Ambassador at @BitcoinEmbassy · @eznode_ · https://nitter.cf/t.co/UG0IbZE4zY · https://nitter.cf/t.co/EDFNtLyDZB · Spark Wallet ⚡ · PGP: FCF1 9B67 8665 62F0 8A43 AAD6 81F6 104C D0F1 50FC · Cypherpunks write code.
Tel Aviv
Joined October 2008
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Open source software that I'm maintaining:
🔹@eznode_ ezno.de
🔹Minsc min.sc
🔹Bitcoin Wallet Tracker bwt.dev
🔹Spark Wallet github.com/shesek/spark-wall…
🔹Lightning Charge github.com/elementsproject/l…
🔹Esplora github.com/blockstream/esplo…
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if you're running software and want notifications when a new version is shipped, check out this service we've been quitely testing at btc++
alerts.btcpp.dev
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Tough question to ask, and undoubtedly in the mind of many open source developers.
And it is a question that will need to be asked again as everything keep changing.
blog.nicolas-dorier.com/post…
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Bitcoin Core v32.1: a deeper look
First, why no 32.0?
It was tagged on October 21 but never fully announced or released. A remotely triggerable TCP crash was reported on October 23 and 32.1 shipped on October 27 (yesterday) with that fix and two others.
I'll dig into the security updates, but this release also represents months of testing, maintenance, and work to make Bitcoin easier to verify and use.
What went into these v32.1 changes and what do Bitcoin users get from them?
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One of the things i've been working on lately is a reboot of the Sapio Bitcoin Smart Contract compiler toolchain.
this is a programming paradigm that can support advanced bitcoin smart contracts, and has first-class support for arbitrary script emulation
learn.sapio-lang.org
The wave of AI-assisted attacks made me think back to @aantonop's Bitcoin is a Sewer Rat analogy
Being out on the open internet and constantly exposed to financially motivated attackers, it is inevitable that Bitcoin and its ecosystem will get targeted early and get hit hard
But it also means that we will harden faster and better, and will have a fighting chance against what is to come
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TradFi bubble boys may suffer less for now, but are gonna crumble under the coming waves of even more sophisticated attacks
Once inside the bubble, AI agents are *incredible* at escalating privileges and moving laterally across internal networks, turning one small bug or a social engineering entry point into an infrastructure-wide takeover that can be extremely difficult to fully eradicate
I don't envy them having to deal with this, and would place my bets on the sewer rat proving itself far more resilient and reliable in the long run 🐀
--
Andreas's 2015 "Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat" talk: weusecoins.com/video-bubble-… (includes a transcript)
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The Bob calendar is down right now because it's out of funds to pay tx fees: bob.btc.calendar.opentimesta…
If people can send funds to bc1q83zmvtfks2dnvqfgcmxme24kah602cxr59h5v7 to get it back up that'd be much appreciated.
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #401 is here:
- describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes
- summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #401 Podcast
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletter…
In his 2011 emails, @adam3us apparently:
- Didn't know Script exists
- Didn't know about the H in P2PKH
- Thought the only way to destroy BTC is forking the chain to rewrite history
- Suggested a miner-dictated randomness beacon that doesn't leverage blockhashes
(More in🧵)
TIL about @adam3us's 2011 emails to the [email protected] ML (from the HBO documentary)
This initially seemed to support the Adam-is-Satoshi theory, however digging through these emails I actually ended up finding evidence to the contrary (5 of them):
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For BIP110 people angry about Taproot expanding the spammer's opportunity, it's worth remembering it is only a 12% discount vs 'segwit spamming'.
12% is not the difference between inscriptions being viable and not.
Inscriptions seem more of a social phenomenon.
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USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists.
The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving.
Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream?
Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward.
It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin.
I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down.
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Many scumbags openly admitted they were trying to cyberbully @glozow to make her life as miserable as possible, so that she would ragequit bitcoin. Unfortunately, those people were rewarded today for their efforts, as she did quit.
It sets such a terrible precedent... now these losers are going to feel emboldened to repeat this attack against other OSS devs working for bitcoin. It's sad and pathetic. A dark day for bitcoin indeed
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Congratulations you finally did it.
You bullied one of Bitcoin Core's most prolific and consistently excellent maintainers until she gave up. A mob of loud, line-by-line-illiterate crusaders who couldn't maintain a README between them managed to exhaust someone who _actually did the proof of work_
This doesn't make Bitcoin safer.
It makes it poorer, thinner, and less secure because you just taught the people who carry the protocol that sustained harassment is the price of competence.
That lesson will not be forgotten, and it will not age well.
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This ultimately resulted in a change to GCC (thanks @MarcoFalke), which we’ll backport to the GCC we use to compile releases.
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I thought this was a great discussion. Recommend watching.
Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30 - Part IV w/ Murch nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yoKMPeRV…
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שגרירות הביטקוין שמחה להזמין אתכם להרצאה ודיון פתוח בנושא שובו של ה OP_RETURN
מה זה בעצם OP_RETURN? מה שונה בגרסה החדשה? איך זה משפיע על צמתים ברשת?
נעבור על ההיסטוריה, על הדרכים השונות לשמירת מידע ברשת הביטקוין, מה מהות השינוי ומדוע הוא נדרש
📅 יום ראשון הקרוב, 19:00
👇אוונט
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ביטקוין אצלך – לא אצל הבורסה.
סדנת ארנקים מעשית - לומדים איך להחזיק ביטקוין.
שגרירות הביטקוין מזמינה לסדנה בת 3 שעות בה תלמדו איך להחזיק ביטקוין.
מספר המקומות מוגבל, פרטים נוספים כאן lu.ma/fdpljem8
