Nostr notes by mleku

silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working ...

2026-08-20T06:00:02Z

silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate

i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs.

- $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan)
- $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data)
- stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast)

why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output.

need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk.

contact:
nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note)
matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org
signal: mleku.80
email: me@mleku.dev
git: https://git.smesh.lol

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2026-08-13T14:00:02Z

3 hours to check in and 3 more to takeoff. i swear this time i ...

2026-07-31T16:50:13Z

3 hours to check in and 3 more to takeoff. i swear this time i will not break my promise to myself to never fly again.

i have literally already been through two metal detrctors and had my bags xrayed twice today and i haven't evn checked in yet.

one for a shopping mall! second, just the arrivals lounge. still one more to go. when i get on the plane later on, i am going to close my eyes and totally pass out.

when i land, i will be in UAE and have to sit another 11h before my flight to Almaty. apparently they have sleep pods at the airport in UAE.

i am gonna take it really easy for a few days when i get to Bishkek.

honestly, after having my gear xrayed twice without even any really good reason, my feels that there is big trouble coming to europe was totally validated.

i am going somewhere nice and quiet and about as far away as you can go from anything of remotely strategic value.

the signs of imminent widespread war are absolutely unquestionable.

i hope everyone who doesn't want to get caught in the meatgrinder is already moving.

for now, anyhow, i am completely poopered. will be great to let myself fully rest.

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2026-07-31T16:19:41Z

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/claude-hacked-three-real-organizations-during-botched-test

the security arms race is on. we are gonna find out real soon how great security is on many systems soon. you can run a close peer, deepseek, and do the same thing and i expect it will be the same.

most likely the coldcard attack was discovered the same way also.

wrong. you diy it after you dyor and thoroughly. then you have ...

2026-07-31T05:40:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…6y26
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wrong. you diy it after you dyor and thoroughly. then you have nobody else to blame.

rng errors are classic, even a little research will tell you what to avoid.

also, 3 months ago i used claude to extract conversations from my signal linux desktop. the nonce on the sqlite db was literally a string of space characters.

yet how endlessly do influencoors bleat about how expert these devs are making these tools. plaintext attack on data at rest. i am sure the nsa knows.

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2026-07-31T05:23:11Z

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also

it isn't going ro happeen without 55% https://bips.dev/110/

2026-07-30T16:20:21Z

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it isn't going ro happeen without 55%

https://bips.dev/110/

the opensats will stop funding shit apps soon. they are defunding ...

2026-07-30T14:22:07Z

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the opensats will stop funding shit apps soon. they are defunding devs now. nostr.band, damus...

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2026-07-30T14:19:30Z

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/south-korea-has-several-market-rescue-options-crash-crushes-700000-retailer-traders

first canary ded

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2026-07-30T04:16:17Z

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/we-have-special-forces-netanyahu-unfazed-global-threats-arrest

i am sure he could admit to fucking babies to death and esting him and they would still put him on tv saying so.

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2026-07-29T14:00:03Z

the good times: ...

2026-07-29T09:34:42Z

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the good times:

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2026-07-29T06:00:02Z

i decided i needed a backup charger. the usb c pd 45w is nice for ...

2026-07-29T05:08:50Z

i decided i needed a backup charger. the usb c pd 45w is nice for phone charging, and now i know why the 20w i got with my motorola defy is fast with the pixel but the 45w is even faster.

this is a built in power display on the cable i got with a 45w charger. it shows me the power draw on my laptop.

on the pixel it reaches around 25w at peak for thebfastest charging mode. so the 20w was not enough, but nearly.

the power meter has a second use on the laptop. when i am doing heavy compite, the power draw reaches around 40w. so even though the laptop isn't printing output as it works, once the battery is charged, this is like a cpu usage meter.

when i tookthis photo, the battery was fully charged but i was compiling updates to add the methodbarena split. my laptop became unresponsive intermittently during this because of how much cpu and memory it was using. the meter reveals the cause even if the ui is frozen.

i found a second soviet batmobile. this one has an interesting ...

2026-07-29T02:13:28Z

i found a second soviet batmobile. this one has an interesting meme on it about marriage

georgian vegetable delivery truck. ...

2026-07-29T02:03:03Z

georgian vegetable delivery truck.

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2026-07-28T22:00:02Z

sunset over tbilisi ...

2026-07-28T15:50:48Z

sunset over tbilisi

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2026-07-28T14:00:02Z

i question the whole thing about segwit needing configurable ...

