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This is when the expert tells you that you just don’t understand.

Why do you need to access the witness data if it’s cryptographically verified? That can’t change.

You and nostr:nprofile1qqs9qp2dql3vmuetzq6hw77eeaeej2j2ughers22wch0m2jm7c05w4gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgaml00x might be the best follows here. Some common sense and reason.

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I get the gist, our team does zkapps (o1js, noir, cairo) and there's not a lot new under the zksun.

At the end of the day it's logic executed off-chain by a dedicated prover. It always is. Whether you use a sequencer and call it an L2 or use a so-called vprog and call it an extension to the L1, it's still some outside CPU taking a long time to prove something and then yeeting that proof on back.

Honestly, for ZK, my view is that you need a ZK stack top to bottom. Mina was too early but that is the right path, the entire Mina chain reduces to a 22kb recursive snark, you can verify anything proven in the entire history of the chain on a iPhone in100 milliseconds. You just need that 22kb snark and whatever zkapp state proof you got sent to you and that's it. So a super-fast ZK sequencer rolling up to a ZK-native layer like Mina, or some high speed ZKnative L1 that emerges in a few years, this stuff all makes a lot of sense.

It would be impossible for a Kaspa node to verify Vprog ZK-proofs on an iphone like a Mina mobile rust node can. For Kaspa the best you can do is an SPV kind of deal, trusting a cluster of full nodes or a centralized RPC endpoint, and anyway on an iphone an SPV will get stopped once the app goes to background.

There are projects taking the Mina learnings and coming out in the next few years that will be the future of ZK. It'll be ZKnative top to bottom. (I'm in Asia so I'm biased, but I think ZK for the next 10 years is all about mobile.)

Kaspa is just not ZK-native. You can do a similar trick to these Vprogs (minus the DAG flourish) on Solana, but Solana is not ZKnative either. And Aztek rolling up to Eth, okay Noir is nice, but Eth is not ZK-native either. All of these suffer from the same dissonance and can't be the ZK future.

Solana is for old-fashioned smart contracts. Kaspa, like Bitcoin, is for money. My thoughts anyway.

There wasn’t a whole lot new under the sun for POW, until Kaspa. And here we are at 10bps (everybody said it couldn’t be done). I’m not sure getting “the gist” means you can create something nobody else has been able to. Clearly Sutton and YS disagree with you.

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If You Still Believe That Russia Started This Conflict in 2022, Then You Are Ignorant, or Brainwashed.

The END to NATO.

The Ukraine war, which I will argue was provoked by the West and especially the United States.

This war will be settled on the battlefield where the Russians are likely to win an ugly victory.

Settling the war diplomatically is not possible because the opposing sides have irreconcilable differences.

Instead, it's likely to be, as I said, an ugly victory, where Russia ends up occupying somewhere between 20 to 40% of pre-2014 Ukraine, while Ukraine ends up as a dysfunctional rump state covering the territory that Russia does not conquer.

Ukraine has effectively been wrecked. It has already lost a substantial portion of its territory and is likely to lose more land before the fighting stops.

Russian leaders recognized that the Ukrainian army, which was larger than the invasion force, I want to emphasize this, the Ukrainian army was larger than the Russian invasion force, it was armed and trained by NATO, and it was becoming a de facto member of NATO.

Immediately after the war began, Russia, not Ukraine, Russia reached out to Ukraine to start negotiations to end the war and work out a modus vivendi between the two countries. This move is directly at odds with the claim that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine and make it part of greater Russia.

Negotiations between Kiev and Moscow began in Belarus just four days, four days after the Russian invasion. And that Belarus track was eventually replaced by an Israeli as well as an Istanbul track. The available evidence indicates that the Russians were negotiating seriously and were not interested in absorbing Ukrainian territory, save for Crimea, which they had annexed in 2014, and possibly the Donbass region.

