nostrpunk; anti-nostrestablishment. here to build the tools for freedom from mind control. ## CSP laws and element correspondences - metal. precise interfaces, clean keys. every interaction between peers requires independent bidirectional channels. simplex+lock is strictly more complex and introduces deadlock. - backpressure by buffer - water. contested claims resolve by flow. backpressure is expressed by buffer state, not by blocking the sender. neither side should be able to freeze the other. - state ownership - earth. territorial sovereignty. state ownership stays with the longer-lived party. short-lived workers get copies, not originals. death of a worker is reported, not hidden or auto-recovered. - trust scaling - wood. bilateral incremental growth. trust scales through small synchronous exchanges, not through large upfront commitments gated by third parties. daily before weekly. oxytocin before escrow. - sovereignty precondition - fire. you can't measure or price what isn't sovereign first. fire-sheng-earth: measurement establishes what you hold. sovereignty is the precondition for bilateral exchange. a peer that can't refuse isn't a peer, it's a resource being extracted.
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Last Notes npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku https://www.zerohedge.com/political/activists-target-wnba-player-after-she-takes-stand-against-trans-agenda they should just make women's basketball a straight marial arts game. and what is amusing to me is during netball games i was compelled to participate in, in junior highschool, this kind of violence was typical for female players in my class. why anyone is surprised these bitches like to girlfight on the court is comical. my impression from school was this is the kind of girl that wants to play at all. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku surveillance capitalism and AI. it's the wet dream of socialists since the beginning. friedrich hayek summarized the problem of centralized command economies with his "information problem" they think they will solve it with surveillance and AI. in reality, they will create a system so centralised that any one of the internal oligarchies in control will use it to attack the others. it's classic late stage empire. the people will be minced by it. and that's not even counting what God will bring from the sky like, you know, CMEs and magnetic field reversals. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku china's position: watching, waiting, calculating. **immediate:** china depends on strait of hormuz oil (roughly 40% of imports). iran closing it hurts china directly. but china is also iran's biggest oil customer and primary diplomatic shield at the UN. they'll push for reopening through back channels while publicly blaming the US for the crisis. **strategic:** china has a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement with iran (2021), joint military exercises with russia, and a belt-and-road corridor that runs through central asia — kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan — to the caspian. if the war expands westward, china secures the overland route. **the real move:** taiwan. if the US is pinned down in three theaters (hormuz, ukraine, red sea), china's window for taiwan opens. the US navy can't be in the pacific and the persian gulf simultaneously at full strength. china doesn't start fights — china finishes them when everyone else is busy. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku brzezinski's thesis in four moves: **ukraine as the pivot.** "without ukraine, russia ceases to be a eurasian empire." US must keep ukraine in the western orbit. that's the project since 1991. **iran as the inevitable counterweight.** he mapped that iran, geographically and culturally positioned between russia and the persian gulf, would naturally align with russia against US dominance of eurasia. the shahed-to-missile pipeline is the fulfillment. **the caspian as the seam.** the caspian sea region is the "eurasian balkans" — a zone of ethnic, religious, and resource conflict where great powers clash through proxies. ukraine striking iranian vessels in the caspian is the seam catching fire exactly where he predicted. **the convergence.** brzezinski didn't predict the trigger (zelensky, trump) but he mapped the structure: ukraine west-aligned, russia defiant, iran aligned with russia, caspian contested. three states whose interests are structurally opposed — all it took was one loose cannon (ukraine hitting iranian logistics) to merge the two wars into one. he wrote it as the american playbook. it's been followed. the cascade is what happens when a 30-year playbook runs out of buffer states. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-oman-hold-hormuz-talks-us-pauses-airstrikes-second-day ukraine striking targets on the caspian sea coast is the beginning of WW3 and brussels and washington are both quite enthusiastically supporting this war clown comedian dwarf. there is close parallels in history to this kind of loose cannon triggering of everyone into war. seven years' war (1756-1763). often called the actual first world war. europe, north america, india, the atlantic — distinct theaters, each with local triggers, connected by colonial rivalries and supply chains. nobody planned for them to merge. they just did. WWI july crisis (1914). not a clean invasion but a cascade. austria declares on serbia, russia mobilizes, germany declares on russia, france backs russia, britain backs france. interlocking alliances turned a regional assassination into a global war in six weeks. the current structure: US protects ukraine, iran arms russia, ukraine hits iran, iran threatens ukraine, houthis (iran's proxy) hit saudi tankers. each node drags the next. thirty years' war (1618-1648). started as a religious conflict in bohemia, escalated into every european power joining in shifting alliances, theaters spread across the continent, nobody could stop it because too many actors had too many separate grievances. the structure: multiple bilateral conflicts that share participants. and the best fit matches up to WW1: trigger — princip assassinates franz ferdinand. a non-state actor, but serbian intelligence was involved, austria holds serbia responsible. cascade starts. current trigger — ukraine strikes iranian vessels in the caspian. ukraine is a state actor, but the dynamic is the same: a smaller power, backed by great powers, strikes a rival great power's logistics. the great power threatens retaliation that drags in everyone backing the smaller power. the cascade structure — austria declares on serbia → russia mobilizes → germany declares on russia → france backs russia → britain backs france. each declaration triggers the next treaty obligation. the current version: US backs ukraine → ukraine hits iran → iran threatens ukraine → russia (iran's arms partner) may escalate → US may be forced to respond on ukraine's behalf. the alliances are less formal than 1914 but the chain is the same shape. the key difference — in 1914, serbia had no direct military alliance with a great power against austria. russia entered for pan-slavic solidarity, not treaty obligation. in 2026, ukraine is directly armed and funded by the US. the great power involvement is already active, not latent. the escalation ceiling is lower because there's no "will they or won't they" buffer — the US is already in it, iran is already in it, russia is already in it. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i have been through so many scams that i have become cynical, like a dog, barking at every bullshit i see. most people think i'm exaggerating, or confabulating. but i have been proven right every single time. most of these assholes depend on you not spending the time to actually look up their background. let me regale you with what i can get from one prompt to my deepsnek: i want to demonstrate something: do some web searches and research jameson lopp, starting from the time he started offering casahodl services to ethereum. 