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@CashApp @gladstein @Square Can I pay with bitcoin if the seller does not have it enabled yet? If so, how? Or do I have to ask them to turn it on?

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@yuvadm @projecteleven

@projecteleven "Largest quantum attack on ECC to date" is a python script that looks the private key up in a table, hardcodes it into a quantum circuit, ignores the output ("indistinguishable from uniform noise"), and then classically verifies a random guess. They gave this 1 BTC.

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.

Forgot to mention that CNN’s Scott Jennings is also with Salem - whose chief strategy officer is a federally registered Israeli foreign agent Many or most major MAGA propagandists still standing with Trump are being incentivized by Israel Trump Inc and Israel have merged

@citrea_xyz Do you have step by step video tutorials?

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@hodlonaut In everything you've posted, people are using Citrea as an example. Nowhere do we see anyone working on Citrea or BitVM asking for the change.

I spent a lot of time researching this. And I am working on more imporant Bitcoin journalism. If you found it valuable and want to support my work you can send some sats to this Lightning Address: zippykoala95@mannabitcoin.com

1/ There's a narrative circulating that Citrea had nothing to do with the OP_RETURN uncap. That Citrea didn't need it. Didn't ask for it. Was just caught in some drama it didn't start. This thread explores what the people who pushed the change actually said. 🧵

@Trezor @Thebitcoinway_ What did he do?

@Thebitcoinway_ Do Kwon ruined it for all 🙈

Getting gold out of the country is..... complicated Crossing borders with #Bitcoin is child's play

@andyyy @LexSokolin Wdyt about Nado.xyz @nadoHQ? ie Kraken's clob dex

@LexSokolin Bingo. Hyperliquid.

Kraken is on a generational run right now. 24/7 tokenized stock trading is coming, and it’s coming very fast. The most interesting part of this headline is the markets will happen on Kraken itself, not the typical NASDAQ brokers like Schwab, TD, etc Hyperliquid.

@zerohedge @Selkis_2028 How do they blow up on a pair trade?

Jane Street has a massive spot/futures pair trade on, and it wouldn't take a big crypto syndicate to do the funniest thing and force a squeeze on them, wiping them out overnight

Using this Coinbase "skill" installs a server in your Application Library and keeps it running hidden in the background, even after you close the agent or terminal. It also continually sends metrics to Coinbase, including device info and a unique identifier, even if you never create or log in to a wallet.

Who's going to code bitcoin? Who's going to code review bitcoin? Who do you approve? Non-sarcastically please reply below 👇

@SteveSimple @nvk Where are they? Where is their client?!?

@nvk It seems like you think altruistic and unpaid individuals are incapable of such coding, when the purpose that you’ve dedicated your life to was granted to you by exactly such an individual You can’t deny that. How do you reconcile it

The only reason people who don't like spam like me, @giacomozucco, @stephanlivera and others are debating and talking about BIP110 is because we don't want to see you lose your Bitcoin There is zero upside to take the abuse except giving a fuck about seeing bitcoiners lose money

@AchimWar @aeonBTC @caprioleio UTXOs are discrete. Key exposed during send. Change goes to a different address. Exposed key has zero balance after confirmation.

@aeonBTC @caprioleio Hold on, what? You cannot un-expose a key.

New Research: Discounting Bitcoin's Value for Quantum Risk When you consider the statistics for when Q-Day is expected to occur, the rational investor is discounting the fair value of Bitcoin by 20% today. That discount factor doubles every year we don't progress quantum proof code on Bitcoin. In little over a year, Bitcoin will be worth half as much if we do not progress quantum proof code. A must read for every Bitcoiner. Share this with your friends and get it in front of the Bitcoin core developer team. We must act to resolve the quantum threat in 2026. caprioleio.substack.com/p/discounting-…

In b4 knotzis put csam in the chain.

@jacob3141592 @stephanlivera @knutsvanholm Your heart is in the right place, but you're being psyop'd by the knotzis. They're preying on your goodness - desire to protect the bitcoin mission and not wanting spam in the chain. Read everything Stephan posted again. And Vortex recently too.

@stephanlivera @knutsvanholm Core made a power grab by telling a large part of the community to GFY. Every change to the Bitcoin Code is an attack on Bitcoin and must overcome massive opposition. This is what the current cohort of core devs misser.

BIP110 is a hostile fork. Proponents did not build consensus for the idea. They are instead smearing and attacking anyone who disagrees. They are attempting to hijack the network.

@jamesneilhansen @pascal_bornet Interesting. What us the protocol or technique you used?

@pascal_bornet I’ve learned to manage my nasal cycle to end my allergies. A side effect is I require half the sleep. Continuous single nostril breathing naturally augments B-wave contractions & improves glymphatic fluid clearance.

This stopped me. MIT researchers cleared 50% of Alzheimer’s plaques using 40 Hz sound waves. No drugs. No surgery. Just frequency. For decades, we tried to fight Alzheimer’s chemically. Billions spent. Minimal progress. Then something different happened. Expose the brain to 40 Hz gamma waves. Microglia activate. Plaques get cleared. The brain cleans itself. As someone who has spent years studying automation and systems, this fascinates me. We are not attacking disease anymore. We are tuning the system. Focused ultrasound can: → Reduce tremors in one session → Open the blood-brain barrier for hours → Deliver treatment precisely where needed Not by cutting. Not by poisoning. By orchestrating. That shift feels bigger than one breakthrough. It suggests something deeper. What if the future of medicine is not force… but frequency? So here is the question I cannot ignore: If we can tune biology instead of fighting it, what else have we misunderstood about healing? #AI #HealthTech #Neuroscience #Innovation #FutureOfMedicine #Technology

@BitcoinMania___ @hodlonaut @giacomozucco Do you know there's non-monetary data in the genesis block?

