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I really don't understand why when people ask what makes Kaspa unique, the most common responses are about global hashrate, community outreach and whatnot, or callbacks to Satoshi's original "peer-to-peer cash" vision.

Now don't get me wrong, these are all fine points, but what I constantly don't see is what I think is the pièce de résistance in what Kaspa brings to the table:

Kaspa is the only proof of work that can scale down confirmation times. This is the only technology that can provide the security and decentralization of proof-of-work while providing reactiveness and throughput previously believed to be reserved for proof-of-stake.

Some people respond to this sa

(My previous attempt at a casual AMA furnished several hours of lovely conversation before the admins decided to remove it for preposterous reasons, lets hope this one survives a bit longer lol)

Too many people here (many of which are not Israeli and are obviously clueless) keep insinuating, if not straight-up saying, the protests are essentially an Israeli extension of the (antisemitic) #ceasefirenow movement. That's total bs. Here are some points to consider:

• There is a lot of merit to blaming Netanyahu for the murdered hostages, through his persistent stagnation and lack of vision and coherent approach. We can and will hold our administration responsible, this does not mean we absolve Hamas you ghouls.
• Israelis who want a hostage deal, even a ceasefire, have nothing to do with the antisemitic #ceasefirenow movement

A completely innocent comment was "flagged as breaking the community guidelines". Many Israelis experience random account freezes these days as a consequence of organised antisemite report attacks targeting random comments made by Israelis (my comment that was removed was about chess, and had nothing to do with anything contentious). Nevertheless, from past experience I know that submitting an appeal is futile.

This comes at a pretty bad timing, as I am currently representing Kaspa in WDMS Vegas, and will be next week in Mining Disrupt Miami. This freeze bars me from posting any updates to the community.

I will post my intended Tweets in comments to this post and hopefully you could help p

But please, no politics

Yeah, I get it, a lunar months fit remarkably well into a solar year. However, it is terribly incompatible with the most fundamental subdivision of years into days. Simply put, a year has 365 days (forget leap years for now), and 12 definitely does not divide 365. This faced humanity with two options, the reasonable one and the stupid one.

The reasonable option is, of course, to come to terms with the fact that, since days are unequivocally the most important unit of time (at least in the non-immediate scale), and lunar months have fractional days, we should not use them to keep track of days.

The stupid option is to force the division of a year into 12 months, making up an

I was wondering if it is true for any non-rational algebraic number x and every base B that all digits appear at least once in the B-ary expansion of x.

I know there is a long standing open problem about all such number being normal, but the property I'm wondering about seems much weaker. I couldn't find any works discussing this question.

I am currently reading a book about stopping times, and just finished the chapter about electrical networks.

In the exercises section, there was this problem:

An Oregon professor has n umbrellas, of which initially k ∈ (0, n) are at his office and n − k are at his home. Every day, the professor walks to the office in the morning and returns home in the evening. In each trip, he takes an umbrella with him only if it is raining. Assume that in every trip between home and office or back, the chance of rain is p ∈ (0, 1), independently of other trips.

(a) Asymptotically, in what fraction of his trips does the professor get wet?

(b) Determine the expected number of trips until al