Reading
Books, papers and articles I've been reading.
Books
Fiction and non-fiction, grouped by genre. Click a cover for my notes.
Fantasy
Horror
Dystopian
Mystery
Classics
Non-fiction
Papers & articles
Things I've read and keep coming back to, newest first.
- Article BitcointalkCoinCovenants using SCIP signatures, an amusingly bad idea
The thread where the word "covenant" first appears in Bitcoin, proposed half as a warning.
- Paper arXiv.orgHow to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
Planning the transition to quantum-safe cryptosystems requires understanding the cost of quantum attacks on vulnerable cryptosystems. In Gidney+Eker{\aa} 2019, I co-published an estimate stating that 2048 bit RSA…
The estimate behind most of the 2025 urgency around post-quantum Bitcoin.
- Article Delving BitcoinCTV++ OP_TEMPLATEHASH and OP_INPUTAMOUNTS
There have been complaints voiced about being too paiful to work with CTV. Especially when it comes to Vaults. OP_TX and OP_TXHASH/VERIFY are examples how developers sought to overcome certain pain points. However they…
- Paper Financial Cryptography workshopsBitcoin Covenants