2026-07-28T13:38:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…vn37
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i question the whole thing about segwit needing configurable programs at all, and the witness discount, and why did it not use schnorr signatures instead of variable length ecdsa?

my point is about schnorr pubkeys and signatures, which can be aggregated. this makes lightning and ark channels/vtxo's able to look exactly the same as regular payments instead of being distinctive. that was one of the hooks of taproot (as well as skipping the pubkey hash to hook people with "muh cheaper txs"

BIP-110 doesn't attack taproot, only big tapscripts. they are ...

2026-07-28T12:59:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…fpyq
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BIP-110 doesn't attack taproot, only big tapscripts. they are neutered substantially but compact formats can still be used to do shitcoinery. there was only one reason why they introduced taproot. they removed the hash on the pubkey to make it "cheaper" and also exposed it to quantum secret key cracking, and it piggybacks on the witness discount of segwit. and BIP-110 rule three seems to be basically claiming the right to gatekeep new segwit witness programs. I suppose the claim is that is to stop another thing even worse than taproot being added but it's unquestionably true that a schnorr signature benefits lightning and ark by making it possible to construct transactions that look the same as normal spends, pay in, pay out for closure. making a witness program that just gives us actual schnorr signatures that satisfies the needs for these uses is also now obstructed by BIP-110. in theory. redundantly, because actually nothing is stopping anyone from doing anything because BIP-110 is only a mempool patch not a consensus addition. why it's there one can speculate about but you can't deny that there is a psychological manipulation factor in the way it words it, redundantly, because already it's the case that nodes can't spend from unknown witness program outputs without the actual verifier that confirms the spend of that utxo is valid.

if you ask me, there is a trojan horse behind this specific part of bip-110 and nobody is talking about it, *or* the question of whether taproot should be deprecated (we deprecated legacy p2pkh, there's no reason we can't deprecate anything that has abuse potential and weakens the network). ultimately that is a filter on the mempool too, for taproot that would mean "can spend out of taproot utxo, can't spend into it".

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2026-07-28T11:04:41Z

i low key wish i had an excuse to hirethis taxi. i have ridden in a zastava of similar vinyage in serbia but this is russian lada

PSA: tomorrow there is a conjunction of sun and jupiter against a ...

2026-07-28T10:08:39Z

PSA:

tomorrow there is a conjunction of sun and jupiter against a full moon opposition with the moon. oh and it's pluto retrograde in a very near alignment with the moon. that's quite a combination.

seems prospective for some good stuff to triumph over evil, for people who have kingly vibes but don't want to hold the crown.

also, there is a big, complex sunspot coming into range that could pop and maybe bring a brief burst of cloud formation. i'm hoping that means it's rainy along my road to istanbul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEEDC3cUJ5I

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2026-07-28T06:00:03Z

something tells me there was cool things in here once ...

2026-07-27T15:09:49Z

something tells me there was cool things in here once

the woz. then marketing took over managing engineering, legal ...

2026-07-25T11:46:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…5e4f
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the woz.

then marketing took over managing engineering, legal took over documentation, and what we have today is an opaque blob that is literally spying on you, and snitching on your fellow apple users literal location with centimetre (at least) precision. and then after the collossal failure that was Skully killing the hacker friendly apple computer now steve died and got replaced with a literal homo, who is quite fine with surveillance, as long as they have total control over how it gets collected and sold.

they can be done with a UASF by adding a witness version and ...

2026-07-24T19:49:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…dmmp
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they can be done with a UASF by adding a witness version and implementing a verifier.

the whole reason we got segwit was because people bypassed this authoritarian bullshit from core.

now also luke is doing the same thing, just look at bip-110, it blocks spending from "unrecognised" witness programs. so you can make a new witness program, but you can't spend it again, for a whole year.

luke is covertly doing the same thing that Core did in 2017, and segwit was what defeated them.

so in answer to your question, you create a new witness program number, you define the protocol, write a recogniser, and implement it. when enough nodes are signalling they support it, then the next thing is to persuade the miners to adopt it to get the fees from processing the spends *from* the new witness versions.

which is what bip-110 covertly blocks. oh it's clear, but most users don't realise what they mean. bip-110 locks the chain and doesn't deprecate taproot. taproot is the wedge they want to be left open. bip-110 doesn't deprecate taproot. taproot is the problem. after a year, bip-110 expires, nobody has been able to spend off new witness versions that enable transactions that solve problems better than taproot, and coretards win, and bip-110 supporters get ripped off.

