Good Morning! Sunday assorted links: What is RGB Protocol on Bitcoin? A Complete Guide RGB Protocol on Bitcoin (v0.11.1) is an open-source protocol for private, scalable digital assets on Bitcoin and Lightning. 🔗

RGB Protocol on Bitcoin

What is RGB Protocol on Bitcoin? A Complete Guide

RGB Protocol on Bitcoin (v0.11.1) is an open-source protocol for private, scalable digital assets on Bitcoin and Lightning.

--- Current AI – Open Source AI Gap Map We are building a public option for AI that is open, auditable, and in service of people over profit. However, the open source AI stack has gaps. Now, together, we can close them. 🔗

Open Source AI Stack Gap Map - AI Potluck

The open source ecosystem is rich but has gaps, and together we can close them. Explore how we mapped the open source AI landscape across the three...

Namaste! Saturday assorted links: Open Source Low Tech Basic technologies which anyone can make using recycled materials and simple tools. 🔗 https://opensourcelowtech.org/ --- My OSCP Pentesting Cheatsheet | HackerAsk This is my compiled and comprehensive list of useful commands that I have documented in my personal knowledge base. In this blog post, I can find useful tips and commands about network and service enumeration, password guessing, reverse shells, Active Directory and Windows post exploitation that can be useful for penetration testing and the OSCP exam. 🔗

HackerAsk

My OSCP Pentesting Cheatsheet

I had my OSCP exam on 14.03.2025 and on 17 March, three days later, I already received the confirmation, that I had passed the OSCP exam!

Bună dimineața! Friday assorted links: Bitcoin Home Mining Playbook with Exergy · TFTC The complete Bitcoin home mining playbook: how to heat your home, monetize excess solar, and stack sats non-KYC using a building brain and cheap S19s. 🔗

Bitcoin Home Mining Playbook with Exergy

S19s at $50, AI tools to write your automations, and mega-miners getting priced off the grid by hyperscalers. The home mining window is open. Here'...

--- CBDC Tracker A CBDC is a digital national currency that is a direct liability of a country's central bank. This means the central bank is the ultimate authority, possessing absolute power over the network and its users. 🔗

CBDC Tracker

A CBDC is a digital national currency. In the case of the United States, a CBDC would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar whereas, in Nigeria, the...

--- How does the Bitcoin Lightning network actually work? The Lightning network enables quick and cheap Bitcoin payments. But how does it really work, and at what cost? 🔗

BitBox Blog

How does the Bitcoin Lightning network actually work?

The Lightning network enables quick and cheap Bitcoin payments. But how does it really work, and at what cost?

Namaste! Thursday assorted links: Lightning Transport Protocols: BOLT12, CLINK, L402 and NWC Design & Comparison stacker news 🔗

Lightning Transport Protocols: BOLT12, CLINK, L402 and NWC Design & Comparison \ stacker news

Summarising here some notes I've been consolidating about the comparison of the four protocols that currently serve as transport layers for Lightni...

Buenos días! Tuesday assorted links: Digital Logic Sim by Sebastian Lague A minimalistic digital logic simulator. You're given a NAND gate to start with, and from there you're free to create your own custom chips in layers of increasing complexity 🔗

itch.io

Digital Logic Sim by Sebastian Lague

​A minimalistic digital logic simulator

--- Choosing a Public DNS Resolver: Compare 30 Global Services Compare 30 global public DNS resolvers by privacy, filtering, DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, DoQ, IPv6, and jurisdiction, and benchmark DoH speed from your own browser. 🔗

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Compare 30 global public DNS resolvers by privacy, filtering, DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, DoQ, IPv6, and jurisdiction, and benchmark DoH speed from your brow...

Ohayō gozaimasu! Friday assorted links: Shitcoin.fail | The History of Cryptocurrency Failures & Scams Explore an interactive vertical timeline documenting the biggest cryptocurrency collapses, exchange hacks, Ponzi schemes, and algorithmic stablecoin failures in history. 🔗

Shitcoin.fail

Shitcoin.fail | The History of Cryptocurrency Failures & Scams

Explore an interactive vertical timeline documenting the biggest cryptocurrency collapses, exchange hacks, Ponzi schemes, and algorithmic stablecoi...

--- LibreWXR - Self-Hosted Weather Radar LibreWXR is a free, self-hostable weather radar API. Drop-in replacement for Rain Viewer with multi-region radar, regional NWP models, global ECMWF IFS coverage, and global weather alerts. 🔗

LibreWXR

LibreWXR - Self-Hosted Weather Radar

Free, self-hostable weather radar API. Drop-in replacement for Rain Viewer with multi-region radar, always-on global observed precipitation (NOAA R...

--- A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags. 🔗

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

--- Who was the 1st Bitcoin Miner? 🔗

Who was the 1st Bitcoin Miner?

Who was the 1st Bitcoin Miner?

Forensic analysis discovers: Bitcoin halted 8 times at launch, Satoshi Nakamoto solo mined, first miners: Hal Finney vs. Dustin Trammell.

Bom dia! Wednesday assorted links: How Wallet Fingerprints Damage Payjoin Privacy | Payjoin 🔗

How Wallet Fingerprints Damage Payjoin Privacy | Payjoin

Wallet software leaves subtle fingerprints in transactions. This post analyzes how those fingerprints can deanonymize Payjoin transactions through ...

Добрае раніца! Tuesday assorted links: 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture 🔗

Open Culture

1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT...

