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Neutral Atoms

As I've been studying quantum computing intensively over the past several weeks, one architecture has stood out as potentially not an outright scam.

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Quantum computing may never break bitcoin

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably been hearing about how quantum computers might break elliptic curve cryptography soon. While that seems to be the most loudly held view, it is f…

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Consensus is the law, everything else is a recommendation

Elon Musk famously said that, "Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation." We have a corrolary in bitcoin, "Consensus is law, everything else is a recommendation."

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Cursed Recursive Covenants

This Halloween week has been haunted by the curse of recursive covenants and the devil of difficult definitions. It began on Wednesday with my spooky claim that recursion does not change the potential…

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Threat models and Dark Skippy

The world of hardware signing device security was given a shake by the announcement of the Dark Skippy method for a signing device to leak secrets. It has been known for years that a malicious signing…

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OP_CAT and the Infinite Nothing

You may have heard about re-enabling OP_CAT as a potential upgrade for bitcoin's script language. Depending on where you get your news OP_CAT has been called "only 10 lines of code", "the best way to …

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BTC++ ATX, Consensus and the Great Script Restoration

Last week I had the pleasure of spending 5 days with many of the best minds in bitcoin at @btcplusplus in Austin, Texas. Prior to the conference itself, @niftynei organized a 1-day Covenants Pre-summi…

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