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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #391 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #391⁠. News ● A constant-time parallelized UTXO database (25:40) ● Bithoven: A formally verified, imperative language for Bitcoin Scrip…

Well, Poop | Bitcoin News

Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover the latest Bitcoin market reaction alongside pressure across gold and U.S. stocks, BlackRock’s new bitcoin ETF filing, fresh Fed comments on stablecoin controls, Interactive Brokers expanding bitcoin trading, and new developments in bitcoin regul…

Ten31 Timestamp: Schrödinger's Regime Change

Schrödinger's Regime Change is upon us. With the Trump administration sending contradictory signals on Iran and global markets whipsawing on every headline, Marty Bent and John Arnold cut through the noise to focus on the physical realities actually driving geopolitics. From oil flows through the S…

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #399 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399. News ● Wallet fingerprinting risks for payjoin privacy (44:15) ● Draft BIP for a wallet backup metadata format (1:04:26) Changing consensus ● C…

"Everything Just Lined Up For Bitcoin" | Adam Back

Adam Back on Bitcoin's Quantum Defense, Satoshi's Identity, and the future of Bitcoin Treasury Companies Dr. Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and the inventor of Hashcash (cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper), joins Rob Wallace to dismantle the latest quantum panic, explain what real post-quantum sec…

Allen Farrington

In this first-ever guest episode of Magic Internet Math, Rob Hamilton and I (Brian Hirschfield) welcome author and thinker Allen Farrington for an unfiltered tour through math as a liberal art, why rigor matters more than vibes, and how curiosity—not applications—often drives real progress. We trad…

Post-Quantum Bitcoin Signatures (+ their tradeoffs) | ETHAN HEILMAN & JONAS NICK

According to BIP 360 co-author, Ethan Heilman, Bitcoin needs a minimum of two soft forks to become quantum resistant: P2MR (or an output type that can safely execute PQ signatures) + a post-quantum checksig (signature scheme). Ethan and the BIP 360 team (including myself and Hunter Beast) intro…

Perfect Number Day and the Road to Schnorr

We celebrated June 28 as “Perfect Number Day” and finally told one of my favorite origin stories behind this whole project: a late-night drive home from a Phish show with Kayla, where a quick conversation about why 6 and 28 are perfect numbers turned into a full-blown family math obsession. We revi…

How Are Bitcoiners Preparing For Quantum? - QBC Ep. 04

Can Bitcoin's signatures actually be replaced, and what does the replacement cost? In the [Nth] episode of The Quantum Bitcoin Podcast, Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo and co-host Nathan Jeffay put that question to Jonas Nick, Blockstream's Director of Research, who has spent the past year and a half …

Bitcoin's Leading Post-Quantum Signature Proposal | CONDUITION

The first fully specified post-quantum signature scheme for Bitcoin has been proposed to the Bitcoin mailing list. The proposal introduces a full specification for “SHRINCS,” a hash-based signature scheme initially conceived by Jonas Nick and Mikhail Kudinov of Blockstream Research — with specific…