🍽️ Satoshi Scoop is served! Dig into today’s specials:
Bitcoin & Layer2s
* Takeaways from the Bitcoin scaling conference OP_NEXT
* ColliderScript: executing covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions
* What are recursive covenants?
* Nostrability: boosting Nostr client and relay compatibility by @elsat
Others
* 5 Al insights from DevCon 2024
* Exploring the future of Al agents in crypto
* What makes meme coins valuable?
* How public-key cryptography really works, with simple math
* Will the most "pro-crypto" administration advance transaction freedom?
* Unlocking Asia's Web3 potential: a market report by
* 10 must-read papers that shaped modern zero-knowledge proofs
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🔥🎛️🍳 Fresh off the stove, Satoshi Scoop serving up this week’s Bitcoin feast! On the menu:
Bitcoin & L2s
* Lisp for Bitcoin: a more powerful Script alternative?
* Bitcoin consensus analysis project
* Nix-Bitcoin: securing and simplifying Bitcoin node management with
@NixOS
* On ossification in Bitcoin protocol @Jameson Lopp
* Rusty Russell’s talk on the great Script restoration project
* OPR protocol: a fast, scalable protocol for resolving Lightning payments
* Lightning Network is quietly taking over Bitcoin, how?
* Payments censorship risks in Lightning Network despite encrypted communication
* Push-Button Verification for BitVM Implementations
Sides
* Crypto’s post-election golden age: U.S. policy shifts & market impact
* Bitcoin's potential in global stability and peace
* U.S. pushes for safer languages beyond C and C++ @sjvn
Dig into the details: https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-15-nov-2024
🛎️🍽️ The latest Satoshi Scoop is served! Packed with fresh insights on Bitcoin & L2s, along with a side of decentralized innovations.
🍊Bitcoin & L2s
* A hash-based signature scheme designed against quantum threats to Bitcoin @conduition
* MEV emerging on Bitcoin: analyzing conditions for MEV emergence on Ethereum and similar trends on Bitcoin
* How Shielded CSV protocol enhances privacy and transaction throughput without forks
* A valuable metric for evaluating the lightning network @Jestastic
* Spark: an instant, low-cost, self-custodial open-source solution for Bitcoin payments
* Hybrid L2: making Bitcoin the center of DeFi
🍴Sides
* Tech-powered freedom: Bitcoin, eCash, and Nostr @gladstein
* Blind multisignatures for anonymous tokens with decentralized issuance
* Enabling self-custody for the masses through smartphone Bitcoin wallets
* Will Web3 smartphones drive mass adoption of blockchain? Movements from blockchain networks and traditional manufacturers
Get the latest scoop: https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-1-nov-2024
🍽️ Serving up fresh takes in the latest Satoshi Scoop!
🍊 Bitcoin, Lightning, and L2s
- Bitcoin's domain-specific language?
- What if slow block verification attacks @Jameson Lopp
- Time warp attack and how to react
- Using Chaum blind signatures in anonymous discount coupons
- Decentralized mining: DATUM vs. Stratum V2
- Limitations of LN and a mathematical theory of payment channels networks
- Notes and commentary from LN Summit 2024
- LN + Stablecoins: road less noticed
- Why Babylon's use of Taproot is successful
- Misunderstanding Bitcoin's value: dichotomy of store of value and medium of exchange
🔎 Reports
- Binance's overview of stablecoin regulation
- RedStone report: restaking 2024 ultimate market overview
- a16z's 2024 state of crypto report
and more! 👉 https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-25-oct-2024?showSharer=true#heading-a16zs-2024-state-of-crypto-report
😎 Smaller proof sizes, faster verification — discover how VOProof is transforming zkSNARKs.
The video breakdown of our ACM CSS paper, VOProof: Efficient zkSNARKs from Vector Oracle Compilers is now live!
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOW0D7nvpo
🍽️ Freshly prepared Satoshi Scoop is ready! On the plate:
🍊Bitcoin & Web 5
- Vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core and BTCD disclosed
- Optimizing C++ Code for CKB-VM: Porting Bitcoin as an Example
- Why Nostr Matters in Ten Minutes by @ODELL
- Lightning Network Node Testing Made Easy With lnprototest
- Overview of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Restaking Stack
🤹Other Stuff
- Will the .io Domain Disappear? How Geopolitics Reshapes Digital Infrastructure
- Q3 2024 Asian Web3 Market Trends
Get your scoop now: https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-18-oct-2024
#web5 #LightningNetwork #BitcoinLayer2 #Bitcoin #restaking #nostr
🧑🍳 Another edition of Satoshi Scoop is out!
