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ELI5 of @avihu28's brilliant paper: 1. In a Bitcoin tx there are two parts: (1) The first part used to show that you own a Bitcoin. That part can be made post-quantum safe. (2) The second part that says who controls it next. That part can also be made post quantum safe. BUT, till yesterday, the ONLY THING binding the two parts together was a *quantum susceptible signature*. This means that Darth Vader can see your TX, take his quantum computer, break your quantum susceptible signature, and replace your second part (sending the Bitcoin to your friend) with his second part (sending the Bitcoin to himself). Avihu found a brilliant way, which uses another brilliant idea (BINOHASH) by the brilliant @robin_linus, to BIND together the two parts in a way that is unbreakable by a quantum computer. So now even Darth Vader cannot take your bitcoin. The downside, acknowledged by Avihu, is that this solution comes with a tech-ish complex UX and won't be cheap. It can serve as a fall back solution but a better one would be to agree to a soft fork that allows for Bitcoin transactions to be signed with post quantum secure signatures. Which option do you prefer?

The paper recommends QSB (Quantum Safe Bitcoin): an off-chain scheme users can deploy *today* with no protocol changes/softforks. It replaces ECDSA security with a RIPEMD-160 hash-to-signature puzzle solved via GPU compute (~$75-150 per tx on modern hardware). This creates quantum-resistant spends that fit legacy script limits (201 ops, 10k bytes). Code + CUDA tools are in the repo; submit non-standard txs direct to miners (e.g. Slipstream). It's a practical stopgap for P2PK/early UTXOs until a fork.

The first thing I would say is I recommend reading the discussion section at 1.3 (its rather short and at the beginning). I agree with the general direction here. Specifically: 1. P2PK can protect themselves (all in theory) if they spend to QSB 2. Its not NIST indeed. But if you dig you see there are other modes with higher security just they cost more 3. Yes agreed. Though need to count this is a research prototype. Cost can prob go down significantly (I related to some of that at the end) Bottom line I share a similar conclusion about the right path to PQ security (mentioned at the end of the first section)

QSB only protects UTXOs with never-revealed public keys. ~1.7M BTC in P2PK and all addresses where the pubkey is already on-chain remain fully exposed. NO scheme without a softfork can help those. “~118-bit security, roughly half under Grover” = ~59-bit effective security. NIST’s minimum for PQ is 128 bits. That’s not quantum-safe by the standard definition. Off-chain GPU cost of “a few hundred dollars” per transaction also means this doesn’t scale to everyday Bitcoin usage. Real PQ security at the Bitcoin transaction layer requires a fork. There’s no path around it.

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马上就要圣诞节了，Bitcoin 在链上的数据仍然非常稳定，多数投资者保持着观望的态度。 从交易所存量数据来看，虽然 $BTC 的价格始终没有稳定的重回 90,000 美元，但是持仓者的情绪不但没有恐慌，反而还在逐渐的将 BTC 从交易所提现，这种情况一方面可以视为买入量要大于卖出量，另一方面能明确看到多数持仓者的情绪非常稳定，对于短期价格的变化并不敏感。 从数据来看最近一周交易所存量降低了 3万枚 BTC 左右 因为如果担心经济进入衰退，或者是风险市场全面进入熊市的话，BTC 的抛售会增加，转移交易所的数量会上升，从交易所提现的数据会降低，但目前并未看到这种情况，反而是虽然价格震荡，但买入的投资者明显大于等着抛售或已经抛售的投资者。 从最近一周转出交易所的数据来看，投资者的抛售意愿在降低 另外我们也知道现货 ETF 很长一段时间都是净流出了，所以交易所减少的量几乎不会是 ETF 机构的买入，这一部分很大可能都是高净值投资者的买入，从数据来看，最近一年持仓超过 10枚 BTC的投资者始终保持着增持的趋势，而持仓小于 10 枚 BTC 的小规模投资者则有明显的抛售趋势。 高净值投资者买入并未明显受到价格的影响 小规模投资者受到政治，经济，环境和价格因素较多，尤其是在市场不稳定的时候，小规模投资者会更加谨慎一些，能明显看到从2025年3月开始小规模投资者就一直处于卖出的状态，一直到现在。而相对来说高净值投资者受到外部因素的影响较少，不论价格的涨跌变化，买入的节奏一致性很高。 其实从交易所的头寸数据中也能看到最近一年已经经历了三次大规模的买入潮，这三次几乎都带动 BTC的价格冲上了阶段性的历史新高，而目前感觉第四次买入潮正在酝酿中。 最近正在酝酿第四次买入潮 虽然我不能说这次的买入潮也一定能带动 $BTC 价格的上涨，但交易所存量的减少不是不争得事实，全年净流入的头寸和流出相比几乎是不值一提，投资者对于长期持有的信念在加强，能明显看到这次下跌的时候抄底还是比较明显的。 @bitget VIP，费率更低，福利更狠

