what's based is that while this is true, the original design is already so good that most of what we're actually doing is just removing our own footguns from the implementation that make it slower!

Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s. Modern apps and web pages would immediately back up every buffer and make for a painful experience, but it is fun to consider optimizing inside that tight box (in the 90s, 4x ISDN was high end!). With Starlink’s good latency, input-distribution multiplayer games would still work fine, as long as they didn’t download anything. You could even have voice chat. With an optimal implementation, you could scroll the X feed as fast as you want with full text, with progressive images coming in when you pause, but instantly ceasing bandwidth use as you start scrolling again. Remote shells would work well by default, but we could do a lot better than standard ANSI for complex updates. Server-rendered web pages or apps could at least be progressively rendered and text-first, with full responsiveness even when the fidelity is low.

1) what?!?! A mobile phone with 3 months of mobile service?!?!

One more release before Anchor 1.0 0.32 will include: - ~5-10% CU decrease across CPIs - ~56% base binary size reduction - Program Metadata uploads - solana-program 2.3 - Stabilization of IDL builds - Optimized Invoke - Bun support and more Anything else you want to see?

The trenches yearn for a functional flywheel. @heavendex

"Nasdaq handles 1m TPS Solana can never do that" is a sign of low IQ. First of all, Solana can do that. Second, TPS is endogenous to the market structure, if you incentivise 1m tps spam it is because the market is poorly designed.

Sigh... only Claude Sonnet 4 knows how to write Solana DeFi transactions... Solana benchmark coming out soon!

AI doesn’t care that you are a terrible communicator. I think the biggest unlock will be for shape rotators.

users DON'T know what they want but users know what they DON'T want

I am still a better shitposter than @grok. Humor is the final battleground