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no state is the best state
We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. —David Clark, 1992
like @spiralbtc has done, we're giving grants to developers who work on goose open source to make it the best self-sovereign development tool out there.
🚀The goose grant program is now open! We're funding $100K grants to accelerate open source agentic AI Looking for innovative ideas in: 🎥 Multi-modal interactions 🤖Agent autonomy 🔃Self-improving systems 🏠Real-world automation ❓Other novel ideas block.github.io/goose/grants
open source moves faster and better
Our engineers found USB scanners freezing Android apps. Instead of just patching our apps, we fixed it upstream in Android 16. Result: 40% performance boost + fix for entire Android ecosystem. This is why we contribute to open source 🚀 engineering.block.xyz/blog/ending-an…
Square ハンディ(Handheld) arrives in Japan 🇯🇵 Our most powerful, portable point-of-sale device ever is now available in all our markets. Read more: squareup.com/jp/ja/press/sq…
a path towards bitcoin as everyday money
At Block, we’re building toward a world where bitcoin is everyday money - not just a store of value. To realize this vision, we need congress to modernize the regulatory frameworks to support this. block.xyz/inside/policie…
we all need to push on the de minimis tax exemption for bitcoin payments... bitcoin is already clearly a better form of gold. the next step is truly getting to the “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” state that’s not going to happen if folks have to pay cap gains on a latte
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
Today we publish a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal addressing incentive & safety issues for migrating the ecosystem to post quantum cryptography. BIP timeframes are relative to a future point at which quantum computers are deemed a significant threat. github.com/jlopp/bips/blo…
Across Block we’ve been deliberate in how we’ve built products, leveraging internal data when we can to deliver value to our customers. For example, to date: the vast majority of Borrow volume has been underwritten using only Cash App data and less than 1% of U.S. BNPL GMV is…
Chat without internet via Bluetooth using #Bitchat app
bitchat-python written in python & compatible with ios/android. out now @jack ➟ original / ios @callebtc ➟ android @shilohsecurity ➟ rust bitchat-python github: github.com/kaganisildak/b…
bitchat-terminal written in rust & compatible with ios/android. out now @jack ➟ original / ios @callebtc ➟ android bitchat-terminal github: github.com/ShilohEye/bitc…