11 Predictions for 2026 Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year’s predictions. 2025 was a good year : I scored 7.85 out of 10. Here are my predictions for 2026 : 1. Businesses pay more for AI agents than people for the first time. This has already happened with consumers. Waymo rides cost 31% more than Uber on average, yet demand keeps growing. 1 Riders prefer the safety & reliability of autonomous vehicles. For rote business tasks, agents will command a similar premium as companies factor in onboarding, recruiting, training, & management costs. 2. 2026 becomes a record year for liquidity. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, & Databricks IPO, with SpaceX & OpenAI ranking among the ten largest offerings ever. The pent-up demand from 4+ years of drought finally breaks. Fear of disruption by fast-growing AI systems drives defensive acquisitions exceeding $25b as incumbents buy rather than build. 3. Vector databases resurge as essential infrastructure in the AI stack. Multimodal models & world/state-space models demand new data architectures. Vector databases grow revenue explosively as they become the connective tissue between foundation models & enterprise data. 4. AI models execute tasks autonomously for longer than a workday. According to METR, AI task duration doubles every 7 months. 2 Current frontier models reliably complete tasks taking people about an hour. Extrapolating this trend, by late 2026, AI agents will autonomously execute 8+ hour workstreams, fundamentally changing how companies staff projects. 5. AI budgets receive scrutiny for the first time. Buying committees & boards push back on AI spend. Small language models & open-source alternatives rise in popularity as research labs determine how to specialize them for particular tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance at a fraction of the cost. Developers prefer them for 10x cost reductions. 6. Google distances itself from competitors via breadth in AI. No other company achieves breakthroughs across as many domains : frontier models, on-device inference, video generation, open-source weights, & search integration. Google sets the pace, forcing OpenAI, Anthropic, & xAI to specialize in response. The era of every lab competing on every frontier ends. 7. Agent observability becomes the most competitive layer of the inference stack. Engineering observability, security observability, & data observability fuse into a single discipline. Agents require unified visibility across code execution, threat detection, & data lineage. This marks the beginning of the confluence I predicted in 2025 : the three observability spaces finally converge. 8. 30% of international payments are issued via stablecoin by December. The efficiency gains in cross-border settlement are too large to ignore. As regulatory clarity improves in major markets, stablecoins move from the periphery of crypto to the core of global trade finance, displacing traditional SWIFT rails for a significant portion of B2B volume. 9. Agent data access patterns stress & break existing databases. Agents issue at least an order of magnitude more queries to databases & data lakes than people ever did. This surge in concurrency & throughput requirements forces a redesign of the overall architecture for both transactional & analytical databases to handle the relentless demand of autonomous systems. 10. The data center buildout reaches 3.5% of US GDP in 2026. The scale of investment mirrors the historical expansion of the railroads. The only factor that slows overall building is perceived risk within the credit market, particularly in the private credit market. The massive growth in that asset class suddenly shows strains of increasing default rates, creating a potential bottleneck for the most capital-intensive infrastructure projects. 11. The web flips to agent-first design. Most developer documentation & many websites become agent-first rather than people-first. This shift occurs because many purchasing decisions are now informed first through agentic research. Consequently, the front door needs to be designed for robots, while the side door caters to people.

