Nostr notes by FreedomMoneyIsFuture

Yup one of the main functions of Bitcoin Freedom Money is to not ...

2026-11-01T13:05:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…kxgl
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Yup one of the main functions of Bitcoin Freedom Money is to not have a central authority, directly stated in Satoshi's whitepaper. Blake2b Bitcoin is where maximum decentralization, best monetary properties and greatest Bitcoin culture is at this very moment.

We had to fire the centrally controlled miners. The POW is now ...

2026-11-01T12:58:48Z

We had to fire the centrally controlled miners. The POW is now Blake2b, my dear Satoshi 🤙

quoting
nevent1q…f0fn
The proof-of-work function is intentionally hard to compute but easy to verify.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

Centralizing a coin makes it a shitcoin. #nevent1q…yat4

2026-11-01T12:55:12Z

Centralizing a coin makes it a shitcoin.

quoting
nevent1q…yat4
The two biggest mining pools can easily collude (or be mandated) to never include your transaction in a block.

If a smaller miner includes your transaction in a block, those two big mining pools can decide to not build upon that block (basically just ignore that block).

You have the keys. But you could be prevented from moving the coins.

You can listen to the first 5 minutes of this video from BitcoinMechanic :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xow_Mha9X4M

I made some cuts but still small from the old stack. But I am ...

2026-10-31T21:03:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…9a8l
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I made some cuts but still small from the old stack. But I am accumulating XBT, especially during price drops.

they better not take any more and prop up their opsec it ...

2026-10-31T20:49:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…png9
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they better not take any more and prop up their opsec

it certainly looks like insider job but still the main thing are their users

Hey Coretard. Pump my shitcoin. #nevent1q…xy4a

2026-10-30T16:56:02Z

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Hey Coretard. Pump my shitcoin.

quoting
nevent1q…xy4a
Coretards don't need brain or logic or freedom or sovereignty.

Yes, we love filtering out spam on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom ...

2026-10-30T15:24:38Z

Yes, we love filtering out spam on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money ❤

Spam belongs on SHA256 Corecoin where cypherskunks, spammers, scammers and grifters love it and support it.

quoting
nevent1q…sxeh
Non-monetary data took 6.2% of BLAKE2b block space in the last 24h, down 24.2pt on its 7-day average. SHA-256: 27.5% (down 21.2pt).

https://thebitcoinportal.com/live?chain=bip110

By @JoshuaFortezza The Honest Nodes of Nakamoto Consensus: ...

2026-10-30T12:15:01Z

By @JoshuaFortezza

The Honest Nodes of Nakamoto Consensus: Abstaining from Permission and Privilege

Honest Nodes

What are the "honest nodes" of Bitcoin?

Satoshi's whitepaper doesn't directly or explicitly define what honest nodes are. But a careful reading of the paper, opens our minds to a clear picture of what they are, and thus what Bitcoin in fact is; both by what Nakamoto consensus DOES allow, as much as what it DOES NOT allow.

Honest nodes are not honest because of any special virtue or external enforcement. They are honest, and remain honest because, at an individual level, users will not accept a situation in which one or more third parties hold permission control over coin transactions or privilege control over coin issuance. The moment a cooperating group can impose either, the users who value the system as peer-to-peer money without a trusted third party, cease to treat that chain as satisfying this underlying premise of Satoshi's whitepaper.

The security condition is stated explicitly:

The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.

If or when a majority of hash is concentrated the system is no longer secure, meaning that the ability to impose permissions upon transactions or impose privileges upon coin issuance becomes a viable threat in the same way that your fiat bank can decide when and where you can spend your government currency, or when and where they decide to issue more currency for the next best intentioned welfare or warfare program.

This is the conditional premise upon which Bitcoin was designed. The whitepaper opens by rejecting the model in which financial institutions serve as trusted third parties:

Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.

The Bitcoin design discards the classic remedy of a central mint:

A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority, or mint, that checks every transaction for double spending. After each transaction, the coin must be returned to the mint to issue a new coin, and only coins issued directly from the mint are trusted not to be double-spent. The problem with this solution is that the fate of the entire money system depends on the company running the mint, with every transaction having to go through them, just like a bank.

What Bitcoin requires instead or in lieu of the mint is:

An electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.

There is “no central authority to issue” coins. New coins enter only through the proof-of-work incentive paid to the nodes that create blocks:

Analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation.

Once a predetermined number have entered, the system can become “completely inflation free.”

Rules of any kind - transaction validity or issuance schedule - are enforced by the same mechanism, by "honest nodes" which:

vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on them.”

BIP-110

The return of honest nodes to Bitcoin.

Proof-of-work is “essentially one-CPU-one-vote.” The longest chain with the greatest proof-of-work effort is the one that prevails.

This design is a self-imposed abstention of privilege by the users themselves. By keeping hash power distributed across many independent nodes where each user controls his own hashing work, block templates, etc., these users ensure that no cooperating group can seize permission control over coin transactions or privilege control over coin issuance.

What BIP-110 has helped illuminate is the false narrative that non-mining full nodes, however numerous, do not supply a security resource; they can observe and refuse to relay, but they do not produce the competing proof-of-work that determines the longest chain.

The genesis block makes the motive concrete. Its timestamp embeds the headline “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” The whitepaper supplies the technical argument for removing the trusted third party and the central issuer; the headline supplies the contemporary reason the abstention matters.

An honest node, under this reading, is therefore a participant that controls some portion of hash power through its own node and thereby contributes to a majority of CPU power distributed across as many independent nodes as possible. Concentration of that majority into a few nodes places those nodes outside the paper’s security condition. They become the cooperating group the paper treats as fatal, whether or not they have yet altered rules. The SHA-256d chain reached that state.

A small number of pool-operating nodes controlled the bulk of hash. When BIP-110 proposed temporary limits on arbitrary data, those nodes declined to signal. At block 961,632 the majority-hash nodes produced the longest chain under the prior rules; the enforcing minority followed a two-block chain that stalled. Non-mining node support could not override them. The security condition was already unmet.

The Blake2b chain is the restoration of Nakamoto consensus, of honest node law and order. At block 961,640 the minority branch permanently switched proof-of-work from SHA-256d to Blake2b and adopted version-2 headers, removing the concentrated SHA-256d hash from the ability to extend the chain. At the same height it activated the temporary reduced-data rules together with a temporary block limit of roughly 300 kB. Later it extended coinbase maturity to 45 days for a defined window of rewards. Each of these design decisions followed the same premise.

