Taproot didn't change anything meaningful from the point of view of someone who wants to publish data. The limits on P2SH are already plenty big. You just need to add more inputs if you exceed those per-txin limits, which doesn't significantly increase the cost.

This is fundamentally wrong.

I posted a separate article explaining why: #1196553

tl;dr: -datacarriersize was never intended to stop all types of data containing transactions. It was obviously impossible to do that. And in the same release — years prior to taproot even existing — we added that option, we made it possible to embed data in scriptSig: essentially the exact same way inscriptions embedded data.

Leave Taproot out of this.

No. Worst case scenario is the attacker gains control of the device.

Bitcoin^H^H^H Rust fixes this.

I gave you 10k sats. Debunking is hard work. Thank you!

Hopefully you had a wallet attached... 😂

Bitcoin

My response on Twitter:

Google claims this is a mistake. More likely a trial balloon to gauge response.

Notice how this policy will still prohibit Cashu wallets like minibits, Zeus (cashu support), Wallet of Satoshi, and future wallets using cashu to build up funds to open a channel.

Not good at all.

Notice how on iOS, the Apple app store is the only reasonable way. Even developers can't put their own apps on their own phones without permission. And when they do, the apps time out after two weeks.

Ridiculous.

Most likely this was a trial balloon to test public response. If we hadn't raised hell immediately good chance it would go through.

As it is, this is extremely bad anyway: it'll still ban lots of useful wallets, including cashu wallets, LN wallets that use tech like cash to build up enough of a balance to open a channel, etc. etc. Even Zeus won't be allowed: they recently added cashu support.

LLMs hallucinate all the time. Why would you assume that explanation from Grok is true?

It wasn't a politician who used this tool. It was an ordinary civil servant who wanted to protect herself.

In the interview she even said she would have paid for the service herself out of her own pocket. $20 or whatever it was is cheap protection.

Funny how if you look at the one thing that is hard for DC police to falsify – the murder rate – DC crime is in fact at extremely high levels.

All the left has to do to circumvent Trump is to arrest, prosecute, and sentence criminals to long jail terms. They don't.

This is pop-sci drivel.

These aren't mathematicians who "don't believe in infinity". They're just trying to come up with yet another mathematical model of sets. This time one with one less axiom, the axiom allowing for infinite sets.

Infinity – the mathematical concept – clearly exists and no sane mathematician would ever deny that.

The sane, correct, way to write this article would be to say they're mathematicians trying to figure out how to build a useful mathematical framework without infinity. Title it "Mathematics Without Infinity" or something.

God damn journalists...

Nice try FBI^H^H^H KGB.

In Wasabi every participant pays part of the fees. Also, there may only be one coinjoin transaction: depending on your privacy needs, a single transaction can be sufficient.

It doesn't. Wasabi is not vulnerable to that issue at all as every participant participates equally. Nor is payjoin, as it's a payment, combining (some) funds for the two parties.

I'd suggest that you sit down with a pen and paper and try working out what input paid the fees yourself. That's the best way to understand the issue.

It didn't meet the bar of being widely used.

It's lame that this is implemented via a captcha rather than a lightning payment.

Needless to say, they didn't exactly OpenTimestamps it years ago when the video was supposed to have been created...

Pre-Bitcoin I commuted to work and school via bicycle... I was a lot healthier back then...

I need an office again. 😂

schizophrenia > cancer

At least with cancer, their mind is (mostly) unaffected. Serious schizophrenia is a nightmare.