Dr Maxim Orlovsky

RGB yellow paper is released: the first formally specified scalable smart contract system for Bitcoin & Lightning, made with client-side validation

https://github.com/RGB-WG/yellowpaper/blob/master/rgb-yellowpaper.pdf

Our first post on Stacker News.

What do you think if we will create a dedicated RGB topic and community there, will you be participating it?

https://stacker.news/items/675088

This year we are excited to bring more #RGB #Bitcoin  and #Lightning products - read about them and our business strategy on our updated website:

https://pandoraprime.ch

For those who suppose to be self-sovereign individuals: there are four things which you should control and take care of by yourself - without delegation.

1. Your will, desire and actions (including speech, transactions, and information transfer). This is called freedom.

2. Your health: study medicine (it takes just ~10 years, with future longevity it won’t be a problem).

3. Your physical security: the price of getting you (kidnapping, hunting, arresting) must be higher than the potential benefits for the bounty hunters/gangsters/government.

4. Computing: you must be able to compute and control what is computed by your hardware. In fact, this is the same number (1) - just your mind extended to external computing mediums. Running Bitcoin Core is not “don’t trust verify”: you must be able to ensure how it operates, what consensus logic it has and how it is configured. The same applies to all other critical software which affects (1)-(3): how you think, how free you are, how you are healthy, and how secure you are.

Don’t trust: just do it yourself. #NewMotto

I am doing AI since 1998. Those days, when I wrote my first “AI” app in C for my Neuroscience PhD at Medical University - the app which was doing recognition of cells in microscopic images (it was also a “dApp” running on a computer cluster of the University network :) - those days the “AI” was still called “neural networks” and perceptrons. So I have some knowledge of the industry.

It is so much fun seeing people being scared of digital parrots of ChatGTP kind - and governments addressing those “issues” in their usual “COVID dovecot” style (“fly in, shit over everything around and fly out”), that I can’t stop laughing.

Yes, digital parrots will cause many people to lose their jobs - but this fact says much more about people lacking real intelligence than AI possessing any intelligence. Jobs were taken from people many times before - agriculture took the jobs of hunters, engineering took the jobs of slaves, automation took the job of factory workers etc, etc. None of them was a form of “intelligence” - neither ChatGPT is.

Do you know who was fighting these technologies for the “good of people”? Luddites. So congrats to the EU, which is now run by Luddites - and those “advanced opinion leaders and innovators” from the “crypto industry” like Vitalik Buterin welcoming regulations.

“Have fun staying stupid” - probably this should be the new meme for those who’d like to address neo-Luddites.

But what about real GAI? Is it possible? Would it happen one day? So far, even most humans, possessing the same brain, is still not able to develop a proper generic natural intelligence (GNI), so what we can say about GAI? Of course, it is possible, but not with training on human-generated data sets of some large statistical models using differential equations and calling that “neural networks”. These neural networks are like guinea pig: not a pig - and not from Guinea: they are neither “neural” nor “networks”.

MyCitadel v1.3 is around the corner with some great updates: ability to compose complex time-locked conditions (like 2-of-4 multisig which in 1 year becomes 1-of-2).

A tx created with MyCitadel spending from such complex miniscript descriptor: https://mempool.space/testnet/tx/48b47bdc2b55c0795df836e22983bed28c62de55ccfa10db122e267948a3221d

Miniscript descriptors with timelocks were available since the first release of our desktop wallet, but due to miniscript inability to work with the same keys in different pre-taproot script branches it was impossible to create non-trivial setups. The new version will introduce account-based spending conditions such that different branches now may use different accounts coming from the same hardware signer.

Predating some major events: https://dr.orlovsky.ch/blog/cyphernox-manifesto

Is it just for me the “Follow” feature in #Damus is broken? When I click “Follow” the button says “Unfollowing..”. In the second click “Following..”. And the home feed is always empty. It was the same for the last several versions. @jb55

I have read Nostr specs. JSON objects. Sigs over JSON objects. All data (images ext) mist be serialized into … strings! And Secp256k1 curve for signatures. This all means slow. That is exactly how it feels.