The reduced-data rules limit threat vectors (including certain forms of arbitrary data) by which external pressure can raise the cost of running a node and shrink the set of people willing to hash under their own control.
The smaller block size keeps the long-term resource cost of a full validating and hashing node low enough that many independent participants can continue.
The longer coinbase maturity raises the cost of purely extractive, high time preference mercenary mining.

Together these maintenance updates re-establish the honest node hashing majority spread across enough independent nodes that no small cooperating group can readily impose permissions over transactions or privileges over issuance.

Bitcoin was created to nullify the problems of permissions and privileges that arise once a trusted third party or central issuer exists.

The whitepaper states the mechanism; the genesis headline states the motive. The Blake2b chain is the continuation of the bootstrapping and maintenance of Bitcoin.

Once the SHA-256d distribution had placed the original chain outside the condition the whitepaper required (decentralized hash power), honest nodes returned with a proof of work fork, keeping the decisive resource - hash power under the control of a widely distributed network of "honest nodes" - too broad for any cooperating group to seize control of the invaluable monetary system.

Eventually the users of the SHA-256d chain will get rugged and in that moment they will realize the problem Bitcoin solved for, and more importantly how it solved for that problem, with HONEST NODES.

Today the honest nodes thrive on Blake2b, what you might know as XBT.

Tomorrow the honest nodes may fork again. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that the system can survive into perpetuity in this way, so long as humankind has a low enough time preference to want a better future for their children.

Bitcoin on SHA-256d is a dead man walking.

Bitcoin on Blake2b is alive and well.

Become an Honest Node.

Study Bitcoin.

God Bless.

quoting
nevent1q…x406
I love how beautiful the UASFs work on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money.

Its because Bitcoin Nodes matter only on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money.

I love how beautiful the UASFs work on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin ...

2026-10-30T11:42:25Z

I love how beautiful the UASFs work on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money.

Its because Bitcoin Nodes matter only on XBT Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money.

Who told you to be scared?

2026-10-30T11:40:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…cvw8
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Who told you to be scared?

😂😂🤣

2026-10-30T11:40:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…ewyh
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😂😂🤣

hexagon, octagon, money gone ...

2026-10-30T00:59:29Z

hexagon, octagon, money gone

quoting
nevent1q…dwyk
Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

Link: https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470

We will see. I think Blake2b resembles best the Satoshi's ...

2026-10-28T15:02:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…2c7d
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We will see.

I think Blake2b resembles best the Satoshi's ethos and those of Freedom Money meaning it has the best monetary properties.

The other forks were not successful because they worsen their monetary properties, the same that BTC is doing with spam.

Electronic cash system is fine with me, I call it Freedom Money.

2026-10-28T14:56:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…pezz
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Electronic cash system is fine with me, I call it Freedom Money.

"Bitcoin is for everyone" is still valid for XBT Blake2b ...

2026-10-28T14:54:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…aad7
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"Bitcoin is for everyone" is still valid for XBT Blake2b Bitcoin

It means Freedom Money. It means that it never refuses an account to anyone and when sufficiently decentralized (which is a must) it never censors a monetary transaction.

I think BTC is completely captured but for the moment I agree it ...

2026-10-28T14:51:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…aad7
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I think BTC is completely captured but for the moment I agree it is still functioning as medium of exchange and store of value. But the evil forces can do with it whatever they want at any moment because they control the miners. I also think its price is already controlled too. If its in their favor they can increase price, if not they can crash it or they can increase the supply etc. What we see them doing is actually using BTC's old reputation to shill stablecoins CBDCs.
By "they" I mean

BTC was a great start. Unfortunatelly it got captured. XBT is now ...

2026-10-28T14:41:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…gzc4
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BTC was a great start. Unfortunatelly it got captured. XBT is now Bitcoin Freedom Money.

#nevent1q…xy4a

2026-10-28T14:02:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…6cnr
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quoting nevent1q…xy4a
Coretards don't need brain or logic or freedom or sovereignty.

I look at BTC and I see cypherskunks, coretards idiots ...

2026-10-28T13:43:31Z

I look at BTC and I see cypherskunks, coretards idiots boot-lickers, scammers, spammers, corrupted fiat ngu maxis, disgusting simpfluencers, liars, a captured coin and slave mentality.

I look at XBT and I see cypherpunks, freedom lovers, hope and fight for decentralized Bitcoin Freedom Money, intelligent and moral people.

🤙 cheers

2026-10-28T13:34:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…syr0
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🤙 cheers

#nevent1q…pmln

2026-10-27T14:29:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…dpre
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quoting nevent1q…pmln
You can't make this shit up.

Only for Coretards.

nevent1q…6vms

I just check but its loading for me. Maybe they have had ...

2026-10-27T14:17:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…gqqf
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I just check but its loading for me. Maybe they have had maintenance due to the recent vulnerabilities (in php)?

Yup, they are the Coretards' simpfluencers.

2026-10-23T17:32:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…d8l7
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Yup, they are the Coretards' simpfluencers.

Coretards don't need brain or logic or freedom or ...

2026-10-23T15:46:01Z

Coretards don't need brain or logic or freedom or sovereignty.

CBDC will improve your life its perfect for slaves. You can be ...

2026-10-23T14:34:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…jtqq
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CBDC will improve your life its perfect for slaves. You can be also a bit sad too but your life will be imrpoved.

So you are a fan of the FED? You love Cantillon effect too and ...

2026-10-23T14:19:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…06w0
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So you are a fan of the FED? You love Cantillon effect too and central printing of fiat as well as inflation theft?

https://stables.rip/

You can't make this shit up. Only for Coretards. ...

2026-10-23T13:30:41Z

You can't make this shit up.

Only for Coretards.

quoting
nevent1q…6vms
very excited about this: a bitcoin-backed stablecoin that's built with cashu ecash is launching very soon.

it could become the most private usd digital cash system ever built.

incredible. will keep you posted.

Lightning is more alive than ever on Blake2b Bitcoin ...

2026-10-23T11:42:19Z

Lightning is more alive than ever on Blake2b Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiKVOKEhgXw

Will Blockstream Crash Bitcoin's Price? ...

2026-10-22T16:39:53Z

Will Blockstream Crash Bitcoin's Price?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z45_hQjFOM

"Anyone recovering these tiny private keys (d=4 etc on P-384) ...

2026-10-21T18:33:57Z

"Anyone recovering these tiny private keys (d=4 etc on P-384) can forge trusted TLS certs for any domain or code-sign malware.

