August 2023 Topics - Githubissues

MatulefM commented 11 months ago

Credit: Anthony Towns
I wrote previously about why Bitcoin’s worth caring about, but if any of that was right, then it naturally leads to the idea that those benefits should be available to many people, not just a few. But what does that actually look like?

Credit: Victor Shoup
“Our main new result is to show how to securely combine the techniques used in FROST and SPRINT, allowing one to build a threshold Schnorr signing protocol that (i) is secure and robust without synchrony assumptions (like SPRINT), (ii) provides security even with an unlimited number of presignatures, and (assuming unused presignatures are available) signing requests can be processed concurrently with minimal latency (like FROST), (iii) achieves high throughput (like SPRINT), and (iv) achieves optimal resilience.”

Credit: Kiara Bickers
"Simplicity as a mathematically-inspired language, could bring us into a world of fully programmable money, with formally verified smart contracts. By grokking the core types in Simplicity, we can establish a solid foundation for exploring functions, expressions, and combinators in the upcoming installment of this series."

Credit: Tony Giorgio
“What is Mutiny? It's the first self-custodial lightning wallet that runs on the web! Control your funds on an open standard that does not depend on Apple or Google app stores. No downloads are needed!”

MatulefM commented 11 months ago

Credit: Jerry Brito & Peter Van Valkenburgh
“This law take effect on Jan 1, 2024, and will require citizens who are recipients of crypto payments of $10,000 or more to report to the government not just the transaction, but the PII (personal identifiable information) of the sender as well–all without a warrant."

Credit: Frostsnap team
“Crucially, with FROST you don't have to worry about storing additional metadata about your wallet. You only need a threshold number of devices (or their backups), nothing more."

MatulefM commented 11 months ago

Credit: United States v. STERLINGOV Exhibit 1 — Document 149, Attachment 1
"Chainalysis clustering methodologies have not been peer-reviewed in the sense that an academic paper would get peer-reviewed with data and methodology(ies) reviewed in a separate study by other scientists,"

“20 BTC up for grabs for 10 UX improvements to Bitcoin (mainly focused on mobile wallets) requested by dissidents and human rights groups from across the world”

MatulefM commented 11 months ago

ChicagoBitdevs / ChicagoBitdevs.github.io