• The channel debated why anonymous email remailers (mixers) have fallen out of use; maaku argued that the ecosystem collapsed because centralized services like Gmail now block self-hosted mail servers, making it “too much work for a reasonable person to bother with.”

• kanzure shared a minimal IRC-log timestamper script (gist.github.com/kanzure/b806e07bbe83357c6f9864b7644d40e9) and invited code review.

• lsneff linked DeepMind’s new “Compressive Transformer” paper and dataset for long-range memory in language models (deepmind.com/blog/article/A_new_model_and_dataset_for_long-range_memory).

• Discussion clarified how OpenTimestamps works: it anchors document hashes in a Merkle tree whose root is committed to Bitcoin via sign-to-contract, with calendar servers distributing proofs; current maturity time is ~2 hours (stats at a.pool.eternitywall.com).

• maaku noted that recent OpenTimestamps versions avoid on-chain data bloat by embedding commitments inside ordinary payment signatures rather than explicit OP_RETURN outputs.