Main use: MITM on unpatched systems—IoT, older Android/Linux, embedded devices, non-CT clients—that still trust the intermediates.

Browsers blocked them fast (Chrome/Firefox Oct 17). Scary for the long tail of devices that update slowly or never; low risk for modern updated software. No known prior abuse."

Haven't watched that one. I will check it out. But in any ...

2026-10-20T18:56:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…7v35
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Haven't watched that one. I will check it out. But in any case censorship is evil and excessive even in the case of foul language. Also if that is in one video then they can single out that one video not the whole channel ...

I have never seen or heard Rustin or anyone from Simply Bitcoin ...

2026-10-20T18:45:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…udm9
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I have never seen or heard Rustin or anyone from Simply Bitcoin use foul language.

Centralized BTC will be even worse. Censorship is evil fucked up ...

2026-10-20T18:35:47Z

Centralized BTC will be even worse.

Censorship is evil fucked up shit as well as centralization of BTC.

quoting
nevent1q…ak04
YOUTUBE JUST BANNED SIMPLY BITCOIN

We bootstrapped this company off zero and we are a team of 15 that depends on YouTube for our livelihoods.

We strictly follow the community guidelines and believe this to be a mistake.

You can keep the XBT in case it catches on 🤙

2026-10-19T21:27:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…h8ht
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You can keep the XBT in case it catches on 🤙

Paying for lunch with Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money ...

2026-10-19T18:46:37Z

Paying for lunch with Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money
https://youtube.com/shorts/w75RIugdpZ4

The look of a Coretard. #nevent1q…y4y4

2026-10-17T15:52:31Z

The look of a Coretard.

quoting
nevent1q…y4y4

See "They didn't take over anything." that is false.

2026-10-17T15:28:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…s6zg
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See "They didn't take over anything." that is false.

Yes, we are back to the roots of Freedom Money. You will be able ...

2026-10-17T14:50:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…uy2p
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Yes, we are back to the roots of Freedom Money. You will be able to buy a coffee and a pizza with Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money.

Bitcoin haters were asking this question in 2014. Now you ask it.

2026-10-17T14:37:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…yxtz
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Bitcoin haters were asking this question in 2014. Now you ask it.

I know that. It is attacked by disgusting Coretards but I am sure ...

2026-10-17T13:20:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…daee
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I know that. It is attacked by disgusting Coretards but I am sure we will start filtering out that spam. Yes, we the Bitcoiners are intolerant of non-monetary spam.

For you, Coretard, its just a database and you don't care if ...

2026-10-17T12:32:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…lrqp
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For you, Coretard, its just a database and you don't care if its filled with spam or csam or whatever. I know that. I am sure you don't know what money is and what freedom is.

https://shrikewallet.com/ is a XBT Blake2b Bitcoin wallet which ...

2026-10-16T21:12:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…cae3
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https://shrikewallet.com/ is a XBT Blake2b Bitcoin wallet which is a fork of the great Sparrow SHA256 Bitcoin wallet

NON KYC Do Not Screw Up The First Step! (XBT) ...

2026-10-16T16:32:10Z

NON KYC Do Not Screw Up The First Step! (XBT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeA-GDMkpo

Its you who are the shitcoiners cuck SLopp. No privacy and ...

2026-10-16T14:18:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…uay5
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Its you who are the shitcoiners cuck SLopp. No privacy and freedom can be achieved with shitcoins like Ethereum which is your goal to turn Spamcoin into.

https://i.postimg.cc/XYHhRJtT/Saif-spamcoin.jpg #nevent1q…27ad

2026-10-16T12:05:55Z

quoting
nevent1q…27ad
Thank God for Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money!

Yes, so many spooks, scammers, spammers and bad actors Coretards ...

2026-10-15T22:29:25Z

Yes, so many spooks, scammers, spammers and bad actors Coretards on SHA256 Bitcoin.

Thank God for Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money! ...

2026-10-15T22:15:04Z

Thank God for Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money!

What an amazing investigative research and a high level of ...

2026-10-15T21:58:25Z

What an amazing investigative research and a high level of journalism.

Thank you hodlonaut (npub1cjw…j2rh) for telling the undisputed evident truth and shining the needed light for Bitcoin community.

quoting
nevent1q…cn0p
https://www.citadel21.com/the-machine

An investigation into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended

by hodlonaut | October 14, 2026

Article Four of Four: The Machine

nevent1q…qpay

https://www.citadel21.com/the-machine An investigation into how ...

2026-10-14T16:58:35Z

https://www.citadel21.com/the-machine

An investigation into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended

by hodlonaut | October 14, 2026

Article Four of Four: The Machine

quoting
nevent1q…qpay
Excited for tomorrow 🚀

nevent1q…07x0

I didn't know what client you are using. I just saw that my ...

2026-10-13T18:30:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…5eru
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I didn't know what client you are using. I just saw that my notes are censored on the client you use. Fuck Nostur.

First read my notes and you should be able to understand that I am not retarded. (if you have functioning brain cells)

Some Nostr clients are worse CENSORS than X ... now that is ...

2026-10-13T18:22:44Z

Some Nostr clients are worse CENSORS than X ... now that is something ...

quoting
nevent1q…626m
what am I seeing?

Your inability to get your ideas out on a censorship-proof protocol?

I’m supposed to listen to you who can’t keep yourself from being censored on a
Censorship-proof protocol??

So much for "censorship resistant". You are using a ...

2026-10-13T18:12:10Z

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So much for "censorship resistant". You are using a censorship enforced client.

First of all, what I said is that Bitcoin SHA256 is in the ...

2026-10-13T18:04:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…x7y3
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First of all, what I said is that Bitcoin SHA256 is in the process of becoming Ethereum 2.0.

Second, I started talking about that since I read the plans of the coretards scammers, spammers, shitcoiners and Epstein sickarios. They stated it in plain text. See the note below. It is 11 months old. For some reason the article was taken down do I needed to find it in other sources. See the second note below. It is 7 months old.

quoting
nevent1q…8wts

Fuck Citrea and Fuck Chainway lab shitcoiners.

🤡🤡🤡
"With Citrea, Chainway is working to help Bitcoin better accommodate decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs and other use cases that were previously only possible on smart contract-based blockchains like Ethereum, but are now possible for Bitcoin to handle."

