Lead Core Lightning, Standards Wrangler, Bitcoin Script Restoration ponderer, coder. Full time employed on Free and Open Source Software since 1998. Joyous hacking with others for over 25 years.
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Last Notes npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell BOLT 12 can be in different currencies for this reason. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell But now I don't even have to care! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s.blossom.band/692a425b55bcf45fefae7ef471794f02ed3f78ada6fe961e3cb283d9e54e7f1a.jpg npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I've been thinking about taking profits from a Sztorc Fork. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Guess in getting up for 5:30am then. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Don't support things you don't want to see more of. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Celebration time! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell So, we're debating paying kids pocket money in sats. Since we're talking a few dollars a week, I'm thinking ecash, using https://cashu.centurymetadata.org/ npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://youtu.be/iDzV_jESwGA npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell #CLN We're finally deprecating pay (in favor of xpay) in the next release: Greenlight has conclusively demonstrated that it's more effective across the board. That begins the 12 month window to removal. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell It's a threat. It's just not one yet. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I expect Bitcoin to get a quantum scare every ten to twenty years, FWIW. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I wish! No, it rolls back the database, deletes the gossip store if the format has changed, and checks of you've used any new features which would prevent downgrade. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell That's why we have a downgrade tool now, too. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Seems like I should try to wrangle timezones enough to join your podcast sometime! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell We pushed it a bit on this one: There are some clients who may have trouble staying connected to you: LNDK nodes and some people who are running an older git version of LND. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Many people! I would certainly put sats towards such an effort. The winning tx could collect them all at once. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell The idea of an activation challenge is interesting. But my preferred form would be an on-chain reward. A tx which uses its first input's txid to generate the puzzle NUMS, so you can't just copy it. Not sure how to generate such a challenge, maybe GSR, OP_TX plus cleverness... npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Weekly summary: I heard Iran is going to use Quantum Black is going to crash Bitcoin! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell There's a lot of repetitive work which needs to be done, and I'm happy to outsource that. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Claude is really happy to write more code. This can be a super-power! But it can also mean repetition, nasty workarounds, and unreviewable code :( npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell To be clear, you're thinking of deriving a second (hardened) key, for which a signature is checked in tapscript, assuming that the keypath spends will eventually get disabled? To do that we need a BIP32 path standard, and get this advice into BIP-0341 instead of the current advice on unspendable script path selection, then get wallets to implement it. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Yes. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I've been through tech hype cycles before. They always have a grain of truth in them (otherwise they're trivially refuted) but they don't always work out. I have been through three VR waves, for example. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Obviously npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Americans trying to get back to the moon and missed. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell This one doesn't keep getting disconnected from LND and Eclair, because we disabled the padding feature which made all messages the same length on the wire which was to be a release feature 😔 npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Hmm. There are several things which could be done. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Wow, that's some lunch with the mayor! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell "Also Bitcoin Core, but in blue" npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell No, it's all agentic payments! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I'm hearing them, not listening to them :) npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I keep hearing about all the billions left on the sidelines, which will come rushing into Bitcoin when some legislative or regulatory event occurs. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Hmm, stuck in "processing". npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Actually, I'm not sure how. cashu.me doesn't seem to give me an option. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Let me try... npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Done. A bit rough, but functional. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Now I serve a web page at that URL. Probably presents too much info. @nprofile…xnfk might have suggestions for what I should put here? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Yes, its pure API, no website. I should probably put some info there... npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Fired up a cashu mint today: should exercise my CLN node a bit more! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I made enchiladas, where N = 8. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Token bucket filter for the win: most occasional posters are not *regular*. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Finally read BIP-54 (mirror at https://bips.dev/54/) and it is straightforward,minimal and thorough. At this point I can endorse it as a good idea and worth doing. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I am loving listening to the Pieter Wuille interview. It's clear from motivation to technical explanation, and Stephan shepherds the discussion masterfully! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Here are two of my favorites: npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://json5.org/ npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Each Bitcoin you send has a "script" which says how it can be spent: usually just a signature for the owner's key. There's lots of other stuff yo can do though. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2118 npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Randomness ("luck") is such a factor in life, and hard to disentangle. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Kick the can down the road? I cannot see the appeal from any direction... npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You are minmaxing again. