Every time I create a PR to an open source project

📣 Boston BitDevs has some free and discount tickets to the MIT Bitcoin Expo (April 5 - 6)! The expo's organization team has generously offered our group 3 free tickets, and an additional 5 tickets with a 30% discount. Please contact me if you would like to claim one! Crossposted. First come, first served.

Jaleel White (aka Steve Urkle) voices ALL three main characters in the 1999 Sonic Underground cartoon. Anyways the theme song for this show was a banger and children don’t get enough metal in their media diet these days. “Triplets born, the throne awaits A seer warns of a deathly fate Give up your children, separate Bide your time, lie in wait!”

Who here has done one of the Chaincode bitcoin/lighting seminars?

Seminar for Bitcoin and Lightning protocol | Chaincode Seminars

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It came down to the wire but I finished my son’s Sonic costume last night! The art kid in me was so excited to do this. Happy Halloween! Happy whitepaper day!

What’s the latest on capitalization rules for “Bitcoin”? It’s my understanding that “Bitcoin” the network is capitalized and “bitcoin” the currency is lowercase. However, that seems to have fallen out of favor with the preference to always have it lowercase. Anyone have an opinion on this? I’m writing some copy for a project and want to follow the most widely used convention.

"Hello, pond nugget" - my 2yo to me

What are some misconceptions or areas of confusion people have around the Taproot upgrade? For example, it’s actually three things: 1. Schnorr, 2. Taproot, 3. Tapscript I was today years old when learned the Taproot part of the upgrade is not just the idea of using Merkle trees (to only revealing spending paths used). It’s a technique (using a public key and a Merkle tree) to make a coin spendable by either public key OR script. You can’t do any of this without Schnorr, at least not in a way that is remotely reasonable. I think it’s very confusing that the entire upgrade, the entire package of things, is named after a single feature, even if it is the one that ties everything together into a nice, impressive use case! There are plenty of interesting things about the Schnorr and Tapscript components, but they are often referred to as general “taproot” in discussion.