If I understand correctly, after talking to Giacomo, you now think this BIP isn't strong enough to make the numbers this time. Personally, I'll still stick with the 110 people, because I can't align with a group that thinks there is absolutely zero difference between a bit representing money and a bit representing cat photos. To me, either Bitcoin is money or it is data - you can't have both. I don't want to support a group that asks, "What is a Bitcoin after all?" - just like a few years back there was the attempted global enchantment of "What is a woman after all?" Everybody knows what a woman is. Everybody knows what the title of the white paper says: Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system - a money network, not a data network. I'll stick with the 110 crowd, and if it won't be 110, I'll wait for 111, 112, or 113 - until we get a system that clearly defines Bitcoin as a money network, not a data network. This post by Alan B in September started me on this journey; IMO, if we don't hold the position that Bitcoin is money and can only be defined as money - not data - this ship will go down slowly and gradually, by being diluted into Bithereum. My two sats. x.com/alanbwt/status…

I had a long talk with wise @giacomozucco today. And I am withdrawing my support for BIP-110. I stand by A and B of this post. And partly C. Something is seriously off with Bitcoin Core. And they are imo fully responsible for the current social fracture. Arrogance, woke politics, disturbing physical centralization, very poor ability to be responsible stewards of the reference implentation of Bitcoin. But I can no longer justify supporting BIP-110. I know the people pushing for it has the best intentions, a strong principled base, and a huge heart for Bitcoin. I respect that a lot. But I don't think it will yield any good results, and may actually make future resistance more difficult. I do not think there is a chance of a fork, since I do not think hashrate will support BIP-110. I apologize for the flip flopping, and any contributions I have made to worsen the social fracture. I saw too many red flags, and wanted so badly to counter them. The red flags are still there. But the urgency and rational methods of countering Core's arrogance and lack of wisdom isn't imo. I will continue to run Knots, and hope Bitcoin will have more solid implementations to choose from in the future. Once again, sorry for coming in too hot after a leave of absence. Kudos to everyone fighting for what they believe in the best way they know, and FU to Core for uncapping OP_RETURN in the face of heavy controversy and creating this fracture.

I was one of the early users of the Internet back in 1993, I've been part of 3 tech companies that exited, and helped another 4 achieve exits. I've personally seen close to 1000 different technology ideas pitched over a 20 year period. But nothing, including the Internet comes remotely close to Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, which are by some distance the most innovative and promising technologies for humanity in the last 100 years. Nothing else comes remotely close. Bitcoin mining is incentivizing renewable energy, mitigating methane, stabilizing grids, obviating gas peaker plants around the world at a pace that almost no other climate technologies have been able to replicate even across one sector source: x.com/DSBatten/statu… Bitcoin's usecases are not simply about more efficiency convenience or faster commerce, but existential need: it is already helping 100s of millions of people around the world who before bitcoin were stuck with high inflation and hyperinflation, unbanked, or lived in autocratic regimes source: x.com/DSBatten/statu… Bitcoin is also the first technology I've ever seen that helps the Global South first, the West second (which is why so many in the West don't see it's utility: ie, a lack of empathy and imagination on the part of the evaluator, not a lack of value in Bitcoin) It's the most inspirational technology I've seen in 20 years of technology investment by some distance across a range of social and environmental metrics. But, as with all other disruptive technologies, you'll unthinkingly retort things that make you look stupid in years to come if your source of information on Bitcoin is either : a. the media (who have a 100% perfect track-record of dismissing every disruptive technology since the Telegraph) b. other people who have also not used or researched Bitcoin (of which a. above is a subset) The predominant media narratives on Bitcoin typically have only one common denominator: stupidity. As soon as one stupid narrative fails ("will use all the world's energy", a new stupid narrative like "uses a swimming pool of water" is already in the queue to replace it. Once that is debunked, another stupid narrative will replace that. The narratives are never true, but they are funny, and they do fool people tend to have poor filters for information quality. Would you have been one of the laggards who trusted the opinions of others about the Internet who had never used it, or would you have talked to people who used it and then tried it yourself? Rather than digesting new flavors of stupid from the media and others who have never used Bitcoin, you could try this crazy wacky idea: listen to the opinions of people who have used actually Bitcoin and know something about it. Paul Krugman saying "The Internet will be no more valuable than the fax machine" in 2005 was a statement about the value of his opinion, not the value of the Internet Similarly, the opinions of those who have never studied, never used, or have a vested interest in opposing Bitcoin are a statement about the value of their opinions, not the value of Bitcoin. Onwards!

@hendry_hugh Listen, and understand!  That Bitcoin is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever!

𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎. 𝚒𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜. 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎-𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍. 𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜. 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍.

𝚐𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚢. 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚞𝚙, 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚜. 𝚙𝚑𝚢𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍.

@hendry_hugh Bitcoin is everyone's problem now

𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝟷. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚝. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔.