Sivaram
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@spiralbtc grantee | Prev: Maths @IITKgp, Intern @summerofbitcoin
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Joined October 2020
I've opened a pull request for the FROST Signing BIP, aiming to standardize FROST signing for the Bitcoin ecosystem. If you've reviewed BIP327, this should feel very familiar. Would love to hear the community's feedback! https://t.co/sZwLEcmpWd
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This PR adds a BIP for the FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold) signing protocol. The development repository is at https://github.com/siv2r/bip-frost-signing. There already exists RFC...
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A little something I've been working on for a while:
nkohen.github.io
In this paper, we provide a construction for recursively nesting MuSig2-aggregated signing keys within instances of MuSig2 and prove the security of this construction.
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I'm planning to share our latest work on OP_SHRINCSVERIFY 🛋️
We're thrilled to announce OPNEXT speaker @n1ckler, researcher at @Blockstream! His Bitcoin contributions are 🤯 Notable BIPs 🔧 BIP 340 (Schnorr Signatures) 🔧 BIP 341 (Taproot) 🔧 BIP 327 (MuSig2) Notable research: 📜 Shielded CSV 📜 Signature aggregation 📜 Post-quantum
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BIP 445 is official! 🎉 FROST Signing Protocol for BIP340 Signatures just got its number assigned. https://t.co/sZwLEcmpWd
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This PR adds a BIP for the FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold) signing protocol. The development repository is at https://github.com/siv2r/bip-frost-signing. There already exists RFC...
New BIP number assignment: BIP445: FROST Signing Protocol for BIP340 Signatures
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New world record for the highest BIP number. Congrats, @siv2r!
New BIP number assignment: BIP445: FROST Signing Protocol for BIP340 Signatures
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We're building something beautiful. And we want you to be part of it! There's an idea that's been taking shape: Humans of Bitcoin. Real people. Real stories. Real impact. Think Humans of New York, but for bitcoin.
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Thanks to @HRF for the continued support!!!
⚒️ Mining pools currently control which transactions get mined, creating censorship risks Stratum V2 helps solve this by enabling home miners to build their own block templates HRF supports @shourya742 to improve the protocol so miners regain autonomy within existing pools
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I've opened a pull request for the FROST Signing BIP, aiming to standardize FROST signing for the Bitcoin ecosystem. If you've reviewed BIP327, this should feel very familiar. Would love to hear the community's feedback! https://t.co/sZwLEcmpWd
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BIP 3 has been deployed — we have a new BIP Process. 🍾🥳🎉 Thank you all for your suggestions, discussion, reviews, concerns, and support over the past 22 months.
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1/ We're funding a year-long grant for @BeulahEvanjalin to implement nested MuSig in libsecp256k1-zkp. @jesseposner of @voravault will provide weekly mentorship throughout the project.
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We just published "Hash-based signatures for Bitcoin," a new analysis of post-quantum schemes by @kudinov_mikhail and myself at @blksresearch. This paper serves as a gentle intro to hash-based schemes and explores how to optimize them specifically for application in Bitcoin. 🧵
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I often forget ChillDKG's internals whenever I revisit it after a break, so I sketched these flowcharts to help me (and maybe you) recall how it all fits together: - SimplPedPoP from the Olaf paper - SimplPedPoP in the BIP - EncPedPoP - ChillDKG
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⚡️The Bitcoin Node Workshop in Chennai was a hands-on success! Participants learned to: 🔧 Install Bitcoin Core + Fulcrum + Sparrow 🧪 Run testnet4 🔗 Connect wallet to their own node 💸 Send/receive testnet BTC 🛡️ Build a full sovereign stack on any laptop or mini-PC Big
🛕வணக்கம் சென்னை 🚨Workshop alert 👇 ⚡️Run Your Own Bitcoin Node⚡️ 🗓 Tomorrow, August 3 | 🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 Imen ConneXions, Anna Nagar, Chennai 🔗 Register now - https://t.co/5WZu7iVNxq Join us for a hands-on, technical workshop where we dive deep into: ✅ What is a
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Thanks a ton! Super grateful for the support (and the spotlight!). Always a joy working on this stuff
The nerd responsible for our 4th Nerd of the Month newsletter installment, @siv2r, is working on BIP specifications for FROST signing and ChillDKG. Beyond FROST, he's also planning to add support to secp256k1 for batch verifying Schnorr signatures.
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Keep track of his evolution from regular nerd to Spiral grantee-level nerd to humongous, sewer-dwelling urban legend of a nerd on Substack: https://t.co/lZx2GbxOug
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Thanks @spiralbtc for featuring my work! Enjoyed writing this piece. Worth a read for anyone curious about FROST developments in Bitcoin
Time for Nerd of the Month #4: @siv2r is helping evolve how we think about self-custody by shaping the future of privacy and scalability with FROST—a new threshold signing protocol.
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Thanks for sharing! Of all the blogs I’ve written, this is the one I’m most proud of.
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This wraps up my first year as a Spiral grantee. Huge thanks to @spiralbtc for the support. Final quarterly report here: https://t.co/BH4FnNpucK
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