Broke: Bitcoin doesn't use encryption
Woke: Bitcoin is the *only* top 10 cryptocurrency that uses encryption
source: 
BIP 324: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol
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Super Testnet
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Open source dev w/ bitcoin focus | supertestnet.org
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State of BIP444
Congratulations Ocean Mining! They hit a new all time high hashrate today -- over 20 exahash -- and put it to work by mining 10 datum blocks in the past 3.5 days.
I recommend participating in the Nut November hackathon, especially if you are a newb in the bitcoin app development space: 
Nut November
Nut November - A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders
A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders who just can't hold their nuts.
Very cool pull request in bitcoin core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595
And it's merged! It "may be used by external applications for interfacing with Bitcoin Core's validation logic"
It also links to a bunch of cool applications that already use it
My latest invention is Aggeus: a protocol for creating permissionless prediction markets on bitcoin. In this video, I outline the protocol, demo my proof of concept, and answer questions from the founder of @predyx_markets
"Batch exits" are underexplored in the effort to scale bitcoin
L2s like Lightning and Ark both support "unilateral exits," and you can save space by exiting directly from one L2 into another, but you can save even *more* space by doing that in batches
Is anyone working on this?
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My Satoshi Probability Chart
The idea that feerate estimates are materially downgraded when a node lacks a few dozen spam transactions seems completely ridiculous when you realize that they are barely affected when you don't have a mempool at all
SNAP just became an essential service: 
On a long enough time horizon, all government services will be deemed essential, and shutdowns won't actually shut anything down. I give other examples in this post:
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AP News
Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown
Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using emergency reserve funds during the...