Bitcoin Commons / BLVM

@venorusprime @saylor I’m convinced more every day that the polarization continues after flag day and the only way forward is @BtcCommons

Bitcoin has no formal specification. "The code is the spec" isn't a design principle. It's an admission Why verification methodology is a governance question, and what a durable foundation for Bitcoin looks like btccommons.substack.com/p/why-bitcoin-…

@moloBTC @hostis_black @BTC_commons @dylanmallman Very interesting stuff!

@hostis_black @BtcCommons @BTC_commons @dylanmallman In other words: We translated Piracy into Policy. This is our main body of work: The Global Tech/Law & Tax Open Source Knowledge for Bitcoiners & Bitcoin Knowledge. To Freedom🍊🧡🌟 GitHub.com/MoloBTC-Org/bs…

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@serbtcx @BitMEX_Jon @giacomozucco @Billyndroid @HornetNode Thanks for the mention serbtc. Currently our consensus specification has 150+ RFC-2119-compatible rules, and a formal mathematical specification behind it, and a full node implementation which is locked programmatically to the spec in ~200 places.

@BitMEX_Jon @giacomozucco @Billyndroid There are other projects, like @HornetNode and @BtcCommons, working on a proper Bitcoin specification. If they succeed, it could be one of the most important developments for Bitcoin in years, making independent implementations far more viable by reducing consensus risk.

> this will embolden spammers/scammers Probably, but on the new BIP-110 altcoin chain. That could be a much cheaper place to store files than on Bitcoin > hopefully go back to support alternative implementations Do you mean alternative independent implemenations, like BTCD and Libbitcoin? Because there are a lot of benefits and risks of these implementations. Probably a net positive in my view. If you mean alternative implementations which are very similiar to Bitcoin Core, like Libre Relay, I fail to see how there are any material benefits or risks of this. In my view its a complete nothingburger and I do not see why people are focus on that. If you think Bitcoin Core has "weak governance", resulting in some bad outcome for its users, I fail to see how running a client that changes a few parameters makes any difference to that "weak governance." That feels a bit like what the large blockers tried: "We hate the corrupt Bitcoin Core, therefore lets run Core with a few parameters changed"

@fanquake @stutxo You can build a consensus valid Bitcoin node with a mathematical proof and open source tools today. Relying upon the Core codebase will become a thing of the past. @BtcCommons @secsovereign

@Schaden12162515 @CorySwan What do you suggest to help the situation then?

@CorySwan @BtcCommons So the Satoshi white paper was shredded by power and greed, and these guys are going to save it with an orange paper, Rust, and rules? The bitcoin Circus of scumbags is so much fun to drag!

Has anyone checked out @BtcCommons? Anyone running it? Thoughts?

@CorySwan We really appreciate your interest, Cory. We only did our first alpha release last month. We look forward to any feedback, even critical feedback.

@cguida6 Yes, you don't even have to resync, it will automatically migrate and use your existing blockchain.

@BtcCommons Is it rpc compatible/drop-in replaceable with core?

A month ago Bitcoin Commons shipped its public alpha. We haven't slowed down since. 30+ updates. Every major platform. Differential testing across the full chain coming next, then Umbrel integration. 100% Bitcoin. 0% Core.

@coinward Bitcoin Low Level Virtual Machine.. The Orange Paper is the intermediate representation

@BtcCommons what's blvm stand for?

@derekmross Hi, I identify as a node.

now that im back on elon's app, i need to rebuild and refollow my bitcoin pleb army. show me your nodes! (GFY FBI jokes also accepted.)

@atxhodl Node runners choosing requires node runners having a real choice. That's what we're building.

I think I’ve finally read and heard enough of the BIP-110 pro/con arguments and I just don’t find those against it very compelling at all given what it does. And I don’t think apathy is an appropriate response to the issue either. Bitcoin lives because node runners always choose

> "if you don't like it, you can write your own alternative Bitcoin implementation" > 10 months, 60-80 hours a week, tens of millions of tokens, and about 5 Bitcoin worth of opportunity cost...

Bitcoin has had forks. It has not had alternative implementations. Not real ones. And forks don't solve the problem. A Core fork is not an alternative implementation. It inherits everything. The technical debt, the undocumented behavior, the monolithic architecture. Change the team, keep the structure, and the structure wins. That's not an exit from the problem. That's the same castle with a different flag. Node diversity matters. But nodes don't mine blocks. Without a value proposition for miners, implementation diversity remains a preference signal rather than a security guarantee. No Core fork has given miners a reason to switch. The hardening problem is real, but the solution isn't forking Core. It's building from an independent mathematical specification and proving consensus validity through fuzzing and differential testing across the full chain history. That's verifiable safety. Everything else is institutional trust with better branding. That's why we're building. @BtcCommons

Bitcoin's security model assumes adversarial nodes. Implementation diversity extends that same logic to the development layer. Follow @BtcCommons and @secsovereign for the release.

AI-assisted development made this feasible for a small team. A formal spec, Rust, and AI tooling in Cursor compressed what would have taken years into months. The methodology is reproducible and we intend to document it fully.

If you care about keeping Bitcoin antifragile, you should support the development of the most comprehensive and provably consensus-valid drop-in alternative implementation of Bitcoin that has ever existed. 🧵