BitcoinLizard
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@BitcoinLizard
Just a #Bitcoin Lizard trying to gobble up some sats. Nostr: npub1k6f0ecam577lay8mm8azfvs3u4xvl23q82zpc3htee6ath09gg0s9
Both Gloria Zhao, the dev who removed the op_return limit, and Amiti Uttarwar were DEI hires by pro-Covid lockdown pro-Biden DEI John Newberry… You literally cannot it make this shit up 🤡
@projecteleven Any time I see a blatantly disingenuous post about quantum and #Bitcoin my first though is "Nic Carter must be behind this." Looks like I was right: castleisland.vc/portfolio/
Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date Researcher breaks 15-bit ECC key on publicly accessible quantum hardware in a 512x jump from the previous public demonstration. Project Eleven today awarded the Q-Day Prize, a one Bitcoin bounty, to Giancarlo Lelli for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer. The result is the largest public demonstration to date of the attack class that threatens Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over $2.5 trillion in ECC-secured digital assets. "The resource requirements for this type of attack keep dropping, and the barrier to running it in practice is dropping with them," said @apruden08, CEO of Project Eleven. "The winning submission came from an independent researcher working on cloud-accessible hardware. No national lab, no private chip. It shows that tangible progress is possible and highlights the urgency to migrate to post-quantum cryptography sooner rather than later. Google just committed to being quantum-secure by 2029. The window to get ahead of this is closing.” Lelli derived a private key from its public key across a search space of 32,767 using a variant of Shor’s algorithm. Shor's targets the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP), the math underlying the digital signature schemes securing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most blockchains. Quantum attacks on ECC have moved from theory to practice over the last seven months. Steve Tippeconnic's 6-bit demonstration in September 2025 was the first public break on quantum hardware. Lelli's 15-bit result extends it by a factor of 512. Theoretical resource estimates for a full 256-bit attack, the scale Bitcoin operates at, have fallen sharply over the same period. Google's April 2026 whitepaper put the requirement at under 500,000 physical qubits. A subsequent paper from Caltech and Oratomic brought that figure as low as 10,000 qubits in a neutral-atom architecture. Lelli's result is the practical counterpart to those optimizations. The distance from 15 bits to 256 bits is large, but the gap is increasingly viewed as an engineering problem and not a fundamental physics problem. Roughly 6.9 million Bitcoin sit in wallets whose public keys are visible on-chain, exposing them to quantum attack. All blockchains using ECC share similar risks with vulnerable assets. Project Eleven is developing its next challenge, focused on the intersection of frontier AI models and quantum cryptanalysis.
💥💸GIVE AWAY: $1000 IN BTC💸💥 Are you tired of the Government throwing developers in prison? Then we have a challenge for you. Attend the QT panel at Bitcoin Vegas and send us a video of you either: – Calling AG Todd Blanche a liar – Yelling „Free Roman Storm“ – Yelling „Free Samourai“ We will pay you $50 in bitcoin per video submission, up to $1,000. The point of this challenge is not to disrupt the talk, but to make everyone in attendance (including Blanche himself) aware that you cannot claim that code is speech and that the war on bitcoin is over when the department you are overseeing is actively prosecuting developers. This challenge will be called off in the event of a pardon or the ending of ongoing prosecutions. We will not pay for videos containing violence, incitement or insults. Submit your videos and BTC address to: liar@therage.co
In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.
Microsoft suspended the developer account for WireGuard (and also VeraCrypt). Why? Literally nobody knows. Presumably it's because Microsoft hates everyone and wants us all to suffer.
@w_s_bitcoin @brian_armstrong @RhettReisman I think that would be preferred. Brian needs to stay far away from trying to influence the direction of #Bitcoin. If Brian had his way he would influence Bitcoin right off a cliff.