"We're hearing things like Citrea is better than Ethereum," Chainway Labs co-founder Orkun Mahir Kılıç told CoinDesk. "It'll be better with time, because there's like $1 trillion, as of now, sitting in the Bitcoin blockchain. It is the most secure, battle-tested and decentralized blockchain. And we are bringing decentralized finance to it." 🤡🤡🤡
https://www.coinglass.com/news/91227

Same technology on ZBT/

"ZEROBASE is a decentralized cryptographic infrastructure network that enables verifiable off-chain computation using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and trusted execution environments (TEEs).
It powers products like zkStaking, zkLogin, and ProofYield—bridging institutional DeFi, user privacy, and real-world asset strategies.
ZEROBASE delivers programmable, compliance-aligned staking and transparent cryptographic assurance without exposing sensitive data."

Core V30 is malware that enables Citrea shitcoin technology.
Majority of Core devs are compromised.

nostr:nevent1qqstdyqj84mw3a3q0z5fsph8vu0uzemhclfnulyldxqs54fp77eydcqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09u3cgkzr

😂😂🤣 its both funny because its true and sad because ...

2026-10-13T17:45:57Z

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😂😂🤣 its both funny because its true and sad because other people are supposed to store garbage especially given those high prices of not only hard drives but ram too and that will drastically reduce node runners (miners are centralized, now nodes are the next centralization goal) - Ethereum 2.0, what the inital goal of the scammers, spammers, shitcoiners and Epstein sickarios is.

This coretard corrupted simpfluencer first supports spam and all ...

2026-10-13T16:49:21Z

This coretard corrupted simpfluencer first supports spam and all kinds of trash on Bitcoin SHA256 then cries about the price of hard drives.

Although I doubt he is running a full node, his idiocy is humongous.

Bitcoin Mining Centralization Obliterates Self-Custody ...

2026-10-13T16:25:36Z

Bitcoin Mining Centralization Obliterates Self-Custody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3iJ_TbOQ

Excited for tomorrow 🚀 ...

2026-10-13T16:23:43Z

Excited for tomorrow 🚀

quoting
nevent1q…07x0
Coretards are becoming desperate again. Something is going on. Is Andy Epstein Back and Blockstream at risk? Or the scammer David Bailey and Naka? Or SLopp and Citrea shitcoiners? All of them?

FYI #nevent1q…dsd8

2026-10-12T14:48:52Z

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FYI

quoting
nevent1q…dsd8
⚠️ Was Bitcoin Core infiltrated by Israel?⚠️

We know from the DOJ emails that Epstein “represented the Rothchilds”. Israel also receives operational support from certain members of the Jewish diaspora, (“Sayanim”).

Now look at the influencers opposing BIP-110 to protect Core’s monopoly:

- Adam Back (CEO Blockstream): According to Epstein emails, took money from Epstein & visited his island
- Most Blockstream current and ex-employees (Matt Corrallo, Greg Maxwell, Byron Hambly, Fernando Nikolic etc): Company funded by Epstein, with several credible ponzi allegations
- Michael Saylor (MSTR): Is “one of us” according to the Epstein emails.
- Chaincode (Alex Morcos & Suhas Daftuar): Met with Epstein according to emails. Funds Bitcoin Core
- Starkware (Eli Ben Sasson), funds Core via HRF and OpenSats: Israeli
- Casey Rodarmor (Ordinals creator):Jewish.
- Peter Todd (Libre Relay, Coinkite Advisor): Zionist
- Bryan Bishop, (Core moderator): Pitched designer baby company to Epstein
- Udi Wertheimer: Israeli, ties to IDF
- NVK/Rodolfo Novak (Coinkite): Jewish.
- Dan Held: Jewish
- Jonathan Bier (Brink which funds Core, BitMex Research, Farside): Presumed Jewish
- BTC conference: Brandon (@BranBTC), and Craig from Programing (@Bitcoin_phan): Jewish
- Nakamoto: CIO Tyler Evans and CEO David Bailey, potentially Jewish (unconfirmed)
- Mr. Hodl: Israeli accent, likely intelligence
- Scott Melker (Wolf of all Streets): Jewish
- Citrea: Investment by Peter Thiel, close Epstein associate
- Tone Vays: Jewish
- Shaquille O’Atmeal: Jewish
- Apex B (@malandrox7): Jewish
- OpNet founders (Spam company): Israeli
- Isabel Foxen Duke: Israeli
- Jameson Lopp (Core, Casa): In 2023, Casa started accepting ETH and the Casa logo rebranded and now resembles a known FBI pedo symbol. Hopefully a coincidence?
- Rearden: Jewish
- Mars Spits Barz: Jewish
- Fundamentals21m: Jewish
- Ghost_AwyeeDeaterBob: Jewish
- Vic (@vicariousdrama): Israeli
- TeddyBitcoins: Jewish
- Ben Kaufman (Specter wallet): Israeli
- Richard Greaser (Bitcoin Bugle): Jewish
- Jeremy Poley (21 media): Jewish
- Liran Cohen: Jewish
- Coinicarus: Jewish
- Pierre Rochard: Jewish family
- Jimmy CTV (@bunkfreamon): Jewish
- Too many more to list

Many other anti BIP-110 supporters are sponsored by either Blockstream or the BTC Conference and therefore similarly incentivized to protect Core influence: Walker, JP_Technology, Joe Nakamoto, etc.

Notes:

- Analysis based on publicly available information, and is open to corrections.

- Findings include extreme overrepresentation of Jewish influencers in BTC.

- A handful of Jewish critics of Core were identified, but ratio is highly abnormal, at around 20:1 favoring Core.

Great New Bitcoin Channel (Sam Magner) ...

2026-10-11T20:57:08Z

Great New Bitcoin Channel (Sam Magner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syr2OH8IctY

Everything is a "nothingburger" for you including Citrea ...

2026-10-11T19:02:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…8ewj
_________________________

Everything is a "nothingburger" for you including Citrea shitcoin on top of Bitcoin SHA256 whose investors are your cult leader Jameson SLopp together with Peter Thiel from Palantir. Epstein sickarios who control the spamcoin, inscriptions spam, deliberate vulnerabilities and so much more shit... all is just "nothingburger" for you.

Everything is a "nothingburger" for you.

quoting
nevent1q…dsd8
⚠️ Was Bitcoin Core infiltrated by Israel?⚠️

We know from the DOJ emails that Epstein “represented the Rothchilds”. Israel also receives operational support from certain members of the Jewish diaspora, (“Sayanim”).

