Mar𐤊us Aurelius

“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization. These transformations have come about silently, because those who know what is going on work in the global surveillance industry and have no incentives to speak out. Left to its own trajectory, within a few years, global civilization will be a postmodern surveillance dystopia, from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact, we may already be there. While many writers have considered what the internet means for global civilization, they are wrong. They are wrong because they do not have the sense of perspective that direct experience brings. They are wrong because they have never met the enemy.” ASSANGE, Julian. Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet Nov 1, 2012

@OriNewman KSC - Kaspa silverscript contract

@OriNewman Why do we always need the 20 in the naming scheme?

Okay, for now I chose the name KCC20, where KCC stands for Kaspa Contract Convention. I also made an md book that goes over the contract and the examples in the code kaspanet.github.io/silverscript/k…

Veja como operam. A tal NetLab usa em suas “pesquisas” a expressão “machosfera” para tentar impor criminalização da “misoginia”. Os militantes no Ministério Público passa a usar também a expressão, juntos com a imprensa. Assim, formam um aparente consenso, normalizam a novilíngua e passam a instrumentalizar o Estado contra homens para impor a agenda. É exatamente assim que funciona: há método, há articulação, nada disso é geração espontânea.

@BullTheoryio @DesheShai

THIS IS BIG. A Bitcoin developer has built a working prototype that protects your wallet from quantum computers. Even if Bitcoin is forced to shut down part of its own security system to protect itself. To understand why this matters you need to understand the problem first. Every Bitcoin wallet is secured by a cryptographic signature scheme built on elliptic curve mathematics. The security assumption behind this system is that deriving a private key from a publicly visible public key requires computational work that classical computers cannot perform within any practical timeframe. Quantum computers running Shor's algorithm can break that assumption. Google researchers published findings last week showing a quantum computer could compromise Bitcoin's core cryptography in as little as nine minutes, using significantly fewer physical qubits than prior estimates required. The threat is not immediate but the timeline is compressing faster than most researchers projected. Now here is where it gets complicated. Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade, activated in 2021, improved transaction efficiency and privacy across the network. But by design it permanently exposes the public key of every Taproot wallet on the blockchain. Because that public key is permanently recorded and publicly visible, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could use it to derive the corresponding private key and drain the wallet at any point in the future. Approximately 6.9 million Bitcoin across Taproot and older P2PK address formats are already in this exposed state. The developer community has a contingency plan for this scenario. If quantum computers advance to the point where this becomes an active threat, Bitcoin could activate an emergency soft fork that disables the key path spend in Taproot, which is the specific spending mechanism a quantum attacker would exploit. This closes the vulnerability before it can be exploited. But this emergency response introduces a serious secondary problem that nobody had resolved until now. The vast majority of modern Bitcoin wallets, particularly single signature Taproot wallets, rely entirely on that key path spend mechanism and have no alternative spending path configured. If Bitcoin disables that mechanism network wide, those wallets have no remaining method to authorize transactions. The funds inside them become permanently inaccessible, not stolen, but completely unspendable even by their rightful owners. The same upgrade designed to protect users could permanently strand their funds. This is the problem that Olaoluwa Osuntokun, chief technology officer of Lightning Labs, just solved with a working prototype posted to the Bitcoin developer mailing list yesterday. His solution uses a zk-STARK proof, which stands for zero knowledge scalable transparent argument of knowledge. In practical terms this means the following. Every Bitcoin wallet is ultimately derived from a master seed, typically the 12 or 24 word recovery phrase generated when the wallet is first created. All keys in the wallet are mathematically derived from that seed following a deterministic standard called BIP-32. Osuntokun built a system that generates a cryptographic proof demonstrating that a specific public key was derived from a specific master seed via the standard BIP-32 derivation path, without revealing the seed itself or any intermediate private key material. The Bitcoin network can verify the proof and authorize the wallet owner to move their funds, bypassing the disabled signature mechanism entirely. The prototype generates a valid proof in 50 seconds on a standard MacBook using Metal GPU acceleration, consumes approximately 12 gigabytes of RAM during proof generation, and produces a final proof of 1.7 megabytes. Osuntokun acknowledged the codebase is largely unoptimized and that a production implementation built specifically for this statement would run significantly faster and produce smaller proofs. He also noted that multiple proofs could be aggregated into a single compact proof to reduce on-chain verification overhead. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers capable of executing this attack do not exist today. What has changed is that Google's latest research has materially lowered the estimated resource requirements for such an attack, and the practical timeline is now closer than the field previously assumed. What is also new is that the developer community now has a working prototype of one of the critical tools needed to execute an emergency quantum defense without permanently locking legitimate holders out of their own funds. A problem that has existed in theoretical discussions for years has now produced a concrete technical implementation.

