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

All else equal which BTC-backed borrowing product would you prefer:

some things that can all be true at the same time: - Bitcoin is meant to be money - You can't stop people from making fake (unspendable) pubkeys to embed data in outputs - unspendable outputs degrade bitcoin long-term - making it possible for responsible devs to put data in

Why the Bitcoin Dollar is the missing link the industry has long awaited, argues David Seroy 🏔️. 🔗 Read here: alpenlabs.io/blog/bitcoin-d…

just in time for vegas Alpen

Hell Money is probably my favorite Bitcoin pod. Entertaining and informative.

"If what we have in 50 years is the New York Fed Bitcoin vault, but users can’t easily and safely self-custody—we failed." Post reflecting on 10 years of @MITDCI: nehanarula.org/2025/05/15/dec…

We must stop improving Bitcoin because doing so will also improve it for people we don't like! We must cut off our nose to spite our face! (There are people who have allowed their puritan-driven disgust to lead themselves to this self-destructive conclusion.)

Congratulations to Liquity team for V2 re-deployment. Most based stablecoin project in the industry (imo)

lots of sophisticated phishing attacks going around lately. all of these have been attempted on me. sadly seen a lot of cases where people did lose funds in these ways: - real person (hacked) you've interacted before DMs you on TG and asks to catch up, send a zoom, looks like a

I'm excited to join Paul Sztorc David Seroy 🏔️ and Willem S 🕷⛓️ to help share details of the hottest Bitcoin L2 projects at the Bitcoin Magazine conference in Vegas this month.

Going live with David Seroy 🏔️ in about 20 minutes. We'll talk about ZK rollups, Alpen stuff, and why we're still trying to make bitcoin work as money instead of paying with our credit cards to earn points!

Come hang out. Ask questions in chat. Hot takes on Bitcoin, ZK Rollups and scaling!

I highly recommend listening to the below episode of Bitcoin Takeover (BTCTKVR.com) podcast with David Seroy 🏔️ from Alpen 🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/2m3mO9…

The Alpen team is here at #bitcoin2025 🟧 in Vegas! Catch us on and off-stage at the main conference and side events. We're excited to connect with you all and share what we've achieved in the last year! The Bitcoin Conference

EXOTIC CRYPTOGRAPHY FOR EVERY DAY PROBLEMS Liam Eagen | Alpen youtu.be/X6mtGtumdGY

Spit in the face of gold bugs, unpardon Ross Ulbricht, cancel anyone who goes to the biggest Bitcoin conference of the year? Despicable behavior. This is not the Bitcoin community I’ve ever known. We need to course correct the online discourse.

We looked into Garbled Circuits over a year ago as a BitVM replacement. At the time the tables were too big to store. Liam came in and gave it a 100–1000x efficiency gain. We expect it to replace state of the art BitVM designs.

Just coming up for air after Vegas - hanging with the BitVM boyz (+ Yovela!) definitely a highlight ✨