stevenroose

Anarchist bitcoin developer. Working on Ark at Second.

#Bitcoin #Rust #developer #anarchim

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2026-02-27 11:45:11 UTC

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Eh, can we please measure productivity in features and not LOC. I have the feeling that if a human implements a features compared to an AI, he needs less lines of code.

2025-08-07 16:59:26 UTC

It's always an uphill battle keeping docs up to date! #note1jgx…ay0t

2025-06-10 19:22:28 UTC

I know a lot is going on right now, but I finally made some time last weekend to simulate and compare some sponsoring solutions and a possible TXHASH stacking algorithm. Findings look interesting!
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/jit-fees-with-txhash-comparing-options-for-sponsorring-and-stacking/1760

2025-05-18 18:36:55 UTC

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Maybe read the BIP first? It's explicitly saying that the BTC symbol stays for the 100 million base units. So it proposes 1 sat = 1 bitcoin and 1 BTC = 1 million bitcoin.
Read your shit before you start spewing opinions please.

2025-04-22 18:16:02 UTC

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IMO there's two parts to this. First is that CTV is relatively way more mature. Been around for a while and hasn't changed much since. So it can be adopted fast. TXHASH still has quite some room for bike-shedding.
Second is complexity. While TXHASH is way more flexible it's also an order of magnitude more complex, mostly code-wise. Needs quite some caching etc, so the code is far from trivial.
That being said, it seems that TXHASH together with CSFS enables APO in a more secure way (than CTV) and with APO, txid stability is already far less important. Which also means that indigenous fees could be a thing maybe.

2025-03-29 00:16:00 UTC

We are the same 🥹🥹 #note14y6…a0mh

2025-03-20 11:17:45 UTC

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Initially we thought probably not. There is a high on-chain cost associated with it, and you have to run LN infrastructure. But it might be possible if you do very infrequent rounds.
But we're currently not optimizing for that.

2025-03-11 12:21:02 UTC

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Unless I'm getting it wrong, but it seems you're not using a framework in that project?

2025-03-11 12:19:43 UTC

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You're criticizing a 2yo project with a 1000 starts and recommending your last week's toy project instead? 😅 Sounds like that's in the nostr spirit 😁

2025-03-10 11:39:54 UTC

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If you can write crypto that implements the same API, rust-secp has tooling to provide your own C lib if it meets the API.

2025-02-08 10:57:19 UTC

I am super thankful for the drawing you made! 🥰 #note1df3…km84

2024-12-06 08:41:46 UTC

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It's instant if you mine to a random address. It's not instant if you have to do sqlite writes. I guess bdb was faster.

2024-12-05 22:15:50 UTC

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'100 block' 'to an address'. With the "generatetoaddress" RPC.

2024-12-05 14:19:08 UTC

While y'all are checking the bitcoin price, I've got some wisdom for you developers:
Bitcoin Core's wallet seems to be crazy slow.
It takes my beefy machine 4.5 seconds to generate 100 blocks to an address in the wallet.
It takes <0.01 sec to generate to a random address.

2024-12-04 00:23:52 UTC

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Laat I've used it was still horrible. It would randomly start pulling in stuff shaking around the time-line every time I opened it.
It technically can't remember where I left off.

2024-12-01 19:34:26 UTC

I've always been sad about some missed SI opportunities. Who has to come up with "tons", f.e., while we have the perfectly good megagram? People even go as far as applying SI prefixes to the ton, using "kiloton" instead of gigagram.

2024-11-28 16:29:26 UTC

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Exactly. It's atomicity with an unconfirmed tx. Luckily they're optimistic and hopefully will rarely see the light of chain.

2024-11-28 01:13:54 UTC

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Do you have the intention to contribute to the ark-protocol.org website?

2024-11-26 21:23:31 UTC

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There's ark-protocol.org that I have had really good feedback on. It describes how things work in general.

2024-11-26 16:59:53 UTC

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There's many facets. For one, we can do a pretty cool protocol without any covenant. Then, simple covenants like CTV or TXHASH make it a lot more powerful. But then eventually, something more powerful like MATT can probably boost it to way beyond (single tx multi-user exits fe), but that's research still and not in implementation whatsoever.

2024-11-24 01:41:54 UTC

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I've actually been thinking to restructure the TXHASH BIP as an upgrade of CTV. I believe CTV is mature enough to start activation signaling tomorrow. And I'm in favor of doing that. I don't want TXHASH work to hold it back. It can perfectly be structured as a CTV upgrade without much technical debt.

2024-11-24 01:38:19 UTC

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I wouldn't say it's useless. For our Ark constructions, it is exactly what we need. Anything else would be overkill.

2024-11-22 17:55:10 UTC

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Nice way of saying App Store verification process takes too long

2024-11-13 01:27:22 UTC

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Mentioning "real" use cases. Yeah sorry, you mentioned in production. These are not.