Now look at the influencers opposing BIP-110 to protect Core’s monopoly:

- Adam Back (CEO Blockstream): According to Epstein emails, took money from Epstein & visited his island
- Most Blockstream current and ex-employees (Matt Corrallo, Greg Maxwell, Byron Hambly, Fernando Nikolic etc): Company funded by Epstein, with several credible ponzi allegations
- Michael Saylor (MSTR): Is “one of us” according to the Epstein emails.
- Chaincode (Alex Morcos & Suhas Daftuar): Met with Epstein according to emails. Funds Bitcoin Core
- Starkware (Eli Ben Sasson), funds Core via HRF and OpenSats: Israeli
- Casey Rodarmor (Ordinals creator):Jewish.
- Peter Todd (Libre Relay, Coinkite Advisor): Zionist
- Bryan Bishop, (Core moderator): Pitched designer baby company to Epstein
- Udi Wertheimer: Israeli, ties to IDF
- NVK/Rodolfo Novak (Coinkite): Jewish.
- Dan Held: Jewish
- Jonathan Bier (Brink which funds Core, BitMex Research, Farside): Presumed Jewish
- BTC conference: Brandon (@BranBTC), and Craig from Programing (@Bitcoin_phan): Jewish
- Nakamoto: CIO Tyler Evans and CEO David Bailey, potentially Jewish (unconfirmed)
- Mr. Hodl: Israeli accent, likely intelligence
- Scott Melker (Wolf of all Streets): Jewish
- Citrea: Investment by Peter Thiel, close Epstein associate
- Tone Vays: Jewish
- Shaquille O’Atmeal: Jewish
- Apex B (@malandrox7): Jewish
- OpNet founders (Spam company): Israeli
- Isabel Foxen Duke: Israeli
- Jameson Lopp (Core, Casa): In 2023, Casa started accepting ETH and the Casa logo rebranded and now resembles a known FBI pedo symbol. Hopefully a coincidence?
- Rearden: Jewish
- Mars Spits Barz: Jewish
- Fundamentals21m: Jewish
- Ghost_AwyeeDeaterBob: Jewish
- Vic (@vicariousdrama): Israeli
- TeddyBitcoins: Jewish
- Ben Kaufman (Specter wallet): Israeli
- Richard Greaser (Bitcoin Bugle): Jewish
- Jeremy Poley (21 media): Jewish
- Liran Cohen: Jewish
- Coinicarus: Jewish
- Pierre Rochard: Jewish family
- Jimmy CTV (@bunkfreamon): Jewish
- Too many more to list

Many other anti BIP-110 supporters are sponsored by either Blockstream or the BTC Conference and therefore similarly incentivized to protect Core influence: Walker, JP_Technology, Joe Nakamoto, etc.

Notes:

- Analysis based on publicly available information, and is open to corrections.

- Findings include extreme overrepresentation of Jewish influencers in BTC.

- A handful of Jewish critics of Core were identified, but ratio is highly abnormal, at around 20:1 favoring Core.

Are you proud of the Epstein sickarios who control Bitcoin? Do ...

2026-10-10T20:59:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…hzv3
_________________________

Are you proud of the Epstein sickarios who control Bitcoin? Do you cheer for BlackRock now?

quoting
nevent1q…n8tp
Blue Matt is one of the disgusting Epstein sickarios Coretards who it seems is getting desperate.

Its called Spamcoin for a reason. The piece of shit spammer and ...

2026-10-09T22:23:58Z

Its called Spamcoin for a reason.

The piece of shit spammer and scammer Casey Rodarmor and his friend and Mossad cuck Udi are celebrating the accumulation of spam. They are some of the Coretards' idols.

quoting
nevent1q…lcfy
🚨 LARGE INSCRIPTION ALERT

3.8MB inscriptions in block 970578
Miner: Marathon

Block space analysis: https://thebitcoinportal.com/live/spam/overview
Block: https://mempool.guide/block/000000000000000000018595d41b4c02d96d24dc1939b9d857a01fa750ffd28b

#Bitcoin #BTC #Ordinals #Inscriptions #Spam

Amazing. But the Coretards simpfluencers told you to use it. They ...

2026-10-09T21:48:32Z

Amazing. But the Coretards simpfluencers told you to use it. They also told you to use Coldcard.

Where is the piece of shit NVK (npub132e…zmdh) ? Is he already rotting in jail for his theft and ruining the lives of thousands of people? Or the karma will come later on?

quoting
nevent1q…az0l
Ledger users are reporting drained wallets, and (SpecterAnalyst) traced the theft addresses to inflows from hundreds of victims across Bitcoin, Ethereum and TRON.

Total losses: $86M+.

The attack vector hasn't been confirmed yet.

Got XBT / Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money? #nevent1q…y3un

2026-10-09T11:10:13Z

Got XBT / Blake2b Bitcoin Freedom Money?

quoting
nevent1q…y3un

Kilojoin for Blake2b XBT Bitcoin based on Joinstr ...

2026-10-08T19:49:55Z

Kilojoin for Blake2b XBT Bitcoin based on Joinstr

https://kilombino.com/

Blake2b XBT Bitcoin Freedom Money 🤙 ...

2026-10-08T18:46:35Z

Blake2b XBT Bitcoin Freedom Money 🤙

Epstein is your God you idiot Coretard. You love sucking cock of ...

2026-10-05T11:19:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…f9uz
_________________________

Epstein is your God you idiot Coretard. You love sucking cock of Epstein sickarios. What a piece of shit you are.

XBT Bitcoin is the only Freedom money where nodes matter, you idiot. Decentralizaion is getting stronger every day.

Some inconvenient truths. ...

2026-10-04T12:35:18Z

Some inconvenient truths.

Funny? Sad? Scary? ...

2026-10-04T12:31:42Z

Funny? Sad? Scary?

Spamming the Corecoin / Spamcoin is a feature loved by all ...

2026-10-04T12:09:19Z

Spamming the Corecoin / Spamcoin is a feature loved by all shitcoiners.

quoting
nevent1q…ycsr
Search OP_Return

https://poststr.com/op-return-search

Bloomberg Exposes Adam Back and Blockstream (Breaking) ...

2026-09-29T19:26:06Z

Bloomberg Exposes Adam Back and Blockstream (Breaking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLYVtdQUis

It seems you are more keen on Luke. Why is that? Are you mentally ...

2026-09-28T12:58:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ud7d
_________________________

It seems you are more keen on Luke. Why is that? Are you mentally sick? Is that the reason you need explanations too?

I don't know but what she is saying is 💯 true.

2026-09-27T12:14:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…y2g9
_________________________

I don't know but what she is saying is 💯 true.

Agenda 2030 is NOT a conspiracy theory. ...

