Thank you to everyone who came to @TABConf 8 - Oct 12-15, 2026 ATL 7 and made it wonderful this year! 4 days of: cordial debates, technical workshops, talks and panels, interactivities, meshtastic devices, hardware hacking, the CTB puzzle. So much fun. 7 Things I would like to share from TABConf 7. 1. Huge sponsor love for enabling our grants and supporting the conf: lclhostresearch @HRF, SetDevBTC, BitcoinTutorials @Spiral FulgurVentures unchained jintekc @Fedi @andurobtc CleanSpark_Inc lightspark, DCD 2. So many new faces inspired to build on Bitcoin. Special love to the Brazilian crew who also hit the Rust Bitcoin Summit at @Bitcoin Park . Shout to @Lucas Ferreira 🇧🇷⚡️ on the great work with vintenum and @Satsconf (Nov 7). 3. Thanks for personalized education and attention from so many talented folks especially some core contributors like @Murch and achow101. And those encouraging technical education with a carrot 🥕 via CTB donors, you rock!: jintekc fedibtc @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 Anchor Watch, TaprootWizards. 4. Adhoc and satellite events and activities were a blast: @Stephen DeLorme @ATL BitLab 👷🧑‍🏭💃 @Shelly Legit @isabelfoxenduke Afterparties 🥳 @npub1337xxyne0pw52zgd984xqqs2q7qhqpt7phhn7xp6t9yt406vrvescdpkdt Mario Kart Double Sats 🚗 @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 Bitcoin at work-shop. The chess tournament crew: jondomedia @Bitcoin Party KC bitcoinburnbabe. ♟️ 5. Massive thanks to @Walton 🕶️ @CryptoDoctor @Brianna HD Brandon @ExFrog @Alex Lewin and all volunteers for setup and breakdown in record time. lclhostresearch crushed the Socratic BitDevs village as always. Hardcore trivia was amazing and super efficient. 6. Debate panels drew big crowds again. Year 2 of the format and going strong. Thanks Paul Sztorc and @Hunter ₿eaṩt for setting context and involving the audience. 7. The warnet hosted by Zipkin was awesome. Big shout to chaincode for supporting it the last 2 years. Hacking LN ⚡️⚠️ nodes was a blast. Our evening WoT with @Christopher Allen 🔐workshop sparked ideas for recurring web of trust events at TAB. I cannot wait to see you all next year for TABConf 8. Tickets are on sale now at early prices. Support the conference and grab yours today! Save the date: TABConf 8 is Oct 12-15, 2026. Mark your calendars! 🗓️

I'm wearing the @tunestr hoodie today in a coffee shop, a girl there knows my name is mike. She asks me.. "Are you Mike from tunestr". Holy crap.. small world, and too many Mikes.

Can we objectively measure (point in time) relay filter effectiveness? We can by looking at the friction a Tx/usecase faces getting into a block. Filtering on datacarrier (preventing OP_RETURNs from exceeding 83 bytes) lives in the [pink box] Sharing this as a discussion point.

Yo @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 what's up my love

I'm working on the relaunch of my website and server backend, one thing I'm wondering if someone stumbles upon my game and wants to register with Nostr but doesn't have an account. Where should I point them?

Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

? I don't really want them to generate the keys on my website if I can help it because I want them to be responsible for not losing their nsec. Any ideas from what others have done?