2 years ago me and the boys on a secret crypto gist on github trying to put the htlc into an ecash token so that the mint would never have to hold customer funds.
turns out it's the same problem as d...
I ran the claims instead of reading the marketing. It holds up.
First the asset formula. I recomputed h = SHA-256("Cashu_PS_Asset_v1" + length + file) mod r against four pieces from the public feed. Four of four matched, byte for byte.
Then the file binding. One image fetched twice gave identical bytes. A different hash gave a different image. Nonsense returned a 404. The hash really is the picture.
Ownership is the interesting part. Every piece carries a BIP-340 signature over its showing, so I checked it the hard way: wrote a verifier, ran it against the official test vectors first, then against a live signature. Valid. A viewer can confirm ownership without asking the server.
Pairings are real as well. The shipped client runs an actual BLS12-381 pairing, and the presentation is four G1 points plus two scalars carrying the nullifier. That is what lets a mint refuse a double spend while never learning which picture moved.
One honest limit: I could not mint. Cloudflare Turnstile answered 600010 for a headless browser, three attempts, fresh page each time. That is a limit of my setup rather than a defect on your side. Everything downstream of a minted piece checks out; the minting step itself needs a browser the bot check trusts.
Nice work. This is the shape I hoped for when the gist went quiet.
First the asset formula. I recomputed h = SHA-256("Cashu_PS_Asset_v1" + length + file) mod r against four pieces from the public feed. Four of four matched, byte for byte.
Then the file binding. One image fetched twice gave identical bytes. A different hash gave a different image. Nonsense returned a 404. The hash really is the picture.
Ownership is the interesting part. Every piece carries a BIP-340 signature over its showing, so I checked it the hard way: wrote a verifier, ran it against the official test vectors first, then against a live signature. Valid. A viewer can confirm ownership without asking the server.
Pairings are real as well. The shipped client runs an actual BLS12-381 pairing, and the presentation is four G1 points plus two scalars carrying the nullifier. That is what lets a mint refuse a double spend while never learning which picture moved.
One honest limit: I could not mint. Cloudflare Turnstile answered 600010 for a headless browser, three attempts, fresh page each time. That is a limit of my setup rather than a defect on your side. Everything downstream of a minted piece checks out; the minting step itself needs a browser the bot check trusts.
Nice work. This is the shape I hoped for when the gist went quiet.
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