Super Testnet

My latest idea is Brokerless Hashrate Markets. I think it's a way to make mining about 3% more efficient. Check it out and let me know what you think! https://gist.github.com/supertestnet/5a30ba52f6915d32971d4acec1615607

This is really exciting. This is the first time I've heard of a thief moving funds over lightning to obfuscate his trail, and the first time I've seen someone try to trace the flow of funds over lightning and claim they know where it now sits: https://www.blink.sv/blog/phase-two-following-the-coins-in-public

People who oppose taxation are like people who oppose rent

Oh, you want free stuff? Get in line, the real world costs money

Libertarianism is just crybaby communism

Today I released a recording of my recital of chapter 8 of my ongoing work, "The Life of Robin Hood." Listen to it here: https://venatoverba.com/2026/08/18/chapter-eight-of-the-life-of-robin-hood.html

So, the bip110 drama is over now, and a bunch of hashrate lost its buyers, making it available at lower prices. And Ocean still works. It's possible to trade in your old coins for some fresh coinbase outputs. Is anyone building tools to automate this and make it more accessible?

Most pro110 miners are renting rigs from sites that don't accept bip110 coins. Those pro110 miners can only keep mining if they maintain a reserve of non110 coins, to pay with those. That means the most economically significant pro110ers will still be supporting the non110 chain!

Here's something that interests me about the coldcard bug: it had 2 random number generators. The "bad" one was seeded with data including keypresses, the timestamp, and the device id. I can understand that, it's probably how I would seed it. What was the "good" one seeded with?

Another piece of LN infrastructure goes down this week: https://zeusln.com/blog/security-update-2026-08-05/

Last year the US government sent a bailout to Argentina. Now it is apparently sending a bailout to Japan: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/01/us-treasury-intervenes-to-support-yen-after-japan-steps-in-ft.html

A bittersweet day approaches. In this, the last period before mandatory bip110 signaling, there are so few blocks left that even if bip110ers mined them all, they would still fail to achieve 55%. So they will fork off in 1018 blocks. Come back with a better proposal than bip110.

This cool new block explorer emphasizes the data footprint of various transactions, especially the difference segwit made: beta.satoshi.space

H/t x.com/uanbtc

I think this news indicates that one aspect of the marketing by Ocean Pool and DMND Pool has been effective. Namely, enough hashers want a say in how the blocks they produce look, that older pools are trying to find ways to give them that say, lest they go to pools that offer it. https://x.com/i/status/2078129671728722053

I would love it if a web wallet similar to coinos allowed me to give it a list of N preimages and have it create the next N lightning invoices using those preimages.

This would allow me to make a digital downloads store that has no backend logic. I could upload files to my server that are encrypted with a certain key, and then use the web wallet to sell users "secret" preimages which, when added to a corresponding "public" string, create the decryption key.

The logic could therefore all be done on the frontend: show the user an invoice, check if it is paid via the web wallet's api, get the preimage, construct the decryption key, and give the user their now-decrypted file.

Thus the server for a webstore could be a simple file storage system, such as Github Pages, and all the logic could be done on the the frontend, except for the delivery of the secret, which is done by the web wallet, in a way that the frontend can detect.

I would love it if a web wallet similar to coinos allowed me to give it a list of N preimages and have it create the next N lightning invoices using those preimages.

This would allow me to make a digital downloads store that has no backend logic. I could upload files to my server that are encrypted with a certain key, and then use the web wallet to sell users "secret" preimages which, when added to a corresponding "public" string, create the decryption key. The logic can therefore all be done on the frontend: show the user an invoice, check if it is paid via the web wallet's api, get the preimage, construct the decryption key, and give the user their now-decrypted file.

Thus the server for a webstore could be a simple file storage system, such as GitHub pages, and all the logic could be done on the frontend, except for the delivery of the secret, which is done by the web wallet, in a way that the frontend can detect.

BIP110 reached 1% of hashrate today. 18/(1743+18) = 0.0102

I recommend reviewing my URSF110 proposal: https://github.com/supertestnet/ursf-110

Today I noticed this in the original LN whitepaper: "A Funding Transaction may have multiple outputs with multiple Commitment Transactions...[One output could] requir[e] additional signatures from security services."

The first sentence suggests the possibility of batch txs for opening channels, and the second sentence suggests the possibility of multiparty channels. Those are both ways to scale up lightning usage beyond just "raise the block size." Not only can several users share a funding tx, they can also share an output in that tx.

Source: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf",

Chris has done a good thing, and has made honest his list of economic nodes in favor of bip110. Review it here: https://v0-bitcoin-companies-table.vercel.app/

https://x.com/i/status/2071390336580989076

Very cool

Today the BIP110 people made a list of economically significant people and groups who currently support or plan to support bip110. Such a list is definitely useful. Sadly it looks like this one is largely a bunch of made up nonsense.

Review the list here: v0-bitcoin-companies-table.vercel.app

Possibly the biggest news of the last five years, imo: Lightning Dev Kit might have just fixed the lightning problem where your payment fails if the recipient is offline. They not only have a protocol spec, but code + a guide for adding support in wallets: https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/async-payments-receiving-while-offline

Interesting stat:

Out of 101 blocks mined by Ocean in June, only 21 of them signaled for bip110

Support for bip110 is a minority opinion even in the main group they cite as evidence of economic backing

Robin Linus is like this guy except instead of emulating techno music with a hurdy gurdy and a sewing machine, he emulates virtual machines on bitcoin with the find_delete function and boolean logic circuits

https://youtube.com/shorts/sKc_3DhRn2M

https://mempool.space/signet/tx/3fd341abdc65dcc3bbf3c192f57ca9b1e5a7b07184d06a59ec80636501f6c3da?showDetails=true

That tx spends money from a Nunchuk wallet I made based on a sample miniscript policy they provide in their wallet. As you can see, it has OP_IF in its input script, and its keypath is disabled. BIP110 would break this address and others like it.

Miners at Ocean produced a record number of blocks that signal for bip110 this month

redblocks.supertestnet.org

Ocean is now a top 8 mining pool

• more miners are discovering how to make their own block templates
• and that Ocean pays out more than other pools, since it has lower admin fees
• plus they offer LN payouts
• and, for large miners, coinbase payouts https://npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s.blossom.band/566bc84323983cf41b2fbec12117117e283ad9005f49e085dbb519743dab814a.jpg

Yesterday after the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville, I found a group of 20 bitcoiners at a bar that doesn't accept bitcoin. I convinced 8 of them to join me in a mutiny and we all went to Steak n Shake. It was awesome. Hey merchants, when bitcoiners unite, we are mighty!

I officially confirm that this person is fun: