Bitcoin scalability, privacy & usability • Working on @ShieldedCSV • Creator of https://nitter.cf/t.co/k33cIjEKrB • PhD Candidate at @Stanford
A Forest of Merkle Trees
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Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
The new generation of Bitcoin cryptographers is being led by these men: @liameagen and @robin_linus — I only wish @n1ckler was in the picture too!
Can’t wait for Shielded CSV #reckless mainnet launch
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
On stage at @LuganoPlanB with @AaronvanW, @adam3us made the case for Simplicity as Bitcoin's last soft fork.
One expressive language with formal semantics could raise the security bar for Bitcoin scripts, and open the door to opt-in Confidential Transactions or covenants.
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
Riding in the 1000 BTC car with @robin_linus, going to @atlantabitdevs (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S17 E48) nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKVmyYXZ…
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
Excited to open-source Argo!
The most practical trust-minimized Bitcoin bridging:
• Setup time: ~100ms
• Offchain cost: ~10MB
• Onchain cost: ~$8
🤖 Throw your clankers at it and help us harden it
github.com/idealgroup/argo?_
The eMudhra incident is a striking illustration of the fundamental flaw in how SSL certificates work: every Certificate Authority is effectively empowered to vouch for every website on the planet.
That’s insane.
Hopefully the world eventually adopts a Bitcoin name system.
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
“The Fundamental Law of Bitcoin Script: even the weirdest quirk eventually becomes a feature.”
Bitcoin script wizard @robin_linus describes his “abuse of Bitcoin Script” for the creation of Binohash — a covenant-emulation technique, enabling technologies like @starkware’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin.
Binohash requires the use of nonstandard transactions, relying on @MARA Slipstream to execute the quirkiest of quirky scripts 😉
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
⛊ BitVM2 enabled SNARK verification on Bitcoin, but disputes required 4 MB of onchain data.
⛊ BitVM3 cut that to 200 bytes — at the cost of 50 GB of offchain data.
⛊ Argo reduces the offchain data to about 10 MB, making BitVM bridges highly practical.
👨💻 Open-sourcing this week!
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2165
Client-side validation is the only architecture capable of scaling decentralized payments protocols to 10 million transactions per second.
That's why I'm working on @ShieldedCSV ⛊
What if AI agents had to pay every time they read a webpage?
@Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince (@eastdakota) says that's where the internet is headed. The catch is volume. Visa handles about 80,000 transactions per second at its peak. Cloudflare expects to need about 10 million on day one.
"It is just way beyond the transaction volume anyone's ever seen before."
Robin Linus ⛊ retweeted
The crux of shielded Bitcoin protocols like @ShieldedCSV isn’t the private transfer.
It’s the bridge. Shield in. Unshield out.
So what are the real options?
Reject the nonsense. Bitcoin is money.
"You don't have to create these false narratives about Bitcoin being digital capital or batteries. It's money."
@parkeralewis on Bitcoin as money.