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bradortoday at 11:48 AM1 replyview on HN

And there’s no reason we should be limited to 128. It’s all just so dated and stagnant.

Chips can be made that dwarf that limitation, instead we’re stuck with this decade old nonsense to “work around” again.

Flip flopping between “the code needs it” and “the chips need it”.


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inigyoutoday at 1:50 PM

How long should addresses be? 256 is good, lets you encode a whole ec25519 key. 512 for expandability? 1 megabyte for post-quantum?

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