# Key Points from IRC Log

• A paper on "Onion artificial muscles" was shared (http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/Onion_artificial_muscles.pdf), potentially relevant to biohacking or soft robotics applications.

• A security concern was raised when a user mentioned that James Hughes (likely from the Journal of Evolution and Technology) emailed a password in plaintext, highlighting poor security practices in transhumanist organizations.

• A user announced completing and submitting a philosophical paper on mind uploading that took four years to develop, with discussion about whether to post it to arXiv while awaiting journal feedback.

• There was discussion about documentation tools for code, with recommendations for Sphinx and readthedocs.org for extracting class structures, methods, and function arguments from code.

• Bitcoin development discussions were referenced, particularly regarding block size debates and the polarization between different technical positions (20MB vs. never increase).

• A user sought information about comparing itbit and ledgerx, likely related to cryptocurrency trading or exchange platforms.