## Fast and Scalable BLS Threshold Signatures

tl;dr: We use $O(t\log^2{t})$-time algorithms to interpolate secrets “in the exponent.” This makes aggregating $(t,n)$ BLS threshold signatures much faster, both at small and large scales. The question of scaling threshold signatures came to us at VMware Research after we finished working on SBFT1, a scalable Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) pro...

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## "Ego is the enemy", by Ryan Holiday

This is Ryan Holiday’s “Ego is the enemy” in bullet-point form. (Support this article by buying the book using this link.) These are the ideas I found interesting from the book, without the excellent stories used to back them. For those, you’ll have to buy the book. I changed some of the excerpts from 2nd person to 1st person, so they resonate ...

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## How to give (and make) a presentation

These are my notes from a quick workshop at Stony Brook University given by Professor Michael Bender and Professor Rob Johnson in May 2012. How to make the presentation Prefix competitive If you had one slide, make your presentation. If you had two slides, extend your 1 slide presentation. 1 slide -> 2 slides -> 3 slides. Quick...

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