With Bitaxes being manufactured all over the world, the most centralized part of mining hardware is Bitmain chips. Hopefully there'll be some competition soon 👀

This was me learning what networks are

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Lots of magic happening behind the scenes to create a nice and simple UX 🧙‍♂️✨

In case you were wondering what I'd pick between code that gets the job done and code that's great to read and follows all best practices here's your answer PRs welcome btw

Last weekend Blockspace Media’s OP_NEXT, we demoed Arkade — a prototype wallet built on the Ark protocol, live on mainnet While only a proof-of-concept, it highlighted something more important: A new class of Bitcoin applications is possible today, without consensus changes 🧵👇

I want to shed some light on what's currently happening with the Internet in Spain🇪🇸 Spoiler: it's bad. Like 2010-China-bad. Let's start with the tl;dr: 🚫A judge gave the Spanish football league (LALIGA) the power to force ISPs to block IP addresses from a list it controls

I'm tired of the mempool filter discussion. Even if it everyone would run knots, the "spammers" would just send their txs to the dominant block template builders directly. Same data in the chain but with horrible side effects

Out of band submitted transactions are real fun to think about. Eg if you submit a transaction to a mining pool directly and only to it, the pool could credit your account some % of the transaction fee. That balance you could use to out of band fee bump future txs of yours

Welcome to Lightning, Klever Wallet ⚡️ 100,000+ people just got access to Bitcoin payments — Lightning-fast, permissionless, and peer-to-peer. Pay anyone, anywhere. Even goats. See why Klever went nodeless 🐐👇

Great news: Nodeless now has complete BOLT 12 & BIP353 support 🔥 And we didn’t stop there — the new release also includes: → Support LNURL-Verify → Add on-chain transaction ID when sending to a BTC address Check the release notes to learn more 👇⚡️

1/ Today we're introducing Arkade to the world, a Bitcoin-native virtual execution layer. We believe this represents more than a product announcement. This is a paradigm shift. Bitcoin is reaching the same inflection point that transformed the internet 20+ years ago. 🧵

CTV + CSFS: a letter to the technical bitcoin community from 43 engineers Full text at ctv-csfs.com

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We ended winning Second place! Shout-out to Espen, thesimplekid and Michael for making a great team! If anyone is interested in exploring the idea further, the idea, name and all code are public domain, as they should be! github.com/stevenroose/sp…

I am so proud of the team. You can just do things. Today, Bitcoin took a massive step forward. Onwards. 👾

Thank you to the team at Ark Labs for the relentless years of hard work and research fleshing out Arkade. Your passion and skill was on full display, and people loved what they saw. Thank you Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge for joining us on this journey and being an amazing partner. Cont..

On August 10, Vinteum turned 3 years old 🎉 To celebrate, we put together a 50-page report (available in English and Portuguese) covering everything we have accomplished so far, from developer contributions to education and community building in Brazil’s Bitcoin ecosystem 🧵👇

Was great fun to battle test Arkade in the wild 👾

Sometimes, things are not as bad as they seem at first glance