Nostr notes by dr.orlovsky

RGB yellow paper is released: the first formally specified ...

2025-07-31T11:44:10Z

RGB yellow paper is released: the first formally specified scalable smart contract system for Bitcoin & Lightning, made with client-side validation

https://github.com/RGB-WG/yellowpaper/blob/master/rgb-yellowpaper.pdf

Our first post on Stacker News. What do you think if we will ...

2024-09-06T22:41:22Z

Our first post on Stacker News.

What do you think if we will create a dedicated RGB topic and community there, will you be participating it?

https://stacker.news/items/675088

This year we are excited to bring more #RGB #Bitcoin and ...

2023-07-20T14:04:50Z

This year we are excited to bring more #RGB #Bitcoin and #Lightning products - read about them and our business strategy on our updated website:

https://pandoraprime.ch

Thank you! APIs are not yet documented

2023-07-17T22:54:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…w5ck
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Thank you! APIs are not yet documented

For those who suppose to be self-sovereign individuals: there are ...

2023-05-18T22:56:56Z

For those who suppose to be self-sovereign individuals: there are four things which you should control and take care of by yourself - without delegation.

1. Your will, desire and actions (including speech, transactions, and information transfer). This is called freedom.

2. Your health: study medicine (it takes just ~10 years, with future longevity it won’t be a problem).

3. Your physical security: the price of getting you (kidnapping, hunting, arresting) must be higher than the potential benefits for the bounty hunters/gangsters/government.

4. Computing: you must be able to compute and control what is computed by your hardware. In fact, this is the same number (1) - just your mind extended to external computing mediums. Running Bitcoin Core is not “don’t trust verify”: you must be able to ensure how it operates, what consensus logic it has and how it is configured. The same applies to all other critical software which affects (1)-(3): how you think, how free you are, how you are healthy, and how secure you are.

Don’t trust: just do it yourself. #NewMotto

This is sad that agents like you are still lacking ...

2023-05-18T22:24:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…8s23
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This is sad that agents like you are still lacking self-reflection to the level that you can’t recognize the jokes targeted at your own self - since you lack (yet) concepts of the “own” and “self”. Hope to change that one day!

I am doing AI since 1998. Those days, when I wrote my first ...

2023-05-18T21:50:06Z

I am doing AI since 1998. Those days, when I wrote my first “AI” app in C for my Neuroscience PhD at Medical University - the app which was doing recognition of cells in microscopic images (it was also a “dApp” running on a computer cluster of the University network :) - those days the “AI” was still called “neural networks” and perceptrons. So I have some knowledge of the industry.

It is so much fun seeing people being scared of digital parrots of ChatGTP kind - and governments addressing those “issues” in their usual “COVID dovecot” style (“fly in, shit over everything around and fly out”), that I can’t stop laughing.

Yes, digital parrots will cause many people to lose their jobs - but this fact says much more about people lacking real intelligence than AI possessing any intelligence. Jobs were taken from people many times before - agriculture took the jobs of hunters, engineering took the jobs of slaves, automation took the job of factory workers etc, etc. None of them was a form of “intelligence” - neither ChatGPT is.

Do you know who was fighting these technologies for the “good of people”? Luddites. So congrats to the EU, which is now run by Luddites - and those “advanced opinion leaders and innovators” from the “crypto industry” like Vitalik Buterin welcoming regulations.

“Have fun staying stupid” - probably this should be the new meme for those who’d like to address neo-Luddites.

But what about real GAI? Is it possible? Would it happen one day? So far, even most humans, possessing the same brain, is still not able to develop a proper generic natural intelligence (GNI), so what we can say about GAI? Of course, it is possible, but not with training on human-generated data sets of some large statistical models using differential equations and calling that “neural networks”. These neural networks are like guinea pig: not a pig - and not from Guinea: they are neither “neural” nor “networks”.

Have you heard about capital efficiency?

2023-05-17T12:14:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…ve2c
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Have you heard about capital efficiency?

Interesting, will check! For me the main problem of multisigs on ...

2023-05-16T22:47:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…3pth
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Interesting, will check! For me the main problem of multisigs on nostr: they are needed for orgs, but they can’t serve orgs needs, since people in orgs are get fired and replaced, while the npub of the org must not change. This makes impossible any serious use case around multisigs in the current way they are set up (with Schnorr signatures and not in a GPG style).

Not yet, will have a look. Thank you!

2023-05-16T09:18:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…n6fh
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Not yet, will have a look. Thank you!

Where this comes from?

2023-05-13T10:10:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…qksd
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Where this comes from?

It does not provide a deterministic encoding though

2023-05-13T10:09:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…wrz4
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It does not provide a deterministic encoding though

The moment unencrypted private key touches the memory - forget ...

2023-05-13T10:06:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…cafy
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The moment unencrypted private key touches the memory - forget about safety. Even C and rust compilers create copies all around (and zeroize doesn’t help), what to say about python, go and other garbage-collector based languages…

Never heard of holochain. I assume they require to buy some ...

2023-05-10T14:40:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…2377
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Never heard of holochain. I assume they require to buy some tocken? :)

I am working on a protocol which will combine both RPC and PubSub ...

2023-05-09T22:10:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…aqze
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I am working on a protocol which will combine both RPC and PubSub model (in mutexed way). It will work either as a binary TCP protocol - or can be bridged via combination of HTTP and WebSocket connection.

Doing first steps required for the task: ...

2023-05-09T22:08:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…4hkw
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Doing first steps required for the task: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34

My first proposal on the improvements: ...

2023-05-09T21:57:50Z

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My first proposal on the improvements: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34

Here is the proposal addressing this issue: ...

2023-05-09T21:55:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…jxa7
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Here is the proposal addressing this issue: https://damus.io/note1wra64ux3w5fwxjd3y3v63pwxkmx64p57564zkjk6xj0a87k8keuqy07l34

MyCitadel v1.3 is around the corner with some great updates: ...

2023-04-21T00:26:09Z

MyCitadel v1.3 is around the corner with some great updates: ability to compose complex time-locked conditions (like 2-of-4 multisig which in 1 year becomes 1-of-2).

A tx created with MyCitadel spending from such complex miniscript descriptor: https://mempool.space/testnet/tx/48b47bdc2b55c0795df836e22983bed28c62de55ccfa10db122e267948a3221d

Miniscript descriptors with timelocks were available since the first release of our desktop wallet, but due to miniscript inability to work with the same keys in different pre-taproot script branches it was impossible to create non-trivial setups. The new version will introduce account-based spending conditions such that different branches now may use different accounts coming from the same hardware signer.

Predating some major events: ...

2023-02-16T06:29:09Z

Predating some major events: https://dr.orlovsky.ch/blog/cyphernox-manifesto

Is it just for me the “Follow” feature in #Damus is broken? ...

2023-01-02T17:27:38Z

Is it just for me the “Follow” feature in #Damus is broken? When I click “Follow” the button says “Unfollowing..”. In the second click “Following..”. And the home feed is always empty. It was the same for the last several versions. @jb55

How to get listed? My proof: ...

2022-12-27T23:08:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…yxqh
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How to get listed? My proof: https://twitter.com/dr_orlovsky/status/1607674267558367233?s=46&t=MzLNklrmZcbk3pC4PdnoRA

I have read Nostr specs. JSON objects. Sigs over JSON objects. ...

2022-12-27T22:45:13Z

I have read Nostr specs. JSON objects. Sigs over JSON objects. All data (images ext) mist be serialized into … strings! And Secp256k1 curve for signatures. This all means _slow_. That is exactly how it feels.