Rijndael | BIP-420 🐱
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symmetric block cipher. Artificer @TaprootWizards. Vires in Numeris
Joined May 2011
If you can't FUD your own bags, you aren't thinking clearly.
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Friday was my last day at FAANG. The next arc of my career is working full-time on Bitcoin. We are at an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime moment to drive economic empowerment and financial inclusion to the whole world. Exciting times. Can not wait.
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Canadians honk horns: cut off from financial system.Russia invades Ukraine: can still use SWIFT. Boggles the mind.
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Literally had to stop working because if this stupid design. @Apple how do you go to work every day knowing that you still make this.
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Governments seizing Bitcoin and then adding it to their treasury is a not a thing you want.
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just got off the phone with a large OTC desk. they said "who are you? how did you get this number?". you are not bullish enough. HIGHER.
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We've been working super hard on @QuantumCatsXYZ. in addition to the incredible artwork by @0xfar, there's a lot of cool tech behind these Evolving Inscriptions. Ordinal Inscriptions are on Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Blockchain is immutable. How did we build evolving inscriptions?.👇.
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Just launched @CashApp, from the main screen hit the little "camera" button in the top left. Scanned a lightning QR code and sent $0.25 over lightning. Instantly, no fees. From cash app. Amazing.
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It seems like a lot of people are intimidated by the idea of “running your own full node”. Here’s another way to say it: download bitcoin-core, install it, and them run the program. That’s it. If you’ve ever downloaded and run a piece of software in your life, you can run bitcoin.
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A quick thread about BIP324, the new encrypted P2P transport. Check out this packet captures. It is clearly a bitcoin node downloading a block from a peer. It's so clear that wireshark will automatically stitch all the packets together and annotate it as a block.
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“Don’t spend your bitcoin! Just buy and hodl!” is a state-sponsored psyop to prevent bitcoin from competing with the dollar. Dont take the bait. Spend-and-replace if you don’t want to reduce your position. Bitcoin is not just digital gold. It can do so much more. Merry Christmas!.
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Fungible tokens are, without exaggeration and nearly without exception, a vile abyss of hopium, scams, and incompetence. Runes are no different. If you want to make money, buy bitcoin. h/t @rodarmor.
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I made a vault using OP_CAT! . What is a vault? Why OP_CAT? How does it work? 🧵.
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If youre shocked to see some company in the WEF, you should take a minute and go scroll through the list of companies in the WEF.
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Taproot is awesome. I just made a 69/420 multisig:.
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A few weeks ago I somehow ended up in a conversation with a BSV fan. I made a comment about how now you coins can be stolen from you on BSV (“confiscated”). He said I was wrong and I didn’t know enough about the system to defend my assertion. Until now!. Let’s take a look! 🧵.
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Bitcoin is not digital energy.
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This is a bitcoin address on the regtest (a local testnet): bcrt1pxmkpf29mqhns6uj8rmyn5fw9y0n8gjvka3dsw9h9xqrf74544hks9k5c42. This address is special. The *only* way it can spend its bitcoin is by sending them back to itself. It uses OP_CAT to make a recursive covenant. 🧵.
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Merry Christmas, ord disrespectoors! I have a gift just for you! . This will rid your node of inscriptions. You can run it, or not. It's your computer, you can run whatever software you want on it. Relay filtering doesn't work. This has teeth.
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ppl always ask “who is satoshi?”. nobody ever ask “how is satoshi?”. 😢.
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There’s an online circular economy where pseudonymous people use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and SoV. They buy and sell digital goods using trustless swaps and auctions built on PSBTs on permissionless marketplaces. It just so happens to be for jpegs.
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I legit don’t understand bitcoin fans that are mad that bitcoin is becoming more useful to more people.
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I'll never forgive the EU for ruining the web with cookie disclosures.
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the things that people are building with bitcoin are going to blow your mind.
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Incase anyone is wondering: it’s Bitcoin, not “crypto”.
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Just because something has a limited supply doesnt mean its value is infinite. There has to be demand for it. And that demand can’t be just because there’s a limited supply.
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The utility of Bitcoin is that you can use it to send Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin only succeeds if a lot of people use it, and use it in a non-custodial way. Don’t lose sight of the big picture.
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Here's a bitcoin address on signet: tb1plntsyjs7xhcq4kfpagrksq6jxxadv67yzwr6algdjkw834cwejfqjj23q0. And here's a transaction sending some coins to it: BUT WAIT! That address isn't either of the outputs! How? *SILENT PAYMENTS*.
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I'm building a new blockchain based on the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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yo mamma so fat, one time I inscribed her and luke-jr wrote a relay filter and called her an attack on bitcoin.
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Ross Ulbricht is a first-time offender is serving two life sentences plus 40 years for running a website. He was never prosecuted for causing harm or bodily injury and no victim was named at trial. Today he turns 40 and is still behind bars. It is time to #FreeRoss.
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Doing a little magic🪄with CAT and Schnorr signatures!. In 2021, Andrew Poelstra wrote this blog post ( about how you can (in theory) use the mathematics of Schnorr signatures with CAT to get a transaction hash onto the stack. The reason this is cool is
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Almost like the panic over inscriptions was for nothing, the economics still makes sense, and we didnt need to make any changes to bitcoin. Wild.
