Thank you Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ for visiting us in Northern Thailand and sharing such meaningful stories with our Bitcoin community.

Byte-sized sovereignty.

bUT WhAt CaN YoU Do WiTh ThoSE PRoOfs ? Here you go: TrustMeBro is a showcase of a mini ZK-ready Bitcoin explorer where anyone can verify transaction and block validity right in their browser, instant, trustless, no middlemen. Think about it like TLS. 99.99% of people browsing

The OP_RETURN / Knots debate is brain poison. Get off Twitter and go build privacy tools / better wallets for Bitcoin.

get ready

Introducing Backups on umbrelOS. Encrypted, hourly backups of your Umbrel to a USB drive, a NAS, or another Umbrel. Restore everything, or use Rewind to jump back and recover specific files/folders from past backups. Arriving in umbrelOS 1.5 this October. Public beta out now.

I'm working on a thing, Electrum server that indexes only UTXO (chainstate): Pros: * takes way less disk space, ~20 Gb * fast to index: all done in less than an hour * works: you can see your balance, and get data to construct spending transactions /

We redid our careers page at Umbrel ☂️. Not just to list jobs, but to explain our philosophy, how we work, how we design, and how we engineer. If you felt seen reading it, apply.

just a little something to take the edge off

My recommendation to founders who want to leverage FHE/MPC but realize performance/cost is a bottleneck*: Build your use case using TEEs, prove out the demand, and capture market share. Yes, TEEs may break, but it's more advantageous to ship the product. Once you capture a

will try this after the incoming 100% tariff increase

me going to sleep knowing my umbrel is making automatic encrypted backups every hour

The future of Bitcoin as programmable money starts today. 2 years after the introduction of the Ark protocol, Arkade launches on Bitcoin mainnet in public beta. The era of bridges and wrapped assets is over. Build applications on the world's most secure blockchain, at scale.

block-dn.org now also serves TX block inclusion proofs (with confirmation-aware caching) and instances for testnet3/testnet4/signet are available as well

Introducing version control in the Bitcoin Node app on umbrelOS. Automatically switch to the latest available version of Bitcoin Core each time you update the app for the latest security fixes and bleeding edge features. Or stick to a specific version for rock-solid reliability.

I've made lots of progress in my quest to make a bip157 browser wallet! Thanks Oli for serving bip158 filters in a web-friendly way at block-dn.org, and thanks bcoin.org for providing libraries that let me parse them. Most of the hard parts work now!

MASSIVE congrats to another legend who beat the odds and solo-mined a block with Public Pool on their Umbrel and took home 3.141 BTC. No middlemen. No third-parties. Just pure self-sovereignty in action.

Public Pool Umbrel ☂️ mempool Congratulations my brother!!! Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Cannot Be Stopped

The solo miner who hit the jackpot came back with the receipts. It was one of his six NerdQaxe++, connected to an Umbrel running Public Pool + Bitcoin node, that found the block. Some people watch the revolution. Others plug it in.