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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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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:

GitHub

kernel: Introduce C header API by sedited · Pull Request #30595 · bitcoin/bitcoin

This is a first attempt at introducing a C header for the libbitcoinkernel library that may be used by external applications for interfacing with B...

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:

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...

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: View quoted note →

BRB, rebuilding Hedgehog on top of Ark

GitHub

GitHub - supertestnet/arkash: Using Ark as a backend to recreate the experience of ecash, but self-custodial (and not as private)

Using Ark as a backend to recreate the experience of ecash, but self-custodial (and not as private) - supertestnet/arkash