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With any software that handles finance or private keys, the question of trust is important. Most have a general concept of this stuff, and that is usually fine for most anyone's needs. But there is always the rare case where trust policies are too laxed and users get burned, like the Electrum v3.3.3 phishing attack. Here I'll try to go through the minimal level of trust all the way down to the theoretical limit of what can be done. At the heart of the matter is the concept of extended trust. In most trust-tests, we start with something that has more trust and see if we can connect it to something with less trust. I'll walk through a few examples from the top down. In general we will go through the following levels:
In version 22.0, bitcoin moved to the Guix build system for their official builds. This reduced the "weight" of those seed binaries from 550 MB down to 120 MB. The Guix team is prototyping a new compiler build with a reduced seed weight of 357 bytes. That's a reduction of 99.999935% from the binary seed weight of Bitcoin v0.21.2
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