2026-09-27T11:19:28Z

Agenda 2030 is NOT a conspiracy theory.

quoting
nevent1q…g666
THE WAR ON HUMANITY

"They" are the globalists, the WEF, the Epstein sicarios, the disgusting warmonger, anti-human, pedophile, sociopaths scum.

THE WAR ON HUMANITY "They" are the globalists, the WEF, ...

2026-09-24T20:08:15Z

THE WAR ON HUMANITY

"They" are the globalists, the WEF, the Epstein sicarios, the disgusting warmonger, anti-human, pedophile, sociopaths scum.

XBT 💜 Freedom Money Which Ticker Should Bitcoin on Blake2B ...

2026-09-24T19:01:04Z

XBT 💜 Freedom Money

Which Ticker Should Bitcoin on Blake2B Use?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOlqRD0JzA

😂😂🤣

2026-09-22T18:57:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…8uyl
_________________________

😂😂🤣

Nostr event nevent1qqswmder9v6c2wp4a8rn9m9e44k37wpd0yagd7jpuf8jsuk35mcftjqzypml2cjr4qjdyftnld64m4fvw0q5npk3tsxfs5fdgh6davywn7re5gx9u48

2026-09-21T17:46:19Z

Running Bitcoin Knots 29.4.2.knots20260508 🤙

A non-kyc place will be nice. This or another one I don't ...

2026-09-18T18:57:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…hh2j
_________________________

A non-kyc place will be nice. This or another one I don't mind but I don't want to give my phone number to Discord.

Is Pluribus a science fiction or a documentary? #nevent1q…6qdc

2026-09-18T17:29:14Z

Is Pluribus a science fiction or a documentary?

quoting
nevent1q…6qdc
Anthropic has quietly set up a physical wet lab in the Bay Area for hands-on biological experiments.

The company won't disclose the lab's size, headcount, or biosafety level.

Their head of life sciences confirmed the lab. A spokesperson then clarified it's "not for drug discovery specifically" without elaborating on what it is for.

Anthropic is also pushing to have its AI direct robotic units to carry out experiments with limited human intervention. They call it "very early innings."

The timing is something. In the past two weeks, Anthropic's own researchers warned AI could lead to human extinction. The company reported cases where its systems could have been used toward bioweapons development. And now they're scaling a physical biology lab while preparing for a potential $2 trillion IPO.

https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-2026-09-18/

There is no Ordinals spam and Citrea shitcoins on Bitcoin ...

2026-09-18T08:44:24Z

There is no Ordinals spam and Citrea shitcoins on Bitcoin Blake2b.

Coretards on the other hand still don't know what spams is, what Bitcoin is and what a woman is.

quoting
nevent1q…5ky2
Now guess what?

The bug is fixed on Bitcoin-Blake2b ONLY!

The same way it was fixed on Bitcoin Knots ONLY!
nevent1q…n0sa

Now we have Bitcoin Blake2b (XBT). #nevent1q…pdkm

2026-09-18T08:20:34Z

Now we have Bitcoin Blake2b (XBT).

quoting
nevent1q…pdkm
GM☕

The last time this happened, someone decided to invent Bitcoin.

Most of them are corrupted Coretards, he is brainwashed. He is ...

2026-09-17T20:59:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…6nrh
_________________________

Most of them are corrupted Coretards, he is brainwashed.

He is actually begging to be corrupted by the Epstein sicarios.

That changes nothing.

2026-09-17T19:59:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…whlw
_________________________

That changes nothing.

Shitcoiner and a Coretard 💩💩💩 #naddr1qq…murk

2026-09-17T19:50:13Z

Shitcoiner and a Coretard 💩💩💩

quoting
naddr1qq…murk

On September 6, someone minted roughly 4,000 L-BTC out of thin air and pegged it out for real bitcoin. It was the biggest crypto theft of the year and it happened on the chain I've spent the last year building on. So this is a good moment to write down why I chose Liquid, whether the exploit changes that, and what I actually think about the alternatives.

Short version: it doesn't change it. Not because the hack wasn't bad. It was. It's because the reasons I picked Liquid were never "Liquid is safe." They were "Liquid is the only place I can write the kind of Bitcoin contracts I want to write, and the work survives even if Liquid doesn't."

What actually happened

The facts, as best as they've been reported so far:

Liquid uses confidential transactions. Amounts are hidden behind Pedersen commitments and validated by range proofs. Range proof verification is expensive, so Elements caches the results.

Elements built the cache key by concatenating variable-length fields without length prefixes. That made it possible to construct a cache key collision: an invalid output that looked, to the cache, like a proof that had already been verified.

The attacker spent about 14 hours planting dozens of cheap transactions to warm the cache, then at block 4,050,336 created an inflationary output that nodes accepted without re-verifying.

The unbacked L-BTC was pegged out through SideSwap, a federation member holding a peg-out authorization key. SideSwap wasn't compromised. Neither were the functionaries. The 11-of-15 signers approved the withdrawal because, per the software they were running, the chain state was valid.

Federation reserves dropped from about 4,205 BTC to about 197 BTC in 23 minutes.

Hours after the drain, an OP_RETURN appeared on chain reading "we are whitehats. contact us on chain," with a promise to return the funds once every node was patched. The next day, September 7, they returned 3,400 BTC. On September 9 they demanded a 10% bounty for the remaining 598.5 BTC, or else. Blockstream refused to pay. Adam Back said the 1:1 peg will be covered regardless.

Let me be blunt about the "whitehat" label, since a lot of coverage repeated it uncritically. A whitehat reports the bug and doesn't touch the money. This person drained 95% of the reserves, kept $47 million, and is now trying to extort a bounty with the remainder. That's theft followed by ransom. It's my opinion and it's also the law. Returning most of what you stole doesn't change what you are. - A fix had been committed publicly to the Elements repo on September 1, five days before the exploit, but no tagged release with the fix was running on functionary nodes. Elements 23.3.4 shipped September 9 with length-prefixed cache keys and an emergency switch to disable the cache entirely. Blocks resumed September 10. Peg-outs were still paused as of this writing.

So: a consensus bug in the node software, not a key compromise and not a federation failure in the trust-model sense. That distinction matters and I'll come back to it.

Why Liquid in the first place

Bitcoin's scripting language is deliberately limited. That's a feature for a settlement layer and I'm not arguing against it. But it means two things I want are missing:

An expressive contract language. Bitcoin Script can't inspect the transaction that spends it in any meaningful way. You can't say "this coin may only move to an output that looks like X."

Covenants. Same thing from the other direction. Without introspection, you can't build vaults, rate-limited wallets, non-custodial pooled UTXOs, or an AMM whose pool the operator can't rug, all enforced at the consensus layer.

