There's a dangerous trend happening that's very bad for Bitcoin price.

Several influencers and a key figurehead in the podcasting circuit have deleted their Twitter accounts and gone solely to NOSTR.

This is very bad for Bitcoin price.

#shameful #leadership #cryptocurrency

Bitcoiners probably are the perfect people to bootstrap nostr, because they have already demonstrated they have an insanely high pain tolerance for bad UX.

I'M BACK BITCHES

💊 What would it be for new bitcoiners?

LNHANCE is a proposal made up of CTV + CSFS + InternalKey

Pros:

-It's the most conservative and well reviewed with lowest risk of unexpected features (in contrast to CAT)

-Scales throughput on L2 by enabling Lightning Symmetry (Eltoo) so we can have non-interactive / cold channel construction

-Scales custody on L1 with certain forms of UTXO sharing like Ark and Timeout Trees

-Gives you most of the features of OP_Vault

Cons:

-Complex to understand and implement, but so is the LN and this isn't more complex than that

-Unknown unknowns, but by definition all upgrades will have this

Read more:

delvingbitcoin.org/t/lnhance-bips-and-implementation/376

bitcoincore.reviews/bitcoin-inquisition-45

See who supports CTV:

utxos.org/signals

In case i were to abruptly go dark for any period of time between several minutes and forever, this is what i’d hope to be remembered by:

What are the important things we need first?

Also what’s your thoughts wrt spam on the timechain?

Absolutely bonkers for HRF to focus on CISA.

It's such a huge change all for a different address format or in other words a very large amount of work for very little benefit.

Strange thing to focus on given there's so many more important things we need first.

back to normal

HRF is excited to announce the CISA Research Fellowship 🎉

Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) is a proposed upgrade to Bitcoin that could potentially enhance privacy and provide cost-savings for transactions

HRF is sponsoring a four-month research fellowship to help analyze the state and future of CISA

The product of the fellowship will be an industry paper that seeks to answer the following questions:

1) How could CISA improve Bitcoin privacy?

2) Exactly how much cost-savings could CISA provide across different types of transactions? This will include a comparison of full versus half aggregate implementations.

3) How meaningful might these cost savings be to different industry participants? Given historical precedent, could these cost savings make Taproot the default script type, as Native Segwit is today?

4) Could CISA, if adopted widely, reduce the effectiveness of chain analysis?

5) Could CISA pave the way for cheaper transactions in a high-fee environment?

6) Could CISA lower the minimum economically spendable account at a given fee rate?

7) Could CISA help exchanges by, for example, saving them money while they consolidate small UTXOs?

8) How does CISA compare to other aggregation strategies?

9) Are there any ways in which CISA could help upgrade or complement the Lightning Network, eCash, or existing CoinJoin mechanisms?

10) How might CISA protect the social and legal choice of Bitcoin users and businesses to CoinJoin, and the likelihood of more CoinJoin behavior, if users could state (if asked) that their decision was based on saving money, not simply seeking more privacy?

11) How would Bitcoin Core need to change to integrate CISA? Are there any known current improvement proposals?

12) How would SegWit need to change to integrate CISA?

13) Could CISA be packaged with (and might it be mutually beneficial with) any existing softfork convent proposals?

14) Would CISA have any impact on output destruction versus creation? How would implementation relate to the witness discount?

15) How problematic would the interactive nature of full aggregate CISA be? What strategies might be adopted to ameliorate this?

16) What would be the main downsides and risks of bringing CISA to Bitcoin?

17) How would a CISA-powered for-profit service that could help people save money on fees, if they are willing to enter an interactive pool, work?

18) What other kinds of CISA-powered apps can be envisioned?

The fellowship is being created with the acknowledgement that CISA may not be a helpful or appropriate addition to Bitcoin, but with the open mind that it might be

The fellow will receive 50 million sats to support their efforts during the research and writing period

The research is expected to be on par with the standards established by bitcoinrollups.org, a previous HRF research fellowship paper reviewing rollup technology

To apply, please email cisafellowship@hrf.org before May 15, 2024

Please include relevant information about your industry or academic background, a research plan in terms of who you will speak to, and your current sense of the impact CISA could have for Bitcoin 🙏

Yeah this is no surprise to me at all, I just think it's important to remind everyone how your data is misused by companies such as Google. It's also important to remember that these companies won't protect you from prying government entities. It's cheaper to just follow orders from the overlords.