Nadav Ivgi

Ambassador at @BitcoinEmbassy · @eznode_ · · · Spark Wallet ⚡ · PGP: FCF1 9B67 8665 62F0 8A43 AAD6 81F6 104C D0F1 50FC · Cypherpunks write code.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

Open source software that I'm maintaining:

🔹@eznode_ https://t.co/5Spa3sYrw8

🔹Minsc https://t.co/Gq767q6dsa

🔹Bitcoin Wallet Tracker https://t.co/6W56MuRXM4

🔹Spark Wallet https://t.co/n7nAXXwCPs

🔹Lightning Charge https://t.co/wCHeUCSwZH

🔹Esplora https://t.co/ENlIU4myNk

[OpenTimestamps @opentimestamps]

The Bob calendar is down right now because it's out of funds to pay tx fees: https://t.co/lXptPPpIHY

If people can send funds to bc1q83zmvtfks2dnvqfgcmxme24kah602cxr59h5v7 to get it back up that'd be much appreciated.

[Bitcoin Optech @bitcoinoptech]

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #401 is here:

- describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes
- summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #401 Podcast
https://t.co/MeR1UBPDmK

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@adam3us @JohnCarreyrou

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

In his 2011 emails, @adam3us apparently:

- Didn't know Script exists
- Didn't know about the H in P2PKH
- Thought the only way to destroy BTC is forking the chain to rewrite history
- Suggested a miner-dictated randomness beacon that doesn't leverage blockhashes

(More in🧵)

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

TIL about @adam3us's 2011 emails to the [email protected] ML (from the HBO documentary)

This initially seemed to support the Adam-is-Satoshi theory, however digging through these emails I actually ended up finding evidence to the contrary (5 of them):

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

For BIP110 people angry about Taproot expanding the spammer's opportunity, it's worth remembering it is only a 12% discount vs 'segwit spamming'.

12% is not the difference between inscriptions being viable and not.

Inscriptions seem more of a social phenomenon.

[calle @callebtc]

USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists.

The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving.

Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream?

Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward.

It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin.

I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

😢

[Pledditor @Pledditor]

Many scumbags openly admitted they were trying to cyberbully @glozow to make her life as miserable as possible, so that she would ragequit bitcoin. Unfortunately, those people were rewarded today for their efforts, as she did quit.

It sets such a terrible precedent... now these losers are going to feel emboldened to repeat this attack against other OSS devs working for bitcoin. It's sad and pathetic. A dark day for bitcoin indeed

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

😢

[Coinjoined Chris ⚡ @coinjoined]

Congratulations you finally did it.
You bullied one of Bitcoin Core's most prolific and consistently excellent maintainers until she gave up. A mob of loud, line-by-line-illiterate crusaders who couldn't maintain a README between them managed to exhaust someone who _actually did the proof of work_

This doesn't make Bitcoin safer.
It makes it poorer, thinner, and less secure because you just taught the people who carry the protocol that sustained harassment is the price of competence.
That lesson will not be forgotten, and it will not age well.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

😢

[calle @callebtc]

bitcoin losing gloria as a maintainer is worse than any market price dump can be.

[Michael Ford @fanquake]

This ultimately resulted in a change to GCC (thanks @MarcoFalke), which we’ll backport to the GCC we use to compile releases.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@_jonasschnelli_ Paper: https://t.co/NGSoGgk0gi.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@_jonasschnelli_ Reminds me of the Adi Shamir 2012 paper linking Satoshi to DPR (later retracted), where they scraped https://t.co/d7zM3dlW0O to get blockchain data 🤣

> On May 13th 2012 we downloaded the full public record of this system @[..] which consisted
of about 180,000 HTML files.

[Mike Schmidt @bitschmidty]

I thought this was a great discussion. Recommend watching.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@LukeDashjr @mononautical This is not true. There are cases where OP_IF-branching within a single TapLeaf is more weight-efficient compared to separate leaves.

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@LukeDashjr Did you ever mention that policy publicly?

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@LukeDashjr @0xLalice @SteveSimple @coryswan @adam3us But the BIP you're advocating for is attempting to block this at the consensus level?

[שגרירות ביטקוין Bitcoin emBassy @BitcoinemBassy]

שגרירות הביטקוין שמחה להזמין אתכם להרצאה ודיון פתוח בנושא שובו של ה OP_RETURN

מה זה בעצם OP_RETURN? מה שונה בגרסה החדשה? איך זה משפיע על צמתים ברשת?

נעבור על ההיסטוריה, על הדרכים השונות לשמירת מידע ברשת הביטקוין, מה מהות השינוי ומדוע הוא נדרש

📅 יום ראשון הקרוב, 19:00
👇אוונט

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@mononautical [..] not subjective checks based on subjective localized data

what did you mean by 'enforced like a consensus rule'?

[Nadav Ivgi @shesek]

@mononautical seems like its maybe kind of in between?

policy usually refers to mempool and P2P behavior, not to block acceptance rules

but OTOH consensus usually refers to objective validity rules that can be applied equally by all participants based on shared on-chain data, [..]