Some useful *financial engineering*

One year ago Marco (Marco) embarked on a year long Brink fellowship in our London office. Today, after a year of progress and contributions, we’re happy to bring him on as a full-time Bitcoin Core engineer…!

We're hiring fuzzing interns at Brink. Consider applying if you're interested in building out Bitcoin Core's fuzz testing, tooling and infrastructure!

Primary use case seems to be proof of publication at a discount

Estimating fee costs before runtime is extremely underrated

carman 🟠 They're just going to filter things with more than two levels. Not successfully but that's the rule probably.

Consolidations and runes, the two genders

delvingbitcoin.org/t/delving-simp…

Caved

Tea leaf reading but FYI in NY (and under the sixth amendment) you need unanimity for a guilty verdict.

What it means. The money transmission charge was key. This is a huge loss for for the developers of non-custodial software.

Coin Center’s Seven Takeaways from the Storm Verdict: ▪️ 1. The sole conviction—unlicensed money transmission (18 U.S.C. § 1960)—turns mainly on legal/regulatory interpretation (“does this count as money transmission?”), not jury fact-finding. ▪️ 2. The court, at the

When all you have is a hammer

> Flashbacks to Liquid emergency keys As long as the trustodians agree seems fine to me?

Yeah you never saw unilateral channels get any traction and they were possible for a very long time iirc So yes I think there's no evidence to suggest it was wasted.

Russell O’Connor joined us to explain his work on formal verification of software, the process of mathematically proving that a program satisfies its specification. - Overview of formal verification of software - Walkthrough w/ libsecp256k1 - Coq, Rocq, Clightgen - SafeGCD - Q&A

I'm not getting any of these results. Seems pretty ok fwiw.

Woke TxGraph

Wow people are really excited for Blockstream Research Simplicity

Merged PR from sipa: Introduce pertxin sighash midstate cache for legacyp2shsegwitv0 scripts github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…