Tidwell

Your life is short. Build something positive that will outlive you. Remember to also celebrate progress in reference to scale and privacy.

Besides @Wizardsardine (Liana) Lightning Labs (TapAss) @TaprootWizards (NFTs) Who else is doing something with taproot outside of just simple sends? I'm looking for something in production.

Someone just put #FreeRossDayOne on nostr:nprofile1qqs8prk02gymn9thmyy8qc4rum3h77elnug7rprqdnt27xxppdarp7qprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730xdx59a

can't believe they still accept usd for this.

Here is a personalized Nostr recap of TABConf 6 here. I really do believe we made another historical event as a top 20 bitcoin conference of all time. No price discussion. No political discussion besides a bit of freerossing. Big focus on tech and steps towards progress. We experimented with some really cool ideas that worked out this year which we will be expanding on next year. Some examples were an emphasis on hardware, rotating debate panels, and rapid explainer game show. Really looking forward to having TABConf also have a minor focus on meshtastic and doing long range mesh networking. Perhaps we will even connect nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj to nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha in the future. The first ever TAB awards (Tabbies) happened this year. I think for a first pass it went pretty well. Looking forward to having more Nostr involvement next year, perhaps people reading this may feel inclined to run a Nostr specific room or do an entire Nostr day at the same venue next year. Let me know if you want to plan this! I believe TABConf is the only truly open source conference that is organized, and I hope we can keep expanding and improving the uX to make people feel comfortable getting involved. We are selling tickets for next years conference already (Oct 13-16, 2025) mark your calendars. Tickets are all inclusive, there is no class of tickets and you aren't marked like cattle with an unremovable wristband. Hope you consider coming out and building next year with us. If you feel like you aren't technical enough, you are missing the point. There is something at nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 for everyone. https://m.primal.net/LmVi.mp4 Enjoy this video of me walking around talking to a few awesome people at TABConf 6 this year in the general hacker space.

Very happy so far with nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 this year. It's making me incredibly bullish. The amount of hard work going into learning so much in such little time is truly inspiring.

I arrested nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm on stage today at nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269. We got em' boys! Got him on 35 counts of unlicensed RBF.

it’s about get that special kind of bitcoin nerdy spooky

So so so so many things I'm looking forward to next week at tabconf: Some random things off the top of my head but not limited to: - The hacker badges working with infrared to send and receive sats and make a game of laser tag. (good luck nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm) - Understanding malleability for public key reuse, and hash only encumbrance within taptree and transactions. - Hacking old versions of Bitcoin core via Warnet workshop. - Doing the codex32 workshop and actually understand what I'm doing. - Getting meshtastic conference network going, and people building on top of it. - Trying to mine a Bitcoin with all the bitaxe's we are getting. - Seeing people learn deeper stuff with bip32, bip39, and tapscript via the CTB puzzle. - Seeing friends. - and ofc playing chess with nostr:npub1fuk7q4y0wzqw7vjrg7xeuuva79pg7ctg69a53zsxq6gepksufrrst9mzly

I've been spending the last several weeks learning about Bitcoin, specifically deep things and nuance with bip32, how apps have implemented this, and combinations with bip39. It amazes me how little I know whenever I do a dive like this.. nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs gave me some words of motivation the other day, I think I want to start doing technical content again soon through Blocktime podcast. After nostr:npub17yqgpat6e6ensd78jqhj4c3ef03uq04uqu3z05rhjnlk67lwm8wq9w5269 I'll plan to knock a few videos and see if it gets some traction.

For those of you running a Bitaxe, what's your best difficulty so far? After a few hours I got a 6.52M.