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Practical Simplicity. Engineer @ Blockstream, shipping tooling for Simplicity language. Personal account, opinions my own.

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Isn't it weird that burning thousands of GPUs to render Pixar 3D graphics is fine but burning thousands of GPUs to write a story is frowned upon?

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Ads are taking up so much space on @News24 that it'll have to be rebranded to News12

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Just added the Blockstream Turin Simplicity Hackathon projects to awesome-simplicity.
6 teams built real things on Liquid using SimplicityHL/Simplicity covenants in a weekend: a PQ-safe wallet, a 2-of-2 escrow, a license marketplace, an inheritance vault, a trustless DEX, and a portfolio rebalancing wallet.
https://t.co/yvpVW8ghBt

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Lol, I think it's just a new favourite phrase

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This response from Claude has me questioning reality.
Do you think Claude can actually appreciate beauty or is it just sycophancy

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@0xMarkusMeyer It has previously told me that something wasn't a good idea. I think I asked it for a competitor analysis and it said something like "honestly, product X already does this". Which was pretty surprising, but maybe it's just gaslighting me

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is anyone else taking note of how much traffic on Liquid confidential? Block for block, Liquid has more confidential transactions than Zcash.

[Blockstream @Blockstream]

There is no concrete post-quantum signature scheme for Bitcoin today.

But over the last year @blksresearch has been working on exactly this. Director Jonas Nick (@n1ckler) lays out the proposal: OP_CHECKSHRINCS, a hash-based signature opcode for post-quantum Bitcoin.

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@DNodeCapital @tari I hope it works out for you. 100,000 XTM for 7 members is very small considering that nearly 3 billion XTM in pre-mine is reserved for Protocol, Infrastructure and Grants and Contributors

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https://t.co/RrrOVC0MS0

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@babysolo_ Good article. I like the idea of FCMP++ but I feel like they are rushing it into existence. I hope they run longer tests. There also is no mention of how and when wallets are expected to upgrade

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If you've heard of Simplicity (the Bitcoin/Liquid smart-contract language) and bounced off the paper, awesome-simplicity is the map: compilers, SDKs, wallets, mainnet transactions, and the research that got us here.
https://t.co/nlCDUYaFQk

[laz1m0v @laz1m0v]

Read the Review Draft here:

https://t.co/AIjkMoFdqS

We are moving from verifying transaction correctness to deriving transaction necessity. No consensus changes required.

The Bitmachine is alive

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Getting tired of AI always being right

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Just released asdf-simc — an asdf plugin for managing SimplicityHL compiler versions. If you're building Bitcoin/Elements smart contracts with Simplicity, this makes switching compiler versions dead simple.

https://t.co/n0R9Ab2dqt

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Hot take: AI generated PRs take long to review because the author is smarter than you. (and me)

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Youtube's algo has taken me into the wild world of these #doc_bru_mentaries. Basically, ultra-high-quality, ultra serious topics like taxi mafia and the AWB, hosted by Capetonian bru's. It's wild but amazing
https://t.co/nmjXyA4z1k

[Blockstream Jade @BlockstreamJade]

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Built a small tool for visualizing garbled circuits - paste a circuit, step through it gate by gate, see wire values update in real time. Runs entirely in the browser via Rust + WASM.

Would love feedback from anyone working in MPC / crypto engineering: https://t.co/Z2W7WAKxOi

#MPC #GarbledCircuits #Rust #WASM

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"Great question" is the new em dash. Don't forget to delete it. 🤣