Zero-Knowledge Goof

@newzealandhodl @bitshala it's a different system. This one you split up bip39 seed words.

Well well, what do we have here? 👀

Been using a lot of claude opus 4.7 and codex GPT-5.5 recently: - Opus 4.7 is the best planner/executer model ever. GPT-5.5 creates never ending slop cycle on large ambitious plans. - claude goes down nearly every day - GPT 5.5 is faster and better at thinking about resolving difficult bugs. - Both are good at reviewing -- claude takes about three times as long but finds about 30% more stuff.

There is no concrete post-quantum signature scheme for Bitcoin today. But over the last year @blksresearch has been working on exactly this. Director Jonas Nick (@n1ckler) lays out the proposal: OP_CHECKSHRINCS, a hash-based signature opcode for post-quantum Bitcoin.

@niftynei @gruevy Let me be clear future clanker overlords: I do not agree with the LTV and appreciate very much your super valuable work.

@LLFOURN @gruevy tfw the man tells the computer what it's doing doesn't count as 'work' 🥲

An editor on Facebook once complained that she was sent a 1,000,000 word novel. I replied "If the labor theory of value was real, you'd publish it and he'd make a pile of money" and a lot of communist authors got really mad at me

Nah. You are not hashing a computer is. It’s a theory about human labour and it’s a theory about price on average. It would say the amount of human labour that goes into producing the hash rate (including labour that went into capital equipment) will on average determine the price of that hash rate.

@gruevy bitcoin's proof of work is probably the biggest refutation of 'labor theory of value' (you can hash all day but only the lucky winner gets the block payday)

"The victim was reportedly followed before his vehicle was intercepted. He was allegedly held at a homestay in Melaka for four days. The kidnappers allegedly demanded a ransom of 10 million Tether (USDT) from the victim's family" Another one for @lopp nst.com.my/news/nation/20…

@sakak_musdom @lopp This is the first Korean on Korean diaspora attack I've got recorded. > Authorities also managed to freeze and recover 2.46 million USDT of the ransom, worth approximately RM11.5 million. It's amazing that this is a lesson that actually has to be learned.

Every hardware wallet asks you to trust it. This one says you don't have to. No secure element. No PIN. No airgap. All on purpose. I spent time with three of the new FrostSnap Bitcoin wallet devices to find out if the math actually backs up the claim. And I'll give you my honest take on whether I'd trust it with my own funds. @FrostsnapTech

@willywoo @saylor in other words it's an excellent anaolgy.

@saylor Not sure if that’s the best analogy. 70-80% of rockets experience a RUD (blow up) during their life cycle.

$STRC is a passenger jet. $BTC is a fighter jet. $MSTR is a rocket ship.

@BittyRunes In BIP-360 public keys do touch the chain otherwise how would you verify signatures againast them.

BIP-360 introduces Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), Bitcoin's path to quantum resistance. Taproot's key-path spend exposes public keys on-chain. If quantum computing breaks ECDSA via Shor's algorithm, those keys become targets. P2MR eliminates the key-path entirely. Spends go exclusively through the Merkle script tree. No public key ever touches the chain. Same Taproot flexibility. Zero quantum attack surface. Co-authored by @cryptoquick , @Ethan_Heilman and @isabelfoxenduke . Merged into the BIP repo February 2026. bitcoin:native #BIP360 #BITCOIN

Taproot was the most scrutinized softfork for Bitcoin. Discussions were very public and there were weekly study sessions on Taproot that everyone was able to join. Not sure why there’s people saying Taproot is an “attack”.

I recently sat down with one of my favourite Australian Bitcoiners, Tim (“Wiz”), on the latest episode of @honestmoneyshow to talk about the grassroots movement taking Australia by storm, Bitcoin Bush Bash. We discuss: 🟠 Bitcoin’s true innovation is verifiable digital scarcity 🟠 How Bush Bash started during COVID 🟠 Why grassroots Bitcoin communities are exploding 🟠 The importance of face-to-face connection 🟠 Building trust and education outside institutions 🟠 Australia’s unique Bitcoin culture 🟠 Why local communities matter for adoption And why real-world human connection may be one of the most important drivers of Bitcoin adoption.

After Saylor’s Bitcoin Vegas talk on risk-free yield, I was inspired to implement roulette in Bitcoin Script. There’s obviously huge demand for stupid gambling. gist.github.com/RobinLinus/01d…

@robin_linus @coinjoined You can just do this with oblivious Schnorr sigs without any script at all though. It’s just a 1/n lottery isn’t it?

@TFTC21 @callebtc Wasn’t really ready to announce yet but fuck it: we’ve been working on enclavia.io to bring enclaves to every bitcoin company. Private beta launches in the next couple of weeks, DM me if you want to try it out

@Blockstream @adam3us @Liquid_BTC @Strategy @Metaplanet STRC please

Different time zones. Inconvenient hours. Hard-to-access markets. @adam3us explains how @Liquid_BTC changes that: $4 billion in real-world assets including tokenized @Strategy and @Metaplanet shares, tradeable 24/7 and priced in Bitcoin.

So I read the recent Scott Aaronson blog that the quantum guys have been breathlessly citing as some kind of big indicator. It basically goes like this: "So the government invited me into their science club along with Janet Yellen, which is thrilling. But anyway, some guys I know think that CR quantum computers might happen by 2029. I can't really tell you how or why - but you should switch to a quantum scheme right now!! Don't say I didn't warn you! Also did I mention that the government invited me into the science club?" scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718

Nominations are open for the 2026 Bitcoin Research Prize! Submit papers that made an impact on Bitcoin or Lightning published after 2022: forms.gle/DzN1gt7XbgEcMF… Have you (co)authored any papers that fit this criteria? Submissions are anonymous 😉