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AI DOOMSDAY me: drinks water in Arrakis

JUST IN: French public company Capital B $ALCPB is raising $1.29 million through the issuance of share subscription warrants subscribed by Adam Back to buy more #Bitcoin.

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#bitcoin 200wma passes $60k x.com/adam3us/status…

AI is increasingly starting to look like an endurance race between companies that aren’t profitable yet: the real game isn’t just having the best model, but being the one that can burn cash the longest without dying. In the end, the winner may not be the smartest one, but the one that survives long enough for the economics to catch up with the promise.

@sama @IncomprisSage2 Sorry, this is off topic, but are you planning to do what Twitter/X did and add crypto payments for ChatGPT?

@IncomprisSage2 ?

artificial goblin intelligence achieved

@blockstream_int Great read

There is a trajectory in Bitcoin history that the market still underestimates. Not a marketing trajectory. An architecture trajectory. Before Bitcoin, Adam Back proposed Hashcash: a simple, almost dry idea, but an extremely powerful one. Create a real cost for the producer. Keep verification trivial for the network. That asymmetry later became one of Bitcoin’s core ideas: a proof that is hard to produce, but easy to verify. Satoshi obviously did not build Bitcoin from one single idea. Bitcoin was a synthesis of decades of cypherpunk research: digital signatures, timestamping, peer-to-peer networks, economic incentives, difficulty adjustment, and proof-of-work. But the whitepaper cites Hashcash because that primitive matters. And this is where the trajectory becomes interesting. Years later, Blockstream did not try to "turn Bitcoin into Ethereum". They approached the problem from the right direction: how do you extend Bitcoin without betraying what makes Bitcoin robust? Most "Bitcoin L2" narratives start from frustration: "Why doesn’t Bitcoin do what Ethereum does?" Blockstream’s strategy seems to start from a different question: "How do we build more capabilities around Bitcoin while preserving the Bitcoin mental model?" UTXOs. Settlement. Verification. Explicit constraints. Contained complexity. Caution around L1. That is exactly what Liquid represents. Liquid is not just another L2. It is a Bitcoin-native sidechain, UTXO base, live since 2018, designed to test and mature advanced financial primitives: L-BTC, Issued Assets, Confidential Transactions, faster settlement, and experimentation around a Bitcoin-like model. And yes, Liquid has an important trade-off it is a federated sidechain. It is not Bitcoin L1. It does not have the same security model. But that trade-off is explicit, and that is exactly what makes the approach more honest than many "trustless" narratives sold with three slides and a multisig. The strategic move is this: Do not break Bitcoin to make Bitcoin more expressive. Build an environment compatible with its DNA. Test primitives on a suitable layer. Let the best ideas mature before pretending they deserve L1. Then comes Simplicity. And at that point, the coherence becomes hard to ignore. Simplicity is not "Solidity on Bitcoin". It is almost the cultural opposite. Not an opaque VM. Not a global-state casino. Not a deploy, execute, pray, patch, governance vote, post-mortem environment. Simplicity starts from another model: bounded contracts, inspectable logic, formal reasoning, compatibility with the UTXO spirit, and advanced programmability without abandoning verifiability. It is closer to: understand before execution, inspect before signing, verify before trusting. And now you can see a rare line across multiple decades: Hashcash: costly to produce, cheap to verify. Bitcoin: costly to attack, cheap to validate. Liquid: experiment without weakening L1. Simplicity: program without sacrificing inspectability. Same obsession, multiple layers. Reduce trust. Force proof. Contain complexity. Keep the architecture clean. Never sacrifice verification for spectacle. That is why Simplicity is much more interesting than another narrative. Because this is not Bitcoin chasing Ethereum. This is Bitcoin searching for its own path to programmability: stricter, less sexy to the market, but far more coherent with its DNA. The market usually asks the wrong questions: "Is there a token?" "Is there an airdrop?" "Is it EVM compatible?" "When pump?” But the real Bitcoin questions are colder: Is it verifiable? Are the trust assumptions explicit? Is the complexity contained? Does it respect the UTXO model? Does it make Bitcoin more powerful without making it less Bitcoin? That is where the vision becomes strong. Blockstream did not try to make Bitcoin "cooler" by copying Ethereum. They built like people who actually respect Bitcoin: slowly, cleanly, keeping the UTXO mental model, testing primitives in a suitable environment, and letting research move forward without forcing consensus. If Simplicity ever influences Bitcoin more directly, Liquid will have been much more than a sidechain. It may become the production lab where Bitcoin-native programmability was incubated without selling the soul of L1. And when you look at the path Adam Back → Hashcash → Bitcoin → Blockstream → Liquid → Simplicity, this is not a random sequence of isolated projects. It is a long-term vision. The same intuition repeated in different forms: do not ask for trust when you can build a proof. Don’t trust. Verify. It is not just a maxi phrase. It is a design constraint. And the only real compass for making Bitcoin programmable without turning it into something else.

