🚨TO ALL MY IMMIGRANT MUTUALS🚨 I grew up in the deep south, rural mississippi. I've been called n*gger more times than you've been called "white boy". I helped build the local hindu temple. The county it was built, Rankin? We've had several lynchings there while I grew up. My

FBI On the Silk Road, a darknet site run by American cyber-entrepreneur Ross William Ulbricht, bargaining for goods and services was as easy as clicking a button. #FBI criminals seized Ulbricht's laptop and took down his enterprise. Learn more: freeross.org

carman 🟠 imagine thinking a tax is ever a solution to anything 😂

“we want it more than you” beautifully written ❤️

Yes, government surveillance is invasive, but we have more control than we think. Govts buy a lot of their data, & it comes from us willingly using platforms that don't respect our privacy. By choosing better tools, we can reclaim some control & better protect our digital lives.

Today is my 4-year brinkieversary! Brink was my first job out of college, and I was its first dev 🫂 we grew up together. I’m feeling sentimental today - this was my desk in the first London office, a 10ft x 10ft wework fishbowl. I was taping txout types and CTransaction

Watching people who demonstrably don’t understand how transaction relay works try to fud ephemeral dust is hilarious. Absolute clownshow.

Hello 2025, we're back! Our next BitDevs will be Tuesday, January 21st. There's lots to talk about, but feel free to send in your agenda suggestions. bitdevsamsterdam.org Jan Burgers josie 🏴‍☠️🧡 Ruben Somsen Tom Stammis Bitonic

A first attempt at visualizing how Silent Payments (BIP-0352) work on the sender side. Any feedback is welcome!

super excited for this conference and for my first time visiting cape town 🇿🇦!

Mark your calenders! On Thursday February 20, we will have a Socratic seminar at the Blockrise office in Rotterdam. See the invite below. josie 🏴‍☠️🧡 Tom Stammis Ruben Somsen Jan Burgers Blockrise meetup.com/bitdevs-amster…

due to popular demand, we are gonna be trying something new in 2025: bitdevs *every* month, rotating between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. been amazing to watch the bitdevs group grow over the last two years! 🥰

This might be one of the coolest things I've seen happen in Bitcoin in ages. Foundation for open-source home mining holds a fundraiser by mining on a self-hosted pool and asking people to donate hashrate, and HITS A BLOCK on their Livestream! >300k raised for their foundation

more bootstrapping, less bootlicking

just signed up for Obscura: The Privacy-first VPN , paid for it using Phoenix Wallet . it feels so cool to use shit built by the homies 🧡💪

a little late with this one, soz! 😅 but some cool stuff: - reflections on the last year of bitcoin core development - zk-gossip: zero knowledge for lightning gossip - selfish mining in a zero subsidy world and more, see you there!

agenda is up, we are in amsterdam at Bitonic , see u there!

A new release candidate of Bitcoin Core, v29.0rc2, is available for testing. This is a new major release, and follows v28.0. Release announcement: groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c… It is available from: bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-co…

legacy code is the death of innovation

another bitdevs 👀👀👀🧡