The negotiations ended when the Ukrainians, with prodding from Britain and the United States, walked away from the negotiations, which were making good progress at the time. The Russians did not walk away from the negotiations.

In the months before the war started, Putin tried to find a diplomatic solution to the brewing crisis. On 17 October 2021, remember the war begins February 2022, this is 17 December 2021, Putin sends letters to both President Biden and to NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg proposing a solution to the crisis based on a written guarantee that does three things.

Number one, Ukraine would not join NATO, number two, no offensive weapons would be stationed near Russia's borders, and number three, NATO troops and equipment moved into Eastern Europe since 1997 would be moved back to Western Europe.

Whatever one thinks of the feasibility of reaching a bargain based on Putin's opening demands, it shows he was trying to avoid war.

The United States, on the other hand, refused to negotiate with Putin. It appears it was not interested in avoiding war.

In fact, the United States and its European allies provoked the war.

Bringing Kiev into the European Union and promoting a color revolution in Ukraine, you all remember the Orange Revolution, which was designed to make Ukraine a pro-Western liberal democracy, are the other two prongs of the policy.

Russian leaders across the board said repeatedly before the war. that they considered NATO expansion into Ukraine to be an existential threat that had to be eliminated.

Putin made numerous public statements laying out this line of argument before 24 February, 2022.

Other leaders, including the defense minister, the foreign minister, the deputy foreign minister, and Moscow's ambassador to Washington also emphasized the centrality of NATO expansion for causing the crisis over Ukraine.

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, made this point succinctly at a press conference on 14 January, 2022.

Lavrov says "'The key to everything is the guarantee "'that NATO will not expand eastward.'

Substantial number of influential and highly regarded individuals in the West recognized before the war that NATO expansion, especially into Ukraine, would be seen by Russian leaders as a mortal threat and eventually would lead to disaster.

William Burns, who was recently Joe Biden's head of the CIA, but he was the American ambassador to Moscow in April 2008 when the decision was made to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, wrote a very famous memo that I'm sure some of you are familiar with to then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. This is a quite remarkable memo, and I'm going to quote extensively from it. "'Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest "'of all red lines for the Russian elite, not just Putin. "'In more than two and a half years of conversations "'with key Russian players, from knuckle draggers "'in the dark recesses of the Kremlin "'to Putin's sharpest liberal critics, "'I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine and NATO "'as anything other than a direct challenge "'to Russia's interests.' "'NATO,' he said, quote, "'would be seen as throwing down the strategic gauntlet. "'Today's Russia will respond. "'Russian-Ukrainian relations will go into a deep freeze. "'It will create fertile soil for Russian meddling "'in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.'"

This was written by Bill Burns in 2008. Burns was not the only Western policymaker in 2008 who understood that bringing Ukraine into NATO was fraught with danger.

Both Angela Merkel, who was then the German chancellor, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy adamantly opposed moving forward to bring Ukraine into NATO.

Merkel said, "'I was very sure that Putin is not going "'to just let that happen."'From his perspective, that would be a declaration of war.'"

Putin saw Ukraine joining NATO as a mortal threat that could not be allowed and was willing to go to war to prevent it from happening, which he did, of course, in February of 2022.

Relations between Europe and Russia will not only be poisonous, they will also be dangerous. The possibility of war will be ever-present.

In other words, the threat of a major European war will not go away when the fighting in Ukraine stops.

Russian victory in Ukraine, would be a stunning defeat for Europe. Or to put it in slightly different words, it would be a stunning defeat for NATO, which has been deeply involved in the Ukraine conflict since it started.

The political fights, some will question the future of NATO, given that it failed to check Russia, the country that most European leaders describe as a mortal threat.

Threats to the EU aside, the great reduction in the flow of gas and oil to Europe since the war started has seriously hurt the major economies of Europe and slowed down growth in the overall Eurozone.

General Observations

The Ukraine war has been a disaster.

It has had catastrophic consequences for Ukraine.