@PoW_Odie Page not found odie

"Kaspa lost its transaction data" you’ve heard it a hundred times. I built an interactive explainer walking through the real story ::: the bug, the recovery, and why the UTXO set proves the supply is correct regardless. Beginners welcome Enjoy #Kaspa #s1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pow-protocol-university.web.app/kaspa-lost-dat…

@LulaOficial Ultra direita

Há uma tentativa de consolidar um esquema de ultradireita nesse país que passa por colocar um fim na democracia. Porque eles começam sonhando em fechar a Suprema Corte. Eles continuam falando que a urna eletrônica permitiu que houvesse fraude, continuam desacreditando em tudo que é instituição que garanta o funcionamento da democracia. Então essa eleição, ela certamente será uma eleição que terá como ponto alto a defesa da democracia.

@thenarr47271717 @AAStack No I'm not. The point people who tell you about the fee market make is: There will be no space for you or most bitcoiners on l1, ever. If the network is actually used. That's the point.

@aureliusmarkus_ @AAStack Hmm thats not what you KAS buddies told me They assured me that there is no fee market in the future because everyone will be pushed to LN. But you're saying fees in the 1000s Almost like reality is somewhere in between But we should stop arguing. You're getting emotional

Store $100,000 worth of groceries in your car trunk for a year. Then we can talk. 😂 Lightning is for moving Bitcoin, not storing it long term. Same way your checking account is for spending, not storing your life savings. This is why I can’t take Kaspa Bros seriously.

@thenarr47271717 @AAStack a) no fee market = no demand. Currently b) fees in the thousands = the network is being used and it can't support the demand (becuse it simply cant, 144 blocks a day 10 min block time) How fucking hard it is to understand the concept?

@aureliusmarkus_ @AAStack I'm repeating what Kaspians have said. Not sure how that makes me dumb But I'm sure you're super smart so you'll tell me about how there can be both a) no fee market and b) fees in the thousands

@thenarr47271717 @AAStack ???? Are you dumb?

@aureliusmarkus_ @AAStack But Kaspians have assured me that there is no fee market

@RascunhoEcono @ZeBitcoio @minhainflacao chega aqui rapidinho

O seu @ZeBitcoio veio comentar lá no yt com argumento tão bom quanto ‘kkkkkk’ Eu perguntei o erro, e ele pediu pra eu explicar a porque IPCA é mais baixo que aumento de preços do plano de saúde e mercado etc Tá certo que ele mesmo diz que o QI dele é baixo, mas eu esperava ué alguém que fale de finanças, cripto, soubesse o MÍNIMO de índice de inflação IPCA é um ÍNDICE de preços, calculando uma cesta de consumo e a variação via média ponderada dos itens na cesta HÁ VÁRIOS OUTROS ÍNDICES Eis o bitcoiner médio, crítica métricas de inflação e nem sabe como funciona

@Kaspa_KEF @hashdag @OxfordUnion I keep agreeing with this vision.

What I see is something that most people in crypto haven't connected yet: The missing piece of the internet The internet solved communication. Email, social media, messaging , we can talk to anyone. But talking is cheap talk. You can say anything online with zero commitment. This is why online petitions are worthless, why "cancel culture" is mostly noise, why communities form and dissolve overnight. The internet has no binding layer. Yonatan is pointing out that this isn't a technology problem. It's a game theory problem. Millions of people might want the same thing: leave a bad platform, support a cause, migrate liquidity, boycott a company — but each individual faces catastrophic risk if they move alone. So everyone stays put, eating hare, while the stag walks by. Think about this concretely. Right now... A hundred thousand LPs want to leave Ethereum for better infrastructure, but no individual LP will move to an empty pool. Result: $5.7 billion stays on BNB Chain despite better options existing. Millions of parents hate what streaming platforms push on their kids, but no entrepreneur will build an alternative without guaranteed subscribers, and no subscriber will commit without a guaranteed platform. Result: nothing changes. Dissidents in authoritarian countries want to protest, but the first person to move publicly gets arrested. Result: everyone stays silent despite shared conviction. Staghunt solves all of these with one primitive — the intendo. "I commit to X if enough others commit to X." Commitments accumulate invisibly. When critical mass hits, everything executes atomically. Nobody moved first. Everyone moved together. Most crypto projects are building better financial plumbing. Faster swaps, cheaper fees, novel yield. Staghunt isn't financial plumbing. It's social infrastructure. It's the mechanism by which humans (and AI agents) can form binding associations without trusting a central coordinator. This is what DAOs tried to be but failed at. DAOs have governance but no coordination primitive. They can vote on proposals, but they can't solve "I'll join if you join." Staghunt provides the missing primitive. Here's the part most people will miss. The four axioms — atomicity, opacity, multiplexing, composability — create very specific infrastructure demands: Opacity means the pack state must be hidden from everyone, including operators. This requires threshold FHE running on a decentralized validator set. If validators are a PoS cartel, they can collude to peek at the pack state and front-run the coordination event. RTD's "write then select" property makes this collusion structurally harder. Atomicity means when the hunt snaps, execution must be instant and uncensorable. If 60% of PoS validators are OFAC-compliant and the coordination event involves something politically sensitive — a dissident movement, a sanctioned entity's liquidity migration — they can censor the snap. With RTD and high BPS, censorship windows compress to near-zero. The gap between snap and execution is where manipulation lives. Sompolinsky explicitly states this. Anyone who sees the coordination event forming can front-run it, manipulate it, or block it. Only real-time censorship resistance (descentralization) closes this gap. A coordination market running on Ethereum, Solana, or any PoS chain has a structural vulnerability: the validators know the state, can censor the execution, and can be coerced by regulators or bribed by interested parties. On Kaspa with RTD, the coordination event forms opaquely and executes before anyone can react. The convergence of everything Forget "Kaspa is fast Bitcoin." The real pitch is: Nobody is pricing this in. The crypto market sees Kaspa as "PoW altcoin, fast blocks, small team."  Either this vision is impractical and won't ship . Or the market is sleeping on the most ambitious application thesis in crypto since Ethereum's original smart contract pitch.

