Our next bitcoin meetup has been scheduled! It'll be featured Jurvis Tan from Block who'll be breaking down how to architect a self-custodial lightning mobile wallet. Date: 9/30 @ 6:30pm Location: NEW VENUE (Paper or Plastik Cafe) RSVP below 👇👇👇 meetup.com/bitdevsla/even…

Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch), our second Bitcoin Wizard (spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-is…), starts today. Yuval was a long-time Wasabi contributor who is now working on Fungi, which will build on BDK by providing privacy metrics/analysis framework for bitcoin transactions…

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Rust still has a long way to go.

Genuinely tempted to use this as my first LinkedIn post.

Detailed 22 pager on Bitkey's recovery. Highly recommended read for anyone who nerds out on self-custody. bitkey.build/sharing-our-re…

Shouldn't the comma after "vile" have been a semicolon? Merriam-Webster

This is the darkest timeline.

POTUS a laser-eye maxi confirmed.

This is three years in the making: 1) Matt Corallo co-authored the spec and improved decentralization by letting miners select transactions 2) We funded Fi3 (fi3 🏴‍☠️ 🦀 ₿) to begin work on a neutral FOSS implementation of SV2, which is now SRI 3) We funded Pavlenex, a PM and leader

can we stop this can this stop

Sergio Demian Lerner (sergio.lerner.rsk) Butt Dickarson Rijndael 😸 Rearden🛩CTV+CSFS is consensus TheRustyTwit Johan Torås Halseth stratospher Lakshya Singh Steven Roose Peter Todd 7/ Bitcoin aims to provide a decentralized, private, secure, and unstoppable currency. Jeffrey Czyz from Spiral will explore how BOLT12 addresses these issues and the technical details that enable its functionality.

Sergio Demian Lerner (sergio.lerner.rsk) Butt Dickarson Rijndael 😸 Rearden🛩CTV+CSFS is consensus TheRustyTwit Johan Torås Halseth stratospher Lakshya Singh Steven Roose Peter Todd Jeffrey Czyz Spiral Rootstock 9/ Conor Okus will be giving a talk on LDK implementation. In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to use LDK Node to set up a simple Lightning node with a BDK-based on-chain wallet and blockchain access via Esplora.

Rearden🛩CTV+CSFS is consensus Lucas Ferreira 🇧🇷⚡️ boyacaxa 🥪 #Bitcoin CTV / CSFS / LNHANCE NOW!! TheRustyTwit Steven Roose Spiral is still hiring full-time for a Wizard. We're very open to funding consensus change R&D work! In addition to it being a high quality R&D project, we'd also require * no premature activation talk * no clown shows on social media * thorough risk and security analysis

Sometimes, there's a dev, well, he's the dev for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's Justin Moeller (Justin), whose GitHub places him high in the runnin' for most prolific Fedimint dev on earth. But sometimes there's a dev; sometimes, there's a dev.

How we got into the plushie business, part 1:

Another year, another grant for one of bitcoin’s most underappreciated communities. While people still ship wallets that make 1980s calculators with the little solar power strips on them look like iPhones, Bitcoin Design Community is forever there, waiting to give you free feedback:

We broke our blog into 5 newsletters so we could do more stuff like giving our grantees the tongue-in-cheek spotlight they deserve. In this month's second vertical, we're talking Payjoin and the Payjoin Dev Kit team.

In our latest blog post, Spiral’s Bitcoin Wizards are highlighting potential upgrades to the Bitcoin Scripting system that will enable improved scaling across the network, starting with topics like the economic limits of self-custody.

Not like Matt Corallo needed more places to get mad online, but screw it. Introducing newsletter 4 of 5 since the Great Reshuffling of our blog.