Dr. Bitcoin, MD

Had an alcoholic lady pound on the back door of the Imaging Center building on our hospital campus today, demanding care…I wanted to say, I’m sorry maam, but I’m a radiologist and the one nurse and almost everyone in registration and most of all the imaging techs are out of the building for the night and there are no real doctors here anytime anyhow 🤣…But as it’s technically hospital property and she is demanding care, evaluation must be offered, by law and by ethics of the profession…as the back door to the wrong building isn’t a place of care, I had security offer her a ride to the front door of the emergency department to which she declined and wandered off, saying it takes too long in the ED. Earlier in the day she was demanding care from the staff at the pre-k daycare on campus…before she wandered off, she said “well, I guess sobriety isn’t for me.” You can lead a horse to water… nostr:npub1m6gvtkek5sq3l82cfh7p3hs62ujxs6r8npre8m6jvvcm28utg05sde2e6g

Bitcoin sale! This makes going to work more profitable.

Remember the good old days of Bitcoin when changes to relay policy were simple and obviously good? From the multisig BIP (11): “The current Satoshi bitcoin client does not relay or mine transactions with scriptSigs larger than 200 bytes; to accommodate 3-signature transactions, this will be increased to 500 bytes.” https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawiki

Hardcore bitcoiner question: if you had a cryptographically relevant quantum computer that can deduce private keys from public keys, can you spend funds from a taproot bitcoin address that doesn’t have a keypath spend (only script paths)? In other words, even if a keypath doesn’t exist, can a private key be found that will validate a spend via the keypath? Note this is different than asking if one can prove whether or not such a key can exist, my question assumes any key can exist and rather is asking about bitcoin script validation along the key path.

Here is another bitcoin time locking idea: a zenHodl ladder: a taproot style wallet with one key spending after blockheight 1 year in the future, another key spending at 2 years hence, another at 3 years, and so on… Don’t plan on spending bitcoin this year? Destroy the corresponding key. Going off grid for 3 years? Destroy the next three keys… The downside? You need xpubs for all keys to reconstruct the wallet. Makes backup harder.

Looking forward to playing with these #frostsnap hardware wallets. I got to play with a few in Australia in July and it’s a clever system…and I need to dig deeper…

You know how some people think drugs made their art or music better/possible? You know what I think? Many people have great ideas that they think are shitty, and hence never share them. But if you’re high, you’ll keep working on said shitty idea and come to like the idea and eventually make something good out of it. Probably while not high.

I’m old enough in bitcoin years to remember people being mad at nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk for spamming the chain with non-financial data inclusion…people were really against prayer, out of proportion to the minimal resource consumption of the way he embedded the data (compared to inscriptions hack, for example). I’m not so concerned about op_return when the real problem lies elsewhere. The real question is whether or not the real problem can be fixed and at what cost. This is a technical question that requires plebs to learn a great deal before forming opinions, something few are prone to do…but many form firm opinions without understanding based on their feelings of what bitcoin is or should be.