Yes. View quoted note →

I've been through tech hype cycles before. They always have a grain of truth in them (otherwise they're trivially refuted) but they don't always work out. I have been through three VR waves, for example. I can't tell where Quantum Computing will land, though it has all the signs of needing a few more decades of occasional hype cycles. But I *can* tell that all the proposed mitigating signature schemes for Bitcoin suck hard: they're technically impressive because they're 10x better than I expected, but they're still 10x worse than what we have now. This means two things: I applaud and support the continuing research. And I won't support a soft fork any new cryptographic schemes until the someone demonstrates an extant QC that can factor faster than a classical one.

This one doesn't keep getting disconnected from LND and Eclair, because we disabled the padding feature which made all messages the same length on the wire which was to be a release feature 😔 It was an obscure part of the spec, but LND have already fixed theirs for v21: kudos! I submitted PRs to Eclair and Phoenix (the latter mainly Claude, but it's a trivial change). I still have hope for a workaround, but we'll see if I can get it before Sangbida as Release Captain says No! View quoted note →

"Also Bitcoin Core, but in blue" Send $$ NOW for my new project!

I keep hearing about all the billions left on the sidelines, which will come rushing into Bitcoin when some legislative or regulatory event occurs. Here's some history: - Bitcoin futures ETFs. October 2021, price $61k - Bitcoin spot ETFs. January 2024, price $42k - March 2026, price $70k Now, maybe it's still coming, but at this point you might want to start doubting this narrative.

Now I serve a web page at that URL. Probably presents too much info. @calle might have suggestions for what I should put here? View quoted note →

Fired up a cashu mint today: should exercise my CLN node a bit more!

Century Metadata Cashu Mint

Finally read BIP-54 (mirror at https://bips.dev/54/) and it is straightforward,minimal and thorough. At this point I can endorse it as a good idea and worth doing. There's no rush, but I am looking forward to activation.

JSON5

JSON5 – JSON for Humans

JSON for Humans

I *want* JSON5 to take over the world because it allows trailing commas. But I have to accept that most people are just excited because it sounds like a boy band.

GitHub

BIP440: Varops Budget for Script Runtime Constraint, BIP441: Restoration of disabled Script (tapleaf 0xc2) by rustyrussell · Pull Request #2118 · bitcoin/bips

The full revision history is available in a separate branch (https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/tree/guilt/varops): this is a clean one to submit...

Finally, the PR to assign BIP numbers to the first two BIPs of the "script restoration quartet". Here's the corresponding bitcoin-dev the mailing list post: Hi all, I've submitted a PR to the BIPs repo to merge the first two drafts of the previously posted[1] "A Bitcoin Scripting Proposal BIP Quartet":

GitHub

BIP440: Varops Budget for Script Runtime Constraint, BIP441: Restoration of disabled Script (tapleaf 0xc2) by rustyrussell · Pull Request #2118 · bitcoin/bips

The full revision history is available in a separate branch (https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/tree/guilt/varops): this is a clean one to submit...

The only substantive change since the last discussion is that the costs have increased for some operations (hashing and copying bytes), as a result of benchmarking on a wider array of machines[2]. This follows our conservative approach to make the worst-case validation times no worse than they are presently, on any viable hardware. The remaining two BIPs (OP_TX, and new opcodes) are not submitted: they are mainly useful to provide a roadmap what functional gaps remain after the script extensions, and do not have full implementations. Cheers! Rusty & Julian. [1] https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/GisTcPb8Jco/m/8znWcWwKAQAJ [2]

GitHub

GitHub - jmoik/varopsData: Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark.

Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark. - jmoik/varopsData

You will not be at peace until you understand the truth: every non-coinbase bitcoin transaction which does not eventually send funds to me is spam.