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By Sam Parker

To reiterate, Bitcoin is now as Turing Complete as any other chain, and this requires zero changes to Bitcoin.

It’s become a canon maxi talking point that Turing Complete = Bad. This is silly for a number of reasons.

Firstly nothing in our reality will ever be TRULY Turing Complete, because the technical definition of Turing Complete actually requires an UNBOUNDED runtime, and we just don’t have an unbounded amount of space and time to accommodate for that.

Along the way a small cabal of script hackers such as

@robin_linus

and

@super_testnet

have figured out how to hack in all of the functionality we would want from a generalized computer into Bitcoin’s extremely limited OP set, so the only thing that has kept Bitcoin’s VM from being as Turing complete as something like Ethereum’s was not a matter of expressivity, but simply a matter of Runtime, with the most stringent limitation being the stack size limit.

All BitVM does is allow us to split the runtime of some logic that would be out of bounds of a single transaction ACROSS MULTIPLE TRANSACTIONS. That’s it. We aren’t adding any new semantic features, we just are exponentially increasing the length of the programs we can run.

So Bitcoin really isn’t any more Turing Complete by the technical definition as it was before, it simply has been given a runtime to its programs that we can reasonably say it’s “Turing complete enough” for any program that we could realistically want to execute.

Secondly this is the best thing possible for ossification. Why add in an Opcode when Bitcoin can already simulate any opcode imaginable? The debate now shifts to features to increase efficiency, privacy, security and not about features. Adding in this kind of functionality actually REDUCES risk for Bitcoin, precisely because it reduces the need for it to change in the future.

Thirdly being able to have satisfaction of arbitrary logical constraints means that you can cut out all kinds of trusted or semi-trusted escrow services that a version of Bitcoin without this requires. Congestion control/Coinjoin aggregators, sidechain quorums, certain types of DLC oracle type stuff all can go from trusted/semi trusted to 100% trustless. Bitcoin’s trustlessness is only as strong as the weakest link in the interaction you are engaging in with it. Oh and it means that Drivechains are unnecessary.

Finally this is opt-in. If you don’t trust your coins being locked to some Turing complete contract (totally reasonable) then don’t lock them to a Turing complete smart contract. One of beauties of the UTXO system is security sandboxing.

If people really feel strongly that Bitcoin shouldn’t have this functionality, perhaps for issues of incentives or something, that’s a conversation that should be had, but basically it would require ripping out Taproot, which seems very dumb at this point.

Does this mean the Ark lightning thing of Burak can be made without a fork?

Does this mean the Ark lightning thing of Burak can be made without a fork?

What's stopping Nostr developers from making an online card game with a thriving online economy around it?

I have heard using nostr to send data intensive content like videos and flashy things is not the way. But if you use a pretty simple game with a successful economy behind it, that would ignite a flame, right?

#asknostr #plebchain

So my question is: what should I do to help and collaborate with cashu and fedimints?

I recently realized that game theory favors ecash because the mints can't become central banks because they are basically over bitcoin and lightning rails. If there isn't a "central mint", this means mints are already incentivized to be completely trustworthy. If they aren't and expand their credit (mint more ecash from nothing) , their funds will be completely nuked because they will be fighting against big daddy bitcoin, the most prudent and resistant ledger ever created and also because the abundance of other mints that will be prudent(because they don't want to lose money)

To a more clear explanation of what I'm saying, look at this video from the minute 35:

https://youtu.be/V-KFTabWIGM?si=DtaxA5aEuV2PEDRJ

Replying to Avatar atyh

Unpopular opinion:

The mRNA vaccine platform has the potential to be an incredible breakthrough in fighting disease. Done correctly, it would tell your body to use its own natural immunity to produce resistance to infection agents, and would cause no damage to the body.

Its really kind of amazing when you get into the science of it.

The problem is not mRNA. The problem is Pfizer. To put it plainly, they are.... evil.

What is being discovered now, is that the side effects are likely the result of the manufacturing process. Or more specifically, it looks like Pfizer used a different manufacturing process for the mass distributed vaccines than it used for its submitted test vaccines. And hid it.

All over the world now, different researchers are discovering plasma dna contamination in the vaccines. The current hypothesis for why this is present is:

Pfizer used bacteria as a rapid growth medium for the dna used to produce the rna. In the test vaccines they took care to remove the residual plasma dna from the process. But in mass production, they let that slide. And as a result, sent out large batches of vaccine with varying levels of residual plasma dna contamination. The side effects of that will vary widely. But in some cases, its likely some people have had their dna altered. That genomic change would be permanent, and hereditary.

