These absolute chads hacked together a working PoC in 2 hours at the bitcoin++ hackathon. Steven Roose Michael thesimplekid & Espen github.com/stevenroose/sp…

i put zero expectations on *any* edition of bitcoin++ but somehow, inexplicably, each one is the best one that’s ever happened ✨ big ty to everyone who showed up to share what they know, volunteer, hack, and hang out in riga

i owe an especially big thanks to EXFROG - #FREESAMOURAI #FREEROMAN - #ROSSFREE Walton 🕶️ Alex Lewin kiki 🌺 Hodl Hodl Lunaticoin ⚡ and zoe for their help pulling this one off!

and our sponsors NYDIG Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Base58: software eng on a bitcoin standard fulgur.ventures Cake Wallet for making *the* conf at the frontier of bitcoin possible 🪄

my bitcoin++ hackathon project was to see if I could modify electrs to work with vasild's really cool Bitcoin Core PR #29415 (a privacy improvement when broadcasting a new tx). But plot twist: EVERYTHING JUST WORKED! My hackathon project yielded no hacking whatsoever. 🤣

Congrats APhysicist🐧 on two back to back hackathon wins with git-futz -- first bitcoin++ now #BH2025! See more here: geyser.fund/project/gitfutz github.com/feuplebian/git…

Did we just do the first E-Cash to Ark transaction ever? 👀 The best part: we never had to think about either technology because Lightning was our lingua franca! ⚡

Last Week in Bitcoin: Payjoin Foundation, highlights from bitcoin++ Privacy edition and the new BDK Walet release in this weeks btc++ insider edition weekly update. Find the full post below 👇

Me and Gabriel Custodiet will release soon a debriefing about BTC++ & Baltic Honey Badger Thanks again nifty @btcplusplus riga for inviting us

Mixnets are cool! So I built a Bitcoin transaction broadcaster that runs in the browser and sends the transaction anonymously via the Nym mixnet 😎

Join us in three hours 🎙️

New post! Confidential Script: Emulate soft forks using stateless TEEs

We joined яobin linus Alex B 👾 Hunter Beast Steven Roose and more to preview the upcoming scaling event in Istanbul this Sept Catch the replay over at Builders Week Istanbul (first ~hour of the chat)

chat is this true

bitcoin++ nifty is excited abt btc++ Eth people are woefully unaware of pretty much any bitcoin privacy tech

Was a treat to speak at bitcoin++ privacy edition! Thanks to the inimitable nifty is excited abt btc++ & team for having me. Thanks to the Bitcoin Design Community Foundation for supporting my efforts to make on-chain privacy accessible to anyone who wants to protect their rights. Link in next post

NEW Torchlight: We went to Riga, Latvia, to attend a (surprise, surprise) privacy-focused Bitcoin conference (bitcoin++ & nifty is excited abt btc++) - also stopped by Baltic Honey Badger Our debriefing of the city of Riga and of the event itself. With Urban Hacker

if you want to present at a bitcoin++ i suggest you apply sooner rather than later and consider putting in an application for Taipei 🇹🇼 or Brazil 🇧🇷 btcpp.dev/talk