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* Quantum computing is a fantasy, it's impossible in all likelihood. * Bitcoin is not some magical quantum-proof system. * If quantum computing turns out to be possible, bitcoin (as it is) is vulnerable. * Bitcoin can be enhanced with quantum resistant cryptography if it ever becomes necessary, which it won't. * Bitcoin should add new suitable cryptography when it becomes available because secp256k1 will likely not last forever.

@ThomasEWoods Creatine. HIIT. Walking. Saturated fat. Sunlight.

I am slightly neurotic about being in my 50s -- I still have so much I want to do, and I want to stay in the best health I can. I also don't want my brain capacity to deteriorate. So I ask you, dear X people, whether there's any scientific basis for what I'm doing for the ol' noggin. My approach is this: keep my brain active in a bunch of different ways. So not just in my daily reading and writing, but also in learning a musical instrument, studying great chess games (I'm working my way through what Bobby Fischer called his 60 memorable games), and learning a foreign language. Yes, of course a language has practical use, but just as important to me is that it gives my brain a different kind of workout from anything else I do. I have no ironclad proof that this will lower my chances of Alzheimer's. But it makes sense. Opinions?

There are 256 possible opcodes according to Bitcoin Script's design. 180/256 slots are taken with 76 open. The gray cells indicate disabled opcodes such as OP_CAT. Here is a 16x16 visualization that colour-codes them by category, forming almost a periodic table, of sorts.

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People who bet on things that require a bitcoin change overwhelmingly tend lose. It's mostly misunderstanding of how bitcoin works.

Quantum guys be like let's freeze this dudes funds.

Very proud of our first year at 🌗2140! We opened our office, hired four full-time devs (obtaining some tricky visas), got many people eagerly visiting the office, & hosted our first dev week on Silent Payments. Also excited about our work on SwiftSync & kernel! Full report👇

@ALewin @coinjoined A slow multisig is different, bro!

@reardencode @coinjoined #TotallyNotAMultisig

Paul Sztorc is the reason we don't have drivechains

@ALewin @coinjoined Miner custody is good, bro.

@coinjoined @reardencode Drivechains are the reason we don’t have drivechains

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.

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@SteveSimple @A86664949 Who the heck is "we"?

@A86664949 @reardencode Was it bitcoin before we gave you taproot or was that not bitcoin

If someone suggests a new feature in bitcoin they must at least acknowledge that it should be removed if it goes wrong It follows that anyone presenting a new feature must be on the side of removing taproot Otherwise we can’t believe them

@adam3us @BTCTimescom Not a bad thing to add as an optional fallback with BIP360.

hash-based signatures like SHRINCS are the conservative choice, more decades of peer review, better studied cryptographic hardness assumptions, and easier to understand and gain confidence in.

lattice based signatures are good-enough for docusign, but not for bitcoin.

@SchwerePunk @mraustin @scottiebateman Not torque, pitch, which yields thrust. The engine can only produce torque in one direction. I coulda sworn that only some C130s required weight on wheels for reverse pitch, but can't find any evidence for that. Hmmm.

@reardencode @mraustin @scottiebateman Torque, not thrust, and no the low pitch stop will not retract without touch down switch.

I have flown this aircraft for many years. I have absolutely no idea what they are doing here… or how this even happens 🤷🏼 I’ve got nothing.

What does that even mean? Do you ... look at other people's business? Bitcoin is a ledger for moving its native token around. AFAIK every single bitcoin transaction does that because that's the consensus rules. Every taproot transaction. Every segwith transaction. Every coinbase transaction. They all move the native token because that's all bitcoin can do. What would it mean to use bitcoin for "non-monetary" purposes? Every transaction updated the ledger with a new locking script for some coins, it's monetary. I literally can't imagine thinking I should be the judge of how other people move their money.

@coinjoined @reardencode It’s inarguable that taproot is primarily used for non monetary use cases

@SteveSimple I can do this because I've joined a consensus network and my node is in consensus with everyone else using that network. Nothing else. Stop talking like a commie.

@reardencode Yes you can do this because people who care about the system as a whole provided it for you