Bought more Bitcoin ✊

An efficient and usable sha256 implementation is a key building block for improving L2 bridge safety and rollups on #Bitcoin

Hiro loves anything that makes building on the Bitcoin L1 easier, so we're adding .05 BTC to the reward pool as well

Slight update to the Nakamoto instantiation block. New Bitcoin block is 840,360, which better aligns with start of next stacking cycle.

The Nakamoto activation window does not change with this. Just helps with some time to restack, testing, and partners to boot up. It’s time! 🟧

We told you about Bitcoin L2s in 2021.

Stacks OGs already live in the future.

Me after the Nakamoto upgrade

1/6 🍊 ZEST PROTOCOL IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! 🍊

Introducing the first money market on stacks.btc

Our STX lending market is the first step in unlocking the power of sBTC - backed 1:1 to BTC - on Bitcoin's largest L2. Here's how 👇

On BitVM-based bridges and liquidity:

There have been some recent discussions about the designs of BitVM-based bridges and their liquidity requirements. Some thoughts here: 

- First of all, BitVM itself is very genetic; developers can build all sorts of things with it. One…

Happy Eid to those who celebrate 🌙

Giving eidi in Bitcoin to family & kids helps educate them about the future of money. There are 100M sats in 1 BTC, so can be as small as you like.

Eid Mubarak to the Bitcoin fam 🟧

I've been helping with Juicebox, an open-source encryption key recovery system that provides high security coupled with a user-friendly design, to make encryption further accessible to larger numbers of people.

Details on how it works: juicebox.xyz/blog/key-to-si…

Runes launch at Bitcoin halving will begin memecoins on Bitcoin season.

As L1 breaks with insane fees and activity, all roads lead to Bitcoin L2s.

Very happy to see this out in the wild. And nice to see friendly collaboration with contributors across the #Bitcoin . A pleasure, muneeb.btc. 🙇‍♂️

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Stacking DAO has just been featured on The Defiant.

Read the Stacking DAO analysis in their DeFi Alpha letter.

It's time for the whole Web3 ecosystem to learn about Liquid Stacking on stacks.btc.

thedefiant.io/defi-alpha-liq…

Devs picked the instantiation block.

Bitcoin block 839,444 will kick-off the Stacks Nakamoto rollout. That is 1,771 blocks away (approx April 16).

Bitcoin halving is at block 840,000 (approx April 20). Nakamoto rollout will happen over 4 weeks, until activation.

It’s time 🟧

Some notes from Seoul, Korea:

- Korea is the largest market for Stacks (STX) by trading volume, accounting for 40-60% of global trading volume. I'm an engineer, not a trader, so I had no idea why. I got two answers: (a) Stacks did an SEC-qualified offering, and Koreans like the…

We like the orange.

Activating Bitcoin season 2 in Korea 🟧

“Regardless of which ecosystem you’re from, we’re all working together”
-muneeb.btc
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Entities in the Stacks ecosystem are investing $2M+ in BitVM research.

BitVM can lead to more trust-minimized (1-of-n) bridges to Bitcoin L2s, and this new investment and job openings will help accelerate R&D for it.

All work will be open-source.

Can we build better Bitcoin layers with BitVM? 🟧

A new stacks.btc Working Group with an initial allocation of $500,000 is going to find out!

Plus, they'll be open-sourcing everything they learn for the broader Bitcoin ecosystem to benefit from.

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Bitcoin believers in Seoul 🟧