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Mike Schmidt

@bitschmidty
Funding Bitcoin node security, testing, and maintenance @bitcoinbrink Blocking and tackling at @bitcoinoptech
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    Mike Schmidt
    @bitschmidty
    Aug 18
    For those concerned about a change in Bitcoin's supply schedule... "Although it is widely believed that Satoshi was an inflation-hating goldbug he never said this, and in fact programmed Bitcoin's money supply to grow indefinitely, forever." "To combat this, this document
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    Mike Schmidt
    @bitschmidty
    Aug 17
    Bitcoin post-quantum R&D tldr If you want to get up to speed on the last ~year of Bitcoin post-quantum research and development, the first 20 minutes of @conduition_io's presentation on Brink’s engineering call is a great primer. Every major proposal and how they all fit
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    Brink
    @bitcoinbrink
    Aug 17
    Brink grantee @conduition_io presented on the state of post-quantum Bitcoin research: - Post-quantum output types - Quantum canaries and tripwires - Freezing, ignoring, or rate-limiting Satoshi-era coins - Rescue protocols - Hash-based, lattice, isogeny signature schemes - Q&A
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    Mike Schmidt
    @bitschmidty
    Aug 15
    When you download Bitcoin Core today, the binary doesn't contain everything your node runs. It still loads the C library (glibc and friends) from your operating system which means there are version requirements, behavior that can vary from machine to machine, and code that your
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    Mike Schmidt
    @bitschmidty
    Aug 14
    A new LN channel jamming mitigation approach Static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing Global transaction rate limits in Bitcoin Core The big question... will we get @fanquake on the Optech podcast next week?
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    Bitcoin Optech
    @bitcoinoptech
    Aug 14
    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #418 is here: - describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming - reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing - summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction