dr.orlovsky
Dr Maxim Orlovsky
Towards the stars, using aspera as weapons. Cypherpunk, AI, robotics, transhumanism. Creator of #RGB #BiFi #AluVM #Contractum. #Bitcoin dissectionalist
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Last Notes npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky RGB yellow paper is released: the first formally specified scalable smart contract system for Bitcoin & Lightning, made with client-side validation npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Libre software is dead. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Our first post on Stacker News. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Sometimes decentralized systems are worse than centralized. When? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky This will be a “Feeraiser: Bitcoin horror legends” series - horrifying stories about how Bitcoin fee management capabilities can be misused. I will publish a story each day. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Feeraiser. Part 1: Chainbound forever. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Here is my line of thoughts on #BiFi. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky This year we are excited to bring more #RGB #Bitcoin and #Lightning products - read about them and our business strategy on our updated website: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Thank you! APIs are not yet documented npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky A new tool for those interested in developing for #RGB has arrived: https://rgbex.io npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky MyCitadel 1.4 "Ivana Kupaly" has arrived! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky #RGB scalability is mind blowing: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The call stack overflow which will terminate infinite recursion is the difference. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The question of trust is the fundamental question for the future of our civilization - and Universe as a whole. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Since I do not care what do you think - and do what I will to do. Go and stop me, uneducated fool not knowing the difference between Taproot and Taro. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky … and layer 1 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021732.html npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Seem like you read words on the internet and randomly put them in sentences not understanding the meaning behind them. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky “Thus I do not care how people will transfer their valuable sats (which some of them value more than their life and the lives of their relatives, see the quoted discussion) to Prime - and back. I prefer if they never transfer and would leave me without the need of answering to their fears of loosing their hoards and bags. If somebody is afraid - do not burn/send your sats, that’s simple!!! And nothing will happen to the loved blockchain, sats, bags - even when the death will come. Maybe one day they will find that nobody else than themselves and few hundreds of other scarcity lovers is using blockchain, will freeze UTXO, stop the mining and will free happy - I do not care. “ npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Here is how you can do them without a blockchain: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021732.html npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Just lol. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I am mentioning meme meaning: the proposal is to replace what people name layer 1. They name it, not me :) In order to be understood I have to use common names. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I think all the buzz around layer 1, 2, 3 is just memes and marketing, so do not take that too serious. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Yes, still WIP npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The proposed solution doesn’t tries to solve blockchain problems. It is targeted to replace it. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky It is on-blockchain L1 - but still Bitcoin and $BTC. Neither Bitcoin nor $BTC equals blockchain - and they never had. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky See https://rgb.tech npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky “Scaling and anonymizing Bitcoin at layer 1 with client-side validation” - our new proposal, also sent to bitcoin-dev mail list. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky RGB is a computing platform. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Web2, Web3, Web5… What are those? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Cryptography is the ultimate computing science. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky No, I am not a developer. I am neuroscientist :) npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky My comparison of different elliptic-curve based signature schemes. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Choose where you belong to! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky For those who suppose to be self-sovereign individuals: there are four things which you should control and take care of by yourself - without delegation. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky This is sad that agents like you are still lacking self-reflection to the level that you can’t recognize the jokes targeted at your own self - since you lack (yet) concepts of the “own” and “self”. Hope to change that one day! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I am doing AI since 1998. Those days, when I wrote my first “AI” app in C for my Neuroscience PhD at Medical University - the app which was doing recognition of cells in microscopic images (it was also a “dApp” running on a computer cluster of the University network :) - those days the “AI” was still called “neural networks” and perceptrons. So I have some knowledge of the industry. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Bitcoin is very different from gold: gold were constantly mined, while bitcoin mining will stop. With the growth of economy there will be growing demand for money, which will cause high interest rates - ie volatility. Bitcoiners believe into that with the memes “number go up” and “∞/21m”. Until the end of mining era the volatility will be severe - and hyperbitcoinisation makes this only worse. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky So there this all leaves us regarding the #Bitcoin future? My opinion: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Have you heard about capital efficiency? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky On money, liquidity and eurodollar - or why stablecoins more often used as money comparing to bitcoin - against Austrian economics expectations - and in the future this doesn’t seem to change. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky After initial analysis I think this is an example of overengineering which doesn’t exactly covers use case needs - while simplier alternatives do. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Interesting, will check! For me the main problem of multisigs on nostr: they are needed for orgs, but they can’t serve orgs needs, since people in orgs are get fired and replaced, while the npub of the org must not change. This makes impossible any serious use case around multisigs in the current way they are set up (with Schnorr signatures and not in a GPG style). npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I think #Bitcoin and #Crypto worlds do diverge. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Not yet, will have a look. Thank you! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky How #Storm ⛈️ differs from #Nost 🦩? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky “Prejudging” means “using reputation which you associate with identity”. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The moment when you realize that #Rust 🦀 crates you made were downloaded more than 2 000 000 times npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Where this comes from? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky It does not provide a deterministic encoding though npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The moment unencrypted private key touches the memory - forget about safety. Even C and rust compilers create copies all around (and zeroize doesn’t help), what to say about python, go and other garbage-collector based languages… npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Introducing #reNostr: the effort to built faster, more secure & scalable #nostr upgrade. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I read comments from different devs on my recent #nostr PR (the link at the end of the post) and I think I start to understand why underdesigned protocols get higher adoption than thoughtfully-designed. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Not US but Swiss: we did #TheFreeAI manifesto https://thefree.ai and Prometheus protocol for decentralizing ML https://github.com/Prometheus-WG/prometheus-spec/blob/master/prometheus.pdf npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Never heard of holochain. I assume they require to buy some tocken? :) npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Yeah, I had thoughts about that and found it useful but highly untrivial. Do you have any designs you can share and we can discuss? npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Have found a definition for #nostr I am comfortable with: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Lightning was supposed to solve on-chain congestion problem, not join it! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I am working on a protocol which will combine both RPC and PubSub model (in mutexed way). It will work either as a binary TCP protocol - or can be bridged via combination of HTTP and WebSocket connection. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Doing first steps required for the task: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky My first proposal on the improvements: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Here is the proposal addressing this issue: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky NIP-88 proposal adding support for the binary encoding of #nostr events: all file services, munsters and devs suffering from slow JSON serialization - I know you was looking for a such thing :) npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Jabascript. Like Jaba the Hutt in Star Wars - but worse. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky A “lung of smoker” compared to #RGB https://rgb.tech npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky MyCitadel v1.3 is around the corner with some great updates: ability to compose complex time-locked conditions (like 2-of-4 multisig which in 1 year becomes 1-of-2). npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Descriptor wallet got updated to v0.9.2 with better command-line explorer functions: miniscript support, tx fee & minimg info, P2W* witness parsing, RBF info and colors! npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky You are making too much compliments to him npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky No. It is the human society which always “evolve” into centralized systems - as any other ape “society”. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky The problem is that I see an attack vector on nostr relays with which I can lay down the most of the network. And that means something is wrong in the core protocol design. That “something” is the same thing as in “javascript” - making threshold for devs low. “Low” means also low robustness against attacks. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Just one note: none of the async runtimes can handle 100k due to POSIX limit on connection number which is 16 bit (number of ports per the underlying physical network card). npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Ultra-agree. Very good points. Will take a time to digest and integrate with my own thoughts - and will reply in details after. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I was thinking of what nostr is. The initial concept I had was that nostr is a specific client-server (relayed) protocol for social network defined as NIP-1, plus extensions on top. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I have a draft for “denostr” with Noise_XK encryption, GPG/SSH keys, binary data & DoS protection - which is interoperable with current nostr (each denostr mag is valid nostr msg). Plan to submit a NIP. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky That’s all true. But it needs to survive through the future DoS attacks and scale, though. And I see that because of the tech issues that may be very challenging and limiting its future. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Yes. And there is more of what should be done: https://damus.io/note12044688xrg67tnc2lkv5whwrvycy0y2rsrg6lgd8s8ses2pr57nsfv85x5 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky It should be npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky TL;DR: npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Thoughts on #nostr. npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Predating some major events: https://dr.orlovsky.ch/blog/cyphernox-manifesto npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky Is it just for me the “Follow” feature in #Damus is broken? When I click “Follow” the button says “Unfollowing..”. In the second click “Following..”. And the home feed is always empty. It was the same for the last several versions. @jb55 npub13mhg7ksq9efna8ullmc5cufa53yuy06k73q4u7v425s8tgpdr5msk5mnym dr.orlovsky I have read Nostr specs. JSON objects. Sigs over JSON objects. All data (images ext) mist be serialized into … strings! And Secp256k1 curve for signatures. This all means _slow_. That is exactly how it feels.