--- Bitcoin On-Chain Privacy in 2026: How Tracing Works · CypherpunkGuide How chain analysis links Bitcoin addresses to a real identity, what the 2024 mixer takedowns actually changed, and which 2026 privacy tools protect what — with their limits. 🔗

CypherpunkGuide

Bitcoin On-Chain Privacy in 2026: How Tracing Works

How chain analysis links Bitcoin addresses to a real identity, what the 2024 mixer takedowns actually changed, and which 2026 privacy tools protect...

--- WhatsApp’s “End-to-End Encryption” Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History — And I Can Prove It Mathematically | by Adrian Găitan | Medium 🔗 https://medium.com/%400xaxgb/whatsapps-e2e-encryption-is-the-biggest-lie-in-tech-history-and-i-can-prove-it-mathematically-46ebdffeb319 --- Lumen The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals. 🔗 https://lumendatabase.org/

Good Morning! Monday assorted links: Cosmodial Sky Atlas – Killed By A Pixel It’s a sky atlas that runs entirely in your web browser. No app store, no signup, no servers. Just tell it where you are and it draws the live sky above your head, exactly as it is right now. 🔗

Cosmodial Sky Atlas – Killed By A Pixel

--- PowerFox Browser PowerFox is a secure, modern, and open-source web browser tailored specifically for your PowerPC or Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, or 10.6 Snow Leopard 🔗

PowerFox Browser

PowerFox Browser

PowerFox is a secure, modern, and open-source web browser for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger for Intel and PowerPC Macs.

Bonjour! Saturday assorted links: Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM Heydon Pickering has been very busy building out a declarative, web component-based system for making music with HTML, along with a stunning companion site. 🔗

HYPERBLAM

Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

--- Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp · Marek Šuppa 🔗

Marek Šuppa

Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp

Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to ...

Bună dimineața! Friday assorted links: Rethink Bitcoin What bitcoin actually is. How it behaves over longer time horizons. And what it means to truly own your wealth. An interactive course by Unchained. 🔗

Rethink Bitcoin

Rethink Bitcoin

What bitcoin actually is. How it behaves over longer time horizons. And what it means to truly own your wealth.

--- Compare Bitcoin-Backed Loans From Major Lenders: 2026 Guide Free, independent comparison of major Bitcoin-backed lenders: rates, custody, terms. 🔗

borrow/on/bitcoin

Compare Bitcoin-Backed Loans From Major Lenders

Free, independent comparison of major Bitcoin-backed lenders: rates, custody, terms. No credit pull required.

Bonjour! Thursday assorted links: Making Software A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick. 🔗 https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters --- OP_RETURN Search: Find Bitcoin On-Chain Messages | poststr Search messages written to the Bitcoin blockchain via OP_RETURN. Find on-chain text by keyword, or paste a transaction ID. 🔗 https://poststr.com/op-return-search

Bună dimineața! Wednesday assorted links: Bitcoin Lending Intelligence Every lender that takes Bitcoin as collateral. One table.\r 🔗

Bitcoin-Backed Loan Rates & Lender Comparison

Compare Bitcoin-backed loan rates, LTV, and liquidation risk across every major lender — with live BTC price and calculators.

Ohayō gozaimasu! Monday assorted links: OP_RETURN Report 🔗

mempool research

OP_RETURN Report

A data driven analysis of OP_RETURN usage on bitcoin, revealing that the overwhelming majority of OP_RETURNs are standard, nonstandard usage has no...

--- Explainer: Disk encryption – The Eclectic Light Company History of macOS encryption 🔗

The Eclectic Light Company

Explainer: Disk encryption

Apple has announced that support for HFS+ encryption will be removed in a future version of macOS. How this is all about ending support for CoreSto...

--- Ear Training These exercises will improve your musical ability by developing a more intuitive understanding of what you hear 🔗

Ear Training

Bonjour! Thursday assorted links: Learn FIPS An interactive guide to the FIPS mesh protocol 🔗

Learn FIPS

Learn FIPS | Learn FIPS

An interactive guide to the FIPS mesh protocol

--- WireTap: Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition 🔗

WireTap: Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition

Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition

Guten Morgen! Wednesday assorted links: Satstools 42 free Bitcoin tools for stackers, miners & Lightning users. Sats converter, DCA calculator, mempool fees, mining profitability & more. No login. 🔗

SatsTools

42 Free Bitcoin Tools for Stackers | SatsTools

42 free Bitcoin tools for stackers, miners & Lightning users. Sats converter, DCA calculator, mempool fees, mining profitability & more. No login.

--- Bitcoin Layers Interactive Map Explore Bitcoin's layered architecture and scaling solutions on an interactive map. Discover how the Lightning Network, BitVM, the Ark protocol, Ordinals, E-Cash, Spark, RGB, Rootstock, Citrea, and Liquid interact with the Bitcoin layer. 🔗

Bitcoin Layers Interactive Map

Explore Bitcoin’s layered architecture and scaling solutions on an interactive map. Discover how the Lightning Network, BitVM, the Ark protocol, ...

Guten Morgen! Tuesday assorted links: The Cypherpunk Library A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep. 🔗

The Cypherpunk Library

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

Buenos días! Monday assorted links: @respeak/lucide-motion-vue — 535 animated Lucide icons for Vue 3 The largest animated icon library for Vue 3. 535 Lucide icons, drop-in and tree-shakeable, with hover, tap, and in-view triggers and a live gallery. 🔗

@respeak/lucide-motion-vue

@respeak/lucide-motion-vue — 535 animated Lucide icons for Vue 3

The largest animated icon library for Vue 3. 535 Lucide icons, drop-in and tree-shakeable, with hover, tap, and in-view triggers and a live gallery.

Bonjour! Friday assorted links: Transitions.dev — Essential transitions for web apps Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project. 🔗

Transitions.dev

Transitions.dev — Essential transitions for web apps

Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

--- GitHub - tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI: A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly.

A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. - ...