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The new segwit explainer from Greg Walker is a thing of beauty:

SegWit | What was the Segregated Witness Upgrade?

A simple explanation of segwit, why it was implemented, and the changes it brought to the Bitcoin software.

testnet4 coins needed, thx for the help tb1q2892vugcrkypnn8lnwqll6u0mt7et7gl8eeuz0

Guys, spending some time on my old Elixir Bitcoin lib. Feels good! Are there still some working testnet3 faucets lying around in 2024? Most of those I had documented 2 years ago are either buggy or completely gone. Thanks for helping a guy giving assistance to a new bitcoin dev.

When you remove a python app, and replace it by its rust upgrade...

Lovely @mempool production setup documentation: If you don't have a fast SSD or NVMe-backed disk, that's fine—go online and buy some fast new NVMe drives. When they arrive, install them, throw away your old HDDs, and then proceed with the rest of this guide.

Eelco Dolstra’s PhD thesis that lead to NixOS https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

wen testnet4?

Nix is so cool… have you tried microVMs? They can be compared to Docker containers, except they’re safer and easier to manage. This is not to mention that all those config files totally are reusable. Once you configure a Bitcoin node with NixOS, you can reproduce that on another computer just by reusing code. Reminds me a lot of programming language libraries. Oh, and setting up baremetal computers is done with the same exact concept. That means any config can be reused anywhere, in a virtualized environment or not. Take a look at https://astro.github.io/microvm.nix/

One of us

Is your bitcoin core node using hardware or software hasing? https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/122440/bitcoin-core-vm-and-hardware-sha256

All my LND node’s channels have been closed 4 months ago. I am now in the process of creating a new one with Core Lightning. Is it possible to reuse the same identity? If so, how?

gm… if you’re a bitcoiner interested in nix, I want to reach out. we need to regroup and work together. all of us.

@jb55 have you ever had conversations in Nix circles revolving around nixpkgs and bitcoin?

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@wiz Yo dawg… Someone brought to my attention that Mempool seems to have forked Blockstream’s fork of Romanz’s electrs… The README.md seems pretty similar to Blockstream’s aside from the fact that its sync requirements are a bit more up to date. I would like to know what else have been changed…

Trying to package Blockstream’s esplora into Nix’s package manager. Made me figure out that this app doesn’t have a version number. This is despite the fact that the app it’s a fork of has one. Not a good thing for Nix, as it requires immutability. Will have to resort to a commit hash, I guess. Still wondering which version number Nix will end up displaying to its users… how will they know how up to date they are? Not convinced a hash would do it.

Both BTCCAD and BTCUSD will happen roughly in 15k of their respective fiat currency. Thus, BTCCAD will happen sooner. Thanks for attending to my speech.

Are you, like me, handling a shit load of git projects on the same computer? Here is a small CLI rust app that can list them all and do somme fuzzy searching. I am also using it to cd direct into project folders with fuzzy finding in one command.

GitHub

GitHub - RooSoft/project_commander: Recursive fuzzy search for git projects starting from a given parent folder

Recursive fuzzy search for git projects starting from a given parent folder - RooSoft/project_commander

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