Here is the initial plan for Annapurna Circuit, segment by segment with highlights, notes and everything that is interesting along the way. Updates as I do more research.
[Read More]"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" - Leonardo Da Vinci
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein
BLS signature scheme
Cryptography
From a high level perspective this is how BLS (also known as Boneh–Lynn–Shacham) signature scheme works.
Schnorr and taproot by hand
Bitcoin
References
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUVRj8iznU&list=WL&index=69&t=25s
- https://aboutbitcoin.io/bitcoin-taproot-explained/
- https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin
- https://bitcoinops.org/en/preparing-for-taproot/
- https://bitcoinops.org/en/schorr-taproot-workshop/
- https://reyify.com/blog/the-soundness-of-musig
- https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/taproot/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUVRj8iznU
- https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-January/015614.html
- https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/108006/how-to-make-a-taproot-transaction-with-bitcoin-cli
- https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/107452/how-can-i-spend-from-a-p2tr-address-on-signet-with-the-bitcoin-core-wallet-in-22
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/tree/708ce10bbc3c3be6d4293b50f56a1cae23c8b358/bip-0340
- https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-October/019543.html
BIPs
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0343.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0114.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0116.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0117.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0086.mediawiki
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0008.mediawiki
Reminiscences of ... a loss
Trading
Never ask a trader how much he makes but how much he lost… here is a story…
[Read More]Personal email server
Linux
Given that GMail with cease to provide free hosting service for custom domains I've decided to deploy a fully featured personal email server and migrate everything to my Arch Linux box.
[Read More]SSH keys on USB
Linux
This is how I keep my SSH key(s) secure and offline, stored on encrypted USB flash-drive. After restart, unlock the drive on USB insert, automatically load the key then umount, lock, back to safety.
[Read More]Completion system
Emacs
Completion system
… vertico, consult, posframe, orderless, marginalia, projectile … corfu, cape, eglot, kind-icon … Ohhh my!
[Read More]Chess vs. trading
Trading
Just for fun (and maybe some profit) let's do a comparison (a bit far fetched) between chess and trading.
[Read More]From HDD to SSD w/ EFI boot
Linux
Oh, Oh! Santa is back in town and I bought myself a small gift to upgrade my Arch Linux garage server from HDD to SSD, here is the step-by-step how to…
[Read More]Segwit transaction by hand
Bitcoin
Lets hand craft a SegWit transaction using only built-in Python3 functions for hex/bytes manipulation and Sagemath for elliptic curves arithmetic.
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