#Schnorr

Thread: the Schnorr/Taproot update is coming up very soon, and it's a big deal for #bitcoin . Let's take a look at what it means. 1/https://bit.ly/2Ygiukt  So what is Schnorr/Taproot?
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A thread on how taproot improves bitcoin privacy: Right now in Bitcoin there are a bunch of different kinds of multisig (graph here https://txstats.com/dashboard/db/p2sh-repartition-by-type?orgId=1) All this leaks privacy-relevant informati
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Early children's adaptations of the Siegfried/Sigurd material often have fantastic pictures. Here are some companions: Sigurd the Dragon Slayer and The Linden Leaf (both 1907, both held in the @britishlibrary).
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"If you could basically take Bitcoin, and if it ran 10 times faster, and it had $5T on it, and people with more money than the Bitcoiners were using that
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According to #CraigWright "BTC is Theranos".Let's examine that a bit shall we? (alongside BSV)Theranos was a fraudulent company, because they claimed to have technical innovations they didn't really have. 1/
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1/ THREADA somewhat off-the-cuff lookback megathread at #Bitcoin ’s year in 2020 and what we got right and what we got wrong (that no one asked for but here we
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New CA Policy Lab report by @alexbellecon, @TJ_Hedin, @TillvonWachter, Geoff Schnorr: 4.4 million Californians are currently receiving unemployment benefits, but by end of the year, about 750k will be
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New @CAPolicyLab Report: Me, @TillvonWachter, @alexbellecon & Geoff Schnorr are back with a new analysis of UI claimants in California.A few takeaways to share, starting with the most dire:Winter is
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The not-inventor of proof-of-work (which was actually invented by a woman called Cynthia Dwork in 1993), along with a few other boomer OG cypherpunk mailing list members, have sadly become
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The Winklevosses (@tyler & @cameron) are telling porkies about #Bitcoin .> @tyler: “I’ve yet to hear a convincing criticism that’s credible. If I hear an argument that’s convincing, I’ll let
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New From @CAPolicyLab:Within 2 weeks, over 1 million Californians are projected to lose UI benefits.This includes 859k individuals currently on PUA + another 208k receiving regular UI benefits.We analyze the
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Nunchuk’s mission is the proliferation of multisig. To that end, today we are excited to open source our library, libnunchuk, under the MIT license. This library handles all the heavy-lifting
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New UI Report from @CAPolicyLab(Me, @TillvonWachter, @alexbellecon & Geoff Schnorr)Since March, we've written 8 reports analyzing the UI system + trying to explain how many people are receiving UI benefits.Now
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new paper on labor market & expanded UI benefits Tldr: spending more than expected, job search order of magnitude less than expected1) rise of repeat unemployment2) effect
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