• The channel dissected why on-chain voting is fragile: miners can censor vote-bearing Bitcoin transactions, rewrite history by replacing old blocks, and Sybil attacks remain unsolved even with cryptographic tricks such as blind signatures, hash pre-images, and zero-knowledge tokens.  

• Participants weighed Sybil-resistant designs—vote-by-stake, monetary commitments via OP_RETURN outputs, identity-bound tokens—and cited Stephen Brands’ cryptographic-credential paper and David Chaum’s privacy-preserving voting tokens as foundational work.  

• A live project was described: an educational “game” that loads arbitrary belief systems, stress-tests them with MetaMath-style proof checking, and auto-publishes any true=false contradictions to force axiom removal; the creator proposes paying bounties for formalizing informal texts and for finding contradictions (“formalize or fossilize”).  

• Gödelian objections arose—human-relevant systems can’t be both consistent and complete, and the judging system rests on equally shaky axioms—leading to a pragmatic ethics heuristic: reject any belief system whose adoption would foreseeably get you killed if you were on the wrong side of it.  

• Lightning Network implementation work is underway; kanzure highlighted page 47 and figure 19 of the Lightning paper as the next code targets.  

• A newly published Cell paper (and Hacker News thread) presents a small-molecule dual PPARδ/AMPK agonist that reportedly “mimics exercise”; bodybuilding forums are already analyzing its supplement potential.  

• Security resources shared include DEF CON 23 slides and a blog post on crafting PDF/SVG polyglot files for stealth malware delivery.