forbes.
ALT 🚨 Quantum Computers Are Coming… But Not Like You Think Quantum computers have long been “science fiction.” They don’t just use 1s and 0s — they explore multiple possibilities at once. Now, for the first time, they’re showing real-world power: discovering new medicines, solving puzzles classical computers can’t. But here’s the catch — they’re not ready for daily use. What we see today is just the start… a tiny crack in a door that could change everything. Are we ready for what’s behind it? Source Marr, B. Quantum computing trends that will shape every industry. Forbes.
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Quantum Computing Just Got WAY Easier
We just went from "millions of qubits someday" to practical quantum computers much sooner than expected.
Scientists developed a new quantum computing method that slashes qubit requirements massively, from ~1,000 qubits per logical unit down to just 5.
"The team says a fully functional quantum computer could operate with as few as 10,000 to 20,000 qubits, far below the millions previously believed necessary."
By improving quantum error correction and using neutral atom systems, they make quantum machines far more efficient and scalable, bringing real world quantum computing much closer.
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🚨 Pay attention 🚨
Ben is on the pathway to become the first billion dollar solo founder. In less than 2 months he has grown from 0-4.4M in ARR.
This is absolutely insane. We've entered clearly unchartered territory. Unreal .
Kudos to Ben, absolute legend.
About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees.
Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once.
I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one.
Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing.
I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone.
The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.
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post your midstate address and ill send you some midstate!
midstate web wallet is up and running: ciphernom.github.io/midstate… now you dont need to run a node to use midstate. privacy preserving post quantum minimalist cryptocurrency experiment. you can also view the explorer at rpc.cypherpunk.gold if you want.