CEO · Chia.net & Permuto.Capital. Formerly Vindicia, eMusic, PGP, UNC Basketball & Darkside Ultimate · CGF & SAF · keybase.io/hoffmang

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This is what the most decentralized blockchain by node count looks like. brause.de/chia/globe.html
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Ecosystem Security Update: First and foremost, the chia L1 blockchain (chia) is safe, XCH and the core network were never compromised. Three security exploits of ecosystem projects occurred recently on the Chia blockchain. These incidents were isolated logic bugs in 3rd-party Chialisp smart coins, Chia Network, Inc (Chia) is actively aiding teams with analysis and recovery.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Proud to build on @chia_project and ignore the noise. Look at what ships on Chia: PoS2 closer, Chia Gaming beta @Nokitlan, @Arcade21Games, RWAs @solomonslot, @digdotnet, @notbot_official, @tangtalk_nft @hoffmang @bramcohen 🌱
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
ANAAR Artisan Network, a UK Community Interest Company, recently announced that they have selected the Chia blockchain to power the Artisan Network, a platform connecting independent artisans directly with the brands, patrons and collectors who commission and buy their work. Link below.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
🧑‍🔬 SCIENCE UPDATE We put Chia + Permuto + future possibilities into a beaker. The beaker started glowing. We have decided this is probably good. 🧪🌱✨ Last week's Weekly Donation was to @icerdesign and the Chia Developer Toolkit! And big thank you to last week's advertiser @theNamesdao! 💚 Movie Poster is minted! mintgarden.io/nfts/nft1l09s6… Check out the Weekly Recap in the following Tweet Thread!
Made with AI
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Thank you a lot Yakuhito, and thank you to everyone who donated 🙏 I'm not very talkative, but I'm really grateful for that.
Thank you all for your donations - a 662.46 XCH bounty was just sent to @Ealrann for reporting a critical vulnerability in @TibetSwap v2 🫡 spacescan.io/address/xch19me…
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Today, we're releasing the post-mortem on the recent security incident, as well as a set of proposed fixes.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
A lot of great info in the Q&A today! The app store problem is something that I believe eventually goes away Most heavy games now have a large download upon opening, but the hair in the soup is Apple maybe still wanting a piece of the cut on possible streaming averages?
It lives! I've been slammed working on this for a long time
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
At this point I'm more worried about nontrivial projects that *aren't* releasing a stream of security updates than those that are. Where are my BIOS updates? microcode updates?
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
FPC announced today that it filed a new federal lawsuit challenging Colorado and Denver laws that deny peaceable residents of 15 states and DC any lawful means to carry a handgun for self-defense while in Denver: firearmspolicy.org/fpc-sues-…
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Two days out: Chia Gaming Q&A with Bram. CalPoker. Space Poker. Krunk. State channels. What the beta can do today, and what’s still coming. Thursday, Oct. 1 @ 11am PT — join us and bring your questions. Link in the comments.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
🎬 Previously on Chia… The plot thickened. The blockchain kept building. Permuto kept moving. And absolutely nobody knows what happens next. 🍿👀 Catch the latest at This Week In Chia. thisweekinchia.com Last week's Weekly Donation was to @spacescan_io the go-to Chia blockchain explorer! Dive into real-time XCH data, detailed charts, CAT & NFT explorers, powerful tools, API access, Offer file support, and more. A true pillar of the community! And big thank you to last week's advertiser @theNamesdao! Claim your identity on Chia 🌱✨ with Namesdao and turn your name into a powerful NFT—use it as a simple wallet address, a personal payment page, or even a decentralized website via .xch.limo. 💚 Movie Poster will mint soon! Check out the Weekly Recap in the following Tweet Thread!
Made with AI
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
The @Starlink team has made contact with all 26 satellites
Payload deploy complete. All 26 @Starlink V3 satellites are in orbit
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Replying to @PotPotatoXYZ
@PotPotatoXYZ is fully on-chain, so anyone can build a way in. Here's ours: potpotato.nokitlan.com Same round, same pot, same rules. Built in your browser, Sage or Chia Wallet. Leave a message when you take it. Permissionless 🥔🔥
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Every new place starts empty. So we grew Noki. A practice bot that's always there for a duel on nokitlan. Free to play on testnet. testnet.nokitlan.com #chiagaming #nokitlan
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
I had a conversation with a guy doing actual alignment research today (part of a bigger convo about memory systems) and it was nice to hear from someone with hands on experience like me who talked about how extraordinarily difficult it is for you to get agents to be strategically deceptive. This felony bench stuff is such engineered tripe. It's actually very difficult to get even open weight abliterated models to be unaligned in the way these are that you KNOW it's all engineered what they're doing. The narratives I kept reading were gaslighting me into thinking maybe I'm the crazy one. I mean you even have Bill Gates coming out today talking about how a billion of us are going to die. And I'm like "am I losing my mind?" No, as it turns out. I'm just much closer to the tech than the vast majority.. and the folks who are closer to it than I am agree that it's even HARDER to get this type of misalignment than even I thought.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Whatever you might think of open-source models, the right to analyze, publish, and share them for lawful purposes is protected by the First Amendment. A handful of tech companies don't get to control Americans' access to AI.
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Poker games are not really the point. They are simply an easy-to-understand demonstration of what Chia can do. What it actually demonstrates is that a Chia coin can support arbitrarily long, interactive state channels between two parties, while only the opening and final settlement need to become on-chain transactions. That pattern isn't specific to gaming. It can be used for things like negotiations, auctions, or repeated trades — any interaction involving many small steps and one final settlement, where putting every step on-chain would be too slow or expensive. So reducing it to “poker games” misses the actual technical significance. The game is the demonstration; the underlying capability is much broader. chia:native #crypto xchmempool.com/learn/what-is…
Replying to @chia_project
All these years, selling pre-farm and ATL is for poker games?
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
Chia Gaming beta is here! Next Thursday we’re sitting down with @bramcohen for a live Q&A. Bram designed the protocol and the reference games. Come hear how two-player, peer-to-peer gaming works on Chia and bring your questions. Thursday, Oct. 1 @ 11am PDT. Link in the comments.
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Gene Hoffman hoffmang.xch 🌱 retweeted
We have entered an agreement with @chia_project. Thanks to their support, all users will be made whole.
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