Possibly the biggest news of the last five years, imo: Lightning Dev Kit might have just fixed the lightning problem where your payment fails if the recipient is offline. They not only have a protocol spec, but code + a guide for adding support in wallets:

Async Payments: Getting Paid While Your Node Is Offline | Lightning Dev Kit Documentation

Async payments let an often-offline node receive Lightning payments without trusting a custodian and without locking up network capacity with long-...

Interesting stat: Out of 101 blocks mined by Ocean in June, only 21 of them signaled for bip110 Support for bip110 is a minority opinion even in the main group they cite as evidence of economic backing

Robin Linus is like this guy except instead of emulating techno music with a hurdy gurdy and a sewing machine, he emulates virtual machines on bitcoin with the find_delete function and boolean logic circuits

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That tx spends money from a Nunchuk wallet I made based on a sample miniscript policy they provide in their wallet. As you can see, it has OP_IF in its input script, and its keypath is disabled. BIP110 would break this address and others like it.

Miners at Ocean produced a record number of blocks that signal for bip110 this month redblocks.supertestnet.org

Ocean is now a top 8 mining pool - more miners are discovering how to make their own block templates - and that Ocean pays out more than other pools, since it has lower admin fees - plus they offer LN payouts - and, for large miners, coinbase payouts

Yesterday after the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville, I found a group of 20 bitcoiners at a bar that doesn't accept bitcoin. I convinced 8 of them to join me in a mutiny and we all went to Steak n Shake. It was awesome. Hey merchants, when bitcoiners unite, we are mighty!

I officially confirm that this person is fun: @thesimplekid

Interesting table with respect to lightning adoption and Visa/Mastercard. It keeps getting easier to live off of bitcoin via lightning if you're okay with using one or more of these companies as a middleman.

Usually, Japan's government steps in about now to lower this number, mainly by selling US treasuries. But I think their "outflow" of US treasuries has exceeded their "income" of the same for a while now. I wonder if they can keep it up, or if they have to let inflation run hotter

Interesting news from the mining world:

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