Federico Tenga @[email protected]

Each time I receive the Bitcoin Optech Newsletter I feel like another week has passed and somehow I'm getting older

Now that phones have almost become a commodity, advance privacy features may become one of the few things people are willing to pay a premium for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6uV9A12ok

After reading this I feel grateful for how Bitcoin was maintained, keeping me able to run a full archival indexed node on a cheap laptop without issues

https://medium.com/p/ethereum-woes-d9b2af62da67

I really like the signet proposal. I'd love to see it integrated into Core, although I'd prefer it without a default signer. For people using this feature I don't think it is a problem to specify a signet identifier parameter in the bitcoin.conf

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-March/016734.html

Does anyone have any paper or document that elaborates on the fact that blockchain analysis are not to be considered reliable?

I am consulting the Italian government for a "blockchain national strategy", and I wanted to pick the occasion to highly the fact that no one should ever be incriminated on the basis of blockchain analysis

Has anyone already tried coinjoin or other mixing techniques on Liquid? With CT implemented it can become a more convenient tool to make coins fungible, or if things go terribly wrong it could break the peg, which would still be an interesting learning experience

Original 1939 German Enigma machine of the Wehrmacht. Quite impressive for its time and very fun to try

Coinbase claims to support over 100k ERC-20 tokens. Are there really that many shitty tokens out there or they are just exaggerating?

https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-bitcoin-btc-support-on-coinbase-wallet-e57aeadc7380

Nice presentation about the RGB protocol from @sjors https://youtu.be/fNrCcNwHLQs?t=2282

All the people advocating for a multi-chain/multi-coin future usually are not running full validating nodes, they instead just trust third parties and are ok with it

I find really stupid this whole "crypto asset" meme. What a cryto asset is even supposed to be, anything that uses cryptography to track ownership? I fail to see how this feature alone should create a new asset class as many are trying promote

Digital silver --> Better PoW --> Bitcoin's sidechain --> Privacy coin

Can't wait for the next narrative shift

Am I the only one who is still wondering what "crypto law" and "crypto legal system" are supposed to mean?

Does anyone ever tried to has an indexed pruned node? Not sure if possible, but for example for LN would make sense as I do not need blocks prior to 2017, but I still need the new ones to be indexed

Yesterday I was playing with the new RGB protocol to issue tokens on Bitcoin, and I felt so reckless to try it on mainnet. Later, talking with the RGB lead dev @afilini, I found out that I was the first one ever to actually issue RGB tokens on the Bitcoin mainnet, which is very cool 😎

If you wanna try it yourself, here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/rgb-org/kaleidoscope

As an attempt of reducing the confusion on terminology, I propose to converge on following notation:

Block chain = the Bitcoin ledger

Blockchain = a random word that can be freely used to express anything you want, without limitations, and it's a synonymous of any other word