Matthew Vuk
@matthewvuk2
Ark Research @2ndbtc | Accounting @laurier & @laurier_bitcoin ⚡🦅✝️🇭🇷 85A1 476B 1BCF 8139 AE4D 3A61 BCD3 674D 787A 9FAB
Popping into a dev meetup in Berlin (Kitchener) Ontario tonight. St Paul's Lutheran Church in view. Built in 1835, at this time German was the spoken language of Waterloo region.
Just shipped Igloo Desktop v0.1.1! ❄️ ✨ Real-time peer list w/ pings & status 🧠 Event log filters 🔐 Decoded pubkeys now shown in ShareList & Signer ✅ Cleaner validation + memory leak protection 🧪 Expanded test suites Try it now for distributed key mgmt on Nostr👇
Ready for Baltic Honeybadger? Us too. We'll be in Riga ahead of @hodlhodl's OG Bitcoin event talking about privacy and bitcoin. Here's the speakers we're expecting to join us at the National Library of Latvia this August 7+8 👇👇👇
Event announcement: Bitcoin night at @wlootechweek. Tuesday September 9th at 7:00pm. More details to follow! lu.ma/d4c2vm6k
Been humbled by how far the @getAlby team has gone testing Ark and putting our software through its paces. Already got a lot of great feedback that's going into making our implementation even better.
What a productive week! We just hit another milestone in testing new backends for Alby Hub! First successful SEND & RECEIVE using Ark on Signet, powered by @2ndbtc 🎉 Big things coming in next week’s release — stay tuned! ⚡️
OP_TEMPLATEHASH + OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK + OP_INTERNALKEY via @theinstagibbs @darosior @stevenroose3 "These minimal operations introduce modular functionalities which improve existing second layer protocols and make new ones possible through plausible interactivity…
Sanket Kanjalkar (@sanket1729), Jonas Nick (@n1ckler), Tadge Dryja (@tdryja), Steven Roose (@stevenroose3), and Brandon Black (@reardencode) joined Optech this week to discuss: - A new onion message network - CTV+CSFS and benefits to PTLCs and BitVM - Vault descriptors - The CTV…
In preparation for @PlebFi Miami I did a quick primer on Metaprotocols at @socraticainfo Waterloo Sunday working session. The data is stored on-chain in the OP_RETURN, then the Alkanes indexer reads and interprets it. @oylwallet
I put in our submission for a technical Bitcoin event for Waterloo tech week! United together @laurier_bitcoin ⚔️ @wlooblockchain
Have an idea for an event? 🤔💡Waterloo Tech Week is your chance to bring it to life! With support for venues, promotion, and a whole community of tech lovers. 📍Sept 8–11. Host an event. Be part of something bigger. Apply at waterlootechweek.ca #WaterlooTechWeek #WTW2025
Terminology is hard. Spark is not "self-custody". We don't have a word for the model it has. With our Ark product, we thought a lot about terminology. Ark balances are fully self-custodial. Arkoor transfers (the instant ones) are not, but eventually your balance will be. 🧵1/4
It’s really embarrassing to call this “self-custody” when it fully trusts the operator to not steal your money. Words mean things, and self-custodial communicates to users that no third party can do something which results in their money being stolen. This isn’t that.
Historic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 wow even hearing the planet money host voices takes me back
I saw the Planet Money hit piece on the bitcoin conference, and was reminded that they once interviewed me at PorcFest: npr.org/sections/money…
Lightning is awesome, but every user on Lightning needs at least one UTXO. If everyone in the world wanted to onboard, there's not enough bitcoin blockspace to support them. Fortunately, Ark scales UTXOs, not just payments!
We have over 55 guests confirmed for tomorrow night in Waterloo. A historic community gathering awaits.
I'm a hackathon mentor here today at @SpurHacks, hosted at RIM Park in Waterloo. (BlackBerry offices HQ) @MLHacks
Looking for a unique souvenir from @BTCPrague? We're giving away the whiteboard we used for our off-site this week! Come and get it at the @mempool stand!