- Discussion of whether the Bitcoin whitepaper should be rewritten to match the actual released code; maaku argues that “the code is the specification” and that prior attempts to update the paper quickly devolve into political posturing.  
- A technical question is raised about Algorand’s consensus mechanism, specifically whether an adversary who controls the last k blocks could exploit knowledge of the Qr value to mount a “perpetuum mobile” attack.  
- nmz787 announces successful compilation of BioCoder (https://github.com/nmz787/BioCoder), a domain-specific programming language designed to standardize and automate biology laboratory protocols.