On the menu:
#Bitcoin & #Web5
- MuSig2 for aggregating Schnorr signatures merged into libsecp256k1
- Bitcoin PIPEs: covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin without soft fork
- Nervos: the closest programmable soluion to Bitcoin for store of value
- RGB, RGB++, and Client-Side Validation: the ultimate guide
- Decentralized Alternative Template for Universal Mining (DATUM) debate
- Innovations in #Nostr apps: Note-taking, real-time video calls @HiveTalk , SMS notes, audio spaces @cornychat, anonymous polls @pollerama
- Asia's leadership in Bitcoin's 2nd season: view from a western observer
Crypto Landscape
- Why fat protocols theory no longer works in today's crypto landscape
- Intent: simplifying user experience and establishing a new value capture model
- When the principle of labor division extends to Web3: Is the era of purpose-built blockchains coming?
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Your fresh dose of updates from the Bitcoin ecosystem is ready! 🍊 Catch up now: https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-27-sep-2024
🧡
* Shielded CSV: Private and efficient client-side validation, enhancing Bitcoin privacy at 100 txs/s
* Implementing private offline Lightning Network payments with BOLT12
* UTXOzkp: Proving Lightning channel presence on-chain without revealing specific UTXOs
* Expanding DNS-based payment instruction resolution to identity and data verification via DNS TXT records
* NOIST: A non-interactive, single-round t-of-n threshold signing protocol
* New evidence of mining pool centralization: similar Block templates
* Entering Bitcoin development from a Rust perspective
* Is Babylon’s sustainable yield narrative valid?
* What exactly constitutes client-side validation?
🤹 Other Stuff
* The importance of decoupling product decision-makers from service, as seen from the Telegram founder’s arrest
* Cracking the Onion: how German law enforcement is breaking Tor's anonymity
* A list of privacy-friendly tools covering crypto, desktop, and mobile devices @`mynymbox`
* Are real-world assets (RWAs) a safe haven for on-chain yields?
* Mining heater: enjoy hot coffee while mining Bitcoin
🍽️ Dive into the flavorful Bitcoin ecosystem with the latest Satoshi Scoop. Bon appétit!
🧡 Bitcoin Ecosystem
- Pain Points in BTCFI L2/L1 Development? Why Enhance Contracts via Softfork? @`busyforking`
- Reclaiming the Bitcoin P2P Vision for a Web 5 Future @`CKB DevRel`
- Bitcoin Vaults and the Future of Bitcoin Custody
- Known Attacks on the Nostr protocol @`Ron Stoner`
- UTXO Stack Announces Transition to Lightning Network Staking Layer
- Exploring a New Fungible Token Protocol Using OP_CAT @`Rijndael`
- Enabling Native Tokens on Bitcoin via OP_CAT is Not Ideal
- TMUL Primitive Unlocks More Efficient ZK Verification on Bitcoin
- Permissionless Verifiable Information Dispersal: Data Availability for Bitcoin Rollups
- You Probably Don't Need a Hardware Wallet
🌏 Other Stuff
- 2024 Global Adoption Index
- Trusted Enclaves: Trusted Execution Environments (TEES)
- Introducing Boundless: The Verifiable Compute Layer
https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-20-sep-2024
Time to scoop up the latest Satoshi Scoop Weekly for a fresh taste from the Bitcoin ecosystem!
https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-6-sep-2024
🧡 Highlights
- UTXOStack revisits blockchain fundamentals, exploring a p2p economy to better meet user needs
- Lightning Network on CKB testnet launched
- Starkware: path to general computation on Bitcoin with OP_CAT @StarkWare
- BitVM2: Dancing in Shackles?
- Building in Bitcoin is tough and why we're doing It anyway)
- Can Bitcoin Rollup solutions compete with Lightning and other L2s?
- Nostriga 2024 Talks: Introducing and building niche communities on Nostr @Alex Gleason
- Open Source Film: Anatomy of Bitcoin
@anatomyofbitcoin
- Research Paper on Mining With Landfill Methane Emissions
🌏 Other Noteworthy Mentions
- How intent simplifies system complexity
- OpenSea Receives SEC Notice, NFTs Considered Securities
- EU Proposal: Disclosure Required for Owning More Than 17 Mining Machines
🍴Tuck into the 'Satoshi Scoop Weekly' for a taste of what's cooking in the Bitcoin ecosystem! https://blog.cryptape.com/satoshi-scoop-weekly-30-aug-2024
- OP_CAT Upgrade: Why Important?
- Rusty Russell on the 'Great Script Restoration' Soft Fork
- Slow is Not a Problem: How SlowFi Fits Into Bitcoin DeFi
- Fiber Network: Lightning Network on CKB
- Bitcoin Ecosystem Evolution Post Babylon Launch and Lorenzo Staking
- Babylon Mainnet: A Catalyst for BTCFI Summer?
- UTXOStack: P2P Economy That Leads a Blockchain Renaissance
- RGB v0.11 Beta 7 Released
- Code Showcase | Paywalled Stock Data API Implemented in Under 100 Lines of Code
- U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Redefining 'Money'
- Who is Watching Over You: Uncovering Surveillance Entities
- Germany's Nationwide Raid on Cryptos
- El Salvador Introduces Bitcoin Education and Certification for Civil Servants
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