I wasn't aware of my great Bitcoin villain potential until now. I could have gone to that Hover Dam @btcplusplus after all...
- While I am very happy to see people running ASmap, so far I can't confirm the that it filters (pun intended) knots nodes. The following numbers are all based on a bitnodes snapshot from today that I ran some basic analysis on: Knots nodes are 86% Tor, all others are 62% Tor.
- Running DahLIAS (and secp256k1lab) 😎 github.com/fjahr/cisa-pla…Announcing DahLIAS! 🎉 The first crypto protocol for full cross-input signature aggregation that allows reusing Bitcoin's curve secp256k1. ✅ 64B sigs ✅ Verify is ~2x faster than half-agg'd Schnorr sigs ✅ 2-round signing Kudos to the team: @real_or_random @yannickseurin! 👇
- Thanks a lot to @HRF for supporting my work and initiating this report. I hope it helps people understand the potential that a CISA softfork could bring to Bitcoin and why we are excited about it.NEW: @fjahr's long-awaited research into Cross-Input Signature Aggregation This is an extremely detailed and well-written exploration of CISA as a potential next step in Bitcoin development CISA's incentive alignment between privacy and cost-savings is mind-blowing
- 1/ As Bitcoin continues to grow, so does the pool of talented individuals contributing to critical codebases. However, full-time employment opportunities for these individuals remain limited.
