mrwulf 60936028a6 book overhaul moves 1+2: the minute-one artifact, and cold-open surgery on ch1 ...

From the 7-reader didactic audit (control/BOOK-OVERHAUL-PLAN.md). The two
highest-leverage moves per the cold-open reader and the panel's most-repeated
finding.

MOVE 1 — the reader touches the real thing in minute one. The panel's single
loudest note: a book that teaches "demand verification" gave the reader
nothing to verify for twelve chapters. Now: the title page names
ltl.zkdefi.org (19 entries, one post-quantum, "verify every entry yourself by
the last chapter"); the preface opens on that page instead of a generic power
claim; ch1 gains a try-it box after the pyramid pointing at entries 13-16 and
18. And ch7's broken promise is honored — it invited "check one leaf" while
never printing the 71-digit Q; the exact Q from P25519.lean is now on the
page, no hidden digits (render-verified against the repo).

MOVE 2 — ch1 cold open. Per the cold reader who hooked at line 13 and wobbled
by line 31: the first worked box (a log10 re-derivation of a punch the prose
already landed) collapses to four lines, the mechanics pushed to Exercise 1.1
— getting the reader ~30 lines sooner to the headroom box, the genuinely novel
bit. The vague "In 2014, researchers…" opener becomes the actual bug: a
two-line diff captioned as the entire defect, anchored to the real Fiat-Crypto
S&P 2019 lineage (no fabricated CVE). Competitor roll-call → footnote.
Syllabus roadmap → a second-person promise ("by Chapter 7 you will have handed
a kernel a certificate…"). "Why Lean" vendor bullets → reader-inheritance
voice ("you start on a million lines of proved mathematics").

Builds here: tectonic, 116 pages, zero errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-08 00:14:43 +02:00

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