I'm so old I remember when people were asking and telling eachother's bitcoin balances on twitter.
Vortex | CTV | LNHANCE
vortex@theonevortex.com
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Former host of The Bitcoin News Show. Creator of https://bitcoindev.org. Bitcoin Is. And that is enough.
Do you have any interesting ideas you want to build with CTV?
There's a BipBounty of 5+ BTC right now for anyone trying to build interesting apps, proof of concepts or find bugs.
https://bipbounty.org/bounties/1e101655-bad8-5147-82f7-f03145d567af/
You enjoyed ICOs, NFTs and Ordinals right?
Well the next scams attempting to relieve you of your bitcoin will come in the form of "Layer 2 Solutions" that claim they solve bitcoin's scaling problems.
And you guessed it, they'll each have their own native token that they'll claim is necessary for scaling.
Want your purchasing power preserved for you and your family?
Choose wisely.
XMR priced in BTC:
Want to know what's going on in bitcoin? ALOT.
Checkout @Brad Mills excellent twitter thread covering new and on-going projects in the bitcoin space:
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Brad Mills 🔑⚡️ (@bradmillscan) on X
Bitcoin is dead, long live bitcoin!
We're currently in the 4th epoch of Bitcoin, I've been around since the first epoch of bitcoin. I'm not a high...
Getting so sick of what's supposed to be technically competent people blaming Taproot for jpegs.
Yes it made it only slightly easier but people have always been spamming the blockchain and adding arbitrary data, this will never go away completely.
Really enjoying the CTV discussion on spaces and in chat rooms. It's moving forward day by day.
Bonus part is that everyone is learning more about how bitcoin works.
Hilarious how nondevs, altcoiners and jpegers call bitcoin a pet rock...
Meanwhile back in reality there's over 250 links and growing on bitcoindev.org.
The innovation is massive.
Want to learn more about the Lightning Network? Or maybe you're looking for better ways to monitor your node and/or manage liquidity/routing in your channels?
Checkout the extensive list of tools on the Lightning page of bitcoindev.org
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Are you looking to dive more into the technical aspects of bitcoin?
Make sure to checkout links to all the relevant notes, docs and specs on bitcoindev.org's education page that can level up your technical understanding.
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Are you a developer who wants to learn more about working with bitcoin?
There's never been a better time!
On the education page of bitcoindev.org you'll find links to both free and premium Courses, Training Programs, Guides, Books and more.
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Need funding for your new bitcoin project?
Or maybe you just want a job in the bitcoin ecosystem?
Make sure to checkout the community section of
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
SatoshiVM, BVM Network, and ckBTC are all scams all with their own tokens.
Let me be very clear.
You do not need a token to launch an L2 on bitcoin, if there is a token it is only there to enrich the founders of the project.
Even more incredible use cases for CTV:
Fix fee bypass bug for HodlHodl decentralized exchange
Trustless & Offline LNURL payments
Trustless Refunds for Chain Overpayments
Delving Bitcoin
PoC: Fix fee bypass bug using OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY
Problem HodlHodl uses 2-of-3 multisig for P2P trades and a new multisig address is created for each trade using public keys for buyer, seller and H...
GitHub
Covenants: Trustless & Offline LNURL payments · Issue #466 · BoltzExchange/boltz-backend
Background Inspired by the Breez idea of signing payments within mobile notification device compute time and Aqua's desire to enable "Receive to us...
GitHub
Covenants: Trustless Refunds for Chain Overpayments · Issue #464 · BoltzExchange/boltz-backend
Goal A Boltz API client should only be able to claim the previously agreed upon swap amount, if a user accidentally overpays. Client can then throw...
Work continues on bitcoindev.org now with better optimization for mobile devices and of course a bunch of new links!
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Learn what is #OP_CTV and how to use it to lock and unlock your coins using Katsu's stupid simple™ Python example.
Newbie Guide to CheckTemplateVerify (OP_CTV) | BitcoinDocs
Learn about CheckTemplateVerify (OP_CTV) opcode proposal that enables locking coins based on predefined transaction attributes.
Learning more about the benefits of CTV...
Amazing episode of the Bitcoin OpTech podcast featuring @Rearden 🥪🤖🍴🛩 explaining the new LNHANCE proposal.
Give it a listen and learn a ton!
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #285 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss Newsletter #285.
Here's my favorite twitter threads on CTV so far:
What are yours?
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Dallas Rushing (@dallasirushing) on X
What is #CTV BIP 119 (covenants)?
CTV = CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY
It enables users to set conditions/rules for how their Bitcoins can be spent in ...
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Owen Kemeys (@OwenKemeys) on X
Welcome to Covenants 101, with a focus on CTV.
What are they? Is this an attack on bitcoin? Can the government lock up all our coins?
Without an a...
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Owen Kemeys (@OwenKemeys) on X
Welcome to Covenants 102, with a focus on CTV still.
In this thread I’ll walk through three clear use cases, impossible without covenants. Each ...
Glad to see the new LNHANCE proposal be mentioned in the latest Optech Newsletter which combines CTV + CSFS + InternalKey. The perfect set of building blocks for the next bitcoin upgrade:
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #285
This week’s newsletter discloses a past vulnerability affecting Core Lightning, announces two new soft fork proposals, provides an overview of th...