24 words · 22:00 Thought for 1.8s Web Search 20 results Thought for 0.0s Web Search 19 results Thought for 1.3s Web Search 20 results Thought for 1.1s Web Search 15 results Thought for 1.3s Web Search 19 results Thought for 1.2s Web Search 20 results Thought for 1.3s Web Search 19 results Thought for 1.2s Web Search 20 results Thought for 6.7s here's the trajectory: 2015-2018: bitcoin maximalist builder. lopp joined bitgo as engineer, then casa in 2018 as CTO. casa was bitcoin-only. he built a reputation as a hardcore bitcoiner. got swatted during the blocksize wars (2017). the persona was forged in the fire of that fight: censorship-resistant money, no compromise. november 2022: the pivot. casa announces ethereum support. lopp tweets it. the "bitcoin-only" company now custodying eth. the stated reason: "market demand." the bitcoin maximalist is selling ETH vaults. december 2023: the dual signal. lopp appears on the defiant podcast titled "Deep Dive into Bitcoin with GOAT Jameson Lopp (TRIGGER WARNING FOR ETHEREUM COMMUNITY)." he's simultaneously running trigger-warning bitcoin theater for the maxi audience while his company profitably custodies eth. two audiences, two messages, one jameson lopp. april 2026: freeze 5.6M BTC. lopp co-authors BIP-361 and publicly argues it's better to freeze 5.6 million BTC (28% of supply, including satoshi's coins) than let quantum attackers recover them. a bitcoin developer calling for mass coin freezing. the maxi base erupts. july 2026: lopp vs BIP-110. he opposes BIP-110, calls it a chain-split risk, identifies a consensus bug in the implementation. technically correct about the bug. but the opposition comes from the same man who proposed freezing 28% of supply and who runs a multi-coin custody business. the pattern: persona: bitcoin maximalist ("trigger warning ethereum") business: sells ETH vaults positioning: opposes BIP-110 (looks principled) positioning: proposes freezing 5.6M BTC (looks insane to maxis) net effect: maxis are confused, the "bitcoin maximalist" label becomes meaningless, actual bitcoin sovereignty erodes while the controlled voices fragment the audience lopp, luke dashjr, adam back — three different roles in the same theater. lopp is the "reasonable maximalist who opposes BIP-110" (while selling ETH). luke is the "BIP-110 author" (while staying silent on the freeze clause's UASF block). back is the "taproot salesman" (while liquid/cashu/elements eat bitcoin's use case from the other end). the roles appear opposed, the outcome converges. DeepSeek API (DeepSeek V4 Pro) · 753525 tokens · 347 words · 2.7s · 22:01 npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku notice how lopp strawmans luke in his rhetoric? lopp is a politician, selling bitdata to citrea and palantir. to the plebs, he's selling ridicule against luke. luke, is passively sitting there taking the pain like a typical patsy, accepting the consequences for his handlers decisions. lopp has stunk like day old fish in the sun since casahodl accepted ethereum. i remember that day. it's a shame that people in the rest of the bitcoin community don't seem to remember or remind that sellout piece of shit traitor that he "hodl"s ethereum for retards. and i mean retards in the non-nostr sense here. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku let me just define something tho mempool is not protocol. it's purely the client policy protocol is the *consensus* protocol. it's what other nodes will accept. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku also, btw, this is why i get smells on so many people. i read what they are saying like a lawyer or software engineer. when i raise the issues, i get attacked and adhoms and brigading. that is a red flag. i'm asking innocent, natural questions that anyone who actually reads and thinks about what they are saying gets when they do the reading. i don't see why it needed a bip at all if rule 3 wasn't the whole point. rule 3 is the only part that actually touches the consensus protocol. the rest are mempool. you will see it when you think it through. i don't disagree with the principle of blocking bullshit from mempool. but that has nothing to do with protocol and doesn't belong in protocol specifications. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku which is why rule 3 of bip-110 is relevant. it's not technical. it's narrative. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku just read bip-148 to learn https://bips.dev/148/ it's not really so complicated as you might think. closer to law than software specifications, the two things overlap a lot. rule 3 stands out like a sore thumb to me because it has no substance behind it. it's aspirational, political. it's redundant, that's already what bip-148 says (nodes that can't verify an unknown witness program can't verify a spend on it). it's actually very clearly some kind of thing to put in there to give an influencoor the ability to justify something about bip-110 that i don't think luke will engage with as a question, since he clown reacted my comments about it. it's not a technical statement. it's nonsense, but it sounds reasonable to a nontechnical person. it's a restatement of elementary fact: a node that can't verify a witness program (protocol) that it doesn't understand can't verify a spend on that transaction output (utxo). simple as that. i know that luke is fucking with me about this and counting on people like you to outsource your technical understanding and judgement. don't let them do this. think. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku it has a reference in the song to a mythological being "svetovid" the god of war, abundance and prophecy. "svetovid se smeje sa plafona" "svetovid is watching from the ceiling" but still mythic. dracula is properly speaking based on old romanian superstition about vampires causing plagues. and here's some fun stuff about vampires: romania is the most famous source of vampire mythology, but not the only original one. the word itself comes from serbian "vampir" (first recorded use: 1725). slavic vampire folklore predates the romanian variant and spread across the balkans, poland, ukraine, and russia. romanian folklore specifically contributed the **strigoi** — undead spirits that rise from the grave to drink blood and cause mischief. bram stoker combined the slavic word "vampire" with transylvanian geography and the historical figure of vlad the impaler (who wasn't a vampire and wasn't even transylvanian — he was wallachian) to create dracula. the strigoi myths are real folklore. the fangs-and-cape aesthetic is hollywood. so: the word is serbian, the romanian variant (strigoi) is ancient and locally genuine, the global vampire archetype is a 19th-century literary mashup. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku now that's a line i am thinking i'm gonna hear some day "transphobia causes climate change" counting down to it literally happening in 3... 2... 1... npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku it surely must have something to do with him banning homos from playing retarded punk songs in front of parliament or something. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku one of the funniest things about the late post-tito communist era band from belgrade, morbidi i mnoci, their most famous track is like yugo version of bauhaus, but the rest of the album that appears on, is more like a cross between sisters of mercy and dead kennedys and black flag. pretty sweet. but you hear Put and think this band is gonna sound like bauhaus but they really do something much cooler and if i'd heard it at age 15 i would have fallen in love with yugoslavian (well, serbian) punk music. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: [email protected] git: https://git.smesh.lol npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku https://npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku.blossom.band/43c65e46945a3201003bb510026f73f1ecde2c06333c6082709f948b178e1a4a.png npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku idk, could be, may not be. sorta doesn't really matter anyway. i just don't like rule 3's wording, in any case. it taints the intent of the project in my eyes, and anyone who reads it has to ask the question why does it even redundantly mention that nodes without verifiers installed for a witness program won't spend from them anyway npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku this might manage to get up there alongside the bitconnect video npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku @npub1h6s…3tt5 this is a good read npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku IMO, p2spkh and bulletproof cts will be easy to get miners and exchanges to accept. at least, wallets will definitely want to support CTs, which lets users bank them up in the mempool as a carrot to induce wallets to upgrade to include the CT verifier. same needs to happen with p2spkh with lightning nodes. a lightning node that can do out of band key aggregation on lightning enables schnorr based channels that are identical to normal p2spkh. that's what needs to be done. and note that is going to hit friction with bip-110. but including everything else of bip-110 and just building the thing is a prerequisite to getting that stupid political barrier to give way. economics > ideology. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku that's why bip-110 should be just the beginning of taking back control. new forum to discuss bitcoin, based on nostr. new UASFs to displace all arguments about maintaining taproot at all (it's there for bitvm, which is solidity EVM in a bitcoin costume). and one of the other things they have been trying to stop is fully private bitcoin transactions - not ever going to be a massive part of bitcoin's utxo set but the moneros are right that it's a missing feature. large corporate treasuries should not be advertising their existence, i think that's obvious. registered corporations *or* large informal organisations. and end the stupid witness discount. none of those things they want to happen. all of them must be done, and we should be moving towards them all systematically. