"I generated an offline transaction with my satnode, signed it with a hardware wallet, and broadcast it to my local mesh network. The transaction was included in a block, beamed down from space, and my satnode verified it. Electrum Wallet displayed the transaction as confirmed!"

Don't buy Bitcoin - earn it. Stacking sats the self-sovereign way: "How to earn Bitcoin by using BTCPay Server" blog.btcpayserver.org/how-to-earn-bi…

Korea’s Biggest Messaging App Kakao to Integrate Crypto Wallet For 44 Million Users ccn.com/koreas-biggest…

Soon Bitcoin's inflation rate will be the lower than any form of money in human history.

Remember when Lightning was never going to ship? Remember when no one would run routing nodes because of the government? Remember when it was impossible to write a graph pathfinding algorithm? Remember when no one would want to try using LN because it’s complicated?

Bad news: the Lightning Network is not well suited for large, random destination, infrequent sends. Good news: the Blockchain is good at that. Best news: with submarine swaps, splicing, fallback addresses: on and off-chain can seamlessly work together to efficiently move bitcoins

In the bitcoin blockchain output amounts are about 8.49GB, if serialized as bitcoin varint they could be 4.96GB, if serialized as 7 bit varint they could be 3.65GB

JUST IN: Coinbase 🛡️ has launched a Visa debit card allowing U.K. and EU users to spend crypto directly from their exchange accounts. ow.ly/sAAQ50pMx23

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Nice zoomable art of the hodlonaut made with all of the LN torch bearers social media profiles.

I'll be hosting a panel on Bitcoin without internet at the Magical Crypto Conference! If there are any questions you would like to see asked, send them my way! #MCC2019 📻📡🛰️

2019 Returns... Bitcoin $BTC: +96% Oil $USO: +36% MLPs $AMLP: +18% REITs $VNQ: +17% Nasdaq 100 $QQQ: +16% Small Caps $IWM: +14% S&P 500 $SPY: +13% EAFE $EFA: +9% Commodities $DBC: +9% High Yield $HYG: +7% Investment Grade $LQD: +7% EM $EEM: +4% Bonds $AGG: +3% Gold $GLD: +1%

Asset Issuance demo on #LiquidNetwork breakout your Bitcoin fullnode, install liquid fullnode and follow along.

⚡️ You can now make non-custodial Lightning payments using Muun! Make instant payments with zero channel configuration. medium.com/muunwallet/lig…

Just run a test with peak load of 100 TPS of ZK transactions on ETH mainnet. We could do more but hit the limit by consuming the entire capacity of DigitalOcean's largest suitable servers (next time AWS). Block explorer: mainnet.matter-labs.io

Lightning on bitcoin on liquid (L-BTC). Bitcoin layers connecting and converging! (People may not know that Lightning can bridge multiple networks).

Nobody became wealthy quickly due to diversifying their investments. You know why the wealthiest people tend to be entrepreneurs & their heirs? They focused and risked all their resources on one specific opportunity. Diversification preserves wealth; concentration builds it.

Another block was just found. 12.5 BTC less to be mined before the final cap. Yes, final. And one block closer to the reward halving. Scarcity is coming. 🚀🚀🚀

Recently: 1. Turkey froze 3m+ bank accounts. 2. Hong Kong ATM withdrawals restricted. 3. Reserve Bank of India ordered PMC Bank to restrict withdrawals to not exceed Rs 1000 ($USD 14). 4. European Central Bank will ‘restart’ quantitative easing measures. Why would someone not have some $BTC?

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #67 is here: - requests help testing Bitcoin Core and LND release candidates - tracks discussion about proposed noinput and anyprevout sighash flags - describes several notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…