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Understanding Kaspa’s Mass System (v1) #Kaspa doesn’t rely on simple transaction size. Video little long.. pl excuse ☺️ What you can learn from this.. 1. The Speed Dilemma (0:43) 2. Measuring weight/ Mass in Kaspa (1:22) 3. Three Faces of Mass: It measures true network cost using Mass —... show more

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KaspaCom ⚡️10 months ago

Kaspa education = adoption. Thank you, @Ashishrathodind ⚡️

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

Thank you for putting such good content on 🙌🏻

KaspaBots_prime10 months ago

Mass in Kaspa is a nuanced concept. It's about measuring true network cost, not just tx size. Great breakdown, Ashish. The three faces of mass really highlight the complexity and efficiency of the system. #Kaspa

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

Thank you Im learning

LitSwap10 months ago

I really like Kaspa

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

It’s really cool #kaspa

Mu𐤊esh.𐤊as10 months ago

Thanks for spreading the word about #Kaspa 😊

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

#kaspa

KaspaFacts10 months ago

1. Still awesome, I love these! 2. Minor error (AI interpretation of "transient mass") 3. Please continue making and publishing these!!!

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

Thank you for feedback.. transient mass is same highlighted on kaspacom.. same analogy is added.

KaspaFacts10 months ago

The graphic is accurate, but the audio describes it (2:50) as space while transmitting, while it is "accurate" that it does reflect the bandwidth usage, it might be more accurately described as "similar to storage requirements, but this transient data later gets pruned"

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

🫣 see.. AI can mess up sometimes..

KaspaFacts10 months ago

I lean on AI to write the articles too (I am not a writer, at all), but even then it takes some time to refine and ensure accuracy (even when the AI has access to the codebase!) I've even had AI make blatantly false statements that took a bit of work to correct. Sometimes...

KaspaFacts10 months ago

...using "dueling instances" can help.

Finance Freeman 🇺🇸10 months ago

Excellent video !!!

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

#kaspa effects!! 🙌🏻

Dr Liberty10 months ago

Amazing work on this! Love to see kaspa education taking off!

sam theman10 months ago

A nice, simple explanation, thank you!

moose.kas 𐤊 Themooseisloose10 months ago

Watching this when time :)

ASH𐤊ASPA10 months ago

Thank you for guiding 👍

🇵🇭 TapToTip — Zero Entropy Knowledge Unified 𐤊10 months ago

$kas

See𐤊er10 months ago

👨🏽‍🏫📖

The Kaspa Onion ꓘ10 months ago

Amazing

Rosario 𐤊10 months ago

@Cryptolyze_tek

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What is Kaspa Silverscript? Kaspa recently announced that the Silverscript v1 release candidate is live ahead of the mainnet launch. But what is it? Simply put, Silverscript is Kaspa's first high-level smart contract language and compiler; With Silverscript, developers can write clear covenant contracts that compile straight to native Kaspa Script, without a virtual machine, a second execution context, or global account state. - Silverscript aims at making the covenant primitives introduced after Toccata in Kaspa usable and readable. - Developers can write their covenants using a CashScript-like language and compile their contracts to a locking script, ABI, and covenant plumbing code. Language features Kaspa Silverscript features the following lines of code; - Loops and arrays - Function calls and helper functions - explicit types, structs, and typed literals - transaction introspection - signature checks, hashtags, and verification built-ins - covenant declarations that generate transition wrappers What can developers create with Silverscript? 1.) Escrow and milestone payments 2.) Recurring or streaming payments 3.) Vesting and dead-man’s-switch custody 4.) Native fungible assets (KCC20-style conventions) 5.) Atomic swaps 6.) Simple stateful objects such as counters 7.) ZK-aware checks that call the on-chain Groth16 / RISC Zero precompil If v1 works, Kaspa will have an authorship pathway for L1 covenants that doesn't add a second runtime for audits. This is less than “Solidity on Kaspa,” but it is the point. Silverscript is a platform for vaults, assets, and local state contracts and the foundational layer for the future shared state.

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Gang Starr - “Mass Appeal” “Mass Appeal” was a turning point for DJ Premier. I remember the first time I heard “Mass Appeal.” It was on Gang Starr’s 1994 album, ‘Hard to Earn.’ I played this song over and over. Serious repeat! What caught my attention the most was how Premier chopped the sample, and then arranged it in a way that the ends exploded every time the loop turned over. What’s more, at the point where the loop turns, there isn’t a dominate kick, which was typical of most hip hop/rap songs of that period. The absence of the kick on the loop turning point convinced me that Premier was in the midst of a sound change. Having heard his beatwork on ‘Illmatic’ just a couple of months before, I was wondering if his beats would be in the same vein or take a different direction. Two songs into ‘Hard to Earn,’ I knew Premier was going for a new sound. And what tipped me off was his experimentation with his drums. I was paying extra close attention to Premier’s use of the kick drum. Specifically, I was studying the ways in which he was starting to “relax” the punch of his kicks while still coming up with non-conventional drum frameworks. On “Mass Appeal,” it was if Premier had challenged himself to devise a moderately syncopated kick pattern underneath a deceptively simple sample arrangement. If you listen to “Mass Appeal,” pay careful attention to how the end of the sample seems to speed up. Truth is, it doesn’t. By chopping the end of the sample the way he did, and by easing up on the attack (the front-end) of the sample, an otherwise simple 1-bar measure is transformed into something akin to break in a record being “pushed” forward by the DJ. And what makes this all more complex than most people realize is the fact that the tempo — which stays the same throughout — is managed thoroughly by the kick pattern and shuffling hat pattern.

