[bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-01-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
folks, hi, please do cc me as i am subscribed "digest", apologies for the inconvenience. i've been speaking on and off with kanzure, asking his advice about a libre / transparently-developed ASIC / SoC, for some time, since meeting a very interesting person at the Barcelona RISC-V Workshop in

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
(hi folks do cc me, i am subscribed digest, thank you for doing that, ZmnSCPxj) On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning Luke, > > I happen to have experience designing digital ASICs, mostly pipelined data processing. > However my experience is limited to larger geometries

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning again Luke, :) > If you mean miner power usage, then power efficiency will not reduce energy consumption. > Thus, any rational miner will just pack more miners in the same number of watts rather than reduce their watt consumption.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making the case for flag day activation of taproot

2021-03-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
would it help by first setting a regular period of e.g. 6 months when only at that time would consensus rules ever be changed? not, "6 months from now taproot will be introduced', a rule, "*any* consensus change regardless of what they are (including NO change) will *ONLY* be made at regular

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:10 AM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > > Good morning Luke, morning - can i ask you a favour because moderated (off-topic) messages are being forwarded https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/ could you send these instead to libre-soc-...@lists.libre-soc.org? many

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
(cc'ing over to libre-soc-dev) https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-February/018392.html On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:21 AM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > > i was stunned to learn that in a 28nm ASIC, 50% of it is repeater-buffers! > > Well, that surprises me as well. > [...] > So I

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 3:01 PM Bryan Bishop wrote: > I don't see what you're talking about? None of your February emails > were sent to ozlabs according to the archives there. Threads for the > bitcoin-dev mailing list are stored here: >

[bitcoin-dev] Fwd: NLnet cryotoprimitives grant approved

2021-08-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
with many thanks to NLnet, the EUR 50,000 grant to research and develop Draft cryptographic primitives and instructions to the newly-open Power ISA has been approved. unlike RISC-V where full transparency and trust is problematic and there are many participants whose interests may not necessarily

Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 102, Issue 15

2023-11-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, wrote: > Rooms can be E2E encrypted. please, NO. there are people who have such valuable skills that their lives are put in danger if they engage in encrypted conversations. additionally the entire point of an open project IS THAT IT IS OPEN. mailing lists are

Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 102, Issue 15

2023-11-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
consume alarmingly high resources and cost a fortune in hosting every month. l. > > > On Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 at 3:20 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > >> >> >> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, < bitcoin-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfo

Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 102, Issue 20

2023-11-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, < bitcoin-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > delvingbitcoin.org is something I setup; it's a self-hosted discourse > instance. nice. > For what it's worth, I think (discourse) forums have significant > advantages over email for technical discussion:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] bitcoin-dev Digest, Vol 85, Issue 4

2022-06-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
(apologies i am subscribed digest) On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 1:00 PM wrote: > Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 04:18:04 + > From: alicexbt > To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion > > Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable > Message-ID: > > > Hi Jorge, > > >