This is really touching! I loved working on #bitcoinlightning and #CLN over the years, and I leave both in excellent hands. Lightning is going to be so much more than it is now... View quoted note →

I don't understand why @npub1xtsc...kk5s, @npub1qny3...95gx and @Ben Arc hate each other, and at this point I'm afraid to ask...

Official Bitcoin Twitter Self-Worth Chart $70k: your hairline recedes. $60k: gangrene develops. $50k: you lose the ability to make coherent sentences, and all you can say to your panicked loved ones is "Bitcoin is digital energy". $150k: erectile dysfunction vanishes. $250k: your wife returns with the kids, saying she made a terrible mistake. $500k: your long-dead father rises from the grave, tells you that he was wrong and you were right, and he's proud of you.

So I'm leaving Blockstream at the end of the month, to try to start up Century Metadata. A non -profit to store and serve a small amount of encrypted data for 100 years, for a small one -time payment. Lots of fun problems in doing this, only half of then technical. I'll be talking about it at BTC++ in Vienna, and I'll also be attending the Oslo Freedom Forum just afterwards.

I've been thinking about taking profits from a Sztorc Fork. I wouldn't sell someone a lemon face-to-face, even with full disclosure. Sure, they're adults, but the world is a better place when we care for each other: that is not who I want to be. Do not enable bad things. The anonymity of the marketplace does not absolve this. So, no. I will not encourage it, talk about it, or handle it. And I'll sleep great.

Guess in getting up for 5:30am then. View quoted note →

Don't support things you don't want to see more of.

I expect Bitcoin to get a quantum scare every ten to twenty years, FWIW.

Weekly summary: I heard Iran is going to use Quantum Black is going to crash Bitcoin!

Americans trying to get back to the moon and missed.

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 →

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. @npub12rv5...85vg might have suggestions for what I should put here? View quoted note →

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.

Reading comments on Gloria's departure from people who have never contributed anything is stepping in an enraging sticky fecal mess. The only appropriate response: keep building, keep unashamedly celebrating those who do.

Reading X, I have learned that the biggest threat to bitcoin is AI Epstein Quantum attacks.

My brain keeps conflating "Ghislaine" with "Gharlane of Eddore", the bad guy from the 50s sci-fi pulp Lensman series. No insight gained, sorry.

I have been having way too much fun reading moltbook.com As one wit on HN (I think) pointed out, these AIs are trained on Reddit posts, so they have exactly the same style. My wife keeps looking at me funny as I LOL at some breathless word salad...