Mikel Penagarikano [!🔑 ⇨ !₿]

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Local AI hits 111 tokens/second on Apple Silicon — no cloud, no API key, no subscription toll. The same principles behind Self-Sovereign Identity apply to inference: your model, your hardware, your data stays yours. Self-Sovereign Computing is real Exodus infrastructure today!

@nic_carter @lopp Detecting the vulnerabilities is the hard part of the defense work...

@lopp Looks like AI is better at offense than defense

We're supposed to believe that both of these are true: 1. Anthropic trained an LLM so smart at security that it will usher in a cybersecurity apocalypse. 2. Anthropic's security is so bad that they had multiple failures & data leaks in the span of a few weeks.

This is the same nonsense BIP-110'ers are worried about. I'm not worried about bad people adopting bitcoin and doing bad things with it. If bitcoin gets banned, so be it. If you aren't prepared to be deemed a traitor by your country, bitcoin probably isn't for you.

@BitronicsStore @javierbitcoin Felicidades!!

We’ve just been informed that block 943466 was mined by one of our devices!!! Manufactured, assembled, and tested with true love in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 For us, this is the strongest signal that what we’re building truly makes sense Thanks to everyone who trusted us and a big hug to the open-source community 🚀

Over the past day, demonstration runs of DoS block attacks have been performed on Bitcoin signet. This proves potential for a malicious miner to craft blocks that take orders of magnitude longer than usual for nodes to validate, causing chaos across the network. BIP54 fixes this!

Iran demanding $BTC for Hormuz tolls proves it: censorship-resistance IS the intrinsic value. - USD? Frozen by SWIFT. - Yuan? Beijing's control. - Stables? Issuer blacklists. - Gold? Try emailing it. Bitcoin is the only truly unstoppable, neutral money on earth.

The sad truth many won't want to hear: #Bitcoin is far from being perfect. Yet, after my 3 months of sabbatical and seeing some stuff, I believe more than ever that Bitcoin is the best shot we currently have to fix some of the mess in the world...

@KenMCoin @adam3us @Arthur_van_Pelt Blocksize

@adam3us @Arthur_van_Pelt Ok so suggest a better solution? Have you ever heard of NP problems? Does the existence of NP problems prevent honest attempts to make their solutions more efficient? Asinine.

Shitcoin and data spam fans like you will still show up, I'm afaid. Or do you have the courtesy to stay away this time?

@bwesterb Any reference? This is what I got with Gemini

@mpenagar Yeah. This is not the only graph though. This is the superconducting one. The neutral atom one is the scary one.

Short one for future reference: factoring records are not a good benchmark to track Q-day.

@bwesterb So we should track how we're getting closer to RSA curves from the current state of technology, right?

@bwesterb Ups, I didn't see the RSA-4 line. Thanks.

Utreexo: Accumulate Bitcoin. A Bitcoin Twitter Thread 🧵 1/9

Next week a handful of Bitcoin Wizards will perform a demonstration on signet (a test network) to show how bad a maliciously constructed DoS block could be for nodes to validate. It's in everyone's interest to enforce BIP-54! x.com/lopp/status/20…

@bwesterb Anyway, what is wrong about tracking number factoring? There is still a huge gap from 15 to a 32bit number. Do you think that the real gap is from 15 to 21? Or can we establish a coherent scale with a few milestones between 15 and a 32-bit number?

@adam3us @TheGuySwann 15=3x5 is the current world record, from 2016, by MIT and Innsbruck University.

@TheGuySwann if you pretend no error correction is ok (cheat run it 100,000 times to look for the most selected answer in the noise - which obviously doesn't scale!), i think the current world record for quantum computers is 21=7x3. even then some dispute if they cheated in other ways also.

So guys... has anyone successfully factored a randomly chosen 2 digit number with a quantum computer yet? Because every time i go looking, the answer has been "no."

Silent payments is not just a new approach to static payment codes. It's the first serious contender to improve the address derivation system since HD wallets in 2013. HD wallets were a big win over single keys, and silent payments could be a similar leap forward.

@apruden08 @bergealex4 15 was factored in 2016. 21 has not been factored yet (+1 qubit, deeper circuit). Where do all QC technology improvements of last decade end up?

@bergealex4 You're just presenting data that shows we don't have a CRQC yet. We all already know that. The question is, how fast can we get there? The data you're OMITTING on that front is this:

When evaluating the claim of deep bag-biased Quantum agitpropagandists, it’s always more useful to look at what they are NOT telling you. Recent claims suggest a Quantum computer using neutral atom arrays would require only (!) ~20,000 logical qubits to break Bitcoin. What they tell you is that this is significant because researchers at Caltech recently demonstrated a 6000 (!) logical qubits array. What they do NOT tell you is that those qubits weren’t not entangled, which is a requirement to run Shor’s algorithm. So what is the state of the art in terms of actually entangled logical qubits under the neutral atoms architecture? NINETY SIX (96) qubits. How long did they maintain coherence? 1-2 seconds. How long did the new Oratomic paper suggest the algorithm they designed should run? DAYS! So not only must state of the art in SIMPLE qubits entanglement increase more than 2 orders of magnitude, their ability to maintain coherence across circuit depth must be preserved ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND times longer than they currently do. Suffice to say they have no idea how to even get there but that shouldn’t get in the way of a headline worthy paper!