I built a very small language model on plebslop.
How small? Small enough to fit in a single *standard* bitcoin transaction.
There is now a plebslop generator on every Bitcoin node.
The UI includes client-side inference code. It loads the weights and does it all in-browser
I'll be proposing in the coming weeks an alt to BIP-54 which does not eliminate 64 byte transactions and may also offer some other benefits to SPV clients.
I'm not surprised that BIP-0054 went FINAL, but I'd like to register my dissent publicly as it seems the authors are forging along towards an imminent activation attempt.
In reading the new BIP-3 process it also makes clear that moving to FINAL is a disinvitation from further collaboration or feedback, and it necessitates a different BIP.
Co-Authors welcome if you want to work on this issue!
Everyone talks about the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas, but no one talks about the guy who received the 10,000 bitcoin.
Meet Jeremy Sturdivant, the man who got paid 10,000 BTC for selling two pizzas on this day in 2010.
“I had no idea how huge it would become” ✨
🥷@craigraw just shipped Silent Payments receiving in Sparrow Wallet!
One Bitcoin address. Reuse it forever. Zero privacy loss.
This is one of the biggest privacy upgrades Bitcoin has had in years. Here's why it matters and what Silent Payments actually are. 🧵
Ark & ecash: enemies or friends?
Friends, obviously! 🥜✨
@CashuBTC ecash → Bark VTXO swap, in the mobile browser via bark-nwc.
2 sat fee went to the mint operator. We inspect the 15 sat mainnet VTXO, now held in user self-custody.
Bitcoin Pizza day may be one of the hardest days for plebs to navigate. It breaks so many purity tests.
1. Involves selling Bitcoin for shitcoins (pizza)
2. Involves carbs and seed oils
3. Involves celebrating shitcoining
Happy Bitcoin Pizza day to those who want to enjoy life despite all the purity tests.
@valkenburgh Based on that manufactured "knowledge" (and venue, because the agent happened to be in D.C.) it was enough to charge Roman, who had no access to either that message or the website, with conspiracy with every drug vendor and market on the internet - without a single communication.
🚨APPELEATE JUDGE:
"Every payment [to Bitcoin Fog] is part of advancing the conspiracy because it increases the size of the pool of bitcoin funds that are shuffling around and obscuring identities."
“Ark in its Essence” 🛳️
Here is my presentation from @btcplusplus Hoover Dam last week where I distill the Ark protocol to its most fundamental form.
The talk is ~10 minutes and delivered in three easy steps:
1. The round tx
2. The timeout tree
3. Ongoing cycle of rounds
at this point @niftynei not being one of the four horsemen of PODCONF can only be attributed to sexism. she’s on pace to having 40 bitcoin conferences per week
@SimplyBitcoin Tone Vays.
Totally a criminally underrated contributor to understanding Bitcoin.
He even had an Understanding Bitcoin Conference.
There's over a decade of material on his YouTube channel
@ToneVays@unconfiscatable
Watch some of his older videos 2016-2019 era in particular