Murch

@murch.one

Doing Bitcoin stuff at lclhost.org • BIP Editor • Co-host Bitcoin Optech Recap • Moderator bitcoin.stackexchange.com More housing fixes it. UBI is cheaper than poverty. Cars ruin cities. We need Universal Healthcare. 🌐 https://murch.one

Passed 13 years a couple weeks ago and just passed 80,000 rep. Too bad hardly anyone asks on Stack Exchange anymore, in the age of text-generating clankers. End of an era.

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401 is out: bitcoinops.org/en/newslette... • Discussion of using nested MuSig2 in the Lightning Network • Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication • Changes to services and client software • Release candidates • Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. Also included are our regular sections...

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

It's raining BIPs, hallelujah... Recently merged: BIP53 BIP54 BIP172 BIP177 BIP321 BIP443 On the cusp: BIP77 Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.

If due process is denied for anyone, it can be denied for you too. If anyone can be snatched off the streets, detained, and deported without due process, it can happen to you too. We demand due process is upheld for every single person.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

For many decades, Freiburg has been expanding tram lines and bike paths, enlarging and beautifying pedestrian zones, optimizing traffic lights, and improving legal regulations. These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.

People walk, cycle, and ride trams along the low-traffic streets of Freiburg, Germany.People walk, cycle, and ride trams along the low-traffic streets of Freiburg, Germany.People walk, cycle, and ride trams along the low-traffic streets of Freiburg, Germany.People walk, cycle, and ride trams along the low-traffic streets of Freiburg, Germany.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Ooof. Looks like the old "Don’t roll your own crypto" needs a 2025 update: "Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".

Yet again, it is mindboggling how expensive and slow residential internet in the Bay Area is. Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.