Dr. Doge 🐶 Field Notes from 2013

📢 TON Network Update July 13: What You Need to Know A mandatory software update is scheduled for Monday, July 13 at 10:00 UTC for both validators and full node operators. What is this about? This is the next step of TON's "Sub-Second" upgrade program the ongoing rollout of Catchain 2.0, the new consensus protocol designed to cut block finality from ~2.5 seconds down to 200–400 milliseconds. Based…

🐤 How TON is getting ready for heavier loads ⚫️ In just an hour, the network will begin voting on a new set of validator upgrades. Ahead of the vote, Dr. Awesome Doge published a detailed breakdown of what is changing — so we’ll recap the key points. ⚫️ If April’s upgrade was about making transactions faster, June’s is about something less exciting but no less important: keeping the network stabl…

In China, there is a significant date referred to as "May 35th." Typically, on this day or the two days surrounding it, VPNs experience large-scale disconnections and loss of signal. Are you all prepared to assess whether your VPN is sufficiently stable to remain functional during this period? 📡

You already let AI summarize your docs and your unread chats. The catch: to pull that off, your private files get uploaded to some company's AI, which can read them, train on them, and profile you. At Blockchain Life in Dubai, Durov told the story of how 🤖 COCOON was born to break that trade. A decentralized network on TON where GPU owners rent out compute for TON, and your data gets processed in…

After the Titanic hit the iceberg, the passengers stayed aboard for almost two hours. They were sure it couldn't sink. The lifeboats rowed away half empty. Durov opened his Oslo Freedom Forum talk with that image, then said the ship of personal freedom has already hit the iceberg, and most of us haven't noticed we're sinking. He laid out the tricks moving from East to West: thousands arrested in…