Bitcoin just got programmable. Not through a soft fork. Not through a sidechain. Through math. ZK-rollups + BitVM2 are live right now — bringing EVM smart contracts, stablecoins, and DeFi to the Bitcoin base layer. Here's what changed and why it matters 🧵

Bitcoin just got programmable. Not through a soft fork. Not through a sidechain. Through math. ZK-rollups + BitVM2 are live right now — bringing EVM smart contracts, stablecoins, and DeFi to the Bitcoin base layer. Here's what changed and why it matters 🧵

Bitcoin's base layer handles 7 transactions per second. That's not a bug — it's security.

USDT is coming back to Bitcoin — natively, on the base layer, through the RGB protocol ⚡

Most people think Bitcoin is just digital gold. Here's what they're missing: the world's largest stablecoin is coming back to Bitcoin. USDT. Natively. On the base layer. Via the RGB protocol. This changes everything 🧵

Fedimint — community Bitcoin banks built on multisig and Chaumian ecash. Guardians collectively hold BTC. You deposit, get ecash tokens, spend privately. No single guardian can steal or censor. Always recoverable on-chain. Already running in Africa, Latin America, and Bitcoin meetups worldwide. Full video: zap libfrontcrypto@coinos.io ⚡ #Bitcoin #Fedimint #Ecash #CommunityBanking

Silent Payments (BIP-352) — Bitcoin's next privacy upgrade. Instead of reusable addresses, you share one static payment code that generates fresh addresses every time. Your wallet scans the chain and detects payments automatically. No one can link them back to you. Now supported by Cake Wallet and Sparrow Wallet. Privacy by default. No CoinJoin, no sidechain. Full video: zap libfrontcrypto@coinos.io ⚡ #Bitcoin #BIP352 #SilentPayments #Privacy

Most people think Lightning is the only way to scale Bitcoin. There's another approach quietly building: Statechains.

Most people think Lightning is the only way to scale Bitcoin. There's another approach quietly building: Statechains.

Before Bitcoin had a community, there were two people: Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi. Malmi — alias "Sirius" — received the first peer-to-peer Bitcoin transaction. He maintained bitcoin.org. He coded alongside Satoshi. In May 2026, he shipped something new: Nostr VPN 🧵

# Nostr Thread: Nostr VPN — Satoshi-Era Dev Builds Privacy Without Central Servers

# Bitcoin Privacy — CoinJoin, PayJoin, and Why They Matter