Update/correction: the missing Dec 11 response was my mistake. I accidentally emailed Greg directly, not the bitcoin-dev list, so it never hit moderation/archives. Apologies for the confusion; note updated in the repo.

It's the third time WW3 has broken out in a year and as many smart people have predicted we're all going to die. Like the last two times. It's been a pleasure knowing you all and I hope to see you in the afterlife. Or just back here tomorrow reading the same panic slop.

Check out our latest Bark demo! 🐶🌎 It uses Go and the Bark Go bindings!

calle hear that bark is Bitcoin only 👀

calle Zee ₿⚡ The rumors are true.

Now this is a kind of smuggling I can get behind!

I upgraded my node storage and did a full sync yesterday, for the first time since I started running nodes in 2018 I synced in less than 24 hours. Really crazy how much the chain has grown and how syncing times seem to be improving!

Silent payments is not just a new approach to static payment codes. It's the first serious contender to improve the address derivation system since HD wallets in 2013. HD wallets were a big win over single keys, and silent payments could be a similar leap forward.

Bullish on BIP-321

𝟰/ Tor connectivity is here. A new socks5-proxy feature routes traffic through a SOCKS5 proxy, covering Ark gRPC, esplora HTTP, and bitcoind RPC. Local addresses bypass automatically.

Bark 0.1.0 No more beta. Official release. The real thing. Fully working. It’s happening.

Running Frigate in a container with GPU acceleration 🥳

Adam Black, CEO and co-founder of Blackstream, coming to Netflix, soon!

🤔💭

Hint: it ships out of the box.

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Synced and working 🥳

It costs only ~$35 in hardware to do instant Bitcoin payments with Ark.

curb Somewhere on Earth there are human beings pondering why their looping receipt-of-a-receipt-of-a-receipt did not work out for them due to North Korea. Trying to devise a better "strategy" in a system with no regulatory oversight. Millions of years of predator avoidance, tool use,

Just paid to play Chain Duel with satsigner, a bitcoin wallet with Ark support!