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Happy to see so many people talking about and digging into @fedimint and Chaumian Mints generally. Chaumian mints are an old idea, but new to a lot of bitcoiners. There's a nice pen-and-paper physical analogy to understand how they work. I made a video:
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2000 people are in a space talking about the price. @PortlandHODL is in a space with 30 people giving a tutorial on @SparrowWallet. Love to see it.
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@_pgauthier Can you clarify these two paragraphs? You say there are rigorous controls in place to ensure that no single employee can push malicious code to prod, but this was a case where a former employee's creds were used to push malicious code to prod. Why was NPM not covered by your
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Bitcoin fans: you’re going to see a LOT about CTV or BIP119 over the coming months. There are actually two debates happening at once: “is CTV/BIP119 a good thing in and of itself?” and “is this the right way to activate a consensus change?” .(1/3).
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It’s amazing to me how many people make bitcoin their personality and still don’t understand bitcoin.
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RFK Jr said that wifi causes cancer but you like him because he’ll pump your bags.
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Hey tech friends! If you’re looking to work on something new, there is a TON happening in Bitcoin right now. Completely separate from the scams, ponzis, and financial perpetual motion machines you’ve been reading about. Lot of real opportunities to do interesting work.
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little weekend bitcoin craft project (a short thread). on my wall is this print. inside it is a satchip. That is, an NFC chip that has a bitcoin private key and can sign messages (1/5)
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good morning. Bitcoin is a voluntary, permissionless system. If you don’t like how other people use it, you can either try to change the system, you can ignore it, or you can stop using it. Those are your options.
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Can OP_CAT make AMMs for Runes/BRC20? Probably not. Can we make a token protocol that is AMM-friendly with OP_CAT? Yes! (with some interesting tradeoffs).
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Privacy is the ability to selectively reveal yourself and your behavior to the world. Privacy is not a crime.
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Bitcoin isn't about making money. It's about making money better.
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trump puts 119 jpegs on bitcoin. luke: "THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS A STATE ATTACK"
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there's a well-publicized brc-20 mint happening right now, driving onchain fees up. The token has a max supply of 108,624,000, and can be minted in batches of 420 tokens per inscription. Inscriptions are 2 TXs. So to mint this thing all the way out will be 517,257 tx's.
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Can you guys stop putting your bullshit onchain?. I have some bullshit i need to put onchain.
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- antpool makes (at least) half the block templates.- we cant agree on a strategy for noncustodially scaling bitcoin.- the only deployed solutions for onchain privacy are now actively prosecuted . SURELY the biggest problem to solve is renaming “sats” to “bitcoins”.
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Nobody will remember:.- Your salary.- Your fancy title.- How ‘busy’ you were.- How stressed you were.- How many hours you worked . People will remember: .- The shitposts you put in OP_RETURNs.
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If you’re not keeping your corn in a 998/999 multisig, you might as well just leave it on the exchange.
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Daily reminder that you can validate the chain of bitcoin headers in less than 3 seconds with about 1.5kB of data on your phone RIGHT NOW through the magic of starks: @ZeroSync_ is magical.
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The highest honor for a bitcoin publication is being attacked by the fed. What a momentous day. Congratulations @BitcoinMagazine!.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Federal Reserve threatens to sue #Bitcoin Magazine in attempt to silence criticism of its FedNow service.
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Just thinking out-loud here. UNCOMMON•GOODS is one-per-mint, open mint for the next 4 years. For this epoch, you will always be able to mint one UNCOMMON•GOODS for the price of the transaction fee. 1/n.
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Friendly reminder that miners don't construct blocks, pools do. 11 pools mine 98% of bitcoin blocks. Maybe having miners (pools) vote on withdrawals isn't as decentralized as it sounds?
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Cool. I point out that jimmy’s game theory doesn’t reflect the market and apparently he can’t handle it. I remember a different Jimmy.
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Annual reminder that if you are enough of a bitcoin fan that you spend time on bitcoin twitter, you should read bmoney by Wei Dai. Very interesting to reflect on what parts made it into bitcoin, what parts didnt, why that is, and the differences.
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Things that are useful don’t need narratives. They’re just useful. Things need narratives when you’re speculating on the future value of something and need a basis for that future value.
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So, what did we learn? There are now specially trusted people who can just bypass the rules on BSV. Those users have no option but to hope that those powers aren’t abused. Truly, Satoshis Vision. /thread.
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I once maintained a smallish piece of security-critical open source software. thousands of users. maybe 0.3% gave back to the project. When something wasn't perfect, heard about it from the other 99.7%.it was hard, thankless work. Thank you to all the maintainers out there.
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i want bitcoin to be the linux of money. not the linux desktop of money.
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looks like OP_CAT finally got a bip number. love to see it!.
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@notgrubles Its kinda hilarious that its easier to edit Ethereum’s monetary policy than it is to edit a tweet.
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Had a conversation with a colleague yesterday about the impact that the Internet (in general) and Bitcoin will end up having on the world. Everytime I have this conversation it reminds me of a couple things, one of them is how long it took for electricity to change industry. 🧵👇.
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there is now ~$20 less bitcoin spendable in the world. you're welcome everyone.
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"Bitcoin is a freedom technology disguised as a get-rich-quick scheme." . lol. solid line @APompliano.
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Busy day today! Hope you all are getting some relaxation
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You have to respect Ocean for sticking to their values. They have not mined a single block containing Runes. Their dedication to not enabling spam and scams is admirable.
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Timezones suck. Where is toxic UTC maximalist twitter?.
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Excited to do some point-scalar multiplication on my new calculator
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