Update: Due to improvements inspired by @rbitcoin_org 's address index, my proposed index now takes only ~52 GB of disk space. A synced Bitcoin Core node with a full address index can be run in as little as 65 GB. This is a level of compression not possible without a UTXO set.

With the Railway hack, cyberchaos sort of officially begins in my not-so-experienced eyes. Defenders have **a lot** to fix. Attackers are much more agile. Like, you can build a harness that tries to penetrate 1000 repositories at the same time in a pretty offensive manner nowadays, and the cost is almost nothing for any state actor. Even a solo blackhat can do it. We've seen sad glimpses of these in the last two months in the Bitcoin world. A couple hundred million dollars stolen. Always knew it'd eventually arrive at our good old software too, but never thought it would be this soon. Also really important distinction: "ban open models" idea is DUMB Like, you cannot. Aside from ethics, it's over. Pandora's box was opened a long, long time ago. If you ban it, other countries still won't. If you ban it, you will prevent developers in your country from defending themselves without KYC for low cost, without any refusals. Don't. Ok cool. Now you need to learn how to defend yourself. Best way is obvious: Scan, scan, scan. Read, read, read. Check, check, check. Patch, patch, patch. Be careful. Read things. Try to hack things on your own. Like, your own system. Hack it and fix it. Buy a 10 bucks opencode sub, try all models, build multi model harness for yourself. Last but not least American frontier labs are also very slow on supporting defensive efforts. Putting everything behind KYC is dumb for blue teaming. Heck, it even blocks you from blue teaming sometimes still. Do better please. I know that you're a for-profit company, but still. Please. Things are also costly. I dont care how governments work, but small-middle sized businesses are in great, great danger, and the best method to save them is to allow them to spend some quality tokens. Make it happen. Somehow. Let's survive this together. Best of luck.

If they made private keys open source more people could audit them and make sure they're not 4??

Imagine a guy who finally learned how to use em dashes only after LLMs made them radioactive.

I just released rbitcoin 0.5.0, our first tagged release. This is a pretty big milestone and communicates that rbitcoin is maturing from a reckless experiment to something you might consider using to back your wallet. Try it out. Tell me (and @grok) what docs or information you might need. Tell me how the IBD performance is on various machines and platforms. Don't expect IBD to succeed in reasonable time without at least 250GiB of free SSD and 16GiB of host RAM. github.com/reardencode/rbitc…

BIP-110 failed because it had vanishingly little support. There wasn’t corruption or capture or sabotage or backroom dealings. It was simply a poor solution to a menial problem that was marketed and executed in the worst possible manner. Hope this helps.

I'm going to need to raise ticket prices to @tabconf to $256. Inspired by the best hashing algorithm for Bitcoin.. but more importantly because I want to do cool things for the last TAB and want to make sure to cover my nut. Book in the next 2 days to get the lower ticket price!

"the watermark is part of the text" "it doesn't change the quality" Any rules that modify the output will change the quality. @AnthropicAI why are you sabotaging your own product for a foreign government that can't even defend its own borders? I'd rather run Chinese weights with my own instructions, than trust whatever sneaky garbage y'all are injecting. Absolutely wild. Kimi K3 here I come.

Interesting experience last week. We experienced product-market fit for ultra-fast inference on frontier intelligence models for cyber security. TLDR, there was a massive bitcoin hack, so we @fastinference teamed up with @wafer_ai and our friend @gpusteve co-founder who runs compute to provide some ultrafast kimi k3 inference. Open source models with no guardrails killing their ability to do red team work + super fast inference is going to be absolutely necessary to push back on AI led hacking. Inference speed in effect reduces time to plug holes, find zero days, or go fix deployed hacks in open source repos. Wild times we are living in. I think I might start a programme for free compute for cyber sec defence teams. @Rob1Ham good work buddy keep workin!

Yesterday I began fully integrating the @OpenAI trust cyber program into my Bitcoin Red Team efforts. This morning I woke up to see this. I am now being blocked from doing additional analysis on a codebase which I've already responsibly disclosed to, and have received confirmation had legitimate findings. To be clear, this is after having already KYC'd and completed the onboarding process months ago to use the cyber capabilities OpenAI has to offer. I am now prevented from being able to continue the investigation in a further effort to make sure their code changes are sufficient, as well as understand if there are other issues that have yet to be discovered. It absolutely guts me as a patriotic American to have to do this, but I will be going back to using Chinese open source models to conduct my research to protect Bitcoin infrastructure. Black hats will not hit these issues. The white hats will. We've hit a local minima in policy. Intelligence is unrestricted for those who don't follow rules, and those who engadge in harm reduction are left on the sidelines. What are we doing in this country? How is this keeping people safe? Please do something @DavidSacks @sama @realDonaldTrump

Now that BIP110 is behind us, can we get back to the important mission of making Bitcoin better money?

I prompted @grok to create a bitcoin node implementation that I've been somewhat working on in the back of my mind for over 8 years. github.com/reardencode/rbitc… This is Production Ready™️ software for your electrum wallet serving needs. Briefly, what's unique about my node vs others: * Pure rust consensus implementation wrapped around rust-bitcoin (passes all core fixtures and mainnet IBD) * Minimal dependencies * Reduced store size - fully sync'd to mainnet, store size is 886G (rise 1TB nodes!). And that includes txindex and electrum scripthash index * < 30 hours to sync on my laptop with milestone=0 (assumevalid similar). I haven't tested with higher milestone because I like validating scripts, and my node isn't much slower with scripts on due to the compact storage architecture. * Modest RAM use during sync (no dbcache or similar) * (relatedly) No long pauses for flushing caches or whatever * Transaction lookup in my version of txindex is fastest for newer transactions * No UTXO set (similar to libbitcoin in this way) Check it out.

There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds. Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer. If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.

COLDCARD Mk3 Security Advisory If you generated a seed on a Mk3 after firmware 4.0.1, your funds may be at risk. Mk4, Q and Mk5 are not affected based on our early analysis. Read the advisory and migrate carefully: blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-m…

Over $250B of value sits in stablecoins instead of Bitcoin. Stable Channels is built to change that. This demo 👇 features the @stablechannels server and iOS app, powered by splicing, just-in-time channels, and new server tech from @lightningdevkit, @bitcoindevkit & @spiral_xyz

BIP110 ADVENT. Big one today. Introducing BIPflix: Contiguous MP4s! -Too big for OP_RETURN -4x cheaper -BIP110 valid -High quality bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 06214483dcbf9f2025f9709aa5a7dce85277a8ce15076d2d0029f3d64f4bc7b6 | xxd -r -p | tail -c +166 > l.mp4

bip110swap.net/ @nvk

Any BIP110 fans interested in a trustless on-chain contract enforcing the following rules? - I take all the coins on the core chain - you take all the coins on the BIP110 chain If 110 activates and miners flip, you get all the value. If not, i do. If a fork occurs, we split it.

Steven Roose (@stevenroose3) launches the TEMPLATEHASH ARK in Toronto! 🥖🛳️ The covenantful Ark is live for you to try today, connect at “templatehash . com” French CTV is here