It has poisoned relations between Europe and Russia for the foreseeable future.

It has made Europe a more dangerous place.

It has also caused serious economic and political harm inside Europe, and badly damaged transatlantic relations.

Most European leaders, and I'm sure most people in the various European publics, will blame Putin for causing the war, and thus for its terrible consequences. But they are wrong. The war could have been avoided if the West had not decided to bring Ukraine into NATO, or even if it had backed off from that commitment once the Russians made their opposition clear.

Had that happened, Ukraine would almost certainly be intact today within its pre-2014 borders, and Europe would be more stable and more prosperous. Crimea would still be part of Ukraine.

***Professor John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a globally recognized expert in international relations.

#Putin #NATO #Ukraine #war #Russia #

The irony is, this is done in the name of democracy. Yet who is not holding elections?

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2025/nr-occ-2025-108.html

Looks like banks are going to be buying crypto soon. Dated 18NOV2025

Replying to Avatar RS83

If You Still Believe That Russia Started This Conflict in 2022, Then You Are Ignorant, or Brainwashed.

The END to NATO.

The Ukraine war, which I will argue was provoked by the West and especially the United States.

This war will be settled on the battlefield where the Russians are likely to win an ugly victory.

Settling the war diplomatically is not possible because the opposing sides have irreconcilable differences.

Instead, it's likely to be, as I said, an ugly victory, where Russia ends up occupying somewhere between 20 to 40% of pre-2014 Ukraine, while Ukraine ends up as a dysfunctional rump state covering the territory that Russia does not conquer.

Ukraine has effectively been wrecked. It has already lost a substantial portion of its territory and is likely to lose more land before the fighting stops.

Russian leaders recognized that the Ukrainian army, which was larger than the invasion force, I want to emphasize this, the Ukrainian army was larger than the Russian invasion force, it was armed and trained by NATO, and it was becoming a de facto member of NATO.

Immediately after the war began, Russia, not Ukraine, Russia reached out to Ukraine to start negotiations to end the war and work out a modus vivendi between the two countries. This move is directly at odds with the claim that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine and make it part of greater Russia.

Negotiations between Kiev and Moscow began in Belarus just four days, four days after the Russian invasion. And that Belarus track was eventually replaced by an Israeli as well as an Istanbul track. The available evidence indicates that the Russians were negotiating seriously and were not interested in absorbing Ukrainian territory, save for Crimea, which they had annexed in 2014, and possibly the Donbass region.

The negotiations ended when the Ukrainians, with prodding from Britain and the United States, walked away from the negotiations, which were making good progress at the time. The Russians did not walk away from the negotiations.

In the months before the war started, Putin tried to find a diplomatic solution to the brewing crisis. On 17 October 2021, remember the war begins February 2022, this is 17 December 2021, Putin sends letters to both President Biden and to NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg proposing a solution to the crisis based on a written guarantee that does three things.

Number one, Ukraine would not join NATO, number two, no offensive weapons would be stationed near Russia's borders, and number three, NATO troops and equipment moved into Eastern Europe since 1997 would be moved back to Western Europe.

Whatever one thinks of the feasibility of reaching a bargain based on Putin's opening demands, it shows he was trying to avoid war.

The United States, on the other hand, refused to negotiate with Putin. It appears it was not interested in avoiding war.

In fact, the United States and its European allies provoked the war.

Bringing Kiev into the European Union and promoting a color revolution in Ukraine, you all remember the Orange Revolution, which was designed to make Ukraine a pro-Western liberal democracy, are the other two prongs of the policy.

Russian leaders across the board said repeatedly before the war. that they considered NATO expansion into Ukraine to be an existential threat that had to be eliminated.

Putin made numerous public statements laying out this line of argument before 24 February, 2022.

Other leaders, including the defense minister, the foreign minister, the deputy foreign minister, and Moscow's ambassador to Washington also emphasized the centrality of NATO expansion for causing the crisis over Ukraine.