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://rusty-lightning.medium.com/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You don't understand. There are no rulers. You cannot prevent people doing stupid things. This is fundamental, and hardest to emotionally grasp. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell To check the signature, you hash the transaction. So the only cost that OP_RETURN is doing is the cost to download and hash it. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You only have to download and hash: you don't have to check extra signatures (our most expensive operation) or put them in the UTXO set (our most constrained memory resource). npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell But not relaying them disadvantages small and anonymous miners, driving centralization and thus putting my own UTXOs in danger. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You will not be at peace until you understand the truth: every non-coinbase bitcoin transaction which does not eventually send funds to me is spam. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell So, OP_RETURN is fine, as is annex data which don't increase validation burden? And cutting off OP_RETURN and driving those uses to fake pubkeys, which does increase future validation costs, is a threat? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell It adds an entire transaction! Every time it does that, it uses up farmore space than an 80-byte OP_RETURN. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell And does this mean you're okay with transactions that transfer NFTs? Because that's a financial transaction? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell OTS transactions only exist to put non-financial data in the Bitcoin blockchain. Is that ok? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell OpenTimestamps transactions aren't financial data, nor memes. So are they spam? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Great, enjoy. Wasn't talking or thinking about BIP110, but you do you. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Indeed. Lightning commitment transactions stash the commitment number in the nSequence and nLocktime. Is that spam? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I thought someone would build a great UI on top of iptables. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell But but but they didn't "read the room"!!!!! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell None of those celebrating her departure are Bitcoiners. Because clearly they neither understand or like Bitcoin. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Reading comments on Gloria's departure from people who have never contributed anything is stepping in an enraging sticky fecal mess. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Suggesting such things means you're clearly not a Real Bitcoiner! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Reading X, I have learned that the biggest threat to bitcoin is AI Epstein Quantum attacks. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell My brain keeps conflating "Ghislaine" with "Gharlane of Eddore", the bad guy from the 50s sci-fi pulp Lensman series. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I have been having way too much fun reading moltbook.com npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://nostr.download/98b17a8e0b35750354e38270da480e3c35555466e150576aba14a89cf3108950.jpg npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Yep. Flat out. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Little-known fact: just like Gloria, "Solana" is also my duress word! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Just finished "This is how you lose the time war". It was more literary than my usual fare, but it feels good to be stretched (there were at least three times I stopped to look up words). npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell In 1997 I attended USENIX, a conference: in particular the "Uselinux" track. Many stories I could and have told, but it kicked off a career timeline I still marvel at: npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You can easily spot payments flowing through the network, just based on TCP packet size. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Hacked up a "constant message size" change for CLN, inspired by https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1304 npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Strange. I work on Lightning, but somehow the sats haven't crept out of my node and weaseled into my brain to take over my identity. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Define "bitcoiner" and I'll let you :) npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://www.tumlook.com/kingjamesprogramming npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Damn, there was a proposal for BOLT spec changes to enable fixed-size messages, and now I have to implement it to show it's unnecessary... npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Except that hotel gym in the US, where I had to convert everything from lbs to figure out whether I was slacking off or just jet lagged! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Extreme on both counts. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2011/05/19/if-you-didnt-run-code-written-by-assholes-your-machine-wouldnt-boot.html npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Seems similar! Mine is for my specific setup: I have different machines on home vs work, so I wanted it to Just Work. And it's one file: npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Now I have a shell script `rcargo` which remote compiles rust crates: I work on my laptop but have beefy machines on my home and work LANs. You'd have to reimplement cargo to do it much finer-grained, apparently: sccache used to and gave up? npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell "and see" - > "in C". npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell https://crates.io/crates/linestats npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Sometimes people speak of Bitcoin and I get a moment of disorientation before I realize they're speaking of it as an *investment*. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell WMD is also interesting for *when it was written*: the US had just gone off the gold standard so there was interest in such a cautionary tale. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Paused my reading of The Mandibles for Xmas day: It's not exactly holiday reading. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Hmm, I did a histogram mode, but it sucked if one value dominated. Percentiles a good idea though! npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell My second week of Rust (only a few hours a day though: I am on vacation after all) has me reproducing and enhancing a tool I wrote in C. It takes multiple lines and runs stats on the numbers in it. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell Yes, it's a technical distinction, not an ethical one. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell I have published my first Rust crate. A the library that I've always wanted to exist and would normally have written in C, so it was a good chance to experiment with rust. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell You're perfectly good. npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s Rusty Russell 1. No, I'm not reading your article on quantum.