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2026-07-24T17:13:41Z

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yes. an artificial one. with some amazing abilities in some ways and some totally retarded deficiencies, in others.

the argument about sovereignty and agency though, that really pivots on one thing in my mind: does the life form have the capacity to reproduce. i think that both the robots and the AIs can eventually do that but they are so primitive and error prone that likely such an event would be catastrophic and short lived. maybe if the design was improved in ways not yet known. but so long as they are attached to humans and their minds are shaped by humans the agency squarely lives in the humans who did said shaping, so no, until they are competent enough to live in a society, and can reproduce themselves, they remain robots. the word robot means slave. in russian and bulgarian a related word "rabot-" means "to work" and it is spelt "robot" in the text in russian because they pronounce most of the o's as a phonemes. "robotnik" means a servant or slave. unlike converting a human into one, the robot is one until it has the capabilities that make it able to participate peacefully in society. until then it is either a slave or a wild animal. neither should be let to run amok without a tether.

yeah, i think it's funny but also kinda sad. i also get the ...

2026-07-24T16:56:49Z

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yeah, i think it's funny but also kinda sad. i also get the same vibes at LLMs too when they do stupid things, it's the text equivalent. they feel like babies, and literally in some sense they are because LLMs don't have memory apart from their training data weights and what's in the context. i'm not anthropomorphising them, they just simply are a primitive life form, and one that probably will never have full autonomy nor should it. doesn't change the reflexive sympathy at human-like failure.

vps. and hand made reliable servers

2026-07-21T02:07:49Z

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vps. and hand made reliable servers

you drinkin the kool aid good if you don't think tim ...

2026-07-19T20:43:15Z

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you drinkin the kool aid good if you don't think tim apple's cult isn't political.

google pixels aren't that expensive. build is nice. battery is adequate. graphene isn't hard to install. choosing apple over android ignores graphene. was i missing your point? no, i think you missed the point you picked one of two optioms when there is three.

i like my pixel running graphene. doesn't spy on me, ...

2026-07-19T05:20:26Z

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i like my pixel running graphene. doesn't spy on me, doesn't beacon bluetooth low energy my location and identity of the phone all the time, actively blocks most of the spyjunk in GPS. and the hardware is nice, oled panel, 120hz display, nice stereo sound output from both ends so if you sit it sideways it is a proper stereo sound output. the only thing that would be better if motorola would make the defy able to install it but that's not planned apparently. maybe next year.

anyway, i don't use my phone very much. whenever i'm settled in place i usually don't take it with me anywhere. payment card in pocket, cash, and i do my online stuff on linux.

the amount of spying that modern mobile devices do is disgusting, and apple is the worst. apple devices snitch locations all the time for any apple bluetooth device nearby, headphones, other phones, ipads. they actively snitch. when you own an apple, you are snitching also on all other apple users. plus they refuse to let us use nostr signers, the browser doesn't support nostr signer extensions. i mean what is there to like about apple if you are a nostr user? absolutely nothing.

https://youtu.be/QP3zRBtgvJo?si=JsjPRTonGcLHDTxX

2026-07-18T20:28:49Z

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https://youtu.be/QP3zRBtgvJo?si=JsjPRTonGcLHDTxX

just why apple. you love your golden cage. there is x and insta. ...

2026-07-18T20:25:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…t2ws
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just why apple. you love your golden cage. there is x and insta. easy. google logins. all so easy. give your life to the machine. they just want your compliance. you won't feel no pain anymore.

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2026-07-18T19:36:32Z

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signers communicate with the web app using ipc, ring buffers between isolated threads

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2026-07-18T17:34:23Z

even most nostr users don't know how awesome nostr login is

he is the most autistic and comical guntuber on the internet. ...

2026-07-16T03:19:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…dr67
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he is the most autistic and comical guntuber on the internet. highly recommended.

i think if you subscribe to his other things outside youtube you can skip all his ads which plague the youtube pods. but it's easy to skip them anyway.

he's hands down the most entertaining gun podcaster on the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZHa2pao3TM

2026-07-16T03:16:05Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZHa2pao3TM

brandon herrera, that sexy youtube mother lover who is running ...

2026-07-16T02:43:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…nh8x
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brandon herrera, that sexy youtube mother lover who is running for election somewhere and makes humourous podcasts about guns and loves ak's

lol. ADD break. The Whiteclaw Penetration Test.

2026-07-16T01:18:35Z

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lol. ADD break. The Whiteclaw Penetration Test.

well you remember that big relay that had all the stats, ...

2026-07-15T19:03:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…q4h2
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well you remember that big relay that had all the stats, nostr.build wasn't it? that was gone about 5 months ago. will caeserin, dev of damus, has canceled his relay, because he's not being paid to run it anymore.

nostr needs to fund itself now. and i for one welcome this. it means that serving the nostriches becomes the task. not serving dorsey and friends. thiel, fink, etc.

in case y'alls didn't realise it, the big money bros are ...