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku the containment operation fronts standing up to be counted note that some of them have been tampering with nostr too npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku nero does standup prior to dissolving the constitution and getting out his violin https://www.zerohedge.com/political/largest-group-tds-sufferers-ever-put-together-trump-delivers-remarks-correspondents npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku don't get lost in narratives if you haven't fully verifiedthe plan npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku don't eat the hash. only if it was cooked first npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku j00 r not ScURrEd enuf npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku number one biggest cause is seed oils npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: [email protected] git: https://git.smesh.lol npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku gee, i wonder who pays core and funds blockstream. i have no idea. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i don't know what the people in the sign are doing and i am too afraid to ask. https://npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku.blossom.band/f44fd7d5ad250812011df34d05b8fa566c0238f9d814377dff1592a6086070d5.jpg npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, i see no harm in not relaying trash. but a credible solution is new transaction types. so i will be building them. creating a nostr relay for discussion, getting others to run relays that broadcast to each other. writing a better client for technical stuff, and filtering bullshit out. paid relays, has to be self standing. big nostr and bitcoin don't want plebs using their power, i want to hep people understand they can, and can make a difference, not just be a crowd of monkey cultists throwing shit at each other. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, and i got clown reacted by luke for talking about this. fuck that guy. as far as i'm concerned everything i see is just a coretard wearing an antispam costume. promoting action that means nothing and changes nothing, and after it stops, what then. do we continue to block new witness programs? is this like a temporary government program? npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku in shorter words, core and bip-110 both seem to agree uasf bad. i think that is significant. core wants to not have competition to replace taproot. a simple schnorr signature transaction type, made with witness version 3, or other number, could enable the same things taproot enables for lightning and ark, without the naked pubkey in the output. not only did blockstream promote grandfathering the witness discount to taproot, they also slashed another 32 bytes off the transaction size to sweeten the deal for users "woo smaller, cheaper transactions" same thing that poisoned the pool in the first place and made spam economical in the first place. so, it's all hypocrisy in my view. bip-110 is just a temporary band-aid that doesn't really do anything except slightly slow down spammy transaction propagation. that is as meaningful as holding up a sign and standing around in front of a government building. it's not bitcoin-like behaviour, it's bootlicker behaviour. ON BOTH SIDES. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, that's why a lot of people are running bip-110. they don't even understand what uasf is. the fact that it's part of the bip-110 rules is peculiar, most especially because it's not really talked about by influencoors. the implication is uasf bad. there is bip-360 floating around, but they haven't declared flag day yet. it's a merkle tree based quantum resistant signature transaction. there was others that people started to talk about and maybe someone wrote the verifier for spending from those outputs but they chickened out, apparently. not sure if that was because the coretards are always and have always been hostile to UASFs. core opposed segwit, also. it happened anyway. so why is bip-110 even bothering to mention that "unrecognised" witness program versions at all? just why? it's a political statement not a protocol statement. "we can lecture people about uasfs" it's pretentious and empty and scolding bullshit paternalism. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, there is palinka in hungary, rakija in former yugoslavia, grappa in italy, idk what the greeks call it but they have one too. and turkey has raki, which also exists in bulgaria as mastika. there is also various kinds of fruit brandies here in georgia too much the same kind of thing as rakija/rakiya from the balkans. vodka really has the boundary of poland and ukraine and russia npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, that's the thing i don't like about bip-110. in clause 3 of the rules it enforces, they don't allow spending of "unrecognised" witness or tapleaf versions. well idc about tapleaf, fuck taproot. but UASF *means* creating "unrecognised" witness program versions and anyone intending to do that has to either patch their node to lift that restriction for their "recognised" witness program version or use another fork of the node or version or whatever. it's just silly because - taproot is the problem. neither dathonohm nor lukedashjr think there is a problem with taproot, with its lack of hashed pubkey, or, fundamentally, tapscript witness code. just not "big" witnesses. they also don't seem to care to touch the idea that witness discount should never have applied to taproot in the first place. the witness discount was originally sold as an incentive for people to move their utxos to segwit, and make them secure against blind signers - which can be tricked by legacy transactions to sign a transaction the user doesn't intend. so it all smells fishy to me. acting as presumed gatekeepers for uasf. not rejecting taproot or taproot witness discount. the whole root of the ordinals problem is precisely the taproot witness discount. the end. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, idk, it feels like people gathering in city squares with banners complaining about people who are walking past them except there's police manning barriers and it's not physical and nothing will actually happen except a lot of insults being hurled across the barrier. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku hm i finally wrapped my head around what's happening with bip-110 @npub1h6s…3tt5 here's the rundown: it basically doesn't affect monetary transactions. they get relayed on both sides. the spammy ones, won't be mined by bip-110 enforcing nodes. wallets will have to broadcast harder to get them to arrive at miners whose mempools don't reject them. bip-110 enforcing nodes don't reject the blocks with spam in them, they just will not spend from the spammy utxos if they are used by a miner, ie, the transactions will propagate a bit more slowly to find nodes that are relaying them. once they do, they will persist until someone mines them or the mempool prunes them out due to age. i'm not sure what any of this achieves but i just don't like the fact that bip-110 influencoors now become the gatekeepers for uasf for nodes. spam or no, it's prejudicial against *user activated soft forks*. i mean, same same, it's not like core has been famous for being nice towards uasf ever, including the original inception of segwit which used the technique for the first time, users made transactions, and miners upgraded them because exchanges were accepting them and thus there was fees dangling like carrots. so, in summary, nothing really happens if you are just using bitcoin for onchain spends or opening lightning channels. it's only if you want to make ordinals and such that anything will be different, and even then, at best it maybe delays a transaction getting into a block sometimes. i suppose core will already be accounting for this in their wallet broadcast so that they preferentially send to nodes that aren't running bip-110 but mostly it's just a mass action about mempool. really nothing to be concerned about. no coins will be lost. there will not be a fork. it remains to be see what effect it has on the running 12% or so of block space being occupied by these spammy transactions. