Taproot represents a major upgrade to Bitcoin It was activated in November 2021 as a soft fork but saw little adoption for the first ~14 months of its existence When inscriptions emerged as a popular use case in 2023, Taproot adoption accelerated on a large scale The share of

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I'm excited to announce IP School 🍕🥷 An intensive bootcamp for Pizza Ninjas holders to dream, grow, and earn Through group sessions and hands-on projects, holders will grow their characters into revenue-generating IP Decentralized IP creation failed in 2021-22 because it was

This was an interesting debate! Would love to have another one with more people of both sides discussing this topic!

Interesting! The market share of "small" mining pools increased from ~15% in 08/2024 to more than 24% in 08/2025 In fact, their collective share has seen a consecutive MoM rise (except for one month) over the previous year Biggest loser is AntPool, which has seen its market

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You cannot stop metaprotocols on Bitcoin. It is not possible. All you can do is constrain them in ways that make the externalities they impose on the network as a whole more and more costly. Trying is cutting off your nose to spite your face. bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/you-…

Filters are a bad idea. 🧵

DGC - Decentralized Gentlemen Club continues its degen(t) activities Blocks 914,013 through 914,016 contain in total 20 Degent inscriptions and fill up some of the otherwise quite empty blocks

Debunking the Flat Bitcoin Theory 🧵 In the early days of Bitcoin (2009-2014) there was a massive amount of experimentation and innovation on bitcoin The first NFTs and cryptoart started on Bitcoin The first memecoins started on Bitcoin The first stablecoins and real world

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Tl;dr Use data to reveal information Creating visuals is one of the most beautiful things when working with data Figures and charts are much more intuitive than plain numbers E.g., visuals let you experience how Bitcoin has evolved over time When we look at TXs over time:

While the "spam" debate continues.... Users continue to use a variety of metaprotocols to store arbitrary data on Bitcoin at sub 1 sat/vB fee rates