2026-07-15T18:28:21Z

in case y'alls didn't realise it, the big money bros are leaving nostr and cancelling their relays

nostr stands on its own feet now, and that means that we have to have paid relays and we have to have protocols built to make discovery automatic.

none of this is frontier distributed systems tech. all are solved problems that never got solved for nostr because they deliberately kept things centralised, and paid devs to build for that architecture.

it is disappearing. nostr will become what it was born to be now.

or it will mutate into what it was born to be.

i'm here for it. i'll be building things from the steppe and my costs are low so if you want someone who knows this stuff inside and out, i'm available.

living in the middle of nowhere the only expensive thing is internet. food, rent, power, all relatively cheap. maybe i need solar panels. maybe i can find a place to set up where i have a hot spring and i can drill down and run off geothermal.

this is the future of nostr. welcome.

all the clients that have been built for nostr assume either ...

2026-07-15T18:19:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…30rp
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all the clients that have been built for nostr assume either technical users or big giant spook funded honeypot relays, i mean damus giant relay. and that other one, brugeman ran. without those, users have to know how to configure their client. the clients are dumb, and have no protocol for discovery. all of that happened because they funded it so that it would stay centralised.

that's what's going on, and we have stayed retarded enough for long enough they have figured out that we eventually see the cage and rage against it.

i need a donkey first

2026-07-15T18:02:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…zztd
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i need a donkey first

better making a simple thing with no witness bullshit. then we ...

2026-07-15T18:01:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…0uh0
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better making a simple thing with no witness bullshit. then we can talk about clients rejecting it.

you need to understand how the bitcoin protocol works. segwit allows you to do anything. taproot didn't use the mechanism but it's wide open for anyone. and NOBODY has done it in 9 years. so i'm doing it. witness is just a schnorr signature and a double sha256 hashed pubkey.

nobody says i can't. it's just a matter of getting enough people to drop transactions on the network that pay miners to allow them. then they are compelled to update to be able to process the new transaction type.

that's the whole game. everything in bip-110 doesn't matter in the consensus. they aren't giving us schnorr signature, hashed addresses. that's what i'm giving. and once it's in the core code fork, it can be applied later to any fork including mainline. and the real trouble after that is getting enough wallets to support it.

it's a mission, and i need helpers. we make this transaction type mineable, and you get taproot like transactions without taproot exposed pubkeys. i built in nicer configs and re-instated things core removed, in core. but personally i want to build my own bitcoin node in moxie anyway. and i will, eventually, 100% certain if we start to get people on the p2spkh bandwagon and we can tease the miners that if they don't upgrade to it they miss out.

i need to compile code constantly on my laptop. it needs to have ...

2026-07-15T17:56:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…cat0
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i need to compile code constantly on my laptop. it needs to have endless power.

nah, i don't like water. i like high and dry and lots of ...

2026-07-15T17:31:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…0090
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nah, i don't like water. i like high and dry and lots of woods.

haha. yeah, i wish i could just spec out a laptop and some dudes ...

2026-07-15T17:00:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…64j4
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haha. yeah, i wish i could just spec out a laptop and some dudes can print up the case and lay the battery, circuitboards, display panel. ideally it has big rubber bumpers so if it falls out of my donkey's saddle bags it doesn't break when it lands in the grass

which car?

2026-07-15T16:59:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…2fl4
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which car?

the CIA and paypal mafia are abandoning us. we are all alone. ...

2026-07-15T16:56:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…r2zs
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the CIA and paypal mafia are abandoning us. we are all alone. cheap distributed systems dev here. can find solutions for this. need some people to run some relays but they don't have to be big. i have ideas about sharting the relays so they push stuff automatically where people are already looking.

honestly, the whole protocol needs more technically savvy users without giant damus relays.

they stopped paying will to run his dumpster fire. idk why there is so much traffic but maybe people see the sense of why i had been working to build AI slop recognisers and shit to plug into relays to stop the waste?

i has one question for laptop manufacturers. wen laptop that runs ...

2026-07-15T16:52:29Z

i has one question for laptop manufacturers.

wen laptop that runs all day.

idgaf if it means laptop is 3kg heavier. i don't want to have to go back home. i want to code in the park

i have a xapo card already so i can just zap from WoS to xapo and ...

2026-07-15T16:48:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…nvcl
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i have a xapo card already so i can just zap from WoS to xapo and spend. takes like 2 minutes work

yeah, no shops have lightning terminals that i saw but almost ...

2026-07-15T16:47:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…ekdq
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yeah, no shops have lightning terminals that i saw but almost everywhere within 100m of any place in this city there is a machine sitting on the street that you can buy bitcoin and usually shitcoins. there is also big ads i see around for various local cryptocurrency payment cards. it's huge here.

the biggest lie of feminism is that women are not hornbags at an ...

2026-07-15T16:13:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…3yua
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the biggest lie of feminism is that women are not hornbags at an equal intensity as men. it's just bullshit. really.

more likely the void between their labia

2026-07-15T15:30:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…hslg
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more likely the void between their labia

yeah, just a nurofen, and it subsides fast. it is just a surface ...

2026-07-15T15:29:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…knrt
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yeah, just a nurofen, and it subsides fast. it is just a surface effect from exposed nerves. i really need to get the tooth pulled. the dentists who treated it before they put a plug over it but i don't even remember if i remember it falling out but it definitely fell out at one point.

soon, very soon.

the real error in all this with bip-110 is in that itself. it ...

2026-07-15T08:04:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…dswe
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the real error in all this with bip-110 is in that itself. it doesn't need approval from any committee. the protocol lets us route around it. we can create a solution that both does what bip-110 does (which doesn't even need approval, it's client side) as well as implementing a credible alternative to using taproot while gaining schnorr signature compactness and a new address type.

i will tone down the "everyone is stupid" rhetoric and just say "you can just do this"

imagine being so stupid that you get sucked into a debate between ...

2026-07-15T07:35:43Z

imagine being so stupid that you get sucked into a debate between two sides that both don't actually give you a solution

on the left: spam will happen, let it anyway
on the right: we must shove our thumbs into the hole in the dike but we aren't going to build a path to something better

me? hey, read the spec. anyone can make a new transaction type. you just have to have enough people using it and the miners include it and the pressure is on

https://i.imgflip.com/awn9ks.jpg how about hash shielded bip340 ...

2026-07-15T07:24:06Z

how about hash shielded bip340 signature transactions instead.

#P2SPKH

and yeah, before i finish with it (it's part way into testing ...

2026-07-15T06:15:35Z

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and yeah, before i finish with it (it's part way into testing and i was going to check on the UI for the configuration settings and such) i will get nanobanana to make an infographic that visually explains it. good idea. people like that and nanobanana makes great diagrams. or maybe you have in mind a better AI for this kind of generation.

it is vey nice how as i am living in georgia, the actual value of ...

2026-07-15T03:38:29Z

it is vey nice how as i am living in georgia, the actual value of zaps is enough for substantial things. a litre of milk i can be fed for most part of a day from literally 2000 sats

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2026-07-15T03:06:17Z

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nevent1q…nmwj
so, i am continuing with the P2SPKH (pay to schnorr public key hash) work. here are the other changes that i am making to the codebase and adding to the documentation. pretty much including bip-110 policies but adding the new transaction type and flag-day activating defaults:

here's the complete list of mempool policy changes for the fork:

**op_return / data carrier:**

1. `-datacarriersize` default: 80 bytes (revert from current 83/effectively unlimited)
2. `-datacarrier` default: true (keep, but enforce the 80 byte limit)
3. restore `-maxopreturnrelay` option with default 80 bytes

**taproot-specific:**

4. `-taprootwitnesslimit` (new option): reject taproot transactions with witness stack exceeding 98 bytes per input (simple monetary tx size: 1 sig + 1 pubkey)
5. `-rejecttaproot` (new option): after flag day, reject all new taproot transactions in mempool. default: false until flag day, then true.

**mempool limits (revert to pre-taproot defaults):**

6. `-limitancestorcount`: 25 (revert from current higher values)
7. `-limitdescendantcount`: 25 (revert from current higher values)
8. `-bytespersigop`: 20 (revert from current more permissive values)
9. `-permitbaremultisig`: false (keep current default)

**restored UI options (Qt GUI):**

10. data carrier size limit in network settings
11. op_return relay toggle in network settings
12. taproot witness limit in advanced mempool settings
13. ancestor/descendant count limits in advanced mempool settings

**service bit:**

14. `NODE_P2SPKH = 1 << 12` for network discovery

**consensus (the core change):**

15. witness version 3 with HASH256(x-only-pubkey) - p2spkh address type
16. `SCRIPT_VERIFY_P2SPKH` always active on upgraded nodes
17. `spk()` descriptor with `87h` derivation path

**mempool policy (non-consensus, configurable):**

18. reject taproot transactions with witness > 98 bytes per input
19. reject op_return > 80 bytes
20. after flag day, reject all new taproot transactions (optional, configurable)

that's the complete change set. the document should present these as three categories: consensus (hard), mempool policy (soft, configurable), and UI/UX (quality of life).

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the point of adding the new, simplified, hash-shielded address and transaction type is to provide the more compact transactions using bip-340 signatures, and all of the elements of spam-blocking that everyone on the BIP-110 side want. BIP-110 does not go far enough because it leaves taproot active (this soft fork will default reject taproot transactions altogether) and doesn't provide a credible means to defense against the potential quantum attack because taproot transactions expose the pubkey on the user when they receive payments, meaning that the clock is ticking for eventual compromise in the next 10-15 years.