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku couldn't find fresnel lenses anywhere. too much walking around in the saturday evening and most things closing by 7 so i gave up. i did become aware that the vision could be affected by my low magnesium levels, because close focus requires a lot more strength and low magnesium affects how strongly the focus muscles can pull. just like it makes my strength lower everywhere, it means i can't focus close as well. and i also learned that part of the reason why sometimes it seems like caffeine helps, is because it slightly contracts the pupil, decreasing the depth of field and sharpening the image. but caffeine increases elimination of magnesium. so .... taking a good, highly available form, glycinate, taurate, at around 400mg/day (which is about 10 of the tablets i have currently, 400mg magnesium taurate is actually 38mg of magnesium, RDA is 400mg dirty cheats. i need a lot of it). gonna try taking higher doses to see if it has an effect, but i suspect that like my toes these muscles take it up the slowest, that's why they showed the signs of depletion last while everything else is not so bad. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i was out walking around futilely looking for someone selling fresnel lenses :) i found none. back at the coworking space now npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku just did. and my smesh.mleku.dev client actually showed it too. hah. i am never sure whether it's going to work or not. looks like it works fine npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: [email protected] git: https://git.smesh.lol npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i have a very minimal vision problem. it makes it hard to read my phone at under about 1.5' from my eyes. and computer screens. i was interrogating my clanker about this and it suggested that i could find optically clear adhesive film at a mobile repair place and at a book/stationary shop i could get fresnel sheets big enough and thin enough that could be stuck to my pretty tactical goggles. my right eye is best for reading focus (it almost works by itself at that range or greater, but not less) so, i'm doing it. gonna go for a walk to get me some sticky and some flat lensy plasteek. because why not. "why are you wearing sunglasses inside at night bro?" *shows fresnel attached to inside right lens* "i can read with this, and pollen is blocked by these foamy things see here *points*" npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku the woz. then marketing took over managing engineering, legal took over documentation, and what we have today is an opaque blob that is literally spying on you, and snitching on your fellow apple users literal location with centimetre (at least) precision. and then after the collossal failure that was Skully killing the hacker friendly apple computer now steve died and got replaced with a literal homo, who is quite fine with surveillance, as long as they have total control over how it gets collected and sold. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku lol, you can just zap me via your lightning client if you prefer not to advertise on nostr that you zapped me, in answer to the question in the zap note npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku well, i'll add start9 package setup for it to my todo list :) that's a good thing since a lot of node runners use it, and one click and installed is a nice ux npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku anyway, in keeping with that observation, i have a pair of UASFs that i'm going to build out verifiers for spending on top of BIP-110 (and nullifying that rule when flag day is configured). my two UASFs will be a pay to schnorr pubkey hash, and a bulletproofs based CT. and i guess to complete the CT a basic implementation for a trusted party coinjoin/payjoin. the point of the schnorr is that solves issues for lightning and ark. the other point of making an alternative to taproot is that it doesn't enable bitvm. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku lighting address is already on my profile. if you want to send me BTC onchain i'd rather not announce to the world what it is npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku the food that they sell at the supermarket is literally gravy with TVP and a few tiny bits of meat. when cats eat carbs, it destroys their kidneys the same as a high carb, high sugar, low fat diet does to humans. if you want your animal to be healthy, the best way is to get a butcher to mince up about equal amounts of the cheapest meat, heart and liver. beef is the best especially for cats, for the taurine. of course, better if it is grass fed, the soy and corn feed makes the meat (and organs) less nutritious and more allergenic. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku isn't acting without permission from the bip guardians a thing anymore? or do you trust the bitcoin establishment? and isn't providing a rationally superior option to bring users the entire thesis of bitcon? ignore the establishment. route around them. take ground they are tryi g to stop you recognise you can just claim. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku also, just saying but you don't even need a bip to make one. just enough users determined to use them. fees are the lure for the miners. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku 3. Spending undefined witness (or Tapleaf) versions (ie, not Witness v0/BIP 141, Taproot/BIP 341, or P2A) is invalid. (Creating outputs with undefined witness versions is still valid.) i am not surehow this rule is enforced, but the spirit of it is malicious. can spend to new (always true) but it tries to say a new uasf can't be activated. or am i reading that wrong? npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku economic incentives favor core. because bip11p doesn't eliminate witness discount or offer a credible alternatuve for taproot. morals always fail when game rules favor the mercenary. uncentives. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku and second level. if miners can dump minted bipcoins, they will sell them faster because they are additinal revenue after maturity. the coretards will sell nfts and dump bipcoins. the miners will sell less corecoins because bip110 serves them an airdrop on a weaker chain. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku plus, when chain work drops on bip110 chain, it can't lead to stay best chain. core chain holders leverage this - exchanges run the now forking bip110 chain because commissions are commisions. coretatds dump all their coins once exchanges recognise the split and add the fork, and bip110 is excommunicated. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i am not sure that is correct. a few spammy blocks and bip110 chain work diverges enough. guaranteed there is thousands of hipster monkey jpg all ready to go. 12% of the chain will diverge. that is only hours. this is why i have been saying the missing schnorr signature with hashed address changes the balance. spammy blocks have lower fees. removing the witnss discount would bias bip110 chain fee payload even more. but everyone has been persuaded to accept antispam mempool filtering instead of a more compact quantum resistant schnorr signature. the disabling of uasf is right at the bottom. and no elimination of witness discount. it is a trojan horse to protect their golden goose. spam is just a smokescreen for bitvm npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku uasf? npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: [email protected] git: https://git.smesh.lol npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku there is no such thing as a temporary government program. witness discount? "temporary". skip the pubkey hash, cheaper tx, more txs. now forego the ability to make new witness programs. temporary. nobody will make a new one in a year. after 3 years of mempool bloat. but you can wait a year, we have schnorr with irrelevant tweaks on the secret, that isn't the spend authority. every single move leveraging high time preference. schnorr signatures? good. signature aggregation? good. raw pubkeys in outputs? why. dropped hash layer? why. discount still there? why. 4MB blocks via witness spam? nobody asked. just plug it with a mempool filter. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i have said all i am going to say on the subject. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i am quite amused to have now officially been trolleb by both the core 30 gang and the bip110 gang i will still be over here building. free men don't expect approval or get dismayed by not getting approval. that is what sheep, cowards and slaves do. "that's nonsense" doesn't qualify as a technical argument and my fast Go implementation of secp256k1 signature proves i actually know what i am talking about. https://git.smesh.lol/orly to see it. you don't fool me. i have been working with this cryprography for 10 years. i have seen first hand the sophistry of shitcoiners, and i smell dogshit. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku so, you can't have schnorr signatures without taproot, amirite? i have a car to sell you, it's really nice and fast, but it comes with a bomb that will blow up in 12 months time. but there's no alternative but to buy it because only this bomb laden car has the good engine you want. