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Last call to RSVP for the Bitcoin Research Day 2024. Registrations close Monday morning EST. brd.chaincode.com

Good lightning pathfinding is highly dependent on history of probes/payments, but testing pathfinders is hard without building up such data over a long time horizon Yesterday I started publishing probe history from my node to better test new pathfinders bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/11/22/ln-…

🎉 Congratulations to our very own Tim Ruffing (Tim Ruffing) and Jonas Nick (ncklr), along with Yannick Seurin from Ledger, Chelsea Komlo, and Ian Goldberg. They have received the 2024 Bitcoin Research Prize for their work on MuSig2 and FROST!

חשבתם פעם לתרום קוד לביטקוין? היש דבר נפלא מזה? עכשיו זו ההזדמנות שלכם! קבוצת לימוד מקומית נפתחת בשגרירות אשר תפעל במקביל לתוכנית הלימוד של Chaincode, עם ליווי ומפגשים שבועיים. התוכנית אורכת שלושה חודשים ודורשת כ-10 שעות לימוד שבועיות. לפרטים נוספים: forms.gle/mpx9RerYCm1FfP….

Book of Nakamoto, Chapter 3, Verses 4–11 And Satoshi spake, not in whispers but in hex, saying: “Thou shalt not embed thine data in every field, for the blockchain is not thy diary.” “Yet I bestow upon thee OP_RETURN, a sanctuary for up to 40 bytes — no more, lest ye walk the

We just published a report on post-quantum computing and Bitcoin, an overview of where things stand and what's at stake. Check it out!

Excited to be speaking at this event alongside an incredible group of people!

I posted a full writeup for the #32406 merge decision on the PR. These changes go into effect in v30, which is scheduled for release in October. The PR changes the defalt value of -datacarriersize. You will still be able to use -datacarrier and -datacarriersize options in v30,

Jose SK (JoseSK), Clara Shikhelman (ClaraS), Vojtěch Strnad (Vojtěch Strnad), Robin Linus (яobin linus), and Dan Gould (Dan Gould &pj=) joined Murch and Schmidty to discuss: - Syncing full nodes without witnesses - Quantum computing report - Transaction weight limit with

Nominations are open for the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize! Submit papers that made an impact on Bitcoin or Lightning published after 2021: forms.gle/9fo6wUtQ5iaWtQ… Here is the talk by last year’s winners ncklr & Chelsea Komlo --> youtu.be/9j1smRr_Ebc

What an honor! As part of receiving @chaincode's Bitcoin Research Prize, Chelsea Komlo and I had the privilege of giving the ultimate talk on FROST and MuSig2. We covered their origins, our key learnings, those "almost broken" implementation moments, and exciting open research.

Had a great time chatting about our report!

Thrilled to welcome Matthew Pines, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute (Matthew Pines) & Clara Shikhelman, Head of Research at Chaincode Labs (ClaraS) as speakers for our upcoming Quantum Bitcoin technical summit. Learn More: pbquantum.com

This episode of 21 in 21 welcomes ClaraS, Head of Research at Chaincode Labs, who is focused on the LN and bitcoin post-quantum computing. Join @Hberkoe to learn more before Clara returns to Presidio Bitcoin later this month to speak at our Quantum Bitcoin Summit.

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The presentations given by ClaraS and myself at the Presidio Bitcoin Quantum Bitcoin Summit held last week are now available at pq-bitcoin.org

There's also FREE BEER and pizza at BitDevs at Chaincode Labs next Thursday! 6-9pm! 😝 bitdevs.org/2025-07-31-soc…