On hashd.ag/staghunt/, we are able to see @hashdag's theory for why decentralized blockchain is still needed and more needed than ever. Link to Y speech at @OxfordUnion: hashd.ag/oxford-union-a…. We are very proud to have orchestrated and funded it. Full-length 40-min video to be released soon.

@viajantpaulista @hdiegorj que lindo ratio que tu tomou, defensor de vagabundo

@hdiegorj É motivo pra derrubar os caras? Poderia ter matado. Seu bem material vale uma vida?

🚨🔥Santa Cruz, RJ: bandidos tentam assaltar carro blindado e levam atropelada do motorista. Ação e reação. Blindado + coragem = bandidos no chão. O Rio não aguenta mais isso. Comenta aí: você reagiria?

Bradman, c'mon dude. There is no demand for block space now and btc cannot accommodate real demand (millions using the base layer at once) - 144 blocks a day, once every 10 minutes, a slow propagation time with space for 3000 unsimple transactions to 4000 simple ones. These are separate things.

@aureliusmarkus_ @NakaSompo “the base layer is unable to accomodate demand” …. “There is no demand” 🤣🤣🤣

Why do Kaspa folks feel that in order to promote their coin it is necessary to trash Lightning?

@BTCBreadMan @NakaSompo They are non existant because there is no demand.

@aureliusmarkus_ @NakaSompo Bro fees on the base layer are basically non-existent. Hilarious to suggest it is unable to accommodate demand.

@BTCBreadMan @NakaSompo it isn't, keeping a lot of value on it is unsafe and the base layer is unable to accomodate demand.

@NakaSompo I mean it works pretty good for what it’s intended for.

@BitcoinRachy @Srodland @realvijayk @thekaspaonion @NakaSompo @Dr_Gonzo_K kasparchive.com Here you go

@BitcoinRachy @Srodland @realvijayk @thekaspaonion @NakaSompo @Dr_Gonzo_K Ranchy this article has been debunked a long time ago, it's pure tabloid fud

🚨 $Kas is getting exposed. You can read the full details here techleaks24.substack.com/p/a-factual-ac…. Shoutout to @zuqkaX for sending me this link. The people behind it took millions from big investors but told everyone it was just a small community project. They started the chain with almost no notice then hit a major problem right away and quietly restarted it. After that they erased every single record of the first six months when most of the coins were being created at full speed. There is no way to check what really happened in that time and no complete history left to verify. On top of that the supply is being mined out so fast that nearly all of it will be out by the middle of next year while daily activity brings in almost nothing to pay the people running the network. The machines built just for this coin leave those miners stuck with heavy losses and no way to switch. This whole setup was never built to last. It is now or never to rotate to $Qubic as a safer bet. Do yourself a svor and don’t let the bad guys win

@jasonmyersart @Bitcoin_Core21 @BitcoinRachy If bitcoin becomes global money, internet splits prevent ledger coordination. It's unfeasible.

@aureliusmarkus_ @Bitcoin_Core21 @BitcoinRachy So, I am old enough to remember what a Cold War looks like. I studied the fall of the USSR for my phd. I just looked up the hypothesis. At worst, a nation state creates a fragment internet. My thought is it never goes mainstream. Blockchain stays native to tcp/ip, no fork.

Let’s settle this debate once and for all. Is KAS a shitcoin?