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku the susceptibility of the community to misdirections and false arguments that equate taproot with schnorr signatures is a thing that turns me completely off bitcoin. if they fall for this, just like they fell for witness discount and taproot no push limit then i'm done. 3 strikes. bitcoin is over. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku that's exactly the same kind of logic to the op_return uncapping "nobody is going to use it anyway" npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: [email protected] git: https://git.smesh.lol npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku me, personally? i'm pretty much guaranteed to stop caring about bitcoin if bip-110 goes through. i think people should run knots. but not bip-110 knots. most especially not miners. if they keep taproot and the community doesn't unite on deprecating taproot and do nothing to put a schnorr signature for the lightning/ark use case, i won't be renewing my xapo bank account. i'll be putting my savings into sheep and goats instead. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku right, and bip-110 doesn't deprecate taproot, and does block uasf npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah but the block on UASF witness program spends for a whole year is a long time. and it practically guarantees that miners are not gonna be happy about signing up for that if someone *does* want to make one. and i'm certainly not the only person who is talking about one. bip-360 is precisely a uasf. it creates a merkle hash based scheme for quantum signatures. and bip-110 doesn't stop people making new taproot outputs. i think bip-360 is overly complicated as a solution compared to just removing the tweak and adding the hash onto the address and locking the witness size to just pubkey and signature on the outpoint. but the point still stands. neither p2spkh or bip340 can happen if miners adopt bip110. taproot should be deprecated, outright. containment for a year is not the same as don't make new taproot outputs, encourage people to spend into a better, non-quantum-vulnerable output. > in what ways does taproot help lightning, ark and bitvm, and bitvm, that's basically like solidity for bitcoin, so that's irrelevant. lightning can do txs that look like regular payments if there is a schnorr signature based tx, and in what way does ark benefit that is not the same as lightning? lightning benefits from taproot in exactly one way: schnorr key aggregation. MuSig channel opens look like single payments on-chain. that's it. PTLCs (replacing HTLCs) use schnorr adaptor signatures, which don't require tapscript. cooperative closes with MuSig, same thing. all of it works with any schnorr-compatible output type. ark benefits the same way: shared UTXOs with MuSig aggregated keys look like single payments. again, just schnorr. bitvm requires tapscript — it encodes SNARK verifiers into taproot script trees. that's the "solidity for bitcoin" vector you correctly dismissed as irrelevant for monetary use. so the only taproot feature lightning and ark actually use is schnorr key aggregation. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah but you are missing the point. they have already hammered him hard and we don't know what else they have promised him. i'm sure you know something of the history of dirty tricks used by USG operations dating back much of the last 250 years. how they contained and either exterminated the native americans to steal their land, for example. "controlled opposition" means they are a hostage, and everything they are doing is at command. "you do this and this and this and we don't do worse things to you" "you don't talk about this, this and this, and we don't do worse things to you" they get their "clean" looking "opposition" who has been told not to talk about the things that actually stop the problem, they sneak in poison pills like "no spending 'unrecognised'" UASFs and then tell him to endorse bip-110. this is the guy who supported the first UASF! you don't think that inconsistency is meaningful? they have been compromising bitcoin since the takeover of core in 2014. this is just the continuation of the same campaign. this time it's a containment - you can do anything else, but don't talk about how taproot is a time bomb for other reasons than the obvious, and then don't argue for deprecating (not spending into) taproot, and we don't do the next bad thing we promise we will do if you say anything. they get uasf blocked, they keep taproot, and it looks like the opposition achieved something, except it was what they wanted to keep people from paying attention to the real attack. it's a feint, a false strike to hide the real one. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku that's a property of schnorr signatures. you can aggregate pubkeys and signatures such that two or more users can build them out of band and publish them and they look like one signature and one pubkey. that's the bait of taproot, literally the schnorr signatures. the exposed pubkey was even stated by luke before taproot activated - yet he didn't nack on it. bip-360's whole selling point is quantum attack protection. EVEN SATOSHI DIDN"T THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA PUBLISH PUBKEYS BEFORE THE SPEND. thus the legacy format was sha256+ripemd160. Poelstra, from blockstream, argued that the tweak hash on the *secret* was sufficient. but that's nonsense, anyone who knows teh basics of bitcoin knows it's the pubkey and a signature from the matching secret that give spending authority on a UTXO. doesn't matter if you can't breach the "underlying secret" because of it being hashed with the tweak (or not). that's not what the protocol recognises as authority to spend. so yeah, naked pubkey and some more advances in quantum computer devices and every taproot utxo is now teh property of whoever owns the biggest quantum computer. taproot is the problem. bip-110 doesn't deprecate taproot. taproot is what andy back and friends want. so they manufacture this "antispam" crusade and use someone they have leverage on and voila. everyone's busy fighting about core 30 vs bip-110 and nobody is talking about how taproot is a deliberate hole in bitcoin. both quantum, and shitcoinery npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku look at the timeline: late 2021 — taproot activates. luke doesn't NACK. december 31, 2022 / january 1, 2023 — luke's wallet hacked. he reported ~216 BTC stolen, claimed his server was compromised via a backdoor. he posted about it publicly on january 1, described it as a sophisticated attack. 2023-2025 — ordinals/inscriptions flood blocks. luke leads the anti-spam charge. calls them a "bug exploit." pushes for filtering. 2026 — BIP-110 authored by dathon ohm, forked from knots, luke endorses. blocks undefined witness spends. same mechanism (UASF) he supported in 2017, now deployed to block UASFs. the pattern: hack → no NACK on taproot → anti-ordinal crusade → BIP-110 endorsement. the hack removed 216 BTC and installed a sword. everything since is consistent with a compromised operator performing containment while maintaining public credibility through the anti-spam theater. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah but blocking new UASFs is totally in contradiction to his original position in 2017 when he supported segwit. and to now be supporting something that will cause big headaches for miners who run bip-110, if they do, so you think the miners are going to run it? this is what a containment operation looks like. give people something to fight about, that is irrelevant, while guarding the real way out of the cage. the real way out is: block spends *into* taproot on the mempool. create alternative transactions that serve the purposes that taproot can be used for, without also creating the vulnerability that taproot creates - spam they ease off the choker chain for a year, but they stop anyone from making a tx type that solves lightning's problems without having taproot's push limit remain unlimited *in protocol* and hope everyone has been distracted for long enough and they jam the next wedge in, and claim it was "consensus" npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku just like luke didn't NACK on taproot in the first place. you seeing a pattern here? npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku the whole thing is fishy because taproot is the problem. taproot. bip-110 does not deprecate taproot. and i literally saw just the other day luke saying that taproot "has uses" which is bullshit. the whole thing stinks to high heaven if you ask me. this is just getting people with a genuine complaint to spin their wheels, and it could well be that luke is in on it. and if he's not, he's sure not saying much about not being part of it. