Yael Tauman Kalai’s masters thesis was entitled, “How to Leak a Secret.” It showed how ring signatures could allow a member of a group to verify something without revealing their identity. quantamagazine.org/the-cryptograp…

My plan: Stack Sats while cheap! #Bitcoin

It's not talked about a lot but many mobile LN clients are doing minimal validation and privacy preservation. The Neutrino project is designed to maximize those aspects of mobile LN use. It works today but progress is being made to reduce the UX tradeoffs: chinwendu-ihunnaya.hashnode.dev/optimizing-the…

libsecp256k1-zkp now has a draft implementation of Schnorr adaptor signatures for atomic swaps, etc. It comes with python code and test vectors. github.com/BlockstreamRes… Credit goes to github.com/ZhePang as this was part of his Summer of Bitcoin. Appreciate the hard work!

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🚀🇪🇺 Big news in the world of #Bitcoin! 🤯 The EU just voted to let banks hold 2% of their capital in BTC! 🏦💰 This will come into power in Jan 2025! It's official: Crypto is going mainstream, and the financial revolution is unstoppable! 💥🌐 Get ready for a wild ride to the

Some Bitcoiners are triggered by this because they think this means The Tor Project is launching a coin. They aren’t, they’re just using PoW for DoS resistance (based on the work of tevador, a Monero contributor!) which was the original use-case in Adam Back’s 1997 HashCash proposal.

NEW: 🇺🇸 Blackrock is a majority shareholder in 4 out of the 5 largest #Bitcoin  miners 👀😲

I needed a few seconds for grasping this historical benchmark graph. But Silk is a governable adaptable Stablecoin and will add several more eggs to its basket! So if we want a stable digital world-currency — voilà! meet #silk

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