Liquid has both. Simplicity activated on Liquid mainnet on July 31, 2025 after eight years of development. It's a combinator language with no loops and no recursion, designed so that contracts can be statically analyzed and formally verified. It runs alongside Elements' existing introspection opcodes, which have been on Liquid since the Taproot upgrade there. Together that's the most expressive consensus-enforced contract environment that exists on anything pegged to bitcoin.

That's what I'm building on. The first thing I shipped was anchor, an immutable constant-product AMM where each pool is a covenant-controlled UTXO with no admin key, no upgrade path, and no off-chain coordinator. Anyone can open a pool between two Liquid assets and nobody, including me, can touch the funds outside the rules. That project is what got Jan3 interested enough to contract me for what I'm working on now, which is still private while the prototype gets built out. Same idea though: operator actions gated by covenants instead of trust, and a unilateral exit for every user.

None of this is possible on Bitcoin today. Every piece of it needs either introspection or a covenant. And Bitcoin may never get them. CTV (BIP 119) has an activation client live with a signaling window that opened March 30, 2026 and a 90% miner threshold. Miner signaling has been at zero. No major pool has committed. OP_CAT has a BIP number and no activation parameters. Meanwhile BIP-110 tried to force an unrelated change through in August with a 55% threshold, got 2.5% of blocks, and its minority chain died after two blocks. That's the current appetite for soft forks. I can hope, and I do, but I'm not going to wait.

The goal is hyperbitcoinization, not Liquid

I want to be clear about what I'm optimizing for. I'm not trying to make Liquid win. I'm trying to build things that make bitcoin usable as the money for everything, and I need a place to do the work where the rules are enforced by consensus rather than by a company's goodwill.

Liquid is an experiment. It might disappear. Blockstream might lose interest, the federation might fragment, the peg might break in a way that can't be papered over. If that happens, what I lose is a deployment target. What I keep is:

Working, tested contract designs for covenant-enforced pools and exits.

The tooling I had to write to get there.

Every lesson about what breaks when you actually try to run this stuff.

Simplicity's stated roadmap has always been Liquid first, then Bitcoin testnet, then Bitcoin mainnet once it's battle-tested. If Bitcoin ever gets covenants, in any form, the designs port. If it doesn't, they port to whatever the next Bitcoin-pegged experiment is. The code is transitory. The understanding isn't.

The alternatives, honestly

I looked at all of these before picking Liquid and I've looked again since the hack. Here's where I land on each.

Spark

Spark is Lightspark's statechain-based L2. It's technically interesting: users hold bitcoin off-chain in 2-of-2 arrangements with a set of operators using threshold signatures, transfers are instant, and there's a unilateral exit path if the operators go away. It launched in beta in April 2025 and has real volume now, mostly stablecoins.

Unilateral exit is good and I don't want to dismiss it. My problem is with who's building it and why. Lightspark's entire business is connecting regulated institutions to Lightning. Their UMA protocol has KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and travel rule messaging built into the payment flow. Their customers are Coinbase, Xapo, Nubank, Bakkt. They've raised at least $175 million from a16z, Paradigm, and Coatue, and they acquired Striga, a licensed European e-money platform.

That's a company whose product is the bridge between your bitcoin and your bank account, and whose investors expect returns that routing Lightning payments doesn't produce. I can't prove what they do with the data that flows through that bridge. I can say that the incentives point in exactly one direction, and that a system designed to attach identity to payment flows will do so, because that's what it's for. Tying your UTXO history to your bank account is the opposite of what I'm trying to build toward. Spark might be a fine place to move stablecoins for a business that's already fully surveilled. It's not a place to build for hyperbitcoinization.

Drivechain

BIP 300 and 301 never got activated on Bitcoin. After years of trying, LayerTwo Labs stopped asking and hard-forked instead. The fork is called eCash, ticker ECX, and it's a separate coin airdropped 1:1 to BTC holders. Alpha launched at block 963,648 on August 23, 2026, with a permanent mainnet targeted for around October 31. Drivechains are now a feature of that coin, not of Bitcoin.

To avoid confusion: this "eCash" has nothing to do with Chaumian ecash like Cashu or Fedimint. It's a Bitcoin fork with a new name.

I don't have anything against Paul Sztorc personally and BIP 300 was a serious proposal. But once the sidechain design ships on an altcoin, it's an altcoin. The whole value of building on a Bitcoin sidechain is that the asset is bitcoin. Drivechain is out.

Rootstock, Stacks, and the EVM sidechains

Rootstock is the fairest of these to Bitcoin. Gas is paid in rBTC, which is pegged bitcoin, and the PowPeg is a 5-of-9 federation with keys in Ledger HSMs that only sign after seeing enough cumulative proof of work. Merge-mined by a large share of Bitcoin hashrate. That's a legitimate design.

But it's an EVM chain. The contract model is Ethereum's, with Ethereum's failure modes, and the ecosystem is organized around the RIF token and whatever DeFi is fashionable this quarter. If I wanted to build on the EVM I'd build on the EVM. I don't. And its federation model is the same category as Liquid's, so it doesn't buy me anything on the trust axis either.

Stacks is worse. It has its own token, STX, that pays for transactions and secures the network. sBTC is a bitcoin-backed asset held by a signer set that's economically bonded in STX. So the security of your bitcoin depends on the price of a different coin. That's the shitcoin problem in its purest form and there's no engineering around it.

Ordinals, inscriptions, Runes, BRC-20, Alkanes

This is the most tempting category because the asset is unambiguously bitcoin and the chain is unambiguously Bitcoin. Alkanes in particular is doing real work: WASM contracts, AMMs, and more, all riding on Bitcoin transactions.

The problem is that Bitcoin doesn't know any of it exists. Every one of these is a metaprotocol. The state lives in indexers, the rules live in an off-chain spec, and Bitcoin nodes validate none of it. If two indexers disagree, there's no consensus mechanism to resolve it. "Consensus" is whichever indexer the exchanges run. That's a shared belief about what the chain means, not something the chain enforces.

It's also crippled by L1 itself. Every operation is a full Bitcoin transaction paying full Bitcoin fees, with no confidentiality and no ability to have the base layer enforce a covenant. You get the cost of Bitcoin without the guarantees of Bitcoin.

I'm building things that have to survive a century. A protocol where the meaning of the ledger depends on an indexer's interpretation isn't a serious foundation for that, regardless of how much volume it does this year.

