I won’t be at the Miami conference but I’m helping with something special for those that will be in attendance (digital version available for those that can’t make it IRL) I wonder what carrots 🥕 , keys 🔑 , and signatures ✍️ have in common…

I’m well into the third trimester now and something that always makes me laugh is how forward this lil babe wants to be carried. It literally looks like I have a basketball under my shirt 😆☺️🏀

Suddenly my mortgage getting transferred four times over the last two years makes sense

wait, authors are allowed to assign numbers to draft NIPs? and there's no NIP with rules for how to make a NIP? y'all are wild

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What are some misconceptions or areas of confusion people have around the Taproot upgrade? For example, it’s actually three things: 1. Schnorr, 2. Taproot, 3. Tapscript I was today years old when learned the Taproot part of the upgrade is not just the idea of using Merkle trees (to only revealing spending paths used). It’s a technique (using a public key and a Merkle tree) to make a coin spendable by either public key OR script. You can’t do any of this without Schnorr, at least not in a way that is remotely reasonable. I think it’s very confusing that the entire upgrade, the entire package of things, is named after a single feature, even if it is the one that ties everything together into a nice, impressive use case! There are plenty of interesting things about the Schnorr and Tapscript components, but they are often referred to as general “taproot” in discussion.

It’s such a flex that the zip code for Sudbury, MA is 01776