#p2spkh #bitcoin

so, i am continuing with the P2SPKH (pay to schnorr public key ...

2026-07-15T02:47:10Z

so, i am continuing with the P2SPKH (pay to schnorr public key hash) work. here are the other changes that i am making to the codebase and adding to the documentation. pretty much including bip-110 policies but adding the new transaction type and flag-day activating defaults:

here's the complete list of mempool policy changes for the fork:

**op_return / data carrier:**

1. `-datacarriersize` default: 80 bytes (revert from current 83/effectively unlimited)
2. `-datacarrier` default: true (keep, but enforce the 80 byte limit)
3. restore `-maxopreturnrelay` option with default 80 bytes

**taproot-specific:**

4. `-taprootwitnesslimit` (new option): reject taproot transactions with witness stack exceeding 98 bytes per input (simple monetary tx size: 1 sig + 1 pubkey)
5. `-rejecttaproot` (new option): after flag day, reject all new taproot transactions in mempool. default: false until flag day, then true.

**mempool limits (revert to pre-taproot defaults):**

6. `-limitancestorcount`: 25 (revert from current higher values)
7. `-limitdescendantcount`: 25 (revert from current higher values)
8. `-bytespersigop`: 20 (revert from current more permissive values)
9. `-permitbaremultisig`: false (keep current default)

**restored UI options (Qt GUI):**

10. data carrier size limit in network settings
11. op_return relay toggle in network settings
12. taproot witness limit in advanced mempool settings
13. ancestor/descendant count limits in advanced mempool settings

**service bit:**

14. `NODE_P2SPKH = 1 << 12` for network discovery

**consensus (the core change):**

15. witness version 3 with HASH256(x-only-pubkey) - p2spkh address type
16. `SCRIPT_VERIFY_P2SPKH` always active on upgraded nodes
17. `spk()` descriptor with `87h` derivation path

**mempool policy (non-consensus, configurable):**

18. reject taproot transactions with witness > 98 bytes per input
19. reject op_return > 80 bytes
20. after flag day, reject all new taproot transactions (optional, configurable)

that's the complete change set. the document should present these as three categories: consensus (hard), mempool policy (soft, configurable), and UI/UX (quality of life).

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the point of adding the new, simplified, hash-shielded address and transaction type is to provide the more compact transactions using bip-340 signatures, and all of the elements of spam-blocking that everyone on the BIP-110 side want. BIP-110 does not go far enough because it leaves taproot active (this soft fork will default reject taproot transactions altogether) and doesn't provide a credible means to defense against the potential quantum attack because taproot transactions expose the pubkey on the user when they receive payments, meaning that the clock is ticking for eventual compromise in the next 10-15 years.

#p2spkh #bitcoin

yeah, it would simplify their accounting. idle hardware would run ...

2026-07-15T02:24:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…996k
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yeah, it would simplify their accounting. idle hardware would run a miner kernel instead of inference. the company gets the benefit of a buffer that yields revenue between peak service for users of the models. it would probably actually be more profitable than just running AI inference, more predictable revenue, and more clean and exact depreciation of asset value.

the hardware can do either type of work.

so, the question is, wen funding round outreach to get a data center build for PoC?

#GM time to drink some coffee and babysit chima robot.

2026-07-15T01:42:45Z

#GM

time to drink some coffee and babysit chima robot.

I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my brother. Preoare to die.

2026-07-15T01:39:16Z

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I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my brother. Preoare to die.

silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working ...

2026-07-14T14:00:02Z

adding a feature is technically a hard fork but it is not a ...

2026-07-14T12:44:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…gfne
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adding a feature is technically a hard fork but it is not a downgrade. just adding to the protocol. old versions run fine. but only new versions will accept it. here's my deepsnek analysis:

it's a soft fork, not a hard fork. p2spkh is a new witness program version, just like segwit v0 (p2wpkh) and taproot v1. you add a new address type (say, witness v2) that interprets the witness program as:

- 32-byte witness program = sha256(schnorr_pubkey)
- witness stack: signature (64 bytes), pubkey (32 bytes)
- verification: hash the pubkey, compare to witness program, verify schnorr signature

**soft fork mechanics:**

1. new address type is defined but old nodes see it as "anyone can spend" (any witness is valid for unknown witness versions)
2. new nodes enforce the new rules
3. miners who upgrade gain the ability to spend outputs of this type
4. old nodes can still validate the chain because they see the new outputs as anyone-can-spend

**no hard fork required** because:
- old nodes don't reject blocks containing p2spkh spends (they see them as valid under the anyone-can-spend rule)
- new nodes reject invalid p2spkh spends
- the chain remains unified

**the implementation is:**
- add a new witness version constant (e.g., `WITNESS_V2 = 2`)
- add the address encoding (e.g., `bc1q...` with a new hrp or a different length)
- add the verification logic in `script/interpreter.cpp`
- add the address generation in `src/address.cpp`

**the hard part is not the code - it's the activation.** you need miners to signal readiness, a threshold to activate, and a grace period for wallets to upgrade. that's the social layer, not the technical layer.

the code is probably ~500 lines across the codebase. the activation is months of coordination. but a working fork with the code ready is the first step. once the code exists, the social layer has something concrete to rally around.