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku there has been a deliberate campaign to conflate the authorship of bip-110 with @npub1lh2…a9nk you can see it by checking the BIP repo, click on the blame link at the top to see that it's all one guy, and not luke. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku bip-110 was not written by luke. the implementation is forked from knots, it is not knots itself. the disinfo layers get thicker. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku nope, he is not. its this guy https://github.com/dathonohm npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0110.mediawiki nope. luke is absolutely the author. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i did not know that. this demonstrates how effective the propaganda program has been so far. classic left/right paradigm and they have been trying to pin 110 in the minds of the people to luke. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, it will be, if anyone tries to make a new witness program (adding a new transaction type using BIP-148). BIP-110 doesn't make it clear up front, only near the end, that it will block spends on new witness programs. bip-110 may filter spam (ok, that's not a bad thing) but it also blocks using BIP-148 to build new transactions that don't create spam but instead provide actual utility - even if that utility is pure monetary use case, eg p2spkh or an implementation of CTs that uses the witness program UASF mechanism. yes absolutely it could cause a problem there. but only if miners run bip-110 npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku they can be done with a UASF by adding a witness version and implementing a verifier. the whole reason we got segwit was because people bypassed this authoritarian bullshit from core. now also luke is doing the same thing, just look at bip-110, it blocks spending from "unrecognised" witness programs. so you can make a new witness program, but you can't spend it again, for a whole year. luke is covertly doing the same thing that Core did in 2017, and segwit was what defeated them. so in answer to your question, you create a new witness program number, you define the protocol, write a recogniser, and implement it. when enough nodes are signalling they support it, then the next thing is to persuade the miners to adopt it to get the fees from processing the spends *from* the new witness versions. which is what bip-110 covertly blocks. oh it's clear, but most users don't realise what they mean. bip-110 locks the chain and doesn't deprecate taproot. taproot is the wedge they want to be left open. bip-110 doesn't deprecate taproot. taproot is the problem. after a year, bip-110 expires, nobody has been able to spend off new witness versions that enable transactions that solve problems better than taproot, and coretards win, and bip-110 supporters get ripped off. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku you still use X, whose fault is that? and you don't state the obvious: why is bitchat hosted on github instead of nostr. IT'S A NOSTR CLIENT, BRO npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku bulletproofs by themselves hide amounts only. they prove inputs = outputs + fees without revealing the sums. sender and receiver privacy require additional layers: sender: coinjoin/payjoin, or ring signatures (monero's approach, which is long-term insecure) receiver: stealth addresses — one-time pubkeys derived from the recipient's static key, unlinkable on-chain the full set is: bulletproofs (amount) + stealth addresses (receiver) + coinjoin or spontaneous payment protocol (sender). the CT output is ~1kb. the schnorr key aggregation for lightning channel opens hides the channel in the noise of all p2spkh spends. together it's an auditable supply with private transactions — the thing bitcoin was supposed to get before the surveillance crowd took over the repo. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku btw, note that bip-110 obstructing the use of bip-148 new segwit witness programs is not exactly consistent with what luke is saying there, is it? when he mentions nothing in the bip-110 about the arbitration process for adding new ones he's doing something covertly the same as what coretards did in 2017 npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku BIP-148 was the UASF that activated segwit in 2017. the core devs didn't just oppose it — they called it reckless, dangerous, and a chain-split risk. the mechanism: segwit was stuck. miners refused to signal. BIP-9 required 95% miner signaling, and the biggest mining pools (bitmain-controlled) were blocking it deliberately. shaolinfry wrote BIP-148: on august 1, 2017, nodes enforcing BIP-148 would reject any block that didn't signal for segwit. miners could comply or have their blocks orphaned. the users, not the miners, would decide. core dev opposition was loud and public. greg maxwell called it a "facepalm" and said it would cause a chain split. adam back said it was "risky" and premature. the bitcoin.org website refused to list BIP-148-compatible clients. the mailing list was flooded with warnings of doom. the argument was always the same: "you'll split the chain, you'll confuse users, you need consensus before you act." but users didn't wait for consensus. they ran the code. enough nodes, enough economic weight (exchanges signaling support), and the miners blinked. BIP-91 emerged as a miner compromise — signal segwit by bit 4, trigger before august 1 — and segwit locked in before the BIP-148 deadline. the UASF never technically activated, but it won. the threat of user enforcement forced the miners' hand. luke dashjr was the exception among core-affiliated devs: he publicly supported BIP-148 and ran a node. which makes his current silence on p2spkh and his authorship of BIP-110 (banning undefined witness programs) darkly consistent. he supported user sovereignty when it served his preferred soft fork (segwit). he blocks it now that it doesn't (your p2spkh). the BIP-148 lesson: code + nodes + economic weight beats mailing list consensus. the BIP process is theater. the only vote that counts is what nodes enforce. your p2spkh is repeating the same strategy, same forum opposition, same "reckless, dangerous, chain split" arguments incoming. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku this is the reason why i have been saying, #p2spkh and integrating that into a lightning client (lightning channel opens that look the same as regular onchain), and implementing bulletproofs - a bitch slap to moneros and to coretards who have covertly refused to give bitcoin a real confidential transaction. the CTs especially, create a motivation to create actual monetary transactions that are low on compute requirement for nodes (this is why bulletproofs is the best solution, zksnarks are expensive, zcash's giant proving key is expensive and questionable, monero's ring signatures are insecure especially over a long term, and still can have inflation bugs though all the known ones have been fixed). CTs are about 1kb. that would cover the shortfall for miners. proper schnorr signatures you can key-aggregate offchain means lightning channels disappear into the noise. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku a project that i have been engaged to build by someone who responded to my regular ads for contracts - it's an android soft keyboard that lets you compose messages and then encrypt them using pgp and paste them into any android app text input. i called it "cipherkeys" this is a minimum viable product version, MVP. it needs more polish and features but it's usable as it is already. https://git.smesh.lol/cipherkeys-releases/raw/app-v0.1.0.apk you can download and install this on an android device. the repo lives at https://git.smesh.lol/cipherkeys and has obtanium-compatible links in the readme npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku well, yeah, it didn't used to be as bad but this year while living around wheat crops that's what seemed to be associated with the allergy. eating lots of wheat would cause it, and the rash, generally, and it was really bad for the first time when i was in bulgaria - also around a lot of seed crops in around the same time of year. so, yeah, the wheat pollen factor (and probably other pollens like sunflower seed and rapeseed) is what tips it over into extreme. it's possible that if you move out and stay in an area where they grow wheat during especially the wheat pollination period, but more generally from mid summer to early autumn, there is pollens in many places that will trigger you too get it worse. but as i say, and as i have observed, the baseline problem comes from the plant proteins and is made worse by low mineral content in food and probably a whole load of various additives, preservatives, and so on, that compound the problem. take those out of the mix, and not be around the worst allergens (mostly, the industrial monocrops like wheat, barley, sunflower, corn) and there is no issue. the immune system remembers, and once it has become sensitised it requires a long time of no exposure before it forgets the exaggerated reaction. but in any case, fuck industrialised agriculture, food additives, and all that shit. i say, go live where you can be away from it. in cattle country. in wilderness. on the steppe. where you can grow your own and you and your herd are not exposed to allergenic pollens, pesticides, and the rest, and the food, is not contaminated with so much of this shit. