The next Boston BitDevs is this Thursday 7/30 at MIT. Thank you to the MIT DCI for the space and to Alpen Labs for food sponsorship. In addition to the reading list (https://bostonbitdevs.org/socratic-35/) there will be a guest presentation by landabaso from Barcelona BitDevs on miniscript, descriptors, and vaults. You don't want to miss it! RSVP here 👇

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BOSTON BITDEVS: Socratic Seminar 35 - Evento

This month we'll be at MIT! You can find us in building 4, room 153. Give yourself plenty of time to find the location as MIT can be a little trick...

GM from me and my biggest sourdough win to date! Big thank you to @J.T. Woodhouse for the tips that set me up for success. You really do need a strong starter! Next to it is a pic of my first loaf in 2020. I made a few more that turned out better but I quickly lost interest. It’s always nice to look back and see how far things have come.

these captchas are getting out of hand

Really great nostr chat at the @npub17xvf...c9as Oslo Freedom Forum with @JeffG, @PABLOF7z , and @rabble. Covered everything from the amazing primitives you get for free with the nostr protocol, how it can be a credible path for communicating privately with AI agents, and why Divine was built on nostr and not Bluesky 💜

Watching everyone at once is cheap. freedom tech (i.e. encrypted messaging, bitcoin, etc) makes it expensive. AI cuts the costs on both sides. Mass surveillance gets cheaper, and so does freedom tech. The race just got faster. @Matt Corallo at @npub17xvf...c9as Oslo Freedom Forum

Afghanistan is the only county on earth that bans girls from attending school That’s why Roya Mahboob vibe coded Roshan, an app making education accessible to those that need it most Wonderful example of freedom fighters embracing AI to accelerate their work @npub17xvf...c9as

A favorite from today’s programming at @npub17xvf...c9as Oslo Freedom Forum was Claudia Ortiz speaking on El Salvador: The lesson the government is telling people is if you can solve one problem, you can get away with everything else

We're looking for bitcoin, nostr, and other freedom tech apps that are interested in a free, live design review. Make using your app as empowering as the decentralized, censorship resistant technology it is built on 🚀 View quoted note →

As we wind down this year's BOSS Challenge, there have been a number of really cool projects to come out of the program. Check them out and show these builders some love! View quoted note →

This Wednesday I'll be moderating the "Secure & Secret: Advancing Bitcoin Privacy as the Default" panel at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas. I'm excited to chat with @npub1975c...ygn3 (Payjoin), @Seth For Privacy (Cake wallet) and Fabian Jahr on how we can bring a higher level of privacy to the default user experience. Join us Wednesday 4/29 at the Open Source Stage for the conversation!

Is your bitcoin node running? Well you better go catch it

The origins of gitflow

My favorite visual for how recursion works. From Data Structures and Abstractions with Java by Frank Carrano.

winter on the window

Come join us for the first Boston BitDevs of 2026 tomorrow night at MIT! We are still looking for a food sponsor. Please reach out if you are interested or you know someone that is! RSVP Here 👉

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BOSTON BITDEVS: Socratic Seminar 33 - Evento

This month we'll be at MIT! You can find us in building 4, room 153. Give yourself plenty of time to find the location as MIT can be a little trick...

Reading list 👉

Boston Bitcoin Devs | Socratic Seminar 33

Website for the Boston Bitcoin Developer Meetup.

The next Boston BitDevs will be Thursday January 22 at MIT. Thank you to the MIT Bitcoin Club for providing the space. You can find the event details below. Hope to see some familiar faces!

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BOSTON BITDEVS: Socratic Seminar 33 - Evento

This month we'll be at MIT! You can find us in building 4, room 153. Give yourself plenty of time to find the location as MIT can be a little trick...

This keeps making me laugh