I'm extremely proud to announce that I successfully defended my PhD with highest honors. Looking back at years of fundamental research in academia, I'm excited about the future. I plan to focus on Bitcoin R&D, the most impactful project my skills can contribute to. - Dr. Calle

I absolutely *LOVE* watching all these startled brains wrap their heads around an intriguing new idea like BitVM. You can't ignore it. You must know whether its solid or vapor. You're about to come up with ideas how to improve it! This is what I'm here for. This is how we win.

The Cashu integration looks so damn cool on Snort

Crypto history is weird: - Ecash lead to Bitcoin - Bitcoin lead to stablecoins - Stablecoins lead to CBDCs CBDCs are very very bad. However, privacy advocates agree that the best one would be based on Ecash. ☯️

I just received a bank transfer that was faster than a Lightning payment – AMA

Most shitcoins should be ecash. - They are centralized - Nobody runs a node - Blockchains are terribly inefficient

This is ecash: ``` { "id":"I2yN+iRYfkzT", "amount":16, "C":"0298c489696520a7e4df96db2e3809394e87d6d21db404bef4c3b3b2d008cf472f", "secret":"mxn8P2yTLK+kX1Q+7CcCGp9FxpreQtebR6y6BOWMuhI=" } ```

Presenting Cashu Nutstrike 🥜☄️ - USD Chaumian ecash mint running on a Strike Lightning backend. Ecash is denominated in US-cents. You can mint and melt USD ecash with Bitcoin. A Cashu ECASH HACKDAY project (apologies for twitter link, failed to upload the video anywhere else).

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Presenting Cashu Nutstrike 🥜☄️ - USD Chaumian ecash mint running on a Strike Lightning backend. Ecash is denominated in US-cents. You can m...

This will exist: Lightning BTC ⚡️ -> Ecash USD 🪙 -> Lightning BTC ⚡️

What's the best way to upload video again?

I made something and it's fucking amazing

LightningTipBot's insane LND force close disaster seems to have reached its end – LN.tips is looking for new channel partners! Fees are low right now, please consider opening a channel to the bot – usually a very active peer:

Amboss Space

decommissioned - Lightning Network Node | Amboss

decommissioned is a Lightning Network node with - channels and a total capacity of - sats (0.00 BTC). Explore channel details, fee policies, uptime...

ok lol LND TLS certificates can expire

You kinda get used to waking up to multiple messages from people complaining that half of your software stack has crashed during night. ☕

Huge update: Introducing the LNbits Node Manager for Core Lightning and LND! ⚡️ Manage your Lightning peers and channels without leaving LNbits. List all transactions and share a public node page with your peers. Support for more Lightning node implementations to come!

GitHub

Release 0.11.0 Leo · lnbits/lnbits

This release's name is dedicated to Leo. Leo is easily one of the nicest people in Bitcoin and has been active in the LNbits chat since the beginni...

Ecash doesn't improve Bitcoin. Bitcoin improves Ecash.

Bank runs are good. We should automate them.

We will have to punch through a few minor but breaking changes in the Cashu protocol before this baby grows up. It will be challenging to coordinate the upgrades in multiple implementations but the pain will be worth it. Designing a protocol with others is super exciting and working with this growing community of devs is truly a blessing. The first response in the dev chat to my message about the upgrade was "We love pain 🤝" 🫡 may the nut be with you

If you have a recent macbook M1 or M2 with enough RAM make sure to try out GPT4ALL. It's easily good enough to be useful especially if you don't have access to OpenAI's API. It's free and it's private. No data leaves your computer. This is how we should be using AI.

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GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot

Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your ma...