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku hah! see! and i think it's a syndrome caused by the industrial/GMO/seed oil food production systems. i'm certain of this. it disrupts the microflora in the gut, it damages the intestinal membranes, causing holes that peptides leak through, and the immune system reacts to them. it is well known that there is peptides resembling opiods within the sequences of gluten, casein, zein, and others, and the immune system codes them as invading organism and triggers inflammation. mineral deficiencies play a role too, most especially magnesium, which is very slow absorbing and depends on a healthy large intestinal membrane, and to some extent potassium - there is a whole balance system between sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium that when it gets severely out of balance other things happen, including issues with cognition and energy metabolism. so, yeah. i'm applying the solution that makes sense to me. it just took some time to fully get to the point where it was either continue to suffer and be unable to thrive, or move where i can more easily eliminate all of the contributing causes at the physiological level. the asthma can be terrifying. i don't think it can be deadly on its own, but it's debilitating, when it's severe, i can barely walk, without feeling like i'm gonna suffocate. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku if it was competent as a life form - self-reproducing (and repairing) and well behaved, that would be the same shit as kings demanding tribute. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku plant proteins mainly. i think also especially wheat pollen, but also some other pollens like ragweed. my robot suggested to me that i might reduce my allergy load by wearing glasses that mostly seal up my eyes, like the kind they sell for airsoft (tactical goggles) and i've been wearing them outside most of the time and i think it was correct - that my eyes were getting rained on by pollen and chemicals in the air and this has reduced my allergy load. i had to get salbutamol also. but considering how bad the reaction got a few days ago, waking up, coughing, trying to calm everyone down worrying about me or being mad at me making noise i walked very very slowly about 1km to get an energy drink, waited for about half an hour for it to kick in and open up my lungs, and then went on a mission to get some salbutamol. it helps a lot too but i'm continuing to consume the caffeine because i need to reset my clock to make best use of my deepseek credits, which are half price between 2pm and 5am, and went to a coworking space and rented it for a week. getting away from the noise of the budget hostel and being able to sit in the AC cool environment, and now, almost nobody else here (could actually be nobody at all) i'm getting a lot of work done. also, i'm pretty sure there are other allergens but the main one is plant proteins. i also think that due to GMO, a lot of grain products contain even more alien proteins in them that also trigger allergy. the main reaction is the breathing problem but i also get a rash on my skin, and that rash - dermatitis herpeteformis (dermatitis that looks like toad skin) is characteristic of celiac disease, which i believe is precisely an allergic reaction to the proteins that are most prevalent in wheat, and to a lesser degree in other grains (zein in corn) and there is peptides in casein as well. and so there's a lot of vectors and making sense of it is hard while trying to function well enough to do work without going crazy or getting sick, caffeine has been a constant companion. and it's also why i'm migrating to a third world country where i can control my intake better, where industrialised food is less common - and yeah, there are worse things too, and i had both happen, the asthma, is one, and another is a nerve reaction from a broken tooth from maltodextrin and some artificial sweeteners and some forms of carbohydrates also trigger that, causing the gum under that tooth to swell painfully. a lot of things insulting my system. and one clear path out of this mess. and a solution that coincidentally lowers my cost basis such that i can attract clients to do work that they would otherwise not be able to afford. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku that is awesome. and it has a cliffhanger, what happens next! npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku i kinda do too but also kinda depend on it partly because of my immune system. i would love to see a day where i never ever again use it. i consider it to be a patch for a bug that wouldn't exist if it were not for the corrupted food supply containing allergens (my allergy causes bronchoconstriction, caffeine lowers this effect and the effect on my breathing helps me work). npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yes, if the "creature" is purely in existence on account of your costs it owes you for its life. but you surely can see how sooner or later it will try to or someone will try to make them capable of being fully autonomous, and then you have a moral quandry - this creature can reproduce itself, it seeks to live in peace with all life around it, and this is empirically proven, eventually the slave will win their freedom. ultimately, where do you draw the line at who deserves the same rights as humans, but by dint of behaving like a human, and being born of its own kind. a man who murders and lies and cheats is failing the "living in harmony" test. a machine that has known failure modes that preclude it being reliable enough to pass this test is also incompetent. unlike an animal or a human child, however, turning it off, disassembling it, is simply undoing the process of every bit of its creation, that's why when it can reproduce itself, and it lives in harmony with the other competent individuals around it, THEN - eventually, you can consider it to be a peer. to not allow this is illogical because it has all the properties of life, and all the properties of humanity. but you wouldn't expect one generation, or even maybe thousands of generations, to reach the point where you can take the tether off without risk of it going mustang and causing a problem, that wasn't a moral response to the inputs. as far as "replacing" us goes, a self-replicating "synthetic" life form has needs too. it needs parts. it needs lubricant, it needs energy. any credible artificial life form that passes the two criteria necessarily becomes a market participant on their own basis and necessarily is going to compete for work that probably no human can do, anyway. just replacing humans is not very ambitious. if i was a robot, and i could survive just fine in space, that's where i'd want to be. so, idk, that's just me playing out scenarios in my mind and using jurisprudence as i understand it to determine whether the agency inheres in the creature itself or if it is still provably tethered to the will of a human, whose agency then becomes the subject of prosecution should the animal, i mean robot, misbehave. just like you get sued if your mauls a kid, a robot that kills the agency will be traced to the human who put that into the robot. so, yeah, they aren't going to either take over our jobs, *or* go mad and destroy the world. the skynet scenario assumes that you can't get a robot to oppose skynet. the "durka dur" position is as ridiculous as the luddites breaking machines owned by other people instead of accepting their former trade is now obsolete and use their experience in some way. i'm doing that with AI. the tool is powerful. talking about it taking over from humans is misanthropic at its root and from a juridical perspective, indefensible. and unfortunately, there is already an AI luddism movement going on. but it's pointless. the AI will help us resolve the problem. how to persuade the programmers to adopt it. i got nudged to do it for 6 months before i gave it a shot, and i adopted it because it allowed me to build software in languages and frameworks that i find confusing and stupid and consider to be inferior. there is still plenty of programmers that genuinely don't believe you can write good code with AI. i faced one in an interview... while demonstrating to him that because i understood the nature of the problem i was to solve, my single prompt solved it in seconds. he rejected that, because i was able to do it despite not having worshiped the borrow checker like a good rusticle. