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Going back to my home planet for a bit so leaving this in case

Just 64WU*

Bitcoin transactions are spam. (Well, sort of.) You don’t need hundreds of bytes to spend coins. Just 64. And you can get full privacy. Watch my talk from @TheBitcoinConf 2025 to learn how Shielded CSV 🛡️can make Bitcoin private and efficient.

The countdown for Simplicity has officially kicked off! With the voting period now complete, Simplicity is scheduled to go live on Liquid mainnet by the end of next week.

With the GENIUS Act being signed into law today, the CLARITY Act is the next major piece of crypto legislation on the docket. I sat down with @TheBlueMatt to discuss how CLARITY protects developers of non-custodial Bitcoin and crypto tech and why it’s essential that it passes.

Merged PR from darosior: policy make pathological transactions packed with legacy sigops nonstandard github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

here are the slides for my talk at the @PresidioBitcoin Quantum Bitcoin Summit: drive.google.com/file/d/12UlzfG… TL;DR: I propose that sha2 param set(s) of SPHINCs+ (SLH-DSA/FIPS-205) tuned for smaller signatures (~3KB, smaller possible) be adopted in Bitcoin as PQC signature scheme

I have too many other projects currently, but I think this could be a fun side-project for someone: Can we spot public spy-Electrum servers run by Chainanalysis? github.com/0xB10C/project…

Awesome non-partisan vote. House poised to pass CLARITY! Market structure regulation and clear statement from Congress that non-controlling blockchain devs & service providers ARE NOT MONEY TRANSMITTERS and cannot be held liable for unlicensed conduct. On to the Senate!

Why adopt Stratum V2? 🚄Super-efficient (70% less bandwidth) 🔐Secure (no hashrate stealing) 💵More profitable ⛏️Miners select tx & run nodes 💰Payout method agnostic 🔙Firmware upgrade not necessary 📔Well-defined specification 🫂Maintained by an independent FOSS community

Emmer's office says the House will hold standalone votes on all three crypto bills starting around 4 p.m. today

Last week I went over the nuances of Trustodial systems in categorizing them. Today I wrote a follow up article looking at the dynamics of on-chain fees and how they affect someone's ability to self custody. Find the article below:

2/ Localhost's @davidgumberg has been investigating the proposal and has published his findings. The data is looking very promising! 🥳delvingbitcoin.org/t/stats-on-com…

Great news!

While we took an open-source approach to herecomesbitcoin.org and everyone being able to use those assets, we have to disavow this crypto coin, “$bitty,” which goes against the project’s spirit. It’s bitcoin or nothing. Not bitcoin-esque or nothing. x.com/bittythemascot

TTBP: time to BitVM paper

If I want to get clinical depression I might swing back to this