Damn… Core v30 killed not just Bitcoin but everything

I would hope that more were aware of how many services have used Bitcoin for data carrying in Bitcoin's history. This is from the 2018 paper "Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain", so it's a bit dated now, but it goes to show data carrying in Bitcoin is not a new phenomenon and maybe puts the recent drama into perspective!! https://ledgerjournal.org/ojs/ledger/article/download/101/93/613

Where/how can I “buy” with Lightning) some cashu tokens from a reputable mint? @Pete Winn 🔆 @Gigi

One year ago to the day, I handed in my resignation at the startup I’d been working at for 4 years. For the most part, success was “just around the corner”. I realised that although the business might be successful one day, it was probably not going to happen overnight, and was going to be a much longer grind. A grind that was something I was no longer willing to pursue. I’m glad I left and then, a few months later, dove into the Bitcoin world. It’s one of the best (sequences of) decisions I have made in my life.

This is my generational wealth

Updated pq-bitcoin.org with the latest from Clara S and myself, Bitcoin's CRQC Response Playbook. We put together this playbook to start the discussion on how Bitcoin might rapidly transition to quantum resistance when there is indisputable evidence that CRQCs capable of breaking Bitcoin's ECC cryptographic foundation are on the horizon. Check it out and please don't hesitate to let us know your thoughts!

I find that one of the hardest things about being self-directed in what I work on is not doing “all the things”. Being relatively new to working in Bitcoin, I see so much opportunity of things to work on and research directions to pursue, like a kid in a candy shop. I’ve spun up a handful of projects in the last few months, none finished, so need to focus on improving my self management to close things out, and move on, where necessary!

One thing I miss about old @Rabbit Hole Recap @Marty Bent @ODELL is the weekly update on Samourai Whirlpool unspent capacity, and the number climbing each and every week Privacy tools are essential in the face of a global panopticon

I should have done this a bit earlier, but now that it has stopped raining in Perth, and it’s all about Bloody Ripper Days (BRDs), I’ve moved “the office” outside

Wow, on a cursory first look this looks pretty amazing… (and multimodal models are apparently now called “omni” modal) … Qwen3-Omni “capable of understanding text, audio, images, and video, as well as generating speech in real time.” Will be adding this to the self-hosted stack I run at home to put it through its paces!

GitHub

GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni: Qwen3-omni is a natively end-to-end, omni-modal LLM developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, capable of understanding text, audio, images, and video, as well as generating speech in real time.

Qwen3-omni is a natively end-to-end, omni-modal LLM developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, capable of understanding text, audio, images, and ...