Congratulations to @liameagen and @therealyingtong for dropping another 1,000x (literally) to garbled circuits. Significant breakthrough for ZK verification on Bitcoin.
Any other team claiming 1,000x is just using their work 🙃.
True chads.

Off-chain cryptography enables more expressive smart contracts for Bitcoin. Recent work, including BitVM, use SNARKs to prove arbitrary computation, and garbled circuits to verifiably move proof...

Argo MAC: Garbling with Elliptic Curve MACs

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Bitcoin's price briefly touched $60,000 last week. Under a diminishing returns model, this is no mere noise. The market is touching the weakest link in the entire four-year cycle and logarithmic growth framework.

With the gains at the top of the Bitcoin cycle already significantly compressed, a further historically deep correction would completely negate the allure of its classic cycles.

This is not a prediction; it's a mathematical law.

Cycle Top Gains are Compressing

Historical Bitcoin Cycle Tops:

· 2013: ~$1,242

· 2017: ~$19,700

· 2021: ~...

$55,000 will be the lifeline for Bitcoin.

The government has just issued Resolution No. 23/NQ-CP following the regular government meeting in January 2026, which emphasizes the requirement for proactive, flexible, and effective monetary policy management, with close coordination...

The Vietnamese government is pushing for the operation of a gold and cryptocurrency exchange by February 28, 2026.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a 20-year prison sentence for Daren Li, 42, for his involvement in a global cryptocurrency investment scam. Notably, the sentence was...