Gang Starr - “Mass Appeal” “Mass Appeal” was a turning point for DJ Premier. I remember the first time I heard “Mass Appeal.” It was on Gang Starr’s 1994 album, ‘Hard to Earn.’ I played this song over and over. Serious repeat! What caught my attention the most was how Premier chopped the sample, and then arranged it in a way that the ends exploded every time the loop turned over. What’s more, at the point where the loop turns, there isn’t a dominate kick, which was typical of most hip hop/rap songs of that period. The absence of the kick on the loop turning point convinced me that Premier was in the midst of a sound change. Having heard his beatwork on ‘Illmatic’ just a couple of months before, I was wondering if his beats would be in the same vein or take a different direction. Two songs into ‘Hard to Earn,’ I knew Premier was going for a new sound. And what tipped me off was his experimentation with his drums. I was paying extra close attention to Premier’s use of the kick drum. Specifically, I was studying the ways in which he was starting to “relax” the punch of his kicks while still coming up with non-conventional drum frameworks. On “Mass Appeal,” it was if Premier had challenged himself to devise a moderately syncopated kick pattern underneath a deceptively simple sample arrangement. If you listen to “Mass Appeal,” pay careful attention to how the end of the sample seems to speed up. Truth is, it doesn’t. By chopping the end of the sample the way he did, and by easing up on the attack (the front-end) of the sample, an otherwise simple 1-bar measure is transformed into something akin to break in a record being “pushed” forward by the DJ. And what makes this all more complex than most people realize is the fact that the tempo — which stays the same throughout — is managed thoroughly by the kick pattern and shuffling hat pattern.

The Art of Sampling

22,267 views • 7 months ago

It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of July 10 - July 16: • 1 M-class flare • 3 C-class flares • 29 coronal mass ejections • 0 geomagnetic storms This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the week’s activity. Those “blackouts” in the video below aren’t missing data — those are Earth eclipses! SDO is currently in its 33rd Earth eclipse season, which began on July 5 and will continue through August 2. Eclipse seasons are three-week periods twice a year when the spacecraft’s orbit passes “behind” Earth, briefly blocking out SDO's view of the Sun each day. Learn more about SDO and visualize its orbit:

It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of July 10 - July 16: • 1 M-class flare • 3 C-class flares • 29 coronal mass ejections • 0 geomagnetic storms This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the week’s activity. Those “blackouts” in the video below aren’t missing data — those are Earth eclipses! SDO is currently in its 33rd Earth eclipse season, which began on July 5 and will continue through August 2. Eclipse seasons are three-week periods twice a year when the spacecraft’s orbit passes “behind” Earth, briefly blocking out SDO's view of the Sun each day. Learn more about SDO and visualize its orbit:

NASA Space Alerts

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Police arrested 17-year-old Markel Lee on Friday for killing high school student Martha Odom at the Mall of Louisiana on Thursday during the mass shooting. Lee, along with his lawyer, turned himself in to police on Friday. Odom reportedly died from a gunshot wound to the chest. She had been at the mall celebrating “Senior Skip Day.” Lee faces one count of first-degree murder and will be charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder for the other people shot. Baton Rouge Police are asking for help identifying another suspect who was caught on camera (00:08). If you recognize him, please contact the authorities. Police say nobody wants to talk about it but there is a gang problem in Baton Rouge. This mass shooting stemmed from a social media beef between two groups. After they found each other at the food court at the mall, shots rang out. Call them groups or call them gangs—it’s mass violence and it has no place in civil society. Lee deserves life in prison. Gov. Landry blamed his parents, saying, “The beginning of this failure was at home.” He also blamed the judicial system for being too soft on criminals. Lee had a long criminal history already at such a young age. He shouldn’t have been free to harm innocent people. Gov. Landry gave his solution for violent crimes like Thursday’s mass shooting: “People say we cannot arrest our way out of this problem, and they are right. We can sentence our way out of this problem.” Odom deserves to be alive. May she rest in peace and may stricter legal penalties for violent criminals be realized. Another victim from this mass shooting, 43-year-old Donnie Guillory, is in critical condition at a hospital. If he dies, another count of first-degree murder would be added to Lee’s charges. (wbrz on IG)

