My talk from btc++ earlier this year is up here for you all to enjoy 💅💅

Dette er den harde realiteten av å være gründer. Du kan på kort tid miste hele livsverket ditt. Tenk om Karl hadde flyttet til utlandet da papirverdien av hans Oda-aksjer var verdt flere hundre millioner. Han ville fått en betydelig exit-skatt, og deretter blitt kalt inn til en

NORWAY IS GOING TO BAN BITCOIN MINING WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS - WE NEED TO ACT NOW Norway's Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration responded to @ODFoundation that it "has no plans to conduct a public consultation" on a ban on cryptocurrency mining. There is

And with BitVM being heavily researched, maybe we can get close to this dream even without a script upgrade? 🤯 https://t.co/DVCoQqRNCa

Here's an example of using Elftrace to compile the Winterfell ZK-STARK verifier to Bitcoin Script and use it to verify-the-verification of a STARK:

One such tool is Elftrace, which lets you write your contracts in Rust and compile it to Bitcoin Script for use with MATT:

This enables verification of arbitrary computation, so now it's about getting the developer tooling ready to write optimistic contracts 🤓

Since anybody with access to the contract source code can perform the same computation themselves, they can easily check whether the commitment matches, and challenge the proposer if not 🔎

This enables surprisingly powerful protocols to be built. One such protocol is Optimistic Execution⚙️ With optimistic execution, one doesn't do the computation in question on-chain, but posts a commitment to the off-chain execution performed.

The main enabler of this Bitcoin building season is the possibility of getting a covenant enabled on layer-1 🥕 Covenants are (simple) script opcodes that make it possible to carry state from one Bitcoin transaction to the next.

There's been a lot of excitement around new #Bitcoin layer-2s and off-chain protocols lately. Kicked off by the Taproot upgrade and entering full force with MATT and BitVM, several promising protocols are being developed 🔧 (Thread on protocols and a ZK verifier demo🧵)

Utreexod beta release is now available at https://t.co/hAaPPpnNXQ! I’m currently syncing my archival node on a raspberry pi 0. Planning to use the built in electrum personal server support to connect my personal wallet. Please try it out and let me know what you think! For

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@rusty_twit @johanth @rot13maxi @reardencode @JeremyRubin Finally some drama! @reardencode thinks CAT scripts are ugly, and that combining CAT with CCV could be a great idea since truly building useful things with CCV requires CAT. @rot13maxi puts on a brave face behind his shades, but the audience can tell he is hurt.

Storbonden får 99 % formueskjerming på gården. Kan den ikke verdsettes til virkelig verdi, så kan jo bare bonden selge litt av gården for å betale skatt? Dette er vel svaret som blir gitt til alle andre som driver næring. https://t.co/eBTs5wNh6p

Looking forward to visiting Austin in May!

The Norwegian government is killing their startup scene. The tax system was already bad enough for entrepreneurs, but now they’re taking it even further. If you leave the country having raised money for your startup, you’ll now have to pay an exit tax of >30% of your startup’s

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