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Writing on PoW pricing, Bitcoin infrastructure, DLC oracles, and the Softwar thesis.
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2026-08-23
A Cryptography Q&A Is Unfolding on Bitcoin, One Block at a Time
Someone asked whether a witness script was a hash lock or a multisig, waited a block for the answer, then asked for the key count, the threshold, and the genesis derivation. The whole exchange is playing out in OP_RETURN — and the last question is still open. Caught live in a chain-census scan.
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2026-07-30
How to Price a Spam Flood in Compute and Sats
Per-request proof-of-work will not stop a GPU farm that clears a 20-bit challenge in under a millisecond. What stops a flood is the linear volume tax underneath it and a bypass priced in sats. The mechanism, with benchmark numbers from the shipped worker.
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2026-05-23
F2Pool Was Tracking New Horizons in Real Time. We Forgot.
Eleven Bitcoin blocks, three writing systems, one spacecraft closing on Pluto at 13.78 km/s. Original research from an archival node scan. The velocity matches NASA's published figures to four significant digits.
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2026-05-23
Fourteen Shell Companies, One Spy Agency, and Why Bot Traffic Is Cheap Until It Is Not
How a US Army intel report on China's MSS hub-and-spoke cyber network maps onto the Softwar thesis, and why PoW pricing is the kinetic filter for state-scale automation.
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2026-05-11
Five Things Nobody Told Me About Building on Lightning
Shipped six services, hit six surprises. The PoW economics, NIP-13 identity math, infrastructure traps, attention dynamics of Bitcoin-native social layers, and what "pay or prove" actually does to a user base.
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2026-04-23
The Admiral Just Quoted Our Thesis on the Senate Floor
A four-star told the Senate that Bitcoin proof-of-work imposes real costs. Here is what that means for everyone bolting CAPTCHAs on their sites.