Tootfinder

"Soft-sided tents"?
This is Alex Jones' "FEMA is building detention camps to put us after they take our guns" hysteria made reality and inflicted on whoever Trump wants to punish, no conviction required.
#Utah already did residential schools and Japanese-American internment camps to our eternal shame and guilt. Utah currently has a huge, barely legal teenager an…

Will Utah be home to new ICE detention center?
A new report claims Utah is expected to be the site of a new ICE detention center built by the Department of Homeland Security.

Security Analysis of Ponzi Schemes in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Chunyi Zhang, Qinghong Wei, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03819 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Security Analysis of Ponzi Schemes in Ethereum Smart Contracts
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has precipitated the widespread adoption of Ethereum and smart contracts across a variety of sectors. However, this has also given rise to numerous fraudulent activities, with many speculators embedding Ponzi schemes within smart contracts, resulting in significant financial losses for investors. Currently, there is a lack of effective methods for identifying and analyzing such new types of fraudulent activities. This paper categorizes these scams …

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

Designing Ethereum's Geographical (De)Centralization Beyond the Atlantic
Sen Yang, Burak \"Oz, Fei Wu, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21475 https://

Designing Ethereum's Geographical (De)Centralization Beyond the Atlantic
Decentralization has a geographic dimension that conventional metrics such as stake distribution overlook. Where validators run affects resilience to regional shocks (outages, disasters, government intervention) and fairness in reward access. Yet in permissionless systems, locations cannot be mandated, but they emerge from incentives. Today, Ethereum's validators cluster along the Atlantic (EU and U.S. East Coast), where latency is structurally favorable. This raises a key question: when some r…

Pseudo-MDPs: A Novel Framework for Efficiently Optimizing Last Revealer Seed Manipulations in Blockchains
Maxime Reynouard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07080 https://

Pseudo-MDPs: A Novel Framework for Efficiently Optimizing Last Revealer Seed Manipulations in Blockchains
This study tackles the computational challenges of solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) for a restricted class of problems. It is motivated by the Last Revealer Attack (LRA), which undermines fairness in some Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains such as Ethereum (\$400B market capitalization). We introduce pseudo-MDPs (pMDPs) a framework that naturally models such problems and propose two distinct problem reductions to standard MDPs. One problem reduction provides a novel, counter-intuitive per…

A Time-Bound Signature Scheme for Blockchains
Benjamin Marsh, Paolo Serafino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03697 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03697

A Time-Bound Signature Scheme for Blockchains
We introduce a modified Schnorr signature scheme to allow for time-bound signatures for transaction fee auction bidding and smart contract purposes in a blockchain context, ensuring an honest producer can only validate a signature before a given block height. The immutable blockchain is used as a source of universal time for the signature scheme. We show the use of such a signature scheme leads to lower MEV revenue for builders. We then apply our time-bound signatures to Ethereum's EIP-1559 and…

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
Moritz Grundei, Aayush Rajasekaran, Kishori Konwar, Muriel Medard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21586 https:/…

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
The data availability problem is a central challenge in blockchain systems and lies at the core of the accessibility and scalability issues faced by platforms such as Ethereum. Modern solutions employ several approaches, with data availability sampling (DAS) being the most self-sufficient and minimalistic in its security assumptions. Existing DAS methods typically form cryptographic commitments on codewords of fixed-rate erasure codes, which restrict light nodes to sampling from a predetermined…