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2357 sats \ 1 reply \ @deadmanoz 6h \ on: P2MS Data Carry Part 2: UTXO set analysis - @deadmanoz bitcoin
Thanks @Scoresby, I was gonna post this on here today!
The perfidious aspect of Stamps is that they are spendable. They’re 1-of-3 bare multisigs, where the first public key is an actual key and the other two public keys are used to embed data. They cannot be pruned, because they could be spent later, and when they are, the network may be split if nodes evaluate the spend inconsistently as valid or invalid.
Secp256k1 is defined over a finite field. Only most, but not all of the 32-byte numbers are valid x-coordinates of public keys. If all three public keys were not on the curve, it would be obvious that the TXO is unspendable, but alas, if the key is on the curve, we cannot distinguish whether the private key is known or not.
So, for most we cannot, but my understanding is that the way stamps are interpreted according to those that wear these particular colored glasses, they only read the latter two public keys as data.
No he's not alone alone. He have at least other 2 devs working with him on the core code and others for design and other features.
But yeah most of the code seems to be written by Evan alone, he's a machina.
I wrote some documentation guides and also translations for Zeus.
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88 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 7h \ parent \ on: The Disasters of Government Enterprise econ
You're asking me? I live in the middle of the country.
There's no mass transit to speak of and everyone's armed. People keep their damn mitts to themselves around these parts.
I think you might be referring to the old bitcoin/Lightning seminars that Chaincode used to run.
The BOSS Challenge is a different program, you can read more about it here: https://bosschallenge.xyz
i guess 25-40 on the discord in my cohort last year
Last year the program definitely had way more than 25–40 people on Discord
At least in past years, the program expected participants to solve coding challenges in the first week, so while it may be open to anyone you might find that the pace hard to keep up with, if you're just starting out with programming.
Would you look at that? A reasoned and fact based investigation of an issue and a sensible and cautious plan to find concensus around deprecating a feature that is damaging to the Bitcoin network that minimizes side effects. What a radical idea...
100%. And it really doesn't matter if it is or isn't intelligence. And this debate isn't new.
Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.”
~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
Its a tool. Its technology. It will have many positive and negative second order effects.
I went through the previous iteration of this last year and I can't recommend it highly enough. @ajonas and the team are doing an awesome service "for Bitcoin" with this program (and the previous incarnations BOSS program, Chaincode residency)
I wrote about my experiences as I went through it: https://github.com/deadmanoz/boss-2025-playground
If you're considering doing this, and want to get the most out of it, I recommend somehow freeing up as much time as you can for ~3 months. I was fortunate in that I had left my previous employment a month or so prior for some time off, so had capacity to get stuck in.
finally managed to rescue some old sats from an inactive channel in the Zeus wallet, the built-in sweep remote closed feature is really cool!
I also find it very ironic when progressives point to the Nordic countries as models of well run economies.
First of all, they are not very racially diverse. Secondly, they are about the size of a U.S. city.
If you want US to be like the Nordics, you're basically wanting a return to small, local, racially homogeneous self governed communities. I guess I'm on board with that too???
The discoveries that led to the arrest did not come from new evidence, but rather from the same trove of material that had mostly been gathered in 2021 and 2022, two sources told MS NOW.That means the suspect could feasibly have been arrested years earlier — a fact that could cause embarrassment for the FBI, those sources said.
Cops being cops!