Dutch hipster bank #Bunq just added support for buying and selling crypto in collaboration with Kraken. There seems to be no way to withdraw coins, which not even their FAQ seems worth mentioning. It says something about the "crypto" market in general that any company thinks they get away with that.

bunq Crypto

Buy, sell, and swap a wide range of cryptocurrencies directly in the bunq app. Build your portfolio with a personal crypto wallet.

My first impression of Bitcoin Core, during the blocksize wars, was also that of arrogance. It's an unfortunate side-effect of people losing patience when having to re-explain something a hundred times. Time they're not spending on writing code, and energy they're losing to remain motivated to write code. The project is run by volunteers who do not have time, and should not waste time, for maintaining useless functionality. Having people in the project that are (somewhat) comfortable in delivering such bad news is extremely important. I've been on the receiving end of that too internally. You do not want Bitcoin Core to be a please-everyone kind of project. That's a recipe for unmaintainable code and really bad bugs down the line. View quoted note →

Always great when stuff gets merged after two years, especially after a few months I tend to forget what my code is doing. Shout out to Daniela Brozzoni for the diagram. View quoted note →

Sorry, but it's time to move to bolt12 and BIP352. Ironically since I replaced my self-custodial BTCPay based zap setup to LNBits, I do still rely on LNURL. Happy to try a bolt12 based self-sovereign setup when there's a spec.

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Without further context, I would read this as: don't doxx your customers on the blockchain unless you're able to delete every copy of it. I.e. don't put other peoples data on the blockchain. Which in my opinion includes forcing customer to do a satoshi test. Or encouraging them to reuse addresses. Looking at you, Travel Rule... View quoted note →

You can just maintain your own fork of Bitcoin Core. Ask @npub1ej49...ndrm for tips. Or run Knots which has all sorts of mempool purification features. You can't force volunteers to maintain therapeutic features. View quoted note →

Actually* negative electricity tomorrow for three hours. You know what to do. * = even with the €0,12 energy tax. Yes, you have to pay a tax even on negatively priced electricity. Yes, you have to pay VAT over this tax. Because government. They do build nice roads though, no potholes.

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Grab some eggs and listen to me and @Aaron van Wirdum talking about Bitcoin Core v29! https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-97

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Someone crazy person just proposed an 8,5% wealth tax to replace income tax. And then says: > Young people with high incomes now often spend on luxury, because saving for a house seems unfeasible. "If they can build wealth faster, they will postpone that expensive journey for a while," says Kooiman. How do you build wealth if it's taxed at 8.5% per year? Sounds to me like this forces everyone (even more) to get a mortgage, because a home is taxed less than every other asset and won't pay net worth tax until you've repaid the house. https://www.accountancyvanmorgen.nl/2025/04/17/vervang-alle-heffingen-door-een-vermogensbelasting/

Also a useful text if you deploy a bug to production on Friday :-) View quoted note →

DO NOT STACK IT WILL GET STUCK

If all your chatbot does under the hood is to fill out a form, JUST GIVE ME THE FORM.

"The ephemeral grandmother doesn't exist" - @NVK

Tune in to the livestream in about 1 hour (13:35 ET) for Portland Hodls talk, it should be a fun one: https://www.youtube.com/live/mhRZZOdJzGE

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Hashed out the approach between the President and Treasury on how to ban 64 byte transactions. It's a three stage process: 1. Executive Order to explain to the public how these things are only used by bad hombres 2. OFAC will add them to their list. Clearly anyonecanspend is Communist property - but Supreme Court might bikeshed the SegWit issue 3. A soft fork, but we can't wait for Bitcoin Core, they're too fucking slow #GreatConsensusCleanup Also I couldn't find the CIA headquarters.

A #KYC bathroom, only in America...