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Great summary of Portland.HODL's talk at bitcoin++

haha, but explains all the strangely persistent misinformation and accusations - bitcoin is winning too much? Politicians are pumping our bags, price is $100k again, Ross is free, even soft forks proposals are making progress… but twitter influencers need somebody to fight,

bitcoin++ Recap | Full News Desk conversation with Matt Corallo 🟠 and jungly

Lightning is spam now 😂

At River we will continue to run Bitcoin Core because it is the only properly maintained Bitcoin node software. The Bitcoin Core dev team is highly competent and dedicated to the long-term success of the network. The current state of the debate around OP_RETURN relay rules is

ReproducibilityMatters (+village of people) have been meticulously working on the kernel project for years, with the goal of making it possible to build alternative clients that share Bitcoin Core's consensus engine. Stphnvlstk is hosting a PR review club this week on PR #32317,

Bitcoin Core has not merged any of the PRs changing OP_RETURN limits. Observe that the PRs are still open. github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… PRs that change userspace or change policy defaults require release notes. It was apparent OP_RETURN limit changes would

Generally, it is resource intensive and unreasonable to demand a full refutation each time Luke makes an accusation against Core, and I'm not going to make this a regular thing. Instead, I request that everybody ask *him* to provide evidence when he makes claims.

Clearly the future of bitcoin transaction filtering - pipe them to an LLM

One thing I think people have a hard time grokking is that even a moderate amount of hashrate filtering some transactions they don’t like won’t actually drive up the fees those transactions pay, as long as those transactions are relatively time-insensitive. The market for

Informative post by Murch (from nostr). It’s important to recognize where your software comes from given that’s an important part of its security.

This is why KYC is useless. The criminals have our drivers license scans. They have AI tools that can generate fake images and videos. KYC puts our identities at risk, makes onboarding more difficult, and rewards criminals.

IT'S LIKE GOV AND WALLSTREET SUITS SOCIAL-ENGINEERED BITCOINERS INTO DEBATING THE DUMBEST FUCKING SHIT LIKE OP RETURN AND NUKING SATS TO DISTRACT US FROM BUILDING ANYTHING THAT ACTUALLY FUCKING MATTERS.

Email is a great example of how anti spam efforts can cause centralization.

it’s tragicomic how blu*sky — an app built by a bunch of techno-optimist decentralist types — got colonized by a user base that hates technology, hates decentralization, and hates optimism

They’re basically in the “nothing stops this train, so let’s accelerate it” phase.

The Arthur Hayes family office, Maelstrom, has just announced an open source developer grant to Ben Allen Ben Allen will work on Payjoin (Payjoin Dev Kit), a system designed to make Bitcoin transactions more private cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-p…

The most important bill for Bitcoin/crypto, hands down. I’m incredibly grateful to Tom Emmer and Ritchie Torres for their leadership on this.

Spend. And. Replace.