I can see #inscriptions are causing a lot of debate in the Bitcoin community, particularly regarding whether they should be "filtered" or "censored" at the mempool level by labeling them non-standard. I'm here to tell you that this moral/ethical tennis match is irrelevant. Inscriptions can be pushed to the blockchain invisibly, by disguising the data inside normal-looking transactions. The true plaintext data is revealed only after the inscription is mined. I call these, "Inviscriptions", and they cannot be censored without resorting to flimsy heuristics.

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Inviscriptions - Undetectable Bitcoin Inscriptions

Why filtering spam Bitcoin transactions is doomed to fail.

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inviscriptions post by conduition · Pull Request #5 · conduition/conduition.io

bitcoin/bitcoin#28408 (comment) I'd like to demonstrate why it is wildly impractical to even detect arbitrary data push transactions, let alon...

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Off Chain DLC Ticketing Systems

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Just finished some research on issuing Shamir Secret Shares using multi-party computation. Turns out, shareholders don't need to perform a full recovery if a share is lost or a new shareholder joins the party. Find my article here:

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Issuing New Shamir Secret Shares Using Multi-Party Computation

Safely add new members to a Shamir Secret Sharing group.

Just finished my new article, describing how Wagner's Attack was used to break the first draft of MuSig in 2018.

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Wagner's Birthday Attack - How to Break InsecureMuSig

An outlandish attack which broke the version version of the MuSig protocol.