Sean Gilligan

Consultant/Advisor, Developer at ConsensusJ.

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

secp256k1-jdk is a modern, functional-style Java API with two implementations for Java, JDK, @graalvm, Kotlin, Scala, etc. It aims to be the standard library for secp256k1 in the greater JDK/JVM Bitcoin ecosystem.

Version 0.2 is now available for early integration testing.

[localhost research @lclhostresearch]

Two months ago, alongside @Coinbase and @danboneh, we co-hosted a post-quantum workshop for cryptographers, protocol engineers, hardware wallet manufacturers, and institutional voices working on Bitcoin’s preparedness for a CRQC.

Today, we’re sharing transcripts from the event and a blog post summarizing the discussions: https://t.co/uvLRPtykPJ

A special thank you to our speakers and session leaders: @danboneh, @asanso, @LindellYehuda, Pieter Wuille, @conduition_io, @n1ckler, @P3b7_, and Justin of Localhost, everyone who traveled to attend, and the @MARAFoundation_ for sponsoring our post-event dinner.

We hope this workshop leads to more in-person opportunities to study Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Problem (PQP).

Finally, thank you to @btctranscripts for hosting the transcripts of every talk and session: https://t.co/57DoHzUyG8

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@SalarRahmanian @Meetup Your members are @meetup ‘s property — good luck!

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

I just left every https://t.co/dPeFWsRGoX group (except one that I used to organize) with a message to organizers that @Meetup had “enshitified” too far. Their new ToS was the last straw. It’s time to leave that shitty site behind.

[Spiral @spiral_xyz]

Kulpreet Singh (@jungly) is building p2poolv2, a decentralized mining pool. Pools are one of bitcoin’s last big points of centralization, and p2poolv2 nixes the operator entirely, letting miners coordinate peer to peer and make payouts without middlemen.

[Pavol Rusnak @PavolRusnak]

Happy to announce that we rebooted the nix-bitcoin project as bitcoinix

Join all the declarative fun here: https://t.co/lOgfOkonHx

[nix-bitcoin @nixbitcoinorg]

Two forks of nix-bitcoin have emerged:
- https://t.co/MeMth02cn6 by @seberm. They just created a survey about the future direction of the project.
- https://t.co/axT8befwCC

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@PavolRusnak I would like to help. I am ready to submit a minor PR and am willing to help setup a GitHub org. (I reserved `bitcoin-nix` if we can't find anything better.)

[localhost research @lclhostresearch]

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!

[Programando en Java @ProgEnJava]

“Java está muerto”, mientras tanto Netflix:

[Murch @murchandamus]

New BIP published.

BIP461: Deterministic ECDSA Signatures

https://t.co/eg2MpvIdzK

[Farid Zakaria @fmzakari]

my #nix #nixos #nixpkgs magnus opus:
https://t.co/MllwNA349Z

Go try it out, live now: https://t.co/VnO9v7R4Dq

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@gunnarmorling I feel like it’s a “burn the boats” style prescription/prediction, made by influencers/futurists who want to more strongly emphasize that we are entering a new era.

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@MatthiasJSax @gunnarmorling I wouldn’t want 50 human programmers committing/deploying machine code either.

[jarolrod @jarolrod]

One more thing: the new QML based Bitcoin Core GUI is available for adventurous testers only as an early preview demo.

We've had some rounds of testing with a select group of devs and the great team over at @lclhostresearch giving good feedback and finding bugs.

It’s experimental, signet-only, and not an official Bitcoin Core release. Try it and tell us (@johnny9dev, @pseudoramdom) what works and what you don't like:

https://t.co/YUG3WANrwC

None of this would be possible without the @bitcoin_design community and their benevolent dictator @GBKS

Goal is to get this across the finish line for the following Bitcoin Core release. 🌎🌍🌏

[Steve Lee @moneyball]

Proud to have @blocks, @ProjectLoupe, @PresidioBitcoin, and @spiral_xyz sign on to this.

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@adam3us I’ve been calling it Exploit Summer. (And when looking at the silver lining, Remediation Summer.)

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@SteveSimple @bitcoinplanner @hey_yuvicc It's unlikely the attacker used an unmodified bitcoinj binary library to create the transactions. If the attacker used AI to build the transactions, it could have picked up bitcoinj behavior during training or maybe used copied/modified bitcoinj code.

Steve, can I DM you?

[Sean Gilligan @msgilligan]

@SteveSimple @bitcoinplanner @hey_yuvicc Starting to look at it now...

[Spiral @spiral_xyz]

We are a maker of projects for the public good. Loupe is one of them.

[JBaruch 🎩 @jbaruch]

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