This one doesn't keep getting disconnected from LND and Eclair, because we disabled the padding feature which made all messages the same length on the wire which was to be a release feature 😔 It was an obscure part of the spec, but LND have already fixed theirs for v21: kudos! I submitted PRs to Eclair and Phoenix (the latter mainly Claude, but it's a trivial change). I still have hope for a workaround, but we'll see if I can get it before Sangbida as Release Captain says No! View quoted note →

"Also Bitcoin Core, but in blue" Send $$ NOW for my new project!

I keep hearing about all the billions left on the sidelines, which will come rushing into Bitcoin when some legislative or regulatory event occurs. Here's some history: - Bitcoin futures ETFs. October 2021, price $61k - Bitcoin spot ETFs. January 2024, price $42k - March 2026, price $70k Now, maybe it's still coming, but at this point you might want to start doubting this narrative.

Now I serve a web page at that URL. Probably presents too much info. @calle might have suggestions for what I should put here? View quoted note →

Fired up a cashu mint today: should exercise my CLN node a bit more!

Century Metadata Cashu Mint

I made enchiladas, where N = 8.

Finally read BIP-54 (mirror at https://bips.dev/54/) and it is straightforward,minimal and thorough. At this point I can endorse it as a good idea and worth doing. There's no rush, but I am looking forward to activation.

I am loving listening to the Pieter Wuille interview. It's clear from motivation to technical explanation, and Stephan shepherds the discussion masterfully!

Stephan Livera

Cluster Mempool Explained with Pieter Wuille | SLP730

Stephan Livera and Pieter Wuille discuss Cluster Mempool for Bitcoin Core, its motivations, and its implications for Bitcoin users and miners. Wher...

JSON5

JSON5 – JSON for Humans

JSON for Humans

I *want* JSON5 to take over the world because it allows trailing commas. But I have to accept that most people are just excited because it sounds like a boy band.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2118 Finally, the PR to assign BIP numbers to the first two BIPs of the "script restoration quartet". Here's the corresponding bitcoin-dev the mailing list post: Hi all, I've submitted a PR to the BIPs repo to merge the first two drafts of the previously posted[1] "A Bitcoin Scripting Proposal BIP Quartet": https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2118 The only substantive change since the last discussion is that the costs have increased for some operations (hashing and copying bytes), as a result of benchmarking on a wider array of machines[2]. This follows our conservative approach to make the worst-case validation times no worse than they are presently, on any viable hardware. The remaining two BIPs (OP_TX, and new opcodes) are not submitted: they are mainly useful to provide a roadmap what functional gaps remain after the script extensions, and do not have full implementations. Cheers! Rusty & Julian. [1] https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/GisTcPb8Jco/m/8znWcWwKAQAJ [2]

GitHub

GitHub - jmoik/varopsData: Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark.

Collection of csv files produced by the bench_varops bitcoin core benchmark. - jmoik/varopsData

Randomness ("luck") is such a factor in life, and hard to disentangle. These days I prefer to think of my own successes as 90% luck, and others' successes as 10%. Truth may be somewhere in the middle, but this formula keeps me from being an asshole!

https://rusty-lightning.medium.com/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058a This is still the best piece I ever wrote on Bitcoin. It occasionally gets referenced somewhere, and I reread it.

You will not be at peace until you understand the truth: every non-coinbase bitcoin transaction which does not eventually send funds to me is spam.