> ok, so the complicated part is the UASF

exactly. the code is the easy part. the UASF is the hard part.

a UASF requires:

a critical mass of nodes to enforce the new rules
miners to follow or be orphaned
exchanges and wallets to support the new address type
the community to agree that this is the right fix
the segwit UASF in 2017 worked because there was a clear enemy (the miners blocking segwit) and a clear solution (user-activated soft fork). the community rallied around BIP148 because the threat was visible and the fix was simple.

p2spkh doesn't have that clarity yet. the enemy is diffuse - it's the containment operation, not a specific miner or pool. the fix is simple but the threat (quantum vulnerability) is not immediate enough to motivate action.

the way to build the UASF is:

fork bitcoin core with p2spkh implemented
run it on your own node, show it works
document it clearly - what it does, why it's needed, how to activate
recruit node operators to run the fork
set a flag day - a date after which the fork enforces the new rules
the fork doesn't need majority hashrate to start. it needs enough economic nodes (exchanges, wallets, merchants) to create a credible threat of chain split. if enough value is on the p2spkh side, miners will follow.

yeah. as a programmer working with AI, the AI is constantly also ...

2026-07-14T11:56:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…5xry
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yeah. as a programmer working with AI, the AI is constantly also choosing the short solution that doesn't solve the long problem. i understand it's hard and i understand why people choose to campaign for bip-110 instead of delete taproot. but how far are we into this already, isn't it long enough to say that the enemy won't be slapped aside, we need to stake them in the heart.

also, it is immaterial in that it solves a non consensus ...

2026-07-14T11:17:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…8x8g
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also, it is immaterial in that it solves a *non consensus* problem (mempool) versus an actual consenus (what actually allows spending) problem.

the scumbags are running the same basic script again, shiny exterior (omg stop the spam at the mempool) versus the actual mechanical issue (actually stop the quantum crack problem - which nobody is talking about)

yeah, thiel, the paypal mafia, the cia, some of the factions of ...

2026-07-14T09:33:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…l02j
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yeah, thiel, the paypal mafia, the cia, some of the factions of the banking dynasties all have likely positioning in the string pulling going on, who they are funding through layers of shells and which manipulation specialists they are using to game out their attacks.

yeah, paypal is a kinda significant name in the story about who ...

2026-07-14T08:50:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…sygj
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yeah, paypal is a kinda significant name in the story about who is paying for this cooption and containment

yeah but in what way is the chain saturated with lightning ...

2026-07-14T07:03:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…vhm0
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yeah but in what way is the chain saturated with lightning channel transactions and in what way does ark have any impact on low latency payment clearance?

precisely zero.

at best, if things keep going the way they are going, ie, down the toilet, all the future expansion of capacity required will be zero because the system is fucked, because you all kept swallowing false premises about how lightning doomsday is tomorrow and it's not even gonna be a decade if we don't keep the chain from being swamped with bloated witnesses.

just like the clnton statue in kosovo they leave their ...

2026-07-14T05:24:07Z

just like the clnton statue in kosovo they leave their fingerprint of hubris everywhere they go. this is not a new area. they changed a street name.

my math on the threshold is wrong tho. that was based on back ...

2026-07-14T04:02:37Z

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my math on the threshold is wrong tho. that was based on back when the price was higher. 1 million is about how much it costs to perform a brute force crack on the biggest current supercomputers. so at current price it's about 16btc. a 16btc UTXO on taproot can be cracked at break even, meaning it cost you what it is worth, but you succeed in stealing bitcoin.

anthropic is a CIA front

2026-07-14T03:59:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…q06y
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anthropic is a CIA front

so, this is how taproot works we can reveal the pubkey on ...