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, made this point succinctly at a press conference on 14 January, 2022.

Lavrov says "'The key to everything is the guarantee "'that NATO will not expand eastward.'

Substantial number of influential and highly regarded individuals in the West recognized before the war that NATO expansion, especially into Ukraine, would be seen by Russian leaders as a mortal threat and eventually would lead to disaster.

William Burns, who was recently Joe Biden's head of the CIA, but he was the American ambassador to Moscow in April 2008 when the decision was made to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, wrote a very famous memo that I'm sure some of you are familiar with to then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. This is a quite remarkable memo, and I'm going to quote extensively from it. "'Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest "'of all red lines for the Russian elite, not just Putin. "'In more than two and a half years of conversations "'with key Russian players, from knuckle draggers "'in the dark recesses of the Kremlin "'to Putin's sharpest liberal critics, "'I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine and NATO "'as anything other than a direct challenge "'to Russia's interests.' "'NATO,' he said, quote, "'would be seen as throwing down the strategic gauntlet. "'Today's Russia will respond. "'Russian-Ukrainian relations will go into a deep freeze. "'It will create fertile soil for Russian meddling "'in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.'"

This was written by Bill Burns in 2008. Burns was not the only Western policymaker in 2008 who understood that bringing Ukraine into NATO was fraught with danger.

Both Angela Merkel, who was then the German chancellor, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy adamantly opposed moving forward to bring Ukraine into NATO.

Merkel said, "'I was very sure that Putin is not going "'to just let that happen."'From his perspective, that would be a declaration of war.'"

Putin saw Ukraine joining NATO as a mortal threat that could not be allowed and was willing to go to war to prevent it from happening, which he did, of course, in February of 2022.

Relations between Europe and Russia will not only be poisonous, they will also be dangerous. The possibility of war will be ever-present.

In other words, the threat of a major European war will not go away when the fighting in Ukraine stops.

Russian victory in Ukraine, would be a stunning defeat for Europe. Or to put it in slightly different words, it would be a stunning defeat for NATO, which has been deeply involved in the Ukraine conflict since it started.

The political fights, some will question the future of NATO, given that it failed to check Russia, the country that most European leaders describe as a mortal threat.

Threats to the EU aside, the great reduction in the flow of gas and oil to Europe since the war started has seriously hurt the major economies of Europe and slowed down growth in the overall Eurozone.

General Observations

The Ukraine war has been a disaster.

It has had catastrophic consequences for Ukraine.

It has poisoned relations between Europe and Russia for the foreseeable future.

It has made Europe a more dangerous place.

It has also caused serious economic and political harm inside Europe, and badly damaged transatlantic relations.

Most European leaders, and I'm sure most people in the various European publics, will blame Putin for causing the war, and thus for its terrible consequences. But they are wrong. The war could have been avoided if the West had not decided to bring Ukraine into NATO, or even if it had backed off from that commitment once the Russians made their opposition clear.

Had that happened, Ukraine would almost certainly be intact today within its pre-2014 borders, and Europe would be more stable and more prosperous. Crimea would still be part of Ukraine.

***Professor John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a globally recognized expert in international relations.

#Putin #NATO #Ukraine #war #Russia #

James Baker said it was the brightest of all red lines.

You want to ignore laws in the name of compassion? You want to forgo justice?

You’re alleging. They’re not. You tell me. What does Jesus say about governance?

Noncitizens don’t get a day in court. Go to China, Russia, or North Korea and ask for a jury of your peers. See what happens.

I agree with the statement, but I don’t think it is exercise specifically. It’s work. We’ve perverted the word work, generally speaking, to amount to sitting in front of a computer screen for 40 hours a week.

Genesis 2:15, and there are thousands of example in the Bible, details Man being placed in the Garden to work it. And then in 3:23, we were sent out of the Garden to work the land from which we were taken. And it was to be difficult.

