Jeremy Rubin's Blog

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A mix of essays, technical notes, and project updates. The main focus is Bitcoin, with additional series like Shenzhen Journey.

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Delbrag

04 Apr 2025

Draft proposal for Delbrag, a BitVM improvement that uses garbled circuits to reduce on-chain costs while preserving fraud-proof style verification.

Taproot Denial of Service Bug

11 Mar 2025

TL;DR: Taproot’s sighash implementation could cause blocks to take 60s or more to validate with specially crafted standard transactions. The patch adds a new cache during validation.

Fun with CSFS I

05 Mar 2025

In this blog series, I’ll write up some fun uses for CSFS I’m aware of.