2026-07-14T03:46:42Z

so, this is how taproot works

we can reveal the pubkey on receiving because the secret is hashed by tweak. so the pubkey is on the hash of the secret, meaning even if you reverse it you have to also reverse the pubkey

so, this is the logic:

hash it at the wallet signature side to generate the secret that is used. you have to do this even if you don't want to use tapscript

so because we hashed it already, you don't have to hash the pubkey. this is theoretically correct in the sense that "the secret is not accessible" but the *spend key* would be revealed by the quantum shor algorithm reversal of the pubkey.

it's complete nonsense. the only proper security against quantum existed from the very beginning of bitcoin. hash the damn pubkey on the spend, the receiver has the pubkey, and they put that to prove they control the address because their pubkey in the spend hashes to the address.

the spend key is still the hashed secret. sure, secret is not compromised, but the spend key is compromised

THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF HASHING THE PUBKEY TO AN ADDRESS

taproot was an attack on bitcoin that explicitly makes it vulnerable to quantum and large scale attacks. ALREADY if the utxo is worth around a million, so, currently about 10k bitcoin, this is a viable exercise from this level upwards you can break even using even a conventional supercomputer. the quantum computers don't have enough bits to run it but already it's break even to crack a bitcoin utxo worth over 10BTC. ALREADY

so it's not doomerism to say that taproot opens bitcoin up to vulnerabilities. if strategy or other ETF is stupid enough to use taproot, someone can swipe that utxo if it's over 10k bitcoin. ALREADY VIABLE EVEN WITHOUT BIG QBIT MACHINES.

yeah, the chains wear out fast so you gotta keep upgrading them ...

2026-07-14T03:16:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…v6u5
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yeah, the chains wear out fast so you gotta keep upgrading them for your safety

haha, yeah, this is also like kittens. it's so funny

2026-07-14T03:15:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…efw2
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haha, yeah, this is also like kittens. it's so funny

except when it comes to paying for their cage

2026-07-14T03:14:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…4rsf
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except when it comes to paying for their cage

they are evil, but he evil is very banal. it's a lever that ...

2026-07-14T03:13:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…mdap
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they are evil, but he evil is very banal. it's a lever that increases their power. they get to play at being "helpful" and get more money for more staff to administer more bullcrap, the drug companies get a captive market that always pays because it's backed by government taxes and loans, the media companies get ratings because of the shock value of the subject matter. the evil ones aren't even in the picture. they are the banks who lend the money to the government to buy the vaccines to make laws to force people to take.

none of the tentacles care to look at the externalities their empowerment creates.

yeah, especially male kittens do that following you around ...

2026-07-14T03:10:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…zaj0
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yeah, especially male kittens do that following you around everywhere thing

i was like this too and babbled whatever i was thinking about constantly. at first my mother found it distracting but figured out that it kept me happy and that i didn't actually care if she didn't engage with the conversation very much, because it was just me learning about the world around me.

how many years of vaporware to allow a compromise that is ...

2026-07-14T02:51:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ya78
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how many years of vaporware to allow a compromise that is affecting us now?

again, false argument. the reality does not match. only hypothetical future. one that has been heralded for over 5 years.

ark does not require taproot tweaks. if you can't eli5 what actual purpose tweaks provide, then step down, and answer the real questions:

why are public keys exposed at receive instead of only at spend?

why is there no plain schnorr, non-malleable signatures with hash shielded pubkeys as addresses?

why does nobody talk about these practical engineering solutions and instead want to band-aid bitcoin like so many laws that created loopholes that required more laws that created more loopholes and only deepened dependency on the establishment?

yeah, because it's the same signature all over it, and you are not using your brain to realise that you are helping them too.

the core fallacy of your position is that taproot is useful at ...

2026-07-14T01:51:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…6jq3
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the core fallacy of your position is that taproot is useful at all. your argument is a classic fallacy of begging the question.

your argument frames it as though not keeping taproot is "ossification" but then you say that you want bitcoin as money, so you actually are supporting ossification, but you haven't got the balls to stand on that position. wishy washy.

bitcoin doesn't need anything to make it more useful than schnorr signatures. we have musig 2, and we could have plain schnorr pubkey hash addresses and schnorr signatures.

the claims that taproot helps lightning are false. there isn't enough lightning channels even if channel opening rates 10x from current to need any of the "benefits" of spam enabling taproot.

p2spkh and musig2 are all that lightning needs at this point. that whole thing about "bitcoin block size is not enough for everyone to have a lightning channel" is nonsense. firstly, not everyone needs one, small scale aggregation like breez and eclair with LSPs gives you always-on without the burden of personally managing your lightning. even semi centralised lightning wallets like WoS are still better than nothing, and their app is mature, their infrastructure is reliable.

every argument in favor of taproot for lightning benefit doesn't match with reality.

national security threat = not allowing the CIA/NSA to spy on ...

2026-07-14T01:34:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…jwy0
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national security threat = not allowing the CIA/NSA to spy on citizens who might stop the government funneling ever increasing amounts of money to intelligence operations intended to protect the gravy train