Proverbs 18:9 says whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Solomon, named the wisest of men, said in Ecclesiastes 3:22 that there was nothing than for man to rejoice in his work. He calls it his lot.

Colossians 3:23 commands we work heartily for the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 says if one doesn’t work, he shouldn’t eat.

We were made to work and it is a blessing. Exercise is a form of this.

You have to go through TestFlight. Are you on Discord?

i've designed a nostr-based DNS (and TLS) replacement and it requires some kind of consensus to function, it uses an explicit trust graph created by the name server nodes (i'm calling it FIND, Free Internet Name Daemon) to evaluate name registration/transfer proposals and store their evaluation, anything that falls under 50% is not stored by a node. this means that the consistency is not strong, but weak, but it is weak eventual consistency, and instead of using a monetary value incentive by being a currency, it provides a directory of the names for anyone who hosts a replica to use in their apps, and secondly, the names themselves become an ad-hoc non-fungible asset (so for which reason there is a number of measures to stop perma-registering names, and other spam mitigation methods).

idk how Kaspa can be not a blockchain, unless you are splitting hairs by distinguishing a blockchain from a tangle or a DAG type structure. they are still fundamentally the same thing, blocks of data that have back-references that build a DAG. chains just aim to grow one branch where tangles can vary from one to ten or more concurrent and interlinked chains. they still need some kind of spam limit mechanism to control how many tokens and transactions are processed and all that, and are based on a token ledger.

what i have designed is not a token ledger it's a registry for unique symbols and it doesn't need that economic basis to justify its existence. it's useful in itself as a directory cache, and useful for people in that these names can help increase the appeal of an offering. it's not just a collectable, and it's not fungible, it is an actually useful thing "this name was registered by this npub".

This is wrong. They are not fundamentally the same thing. There are no orphan blocks in Kaspa. This is a change in fundamentals.

Let’s connect the dots.

What is the problem, in your opinion, demonstrated in that post?

I don’t see a number of years old? Didn’t answer the question.

Again, learn to read. I said nothing about replacing Bitcoin.

“Allowing early miners to mine a shit ton of Kaspa”… Do you have any idea how much Bitcoin early miners own? I wouldn’t make that argument if I were you. Do your homework.

Again, learn to read. I didn’t say it was the next Bitcoin. I’ve already said Bitcoin is the best store of value. Are you ok?

How many years old was Bitcoin in 2010?

And how many years old was Kaspa when some transaction data was lost?

Lightening isn’t Bitcoin, brother. Hate to break it to you. Send your lightening sats to a BTC address and see what happens.

Yup. Under tension. Do a bicep curl with an empty hand=unloaded. Do a bicep curl with a dumbbell=loaded.

Haha I figured as much. I didn’t expect you to defend your position objectively. You can’t thoroughly engage on your opinions so you just dodge the questions. I had a prominent BTC maxi on here the other day telling me Kaspa was terrible because it used probabilistic finality model…

Share with me your thoughts on Kaspa and I’ll tell you what I think of your thesis. I see Bitcoin maximalists on here become religious zealots with thin arguments for their convictions. We encourage Boomers to understand the value proposition when they have wealth, but won’t objectively apply our proverbial selves.

I’m not forcing you to do anything haha. At this point I’m trying to show you that the points you’re arguing make zero sense. If you’re cool with having an illogical argument, then so be it.

Jesus was teaching Jews on the Mt. of Olives. Jesus is referencing the Old Testament, which the Jews asking questions of him would have memorized. Jesus was calling himself Yahweh (God of the Bible in Hebrew). Jesus is show to be eternal and a part of the Trinity a number of times in the Bible.

Hebrews 11:27 reads, ““He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” Speaking about Moses, thousands of years before Christ birth, yet he knew Christ.

Jesus said in John 5:46, ““For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.”

There are many many examples.

The federal government will sell treasury bonds to stable companies.