Dev Diary 25/10/2018 and 26/10/2018

• put more time into merkle trees, only to realize today that the approach doesn't work: %qZ5dtIH...
• programming involved a bunch of small additions towards message verification, but the good stuff is blocked on this

The progress feels extremely slow, I have reached the 20 days of work per month (with a lot of those spent completely on sleep, food and ssb), and there's some rl stuff occupying my mind. So I'm going to take it slowly for a couple of days and work mostly when I feel like it, rather than my previous, pretty rigorous schedule.