hashlock -> static, combination lock glock -> dynamic, smart lock glocks are powerful and ~1000X more efficient at resolving challenges than BitVM2 we’re putting final touches on the paper + code. releasing soon.

resolve disputes optimistically on bitcoin!

Excited to be back in SF for the Quantum Bitcoin Summit Presidio Bitcoin! I am giving two talks tomorrow: * Quantum-Resistant Rollups * Post-Quantum Signatures and Scaling Bitcoin with STARKs, based on work by Ethan ✨ is on BlueSky✨ Heilman 🐱 Details: pbquantum.com

Join us at light's presentations at Quantum Bitcoin summit, along with David Seroy 🏔️. 📍Presidio Bitcoin, San Francisco 📺 Live on X

This week, Presidio Bitcoin hosted the Bitcoin Quantum Summit (pbquantum.com). I was thrilled to be invited to attend, and wanted to write up a thread about what I learned this week. I’ll save my commentary for the end, and start with where we are, the challenges we

A few words on recent paper with Liam Eagen. A drawback of IPAs is the linear time verification. This was partially mitigated in Halo by deferring this linear time verifier op via accumulation. We give a minor improvement of this accumulation over Halo/BCMS. More interestingly,

you should follow Jose Storopoli, our resident rust maxi at Alpen he just opened an X account!

Aztec 🤝 Alpen

fully programmable & private bitcoin rails before AGI or bust you’re likely underestimating the scale of economic & epistemic power consolidating over the coming decade accelerate 🫡

would be cool to see sherpas from solukhumbu compete at the tour de france several thousand years of adaptation at the highest elevations in the world

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We're delighted to be supporting janusz in continuing his invaluable research on Bitcoin's many layers. Building a neutral knowledge base that's accessible to Bitcoin holders is a key step in building trust for newer generations of Bitcoin-based systems and applications.

Alpen focus on the original mission 🫡

an open ecosystem built for bitcoiners by bitcoiners we're live on public testnet 🚀

🧵of my talks from the Quantum Bitcoin Summit Presidio Bitcoin 👇

🚨New Bitcoin Whiteboard. We can do better than BitVM. 00:00 Bitcoin Bridges and ZK Verification 08:42 Addressing Critics of Rollups 13:28 Optimistic ZK Verification 16:56 BitVM1 vs 2 vs 3 25:45 Garbled Circuits 34:07 Glock: Future of Bitcoin Bridging

Announcing Payjoin Foundation, a non-profit to protect Bitcoin Privacy

"Always choose the path that makes you better, not just more comfortable." beautiful letter written by our teammate for his newborn son. congratulations to Jose Storopoli & his family!

We’re launching DCI Global, a nascent research network to study real-world Bitcoin & stablecoin use, starting with a joint MIT–UnB open-source course to build global capacity.