I needed to understand merge mining for a particular research direction I am pursuing (relating to stale blocks), and created the following visualisation-rich piece on the topic. Hoping this makes it easier for some to grok how it all works, especially AuxPoW! https://deadmanoz.xyz/posts/2026/merge-mining

Love the sound and audio, so tight!!! Hard to play on mobile, gonna give it a whirl on computer

Unfortunately this isn’t a constructive discussion, and doesn’t appear like it ever will be, cheers

I have read the Capture articles, the main thing I notice is following aspect of human nature coming through Humans will tend to preferentially associate with and select for individuals they get along with, like and respect

Great overview video of the priorities, methodologies and achievements of Bitcoin Core from at OPNEXT’26 a few weeks ago https://youtu.be/F3ONZsG-SY0

I mean, this is obvious in hindsight, but I only learnt about the following today.. Since SegWit, any block with witness-bearing transactions has required the coinbase to have an OP_RETURN carrying the witness commitment. This is what extends PoW to cover witness data (the spending authority), which SegWit moved out of the txid computation!!

I love my Daylight Computer 1, writing on it just feels soooo natural and satisfying But Daylight Desktop on macOS is buggy as hell, hasn’t been updated in over a year Similarly the Reader app on device also wigs out on a bunch of PDFs So, I do have to ask, is it abandonware?

“White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released” We’re there already are we? This will just push people to non-American model ecosystems, they’re only a few month behind at the moment, IMO https://archive.is/V7HaO

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