Additionally there is strong evidence they used e-coli in the bacterial process because of its rapid reproduction. The membranes of the bacteria used to produce the dna which is used for rna production, is an endotoxin, and results in massive levels of inflammation in the body if not removed after the vaccine production process. It looks like Pfizer also cut corners here.

Basically, it looks like Pfizer hid the fact that their vaccine mass production process was different from their test vaccine process, and cut corners on mass production process, resulting in vaccine batches filled with potentially dna altering material, and endotoxins which produce massive inflammation.

This would be consistent with many of the strange side effects seen all over the world.

So. While the mRNA platform seems to have a great deal of potential, seems like Pfizer is not the company to do it. Besides..their entire corporate board should be in prison.

that sounds interesting, but would be mostly obsolete. There are certain types of white blood cells that are able to modify themselves genetically to combat infection. The immune system of mammals is already awesome and complex.

however, it would be interesting for making things like a sort of artificial telomere. You could even use AI to mitigate the risk of being betrayed by big pharma

Hello, Allen. Have you thought about incorporating ecash (fedimint/cashu) to all these ideas instead of DLCs?

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Introducing Mutiny Gifts: Onboard someone to Bitcoin by simply showing them a QR code. Once they scan the QR code, it will load up Mutiny Wallet on the web, allowing them to redeem the Bitcoin.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-gifts/

Mutiny Gifts is self-custodial through the whole process. Funds stay in your wallet until the receiver redeems it. You can revoke access at any time if the gift is not claimed. All thanks to the magic of NWC.

Gifts is our first Mutiny+ paid-only feature. Anyone can redeem a gift, but you need to be a paid user or self-hoster to create one.

Here's a gift for a lucky person! Be the first one to scan this from your mobile phone and you'll receive 50k sats.

Hola, y qué tal publicitarse a través de de la red lightning, eh?

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Introducing Mutiny Gifts: Onboard someone to Bitcoin by simply showing them a QR code. Once they scan the QR code, it will load up Mutiny Wallet on the web, allowing them to redeem the Bitcoin.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-gifts/

Mutiny Gifts is self-custodial through the whole process. Funds stay in your wallet until the receiver redeems it. You can revoke access at any time if the gift is not claimed. All thanks to the magic of NWC.

Gifts is our first Mutiny+ paid-only feature. Anyone can redeem a gift, but you need to be a paid user or self-hoster to create one.

Here's a gift for a lucky person! Be the first one to scan this from your mobile phone and you'll receive 50k sats.

Hello, Juraj, have you seen this?

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Replying to Avatar OpenSecret

Introducing Mutiny Gifts: Onboard someone to Bitcoin by simply showing them a QR code. Once they scan the QR code, it will load up Mutiny Wallet on the web, allowing them to redeem the Bitcoin.

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-gifts/

Mutiny Gifts is self-custodial through the whole process. Funds stay in your wallet until the receiver redeems it. You can revoke access at any time if the gift is not claimed. All thanks to the magic of NWC.

Gifts is our first Mutiny+ paid-only feature. Anyone can redeem a gift, but you need to be a paid user or self-hoster to create one.

Here's a gift for a lucky person! Be the first one to scan this from your mobile phone and you'll receive 50k sats.

That makes me scared. And I love it

if transaction fees become more expensive, that will incentivize miners to make more hash, making every transaction cheaper (because lack of scarcity is equal to cheaper). catallactic competition between miners makes mining cheaper, more abundant, more quality, more diverse and stronger

I initially thought it was: be holding tight your varanus cutie

i'm gonna tell you my path through Nostr. It may be useful for you or not. In the beginning, I noticed Nostr suffered an identity problem but then realized I didn't need identities to search interesting things on Nostr if I focused on logical reasoning and A priori knowledge, because you don't evaluate the attributes of the sender when you are trying to determine if a statement is logic and makes seen.

The problem of this approach is that I wasn't able to find a lot of people in the beginning of my Nostr journey, only the bitcoin maximalists I knew from Twitter, telegram and youtube. But then I found the idea of the "network"(follows of your follows) of primal and began researching about clients that could give me an algorithm that shows posts of "new people" from the "network".

I didn't find shit because I don't have technical experience but I found that muting my own follows on coracle would provide me posts of new people from the "network" and I could evaluate if that post were logical or not and weed out the spammers.

In that way, I was able to expand my base of follows and my "network" and I can find new logical people every now and then.

My conclusion is that no one thinks the same. Every person has different types of reasoning in their brains. I think the Best way to handle this is letting people be their own algorithms and not worrying to much about identity