Taproot Assets on Lightning

Taproot Assets is real and it's shipping. Tether's USDT is live on it as of March 2026. Multi-asset Lightning channels work. Version 0.8 is out.

But it's a Lightning Labs product, not a Lightning protocol. It runs on lnd and only lnd. The core protocol was submitted as a set of draft BIPs that remain in draft, and the Lightning integration is meant to be a bLIP, not a BOLT. There is no cross-implementation spec that Core Lightning, Eclair, or LDK have agreed to. That's not a criticism of the engineering. It's a description of the situation: one company controls the protocol, and building on it means betting on that company's roadmap for as long as your thing needs to exist.

And underneath it is Lightning, which is a hard enough foundation on its own. The original Poon-Dryja paper is 59 pages. The BOLTs have grown enormously since. Channel state, HTLCs, watchtowers, force-close games, liquidity management. Now stack a multi-asset layer with its own proof trees on top, and hold it all together across implementations that don't all support it. It's the wild west again, just with better marketing.

Ark, BitVM rollups, and the rest

Ark deserves a mention because it's the closest thing to what I want on Bitcoin proper. Arkade and Bark are on Bitcoin mainnet, and the unilateral exit story is real. But on Bitcoin without covenants, Ark depends on the operator and the users presigning everything, and VTXOs expire on a timer, so if you don't exit or refresh in time you're relying on the operator. That's exactly the gap covenants close, and it's why the covenant-enforced version of this idea has to be built on Liquid first.

BitVM bridges are the other honest attempt at trust-minimized bitcoin on another chain. Citrea's mainnet launched in January with a BitVM2 bridge. It's early, it's complex, and the rollup is an EVM. Worth watching. Not where I'm building.

What the hack does and doesn't change

The exploit was a bug in the node software, the same class of bug that Bitcoin itself has had. CVE-2018-17144, the inflation bug in Bitcoin Core, would have let anyone print bitcoin if it had been exploited. It was patched before that happened. Liquid wasn't so lucky. That's a difference in outcome, not in kind.

What the hack does tell me:

Elements needs more eyes. A fix sat in a public repo for five days before functionaries were running it. That's a release process problem and it's fixable.

Confidential transactions carry real complexity cost. Every layer of cryptography is another place for a cache key to collide.

The federation is a real trust assumption, and the peg only survived because Blockstream can afford to make it whole. That was always true. Now it's demonstrated.

What it doesn't tell me:

That covenants and expressive scripting are the wrong thing to build with. The contract layer was never the problem.

That there's a better place to do this work. I just went through the list.

I'm not naive about the federation. Liquid is trusted in a way that Bitcoin is not, and I've never pretended otherwise. But the contracts I'm writing are the same contracts I'd write on Bitcoin if Bitcoin could run them. The trust in Blockstream is a deployment detail. The trust in the covenant is the product.

A side note on CTV and OP_CAT

If you take one thing from this: the reason people build on Liquid, Stacks, Rootstock, Citrea, or Alkanes is that Bitcoin won't let them build on Bitcoin. Every one of those is a workaround for a missing primitive.

CTV is small, well-understood, and has been reviewed for six years. It gives you templated outputs: enough for vaults, congestion control, and real non-custodial batching. OP_CAT is one opcode that, combined with Schnorr, gets you general introspection. Either one would let a large fraction of the work happening on sidechains move home.

So here's the ask. Go read BIP 119 yourself. It's short, and the activation client and its parameters are public. Don't take my word for it, and don't take the word of whoever is loudest against it. If you read it and decide it's a bad idea, say why, publicly, on Nostr, X, Stacker News, Reddit, or wherever you post. That's useful. If you read it and decide it's a good idea, say that too, and then run the activation client. The signaling window is open until March 30, 2027 and needs 90% of miners. Miners follow demand they can see. Right now the only thing they can see is silence, and silence reads as no.

I'd rather be building on Bitcoin. Until that's possible, I'm building the same things on the one chain that lets me, and I'm keeping the code portable for the day it is.

Will Coinbase Steal Customers' Bitcoin? ...

2026-09-17T17:57:58Z

Will Coinbase Steal Customers' Bitcoin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAXWamr77mM

The fucking Rolling Stones man. Glorious. Mothers little helper ...

2026-09-17T16:15:12Z

The fucking Rolling Stones man. Glorious.

Mothers little helper (1965)

#music #audio #mp4#mp3

Sorry to hear. Maybe a good idea for second or even third opinion ...

2026-09-16T14:43:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…p28m
_________________________

Sorry to hear. Maybe a good idea for second or even third opinion with different doctors who also can read his most recent medical test results.

Andy Epstein Back and Scamson Mole are bad actors.

2026-09-15T21:13:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…hcpu
_________________________

Andy Epstein Back and Scamson Mole are bad actors.

Aqua Wallet Holders Rekt? ...

2026-09-15T18:02:39Z

Aqua Wallet Holders Rekt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAzFT0F8fCE

New Bitcoin Mining Pool Attack? ...

2026-09-10T21:22:03Z

New Bitcoin Mining Pool Attack?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AoPMK6GA0

meaning its true : )

2026-09-10T19:23:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…z6ke
_________________________

meaning its true : )

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2026-09-10T18:48:46Z

quoting
nevent1q…azzd
Dylan LeClair of Metaplanet is a scammer and a Coretard full of shit.

Dylan LeClair of Metaplanet is a scammer and a Coretard full of ...

2026-09-10T18:44:04Z

Dylan LeClair of Metaplanet is a scammer and a Coretard full of shit.

Nostr event nevent1qqsguctqzmk7a0cgsadzjlwhgr5vhehujrvephs3f4quwlvan08wg7czypml2cjr4qjdyftnld64m4fvw0q5npk3tsxfs5fdgh6davywn7re5dz0hq6

2026-09-10T18:39:06Z

BlackRock is not your friend.

Do you buy Bitcoin-SHA256? Do you tell your family and friends to ...

2026-09-10T17:55:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…zsmt
_________________________

Do you buy Bitcoin-SHA256? Do you tell your family and friends to stack sats?

Good news for Bitcoin Blake2b. ...

2026-09-10T08:09:33Z

Good news for Bitcoin Blake2b.

Ben is full of shit and people know it. ...

2026-09-09T14:40:00Z

Ben is full of shit and people know it.

Matt told you so. ...

2026-09-09T14:20:31Z

Matt told you so.

Scammers. https://i.postimg.cc/vHzmjXLy/scammer6.jpg

2026-09-09T14:20:15Z

Scammers.