The founder and CEO of Hinge just stepped down to start a new AI dating app. He sees an opportunity to reimagine the entire category and get rid of the swipe-based paradigm that leaves so many daters dissatisfied. 2026 is going to be a huge year for AI matchmakers!

In 2026, Venture Capital will eat Private Equity It used to be that venture capital and private equity lived on two separate planets: VC = San Francisco PE = New York They targeted completely different universes of companies: --> PE - people heavy biz services, stable/low growth, predictable cashflows --> VC - tech-forward, high growth, high risk, massive TAM What was the playbook for B2B VC backed startups? --> Grow to unicorn scale by selling to other early adopter tech companies, then Fortune 500s XX> SMB and mid-market services - think field services, IT staffing, accounting, construction, recruiting - were always tough to sell into for startups Why? -->Thin margins, high labor costs, and small IT budgets >> But as AI eats labor, these businesses are in play << There are 3 ways where VC and PE are colliding: 1/ Private Equity funds will become channel partners for startups. PE funds are focused on financial engineering and cost optimization. Startups building AI products and services can sell across their portfolio to automate the backoffice and uplevel sales and marketing. PE funds have made AI their #1 strategic priority and have hired central leaders to oversee their portfolio adoption efforts 2/ PE portfolio pages are a startup idea menu Private equity will often buyout vertical software companies whose TAM didn’t allow venture scaled returns. As software evolves from data storage and collaboration to agents taking action and completing work, AI should massively expand the TAM for these categories. Founders will set their sights on unseating these legacy incumbents backed by private equity. All they have to do is look at their portfolio pages for category ideas 3/ AI Rollups This is one of the most direct ways that VC is eating PE VC backed AI platform businesses are not just selling software but acquiring legacy business services companies to own the value chain end to end. As an example, our @speedrun company AgentAstra is acquiring freight forwarding services businesses with mostly debt and integrating AI deeply into their operations These companies aim to increase margins by at least 2x and make them “AI native” tl;dr - While the west coast, Patagonia-wearing VCs and the east coast, PE suits used to live in different universes, in 2026 with AI, I believe, those worlds converge

Today I’m excited to share that Surf has raised $15M to build the AI platform for crypto research and trading — led by @PanteraCapital with participation from @cbventures and @DCGco. Surf comes from a very simple idea: AI that actually helps you research, trade, and invest - starting with crypto.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang breaks down the five layers of AI.

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Excited to share that I’ve joined @a16z as an Investment Partner. I’ll be focusing on early-stage investing as part of a16z @speedrun, where we invest $1M in new startups and help them scale. I first got to know a16z when I joined Lyft in 2019, where the firm was a major investor and Ben was on the board. I’ve always admired their unique approach to venture as a product, focus on content marketing, and culture of deep respect for the entrepreneur. I’m thrilled to now join and serve founders alongside @andrewchen, @Tocelot, @JoshLu, @tkexpress11, @emilybenn12, @custo_lejla, @samshank, @far33d, @marcussegal, @ndrewlee, and the rest of the team. Thank you to the incredible team at @BainCapVC – who gave me my first introduction to venture and the best training I could’ve asked for. If you’re working on something new – I’d love to hear from you. It’s time to build!

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Sydney Sweeney could be the stealthiest VC in Hollywood. Let's peek at her portfolio: Invested in Polymarket seed round in 2021 (valued at ~$15M), now valued at $15B - a 750x return. Invested in xAI's seed round in 2023 (valued at ~$1B), now valued at $50B - a 50x return. Invested in Lululemon Athletica seed round in 2019 (valued at ~$60M), now valued at $9B - a 150x return. Invested in Cluely’s seed round in 2024 (valued at ~$20M), now valued at $1B - a 50x return. Who would’ve guessed Sydney was backing the fastest horses? 😏

AI is the highest ELO battle ever. Speed of deployment of hardware, especially robotics, is the lynchpin.

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