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Simplicity isn't like Solidity, or most modern programming languages, which are Turing-complete. Instead, the language was designed to express any finite function while avoiding the risks associated with unbounded loops and global state.
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Simplicity provides developers with high confidence in their applications, allowing them to know all potential outcomes and fee costs before execution.
The recent Bybit hack illustrates the risks of including features like recursion and global state.
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With Simplicity's arrival, we have for the first time a clean foundation for serious financial applications, without the complexity and patchwork of risks that defined the last era of DeFi.
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Want to build covenants, vaults and delegation schemes? Now you can on the @npub1nyyh...7gan. Want to create derivatives, pooled wallets or tokenless DEXs? That's possible too.
Read the full story on how Blockstream Local, now powered by the Blockstream app, plans to fuel grassroots Bitcoin adoption with real sats and free open-source self-custody tools.
From El Salvador to Cuba, Namibia to Indonesia, learn how to get involved.
In Mexico, @thecore21m is putting Jades to work in monthly meetups demonstrating real Bitcoin self-custody in action. 🇲🇽
In Nigeria, Bitcoin Anambra is strengthening its grassroots mission by delivering Bitcoin education and self-custody tools to the people. 🇳🇬
Returning from El Salvador and Guatemala, Kirscha Kievits is set to equip students with Jades for hands-on Bitcoin learning.
Watch the recap from @PubKey NYC and see the moment the donation was announced.
Read the full story on how this acquisition strengthens our R&D footprint, brings new talent onboard, and supports Bitcoin-native innovation in Europe.
“Full privacy with only 64 bytes on-chain sounds impossible?”
Catch Jonas breaking down Shielded CSV @The Bitcoin Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, one of the most promising paths for private, efficient Bitcoin transactions.
With this update, signer policies have been refined, especially around acceptable fee rates, an important step since CLN and the VLS Project use different data models. A zeroconf fix also ensures long-confirming channels will no longer be closed.
“Gold is stone age tech.”
- Adam Back 2025 at Plan B El Salvador
“Bitcoin should be worth $200 trillion just based on the monetary premium of other assets. That still seems very plausible.”
– Adam Back on stage with @Michael Saylor at @BTC Prague
Diminishing returns? History says no.
Adam explains why the next wave of adoption could be the strongest yet.
Still watching the big money load up on Bitcoin while you wait for a “better entry”? Pensions are already moving.
Don’t wait on the sidelines.
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