I don’t understand why people add sugar to lemonade. Fresh squeezed lemon juice is plenty sweet.

There have been more posts about OP_RETURN than there were > 80b OP_RETURNS

S&P Futures down 1.5%, Bitcoin up since Friday. Wild world.

AI gives sound money another shot on goal. Payments are going to be disrupted, we’ve got a great shot at making sound money a big part of payments if we build. View quoted note →

A reminder that Ayatollah Khamenei was far from the most hard-liner of Iran’s ruling class. As with so many other regime-change missions the replacement may well be worse. For the sake of the Iranian people I certainly hope not.

Now is Bitcoin’s time to build. View quoted note →

There appears to be a bunch of “news” accounts on X shitposting about huge whales dumping 100k coins at a time/selling their entire 2011 positions with faked screenshots and are reliably getting 50k RTs and not corrected. 🤦‍♂️

Happy Liberation Day!

Per River’s latest report the lightning network processes roughly 0.1% the transaction volume of Visa (by volume, not count!). Honestly not bad!

It’s impressive how well LLMs demonstrate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

This. Build the best Bitcoin to get more normal sane people to use Bitcoin and drown out the crazies. That and don’t bother engaging on social media. Sorry to the crazies you’re just never gonna get to interact with any Bitcoin dev at this point - people gotta protect their time. View quoted note →

And so Bitcoin loses yet another person who invested nearly a decade learning its intricacies so that they can meaningfully contribute. At this rate we’re not gonna have anyone left who’s qualified working on Bitcoin. Wonder how much people will love it when the chain randomly splits because of poorly-maintained code. At least lightning security was improved 10x in the interim, I suppose.

GitHub

drop my key from trusted-keys by glozow · Pull Request #34517 · bitcoin/bitcoin

As planned! Also bump trusted-git-root to 88a7294, which is the last merge signed with this key. EDIT: I didn’t plan to write a "statement&q...

Man it’s disappointing to, yet again, watch bitcoiners eat each other alive and drive great people away. Bitcoin is so much worse off for it, we could have so much more…