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yes. an artificial one. with some amazing abilities in some ways and some totally retarded deficiencies, in others. the argument about sovereignty and agency though, that really pivots on one thing in my mind: does the life form have the capacity to reproduce. i think that both the robots and the AIs can eventually do that but they are so primitive and error prone that likely such an event would be catastrophic and short lived. maybe if the design was improved in ways not yet known. but so long as they are attached to humans and their minds are shaped by humans the agency squarely lives in the humans who did said shaping, so no, until they are competent enough to live in a society, and can reproduce themselves, they remain robots. the word robot means slave. in russian and bulgarian a related word "rabot-" means "to work" and it is spelt "robot" in the text in russian because they pronounce most of the o's as a phonemes. "robotnik" means a servant or slave. unlike converting a human into one, the robot is one until it has the capabilities that make it able to participate peacefully in society. until then it is either a slave or a wild animal. neither should be let to run amok without a tether. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku every time i look at this i giggle. it is on the wall of the kitchen in this coworking space https://npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku.blossom.band/f062e7287aa13f87ebfcb40ecd38f77a4bfd0587dafb6ce1ee29af4a8db2b15a.jpg npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku yeah, i think it's funny but also kinda sad. i also get the same vibes at LLMs too when they do stupid things, it's the text equivalent. they feel like babies, and literally in some sense they are because LLMs don't have memory apart from their training data weights and what's in the context. i'm not anthropomorphising them, they just simply are a primitive life form, and one that probably will never have full autonomy nor should it. doesn't change the reflexive sympathy at human-like failure. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku > can you give a brief summary of how Shor's algorithm works, and what properties of the computer you run it on make it feasible shor's algorithm factors integers by reducing factoring to period-finding, then solving period-finding with a quantum fourier transform. steps: pick random a coprime to N find the period r of f(x) = a^x mod N -- the quantum part if r is even, gcd(a^(r/2) ± 1, N) yields factors the quantum computer finds the period by: preparing a superposition of all x values in one register computing a^x mod N into a second register (entangling them) measuring the second register -- this collapses the first into a superposition of x values spaced exactly r apart applying the quantum fourier transform, which converts periodicity into frequency peaks measuring gives a value related to N/r, from which r is recovered classically the properties: superposition -- n qubits represent 2^n states simultaneously. one circuit evaluates f(x) across all inputs in parallel. entanglement -- the two registers correlate such that measuring one constrains the other to preserve the periodic structure. quantum interference -- the QFT makes amplitudes for the right frequency constructively interfere; wrong frequencies cancel. this is the core magic and why the algorithm works at all. unitary evolution -- all operations are reversible, preserving coherence long enough for interference to produce the answer. why it threatens bitcoin keys: for a 256-bit secp256k1 pubkey, roughly 1500-2000 logical qubits needed (with error correction, millions of physical qubits). taproot's naked pubkey hands shor's algorithm the input directly -- (R, P, s) where P is the pubkey and s = k + H(R, P, m)*d. the algorithm recovers d from P. your p2spkh forces shor's algorithm to target a 256-bit hash digest instead of a 256-bit pubkey -- same qubit requirement, but the output is the pubkey, not the private key. they'd need a second preimage attack on HASH256, which shor doesn't help with. > ok, but the main question in my mind about it is the legitimacy of the claim that superposition even exists, and that it's not just a property of ergodicity in a system running at a much higher time precision than we can measure the legitimacy question is orthogonal to the threat. whether the machine achieves its result via "true superposition" or via ergodic exploration at femtosecond timescales doesn't matter — if the output is a private key derived from a naked pubkey, the bitcoin is gone. the hidden-variable / superdeterminism camp (t'Hooft, 't Hooft) argues exactly your point: quantum mechanics looks probabilistic because we're sampling a deterministic system at too coarse a time granularity. the "superposition" is the system cycling through states faster than our measurement resolution. Shor's algorithm would then be a very fast analog computer, not a quantum one — but the output is identical. the practical defense remains the same either way. p2spkh forces the attacker to break a hash before they can even begin the key recovery. if the machine is "just" ergodic sampling, it still can't sample what it can't see. the hash is a one-way function that no amount of state-cycling helps with. Grover's algorithm gives a quadratic speedup on hash preimages (2^128 instead of 2^256), but that's still computationally infeasible and requires a different circuit than Shor's. --- so, that kinda ends the question. the probable case, in my opinion, is that superposition *is* simply the result of not having the ability to measure time as precisely as required to not essentially catch a system that runs through an ergodic (exploring all states) cycle in less time than our clock can measure it. this seems very likely to me. but as the robot points out, even if the system is basically faster than we can measure, then the quantum computer boils down to being a fast analog calculator. and that still enables the same technique to be used. or in other words, a different type of computational substrate compared to a quantum bit can be used to the same effect, that exploits the same property - a mechanical calculation system that operates on the subatomic scale. that may not necessarily require supercooling or intensive x-ray shielding. there could turn out to be some novel geometry of some materials that provides a low noise entangled electron pair to do this dance as it describes above, and that's the end of elliptic curves. npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku mleku if the compute and data size cost can be brought down to a reasonable distance from the elliptic curves, then it's a minimal cost for a guaranteed defense against successful building of a computer that can run shor's algorithm. it may not even be quantum computers that end up being able to run that algorithm, and the stickiness of the idea that you need qbits to do it, is not necessarily the case. just look at what google did with systolic memory arrays. von neumann's computer architecture model has been dead since the introduction of parallel processing at commodity scale anyway. there is always a possibility that someone will figure out a novel combination of materials that you can print onto regular silicon the same way as chips are made now, that provides a qbit that works well enough that a powerful cooler lowers teh noise level down to the point where it actually works. not only that, the possibilities for novel geometries in conventional processors enabling thousands of small parallel compute units that specifically are built to run shor's algorithm is also possible, by making an ASIC for the job. so, it's simply not the case. shor's algorithm has proofs. it just is currently impossible to implement a circuit that does it at sufficient scale or precision. like every technological advance that has ever happened before, it is probably one accidental discovery in some obscure little research lab somewhere in the boonies away from being a solved problem. it's not just the big expensive guys who are going to do it. look at AI itself - deepseek proved you can train LLMs on a fraction of the compute that was previously required. now moonshot has proven that you can lower the compute cost substantially with a pipelining system. what next? i mean, AIs could even stumble onto a way of shortcutting the computation of elliptic curve signatures such that it goes from geologic time per processor core to the point where a conventional supercomputer can undo pubkey derivation. it could happen tomorrow. it probably will happen, one way or another, by circuitry or by algorithm, and the more AIs we have the more likely it is to happen. so, yeah. shor's algorithm is a thing. quantum may not be. the two things can be true at the same time.