Bitcoin is the Manhattan Project for Human Freedom

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Joined December 2021
On a Halloween night, 15 years ago... An anonymous and mysterious programmer, posted the solution to a computer science problem. A problem once thought impossible to solve. It was the invention of an all-powerful, uncontrollable, malware network... 🧵
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Introducing earshot Opus 5.5 can build a whole launch video in code but still produces sloppy sfx. so we built earshot. it's ears for AI coding agents. they can now hear sounds, judge them and even make their own good sounds. every sound in this video was made with code. (sound on!!)
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Don’t throw away your old Echo devices just yet! Ripped out Alexa from my Echo Show and 2nd-gen Echo Dot, and now they’re running @Muse 👀
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To secure open-source software, we’re launching OSS Scanner. We’ll use our frontier models to periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities, at no cost. Our reports will provide a proof-of-concept, explanation, and suggested fix. anthropic.com/research/launc…
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They'll keep running the same tricks as long as people keep falling for them. Don't sell your Bitcoin because of a support retest. Just HOLD!
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I wasn’t going to comment since this is a really bad take IMO, but since it’s taken off I feel the need to. To my understanding, there is no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades old hardness assumptions like elliptic curve cryptography. 1/n
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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We have to start calling the left economics deniers and government cultists
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New garbled circuit optimization paper just dropped: "This paper introduces BABE, a new proof verification protocol on Bitcoin, which preserves BitVM3’s savings of on-chain costs but reduces off-chain storage and setup by three orders-of-magnitude" eprint.iacr.org/2026/065.pdf
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BREAKING: bitcoin sent via apple's "find my" mesh network possibly the most absurd medium to send bitcoin yet a small device convinces nearby iphones to transmit tiny amounts of data with cashu ecash to the recipient. without any internet connection. magic i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ money.
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🇿🇼 ZIMBABWE’S INFLATION FALLS BELOW 🇺🇸 US AND 🇬🇧 UK AFTER ADOPTING HARD MONEY Zimbabwe’s annual inflation fell to 2.9% in August, below the UK at 3.1% and the US at 3.4%. The milestone is mind-blowing for a country synonymous with hyperinflation. In 2008, Zimbabwe’s inflation spiraled so far out of control that prices were roughly doubling every 24 hours, culminating in the infamous 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar banknote. Zimbabwe introduced the gold and foreign-reserve-backed ZiG currency in 2024. h/t @IGWTreport
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Introducing Vora Aegis: The World’s Most Loyal AI @Erikcason, @jesseposner, and Nick George unveil the Vora Aegis hardware for the first time, showcase its software, and share their vision for personal, private, open-source AI (0:00) - A civilizational view of AI (4:56) - Introducing Vora Aegis (5:49) - MeDB: a private database for personal data (7:22) - Unveiling Vora Aegis More on Vora Aegis: vora.io
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Former Bitcoin podcaster Preston Pysh announces he will fully unveil the RollerCoaster Tycoon amusement park he’s been building since retiring from Studying Billionares on September 30. Follow: @bitcoin_bugle
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1/ You've probably heard of SHRIMPS. But have you heard of PRAWNS? 🦐 After a months-long research effort, @danboneh, @benediktbuenz, Justin, Yavor, and @nazirkamilla are excited to announce a novel thresholdization scheme for one-time hash-based signatures!
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It’s crazy how our societies are full of casual magic and rituals most people don’t even know they are performing. Take the birthday song, which is literally a fire ritual/candle magic: 1 your name (binds the work to a specific person) 2 is written inside a circle (standard boundary in ritual practice) 3 with fire inside it (a medium understood to translate something from the material plane into the subtle one) 4 and you chant “happy birthday to you” three times (standard number of repetitions across most traditions) 5 you state your petition/desire (energetic exchange, who are you making a deal with?) 6 and then you blow out the candles (you give it your breath/lifeforce) This one is weird though because traditionally, you let it burn and blowing out candles is considered bad practice because breath is used to scatter rather than direct. But regardless, 7 the light goes out (and the wish goes with it into the unseen) 8 then there’s smoke (a traditional carrier) 9 there are the witnesses (group participation is supposed to amplify the energetic charge) 10 and lastly the secrecy (a ritual principle, the working is sealed by not being dispersed through speech). So the full sequence is: contained field, named subject, fire lit, collective chant three times, silent petition, breath released, seal held (or not? because you extinguish it). But it’s a complete working. OK, do we even realize what we’re doing?? Nobody ever stopped to think about it, isn’t that wild? Many things are like this.
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I asked 100 Harvard students about Bitcoin.... this is NOT what I expected.
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BITGET FACES POSSIBLE $176 MILLION HACK On-chain data shows $176 million in ETH and USDT0 moved from multiple Bitget wallets to a single address amid suspected unauthorized activity. No Bitcoin was involved in the suspected hack. Bitget has yet to comment.
Looks like Bitget just got hacked for $178M follow the hacker's fund flow here arkm.com/explorer/entity/f22…
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Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%. 48 GB → under 2 MB. eprint.iacr.org/2026/2100
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RESEARCHERS PROPOSE “SHIELDED BITCOIN” FOR PRIVATE TRANSFERS DIRECTLY ON BITCOIN L1 The proposed metaprotocol by @allocinitxyz would hide transaction amounts and counterparties without a soft fork, new blockchain, trusted operators or bridges. Value is represented through encrypted “notes,” with transfers published to Bitcoin alongside zero-knowledge proofs verifying their validity. Bitcoin itself only stores and orders the encrypted data, while separate software verifies the proofs and independently derives the Shielded Bitcoin state. A companion paper will detail how bitcoin can enter and exit the shielded system using L1 security vaults via PIPEs.
Shielded Bitcoin: Private Transfers on Bitcoin L1
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Latest piece for @BitcoinMagazine on @allocinitxyz's new Shielded Bitcoin proposal. This in combination with their work on PIPEs could lead to a very big privacy win for Bitcoin. Details on the protocol here: bitcoinmagazine.com/technica…
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In 2013, Bitcoin wasn’t an investment story for me. It was a way to pay Afghan women who had little or no access to banks and to give them greater control over the money they earned. I wrote about that experience for @WSJ, and why “permissionless” technology can matter most where traditional systems fail. Thank you @thetrocro for sharing.
This is what “permissionless” actually means. Thank you, @RoyaMahboob.
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INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT. This 20 minute lecture by Andreas Antonopoulos will teach you more about the financial surveillance complex and KYC risks, than most people learn in years. Bookmark it and share it, no matter what.
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