2024-11-13 00:53:10 UTC

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Not really. I mean it's just doing an OR. Taro will. BitVM will. MATT will. Liquid's big multisig also would be.

2024-11-12 15:37:27 UTC

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There's also kkkk which luso-africa also uses.

2024-11-12 15:35:57 UTC

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It's been in the Liquid road map for a long time.
We're using them for Ark too. No production yet. We use the root keyspend for the cosigning (clArk) and the leaf for the expiration clause.

2024-11-09 22:31:52 UTC

Montes de parabéns pelo Davidson com o primeiro lugar do SATShack com o #Floresta Mobile App!
Super excited that Floresta, a #bitcoin light client based on #utreexo, is now working on mobile!
Very well deserved!
#satsconf2024 https://nostrcheck.me/media/a9e42a0ca6e4b1208088b68a4fd6407481b12060f915a0fecb4c8874557e3749/23d5f2fe96ca3d32dc8cf2e669c5fe58801b20cd81e7e621569ec218b4969c07.webp

2024-11-09 15:32:10 UTC

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Portugal highest as % of GDP.

2024-11-09 15:29:42 UTC

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Hear sharp.

2024-11-09 15:28:07 UTC

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> But despite im ogbonge rise, one deep mystery remain for im heart: wetin be di true identity of im founder, Satoshi Nakamoto?
They call it pidgin? That's Jamaican patois, right?

2024-11-07 23:39:07 UTC

São Paulo so far:
- face scan required to enter accommodation
- passport and fingerprint requested to enter speaker drink venue
- phone number required to order beer in a bar
- haven't seen a single unit of physical currency
Didn't know dystopia already existed.

2024-11-07 22:57:00 UTC

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Been on #Mastodon for several years. It's pretty awesome. Great conversations usually, high signal. Actually higher signal than nostr, lots of spam here.

2024-11-07 22:46:55 UTC

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😅 It's sad but it's true. I heard you say you'd try do cln and tgsr 50/50, that not working out then?

2024-11-07 22:46:03 UTC

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But the notifications don't have. And the 3 dots don't show when the post doesn't load.

2024-11-06 09:05:13 UTC

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Openvibe

2024-11-06 07:27:15 UTC

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Yeah I can't, the client doesn't expose the note ID.

2024-11-06 07:24:46 UTC

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It's from a bitcoin++ account with a different icon then the actual bitcoin++ account. Maybe it was a spambot?

2024-11-06 07:23:59 UTC

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Yeah. I like it, but it's quite new. I think the post really disappeared, but the supposed comments underneath might be a client issue.

2024-11-06 00:20:44 UTC

The then status of TXHASH. Tbh not much has changed until now. But intention is to keep moving on the project again soon! #note1upm…vje6

2024-11-06 00:19:39 UTC

Hell yeah! This was an amazing presentation. And an amazing project! Can't wait for progress on the development! #note1qvy…l9fw

2024-11-06 00:15:54 UTC

This nostr thing isn't really working too well. I get a notification, click on it, the post is gone. ( @npub1e0z…0txy it's yours)
Then it shows a ton of supposed replies that seem random posts and not replies. If they are replies, the spam problem is huge on here.. https://nostrcheck.me/media/a9e42a0ca6e4b1208088b68a4fd6407481b12060f915a0fecb4c8874557e3749/84e012e9f94fab6b932f6c661ac1ca32a4a7d0c1a3308f8d9ae02b60c7722473.webp https://nostrcheck.me/media/a9e42a0ca6e4b1208088b68a4fd6407481b12060f915a0fecb4c8874557e3749/fb50cd05d9efad4630af9de3e632ffb7e4f0f635976884c241a03b026dce1985.webp https://nostrcheck.me/media/a9e42a0ca6e4b1208088b68a4fd6407481b12060f915a0fecb4c8874557e3749/074567123b350b6977335948eb962c2d8c0a2f0a2af814278a3634edc97d2964.webp

2024-10-19 22:52:31 UTC

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To do what? Serious question

2024-10-12 23:55:20 UTC

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I literally just wrote out what I call capitalism and then you describe something entirely different? All I can say is that I indeed won't call that capitalism. But it's orthogonal. It's a broken system that among other things, like racist and undemocratic, also is capitalist.

2024-10-12 23:49:44 UTC

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#oddlysatisfying

2024-10-11 13:42:18 UTC

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I know that some people have some very liberal definition of capitalism as basically freedom, but that's not what it is. It says capital in the name for a reason. Capitalism is the doctrine in which the owner of the capital is also the right-holder of the goods produced using the capital. Nothing more nothing less.
The while free market craze is kinda misplaced because by definition, capitalism is a market disturbance.