David Seroy 🏔️
@david_seroy
Ecosystem @alpenlabs 🏔️#bitcoin + #zkp Stratacast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmi3husUo1L1COm8QXkbNfWarFsf1hePX&si=38k_oyB3NDeAJ_B9
#Bitcoin Rollups: Whiteboard Session. There is a lot of confusion about #ZK #Rollups on Bitcoin. So I mapped out in detail how it works (afaict) under the hood. tl;dr we can use ZKP's (the scaling kind, not the privacy kind) to create an end game scaling solution for #Bitcoin.…
A couple of weeks ago at @BTCPrague, I did this fun little interview with Giga French Chad @gegelsmr4 of @BullBitcoin_ In my defense, I was half drunk. But I mean everything I said about @saylor + his cult, great financial advice from @adam3us & my opinions on @rogerkver
Genuinely if this ever goes through your head you should seppuku
it was always "I don't have enough BTC" now it's "I don't have enough sBTC"
Why I quit video entertainment and you should quit your bad habit too. I have a tendency of forming bad habits and quitting them. It might take a few efforts, but eventually I drop them for good. Video entertainment took years and on my third attempt I've finally let it go. I…
Was glad to see a philosopher at Quantum Bitcoin, most of the tech folks didn’t have answers to the hard questions. Unfortunately, neither did the philosopher 🙃.
1/n After @PresidioBitcoin's Quantum Summit, a "big picture" is beginning to form. Here's a high-level view, informed by many of the brilliant talks and conversations. (Apologies to @brian_trollz for a rambling interview this morning when it was even more nascent and hazy.)
Initial survey results from Quantum conference @PresidioBitcoin TL;DR there’s no clear consensus on when and what to do about quantum becoming a problem for Bitcoin.
How is Uber going to handle the shortage of drivers retiring off XRP?
Excited to be back in SF for the Quantum Bitcoin Summit @PresidioBitcoin! I am giving two talks tomorrow: * Quantum-Resistant Rollups * Post-Quantum Signatures and Scaling Bitcoin with STARKs, based on work by @Ethan_Heilman Details: pbquantum.com
Oh hell yah. ShieldedCSV goes hard.
NEW FROM THE INSIDER EDITION: It might be Paper Bitcoin Summer, but some of us still want private, bitcoin payments. For his latest piece, @januszg_ covers Shielded CSV - a payments protocol that can be built on top of bitcoin. Tl;dr - it's scalable, pretty damn private, and…
💥🔫 Glock: A new standard for verification on Bitcoin Alpen Labs’ focus has rapidly evolved to a new frontier over the last few months. We'll soon unveil Glock, short for garbled lock, a primitive that takes the safety of Bitcoin-based systems to new heights.
In high school, @simanta_gautam wrote a paper on how to break bitcoin. In high school, I achieved 3v3 gladiator status in WoW and competed for multiple world first end game raids.
Ecosystem Spotlight: @AlpenLabs Our gen-zk intern spent some time getting to know: @simanta_gautam
We can do better than BitVM. Glock ("Garbled Locks"🔫) are the real break-through for verifying ZK on Bitcoin. Glock is the successor to BitVM.
💥🔫 Glock: A new standard for verification on Bitcoin Alpen Labs’ focus has rapidly evolved to a new frontier over the last few months. We'll soon unveil Glock, short for garbled lock, a primitive that takes the safety of Bitcoin-based systems to new heights.
The two models of L2 tradeoffs from our Head of Ecosystem @david_seroy at @TheBitcoinConf: "Don't be evil" (trusting incentives) vs. "Can't be evil" (where cryptography makes stealing funds impossible). We're building for the "can't be evil" future with ZK-rollups.
I've warned you guys again, and again, and again... $112,000 was Bitcoin's top. It will never go any higher. Ever.
I've warned you guys again, and again, and again... $112,000 was Bitcoin's top. It will never go any higher. Ever.
Elaborating on @ekrembal_ post. Garbled Circuits (“GC”) are a 1,000x improvement over BitVM. However, GC itself needs to be several orders of magnitude (100x+) more efficient to be practical 🙃. One approach to make GC practical was Robin’s RSA scheme “BitVM3”. @liameagen…
To be clear, this attack only affects the RSA-based BitVM3 described in Liam’s post. The schemes we’re working on use the well-known cut-and-choose paradigm and are unaffected. With a simple zkSNARK, they can also be made efficient on Bitcoin. See: x.com/ekrembal_/stat…
"I don't understand the BitVM stuff and at this point I'm too afraid to ask" It's complex, it's controversial, and it's probably time to start paying attention again. We've got the full breakdown in today's newsletter, but here's the highlights 🧵