Ralph Charles Merkle — SECRECY, AUTHENTICATION, AND PUBLIC KEY SYSTEMS, published in 1979 The precursor to proof of work. “To solve a puzzle, we must cryptanalyze the cryptogram. Once it is done, we learn the information that was “enpuzzled”, the plaintext of the cryptogram. Just as we can encrypt plaintext to… Tim Bouma Dec 14, 2024, 11:58 AM
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Modern day curse: “May a thousand LLMs be trained on your deleted data.”… Tim Bouma Dec 13, 2024, 8:24 PM
All existing payment systems are account-based. They are 100% surveillable and individually ruggable. With Cashu, it’s now possible to create a bearer-token-based payment system. This payment system is much harder to surveil and almost impossible to rug specific individuals.… Tim Bouma Dec 13, 2024, 8:15 PM
ungovernablepug This is what I have to deal with every morning. #ungovernablepug… Tim Bouma Dec 13, 2024, 1:59 PM
