Bertha

I get most of my signal from the ridiculous news articles that are clearly paid for manipulation on TradingView.

I think true innovation in Bitcoin still lives at the protocol level. Protocol enhancements should obsolete most service based businesses.

Time locking sats with at time of withdrawal fee setting. Seems like the ultimate self custody tool?

Everyone knows we’re going above 112k quit trying to convince us otherwise

When you sign a transaction you provide two bits of evidence. The signature of the hash of the transaction you are signing that is mixed with a random number, and a random point on the elliptical curve that was computed with the random number. With the random point plus the public key the verifier can validate you must have the private key to the public key and that signature was made with the same private key because they can produce the same random point with those two data points ?

In school when you did algebra you were given various values for a or b or x and y and if you were given enough real life values for those things you could figure out all the values of the other letters in the equation. When you sign a Bitcoin transaction you need to use a random number to prevent people eventually having enough values for the a/b/x/y and figure out your private key if you do multiple transactions with it. Deterministic nonces (nonce = random number) are based off the hash of the transaction you’re signing so will only ever be used once. This prevents signers messing up the random number that protects your private key. This is what I think I learned this weekend. Now I think I know why NVK keeps mentioning them in Bitcoin Review.