> “21 million” comes first, and after our brains have been sufficiently infected by the idea, we’ll run the software that brings the 21 million into existence. dergigi.com/2023/03/21/bitcoin-s-meme-wars

"Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company but even when he is in their thoughts.” Seneca

I’m not agreeing with the prosecutor’s handling of this, but it’s a trial right. Since this was disclosed prior to trial, there won’t be a violation.

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #353 is here: - describes a recently discovered theoretical consensus failure vulnerability - links to a proposal to avoid reuse of BIP32 wallet paths - recaps the "Add bitcoin wrapper executable" PR Review Meeting - Optech Newsletter #353 Recap bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09 Ruben Somsen posted to the Bitcoibitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#bip30-consensus-failure-vulnerability Kevin Loaec posted to Delving Bitbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#avoiding-bip32-path-reuse "Add bitcoin wrapper executable" bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club Bitcoin Optech will host an audioriverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech

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Thinking about this more today. Your friends want a better friend. Your spouse wants a better partner. Even your enemies want a more worthy opponent. Everyone, in their own way, is rooting for you to grow. Everyone except you. Because getting better means killing off the version of you that’s b

I think the big thing that soured me on Christianity early in life was the boomers and their worldview. The boomers made everything about judgement and appearances. Church wasn’t about the teachings of Christ, it was about being seen at church. Being seen to be a “good christian”. Meanwhile,

bitcoin fees are a dynamic free market block space is scarce and intentionally limited to improve mining and node distribution as transaction demand increases so do the fees associated with sending a bitcoin transaction this fee market provides decentralized spam mitigation fees provide a real c

What surprises me about the tech and developer discussion around embedding data onchain (and OP_RETURN is just a corner of that), is how little of the discussion refers to the ethics. There's an obvious point, and an obvious (in my opinion, incorrect) counterpoint. The obvious point is that permis