no day in the life vid from yesterday instead i bring you a video explaining how myers briggs letters work. what’s your type?? #myersbriggs #typetheory #carljung #mbti #jungian

sometimes i get anxiety about there being some neglected “extrovert” task i should be doing but it’s escaped my attention b/c i’ve introverting too hard

Day 4 in austin was no #moving just unpacking and setting things up. got the #wifi online and a cozy seating nook sorted; ordered ikea furniture + amazon storage shelves that should arrive in 2 days 👌

been getting nothing but really great feedback about the @btcplusplus we did in berlin last weekend; i think my favorite anecdote is about an engineer who loved getting to see more about both the cashu + fedimint projects. it really helped him figure out where he wanted to contribute and gave him good context for both projects 🙌

most women dont give a fuck about “building stuff”; it’s a big contributor to the lack of them in engineering etsy got thru this by re-positioning software engineering into something more femme: “code as craft”

i haven’t studied german enough to know what about it people find hard and it’s annoying me to no end, the not knowing exactly the shape of the challenge

rewatching my travel videos and my god what the actual fuck was i doing. these things are exhausting just to watch

i wanna retire to the ozarks 🌲🚤🏍️🌲

also why is food in the US worse than europe? this is a new thing and i hate it

day 5 in #berlin was a whirlwind of talks and workshops at the first day at @btcplusplus #ecash edition

there’s a lot of talk about “covenants” but not a lot of understanding what that entails. lets do a little dive into how i think about the opcode proposals and how they relate to “enabling covenants on bitcoin” what is a covenant? great question. a covenant is the ability to specify what the transaction that spends your bitcoin must look like. for example, you could say “the transaction that spends this bitcoin must pay 500k sats to this address” or “the transaction that spends this bitcoin must have a locktime set to block 880,000” in order to make these kinds of assertions in bitcoin transactions, you need the ability to find out what information is in the transaction that is spending an output. this information needs to be accessible when the script is running. bitcoin script is a limited programming language that you use to write locks for bitcoin. one of the limitations is what data you have access to while the program is running. so in order to write more “expressive” bitcoin scripts, which can say “one output must be to my address and pay 500k sats”, for example, you need to be able to look at the outputs on a transaction. this ability to look at the info on a transaction is called “introspection”. being able to introspect a transaction is a big missing piece in bitcoin. adding introspection enables you to write covenants. so how do you get introspection in bitcoin script? you have to add a new opcode for it. in fact, we’ve added two opcodes to bitcoin that enable introspection already: op-checklocktimeverify (op-cltv) and op-checksequenceverify (op-csv) these look at the locktime/sequence of a transaction and require a certain value to be set in order to be valid. they were added in order to enable lightning, which uses both op-cltv and op-csv to make “primitive” covenants. these were added to enable LN, to help scale bitcoin. today you could write a bitcoin script that asserts “the transaction that spends this bitcoin must have a locktime set to block 880,000”. you’d use op-cltv to make that script, and any coins locked to that script wouldn’t be spendable til block 880,000. there’s no way to look at the output fields in a transaction though. you cant write a script that requires funds to go somewhere, you’d have to use presigned txs (like how lightning does) to make that kind of assertion. ok so the goal of introspection is to let you look at what information is in a transaction that’s spending a bitcoin output. we can do this already with op-cltv and op-csv. but this is limited just to timelocks, and doesn’t let us make assertions about outputs, or other inputs. in the next post i’ll talk about how the current opcode proposals (op-ctv, op-txhash, op-tx, op-cat) work and how they enable more broad tx introspection ! if you found this interesting, check out @Base58⛓🔓 and our classes on bitcoin transactions!

gm day 2 in #prague was another day with the hacker community at #paralelnípolis #hcpp #traveltok

gm we made it to #prague for #hcpp the yearly Hacker’s Congress at Paralelní Polis #traveltok ✈️

new substack post!

Nifty no Japan

Sept 14 - Sept 27

endlessly impressed that kanji writing systems actually work

every once in a while i remember im responsible for making things happen and i pull out a sheet of paper to write a “to do list”

first @Base58⛓🔓 workshop in Japan 🇯🇵 feat @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and @Joe Miyamoto

bitcoin is changing payments — it’s really obvious to me that the regulatory framework for payment businesses is due for a big update now that immediate transfer of value is possible in a trustless manner. whatever jurisdiction figures this out is going to unleash a really interesting revolution in terms of peer to peer transactions

Day two in tokyo was more stairs than I’d think advisable #tokyo #shinjuku #katsudon #traveltok #shibuya

get in losers, we’re going to tokyo #niftytravels #travel #tokyo #taipei