Mitch Burcham

Follow @metawatt_io for energy focused articles, product updates, etc. We are building the next generation of energy management systems on top of Bitcoin using the BRC100 standard. Today Bitcoin runs on the grid. Soon the grid will run on Bitcoin. We are closing the loop.

A brand new Energy Attribute Certificate System was just unanimously approved in ERCOT. NPRR1264 This was the exact regulatory structure I envisioned when I wrote the original MetaWatt whitepaper and now we have the opportunity to compete for the administrative position using the technology we have been building over last year. Leveraging the new Multi-Party Computation wallets we will be releasing with @johncalhooon MetaWatt can offer market participants seamless blockchain functionality without any seed phrases, top-ups or confusion, while still giving them the opportunity to fully self custody and participate in the open protocol on their own terms with their own interface. The system is open, interoperable, scalable and secure. Energy attributes are structurally impossible to double spend and can be tracked through connected assets (batteries) with native transaction graphs. Please reach out if you are interested in learning more or helping us pursue the ERCOT RFQ.

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@MitchBurcham Why are you not following me 😅

Seems like the missing link for Bitcoin adoption is using it as cash. Send me a micropayment if you disagree.

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You hear the word “decentralization” endlessly from BTC Core, Ethereum, and every other cathedral of fashionable confusion. But listen carefully to what they actually mean. They do not mean Alice sends to Bob. They do not mean direct exchange. They do not mean cash. They mean gatekeepers. They mean layers. They mean routing. They mean custodians. They mean bridges. They mean channels. They mean validators. They mean committees. They mean sacred spectator machines called “nodes” that do not create blocks, do not settle transactions, and do not perform the economic function described in Bitcoin. Their “node” is not a competitive block-producing entity. It is a theological object. A relic. A private chapel where someone runs software and announces himself a guardian of truth. Very impressive. Very ceremonial. Economically empty. Think about what that means. If Alice cannot send directly to Bob without passing through some contrived maze of intermediaries, then the system has not removed the middleman. It has renamed him. If payment requires layers, hubs, bridges, routing channels, liquidity managers, token wrappers, validators, committees, or custodial platforms, then the old problem has merely been dressed in new robes. That is not radical. That is banking with worse prose. A truly radical system means any person, in any country on earth, can communicate and transact with any other person directly. Not through a priesthood. Not through a committee. Not through a fashionable bottleneck pretending to be liberation. Direct. IP to IP. Alice to Bob. The nodes are there to settle, order, timestamp, and secure. They are not there to replace the parties. They are not there to become the transaction. They are not there to turn cash into a pilgrimage. The parties are the peers. That is the part they forgot, or chose to bury. Bitcoin does not need to make every user into a fake node. It does not need to turn commerce into a hobbyist ritual. It does not need to pretend that sovereignty is achieved by making ordinary people perform unpaid infrastructure theatre. The radical idea is simpler and far more dangerous to the existing order: Alice sends to Bob. Bob receives. The network settles. No middlemen. No sanctified layers. No gatekeepers wearing decentralization as a mask. That is peer-to-peer. That is electronic cash. That is Bitcoin.

The price isn't the opportunity.

Split the agent key into a 2 of 3 MPC threshold with a automated co-signer and human in loop. Configure co-signer policies to auto sign specific protocol IDs for logging, tool use, etc. anything beyond the limited auto signer scope is escalated to the human to approve or deny. Humans sign in with oauth2 using there favorite provider your service is just funding the shared wallet and maintaining co-signer availability.

@braydenjlangley How do we market and integrate with them as potential customers. They need this tech.

AI agents need compliance.

solar is too diffuse it needs to be collected over so much area unlike gas which comes from the gas station

The only way blockchain works is by scaling past the ability to centralize. It’s way easier to just query a node and get everything you need forever. That however is the architecture of surveillance. That architecture is breaking. With Mandala we have scaled past the surveillance state into true peer to peer electronic cash. Total freedom, total stability, total responsibility. God Bless BitCoin

BRC100 Identity Clients have the scalability and interoperability to underpin your entire digital life but nobody wants their entire life to depend on one seed phrase. MPC has been proven to bridge that gap for enterprise but hasn’t been accessible to the individual in a vendor neutral format. We aim to give you the tools to design your own sovereign vault, one that doesn’t depends on any single service provider or application. You can run it yourself. Provision secure signing on an enclave node. Provision a vault for your business or trust and enforce policy rules at the protocol level. Anything you want: open source, vendor neutral, unchanging. This is the future of digital identity.

The Calhooon Brothers are partnering with Binary on a threshold MPC signing network. > CGGMP'24 threshold ECDSA on secp256k1. > The private key never exists. > Any t+1 parties cooperate to sign. Signing nodes will be discoverable via an overlay. > BRC-100 compatible. > 100% Rust/WASM. > Open source. Based on: eprint.iacr.org/2021/060 More soon.

Very excited to work with John and Matt on this. This will be a major step forward for self-sovereignty digital identity.

@braydenjlangley Good idea! Thanks for the superchat!

@MitchBurcham You should make use of the MessageBoxClient send notification method so I can subscribe to receive a push notification when you go live!

Live on indigolive.io Connect your wallet and join the chat!

@ElisJackson_ and I are going live on indigolive.io in 30 minutes. Connect your wallet and join the chat. We will be talking MetaWatt, tokenization, smart contracts and the general state of Bitcoin. See you there!

Me and Claude are working on a little weekend project BRC100 compliant STAS3 token issuance through a Runar oracle contract. Wish me luck

No, potatoes are not Turing complete because you waved at a "system." A machine needs readable/writable state, conditional control flow, memory, and repeated transitions. The Bitcoin CPU has heap, stack, registers, jumps, subroutines, recursion, and transaction-clocked execution. Needless to say, potatoes do not have these things. BSV does, BTC does not, and that's why... #BSV wins. Code: github.com/p2ppsr/the-bit…

@johncalhooon @ElisJackson_ @ishaan_lahoti I’ve actually been thinking about a Metronome competitor. I built the skeleton of a payment channels platform from the package that runs Indigo a while back but never finished it off. Time to revisit.

@MitchBurcham @ElisJackson_ @ishaan_lahoti Yo, don’t you guys have some payment channel stuff? Show em how it’s done!!

@johncalhooon What MPC protocol are you using?

BRC-100 has made serious progress this past year. Went from one reference implementation to 10+ real projects... desktop apps, web browsers, Chrome extensions, mobile apps, and production wallets already running thousands of on-chain txs. It’s been exciting to build in and watch grow. What do you think the next 12 months will bring? Where should we focus to really move the needle? A few things on my mind: > Can we make BRC-100 as simple as “Handcash” for instant onboarding? > Would open-sourcing my MPC repo help accelerate the ecosystem? > Can we get Handcash-level security for seamless inter-app communication (login through mobile app on Safari)? Would love your honest thoughts... how can we push this forward together? Open to collaborating on any of this (open source)👀 #BRC100