August 2025 – @lightcoin
1 post published by John Light during August 2025| @lightcoin
In his recent post, “Privacy needs to be baked into L1”, Frank Braun makes the bold claim: Privacy is the absence of information leakage and that implies it comes from value at rest, no…| @lightcoin
Update 2021-06-28: Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and contributed to discussion about this post and related topics on reddit and twitter. I have been happy to see that Paul Sztorc̵…| @lightcoin
Back in January I participated in a debate against Justin Drake on the topic “Will zk rollups on bitcoin make Ethereum obsolete?” I took the affirmative position against Justin’s …| @lightcoin
I have written before on this blog about the “miners can steal” critique of Paul Sztorc and CryptAxe’s BIP-300 hashrate escrow proposal. In my previous post I gave several example…| @lightcoin
Today is the 15th Genesis Block Day, the anniversary of the creation of bitcoin’s genesis block. With Genesis Block Day comes Proof of Keys, a Genesis Block Day celebration started in 2018 by…| @lightcoin
Update 2023-12-15: In the feature comparison chart, I replaced “Can onboard directly to the protocol” with “Trust-minimized zero-conf onboarding”, to better convey the diffe…| @lightcoin
RE: I appreciate feedback on the proposal, but there is a lot in this note that I think is just flat out not true. Given Preston’s large audience I felt compelled to set the record straight. …| @lightcoin
This post is based on two Twitter threads I published about sovereign rollups on bitcoin here and here. A few weeks ago Eric Wall gave a talk at StarkWare Sessions where he left the audience with a…| @lightcoin
Last last year I had the pleasure of attending The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference aka TABConf. While there I saw many old friends and met lots of interesting new people as well. One of the people I ran…| @lightcoin
Today is the 14th anniversary of the creation of bitcoin’s genesis block. As I reflect on bitcoin’s progress over the past 14 years — which is by all measures amazing and somethin…| @lightcoin
It’s become cliche tradition for Bitcoiners to say something like “I’m thankful for bitcoin” or “I’m thankful for the bitcoin community” on Thanksgiving. T…| @lightcoin
This blog post is based on a twitter thread that I published here. One class of protocols that I mention in the appendices of are what I call “validia chains”. Validia chains share simi…| @lightcoin
This past March, Human Rights Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein announced a new fellowship program called the ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. The research fellow would be given a gran…| @lightcoin