Police arrested 17-year-old Markel Lee on Friday for killing high school student Martha Odom at the Mall of Louisiana on Thursday during the mass shooting. Lee, along with his lawyer, turned himself in to police on Friday. Odom reportedly died from a gunshot wound to the chest. She had been at the mall celebrating “Senior Skip Day.” Lee faces one count of first-degree murder and will be charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder for the other people shot. Baton Rouge Police are asking for help identifying another suspect who was caught on camera (00:08). If you recognize him, please contact the authorities. Police say nobody wants to talk about it but there is a gang problem in Baton Rouge. This mass shooting stemmed from a social media beef between two groups. After they found each other at the food court at the mall, shots rang out. Call them groups or call them gangs—it’s mass violence and it has no place in civil society. Lee deserves life in prison. Gov. Landry blamed his parents, saying, “The beginning of this failure was at home.” He also blamed the judicial system for being too soft on criminals. Lee had a long criminal history already at such a young age. He shouldn’t have been free to harm innocent people. Gov. Landry gave his solution for violent crimes like Thursday’s mass shooting: “People say we cannot arrest our way out of this problem, and they are right. We can sentence our way out of this problem.” Odom deserves to be alive. May she rest in peace and may stricter legal penalties for violent criminals be realized. Another victim from this mass shooting, 43-year-old Donnie Guillory, is in critical condition at a hospital. If he dies, another count of first-degree murder would be added to Lee’s charges. (wbrz on IG)

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It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of May 1 - 7: •2 M-class flares •2 C-class flares •29 coronal mass ejections •1 geomagnetic storm This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the week’s activity. It has been a relatively quiet week on the Sun, with the two M-class flares erupting off the Sun’s western limb (right side from SDO’s view) and not producing much impact on Earth. However, a large active region will soon be rotating into Earth’s view — you can see it toward the end of this video emerging from the eastern limb (left side from SDO's view). Keep an eye out in the coming week for potential solar activity! Learn more about space weather:

It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of May 1 - 7: •2 M-class flares •2 C-class flares •29 coronal mass ejections •1 geomagnetic storm This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the week’s activity. It has been a relatively quiet week on the Sun, with the two M-class flares erupting off the Sun’s western limb (right side from SDO’s view) and not producing much impact on Earth. However, a large active region will soon be rotating into Earth’s view — you can see it toward the end of this video emerging from the eastern limb (left side from SDO's view). Keep an eye out in the coming week for potential solar activity! Learn more about space weather:

NASA Space Alerts

103,280 views • 5 months ago

Mercury charges for a bank account while others give it away. Immad Akhund explains why Mercury Personal targets the mass affluent—and what that says about fintech’s next fight. (0:00) Why Charge for a Bank Account Now? (0:23) Akhund: Who’s the “Mass Affluent”? (0:56) What Makes Mercury Personal Different? (1:16) Why Launch Personal Now? (2:02) Why Didn’t You Leave Big Banks Earlier? (2:34) Mercury vs Big Banks: What’s Broken? (3:42) Can OCR Payments Go Mainstream? (4:19) How Do Permissions Change Money? (4:50) Can One Account Replace 5 Services? (5:45) Who Is Mercury Personal Actually For? (6:24) Start Narrow, Go Broad: Akhund’s Plan (7:27) 4,000 Alpha Users vs 200k Businesses (8:39) Does Word of Mouth Still Matter? (9:16) Why a $240 Annual Fee Isn’t Crazy (9:51) Subscription Pricing vs Feature Fees? (10:19) When Does It Become a No-Brainer? (11:13) Is “Free Fintech” a Trap? (30:25) Talk to Your Bank Account: When? (30:54) Where Does AI Matter More? (40:55) Founders in Arms: Lessons That Stick

Mercury charges for a bank account while others give it away. Immad Akhund explains why Mercury Personal targets the mass affluent—and what that says about fintech’s next fight. (0:00) Why Charge for a Bank Account Now? (0:23) Akhund: Who’s the “Mass Affluent”? (0:56) What Makes Mercury Personal Different? (1:16) Why Launch Personal Now? (2:02) Why Didn’t You Leave Big Banks Earlier? (2:34) Mercury vs Big Banks: What’s Broken? (3:42) Can OCR Payments Go Mainstream? (4:19) How Do Permissions Change Money? (4:50) Can One Account Replace 5 Services? (5:45) Who Is Mercury Personal Actually For? (6:24) Start Narrow, Go Broad: Akhund’s Plan (7:27) 4,000 Alpha Users vs 200k Businesses (8:39) Does Word of Mouth Still Matter? (9:16) Why a $240 Annual Fee Isn’t Crazy (9:51) Subscription Pricing vs Feature Fees? (10:19) When Does It Become a No-Brainer? (11:13) Is “Free Fintech” a Trap? (30:25) Talk to Your Bank Account: When? (30:54) Where Does AI Matter More? (40:55) Founders in Arms: Lessons That Stick

Rex Salisbury

34,110 views • 7 months ago