@blockstream_int @adam3us

Day 3 at Bitcoin 2026 and @adam3us is still at the booth, meeting builders, users, and sovereign individuals. Jade Core is live simpler self-custody, same open-source security ethos. Bitcoin sovereignty shouldn’t be reserved for experts. Don’t Trust. Verify. just got a cleaner UX.

2009 → Script 2017 → SegWit 2021 → Taproot 202x → Simplicity

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i predict that the run on Aave is the beginning of the end of (non-bitcoin) defi contracts

Bitcoin Core v31.0 was released! It is available from: bitcoincore.org/en/download/ Release notes: bitcoincore.org/en/releases/31…

Following the recent rsETH incident involving LayerZero, we are taking precautionary measures to ensure WBTC users safety. WBTC OFT service via LayerZero will be temporarily paused. Service will resume once the root cause is identified and it is confirmed safe to proceed. Updates will follow.

Are UTXO smart contracts really more secure or is it just the lack of liquidity that doesn't motivate hackers?

Bitcoin Under the Hood ⚡ An Intro to raw Transactions with Anika & rawBit

Please welcome SHRIMPS🦐 to the family of stateful PQ signatures: 2.5 KB hash-based sigs across multiple devices. SHRINCS🛋️ gave ~324-byte sigs but is single-device. SHRIMPS🦐 addresses multi-device; any device loaded from the same seed creates sigs 3x smaller than SLH-DSA

A quantum computer won't kill crypto -- a centralized key management will.

Why did bitcoin ship taproot as P2PK, even knowing that it’s “quantum vulnerable”? Here’s why: - Quantum wasn’t considered a noteworthy threat in 2018/2019 when the proposal was designed. It was understood that new engineering would be required to be PQ proof, and the shape of the PQ problem was unknowable. Therefore not worth considering. - A single onchain footprint is better for hiding what type of contract is locking coins up, and it is elegant. You can’t guess what’s required to unlock coins just by looking at what they’re locked up to - Taproot aimed to improve privacy by decreasing signal about multisigs. The P2PK design uses new capabilities unlocked with Schnorr to achieve that. Taproot accomplished its design goals to increase privacy. Being quantum safe wasn’t on the list of design goals. Now we’re in the era where PQ is a design goal. Whether we can preserve privacy while also moving to a PQ protocol has yet to be determined.

@MilksandMatcha I already use Codex and genuinely love it. 3 months of Pro would really help me level up, ship faster, and publish open-source ready

Giving away 5 Codex Pro plans Each person will get 3 months of free Codex Pro (highest tier). Winners will be selected from comments in 48 hours, comment below why you want it.

@0xSero I already use Codex and genuinely love it. 3 months of Pro would really help me level up, ship faster, and publish open-source ready

Do you want 3 months of Codex Pro? Comment under the post we are selecting a 5 people very soon 3 MONTHS of Pro. I genuinely think this is the highest leverage sub we have