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What I’m trying to do with Inside Bitcoin Code is explaining to myself how the codebase of #Bitcoin works, having some coding knowledge. And while I’m at it, I am sharing my findings with people that would love to be able to read it but cannot because don’t know how to code.

Inside Bitcoin Code

A Brief Introduction

IBC#024: Bitcoin Core Initialization, Step 9 and 10 This episode of Inside Bitcoin Code brings us to the wallet loading and data directory maintenance. Full article here:

IBC#024: Bitcoin Core Initialization, Step 9 and 10

Load Wallet and Data Directory Maintenance

Three things are certain in life, death, taxes and the fact that I will have to shave the exact day my gf cleans the bathroom.

@npub1z6dx...f7n9 FOSS Reports - Arkade Activation Day LendaSat is now supporting p2p, non-custodial, Bitcoin-backed loans on Arkade! #ArkadeActivation Check it out here:

Lendasat

Lendasat - Borrow, Don't Sell

Bitcoin loans without counterparty risk

@npub1z6dx...f7n9 FOSS Reports - Arkade Activation Day @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange is now supporting swaps with Arkade #ArkadeActivation Check out here:

Boltz x Arkade

@npub1z6dx...f7n9 FOSS Reports - Arkade Activation Day Arkade is now officially live on Mainnet! Check out their web wallet:

Arkade Wallet

Your Bitcoin, supercharged. Send payments, swap assets, and lend without giving up your keys.

Live from Arkade Activation Day! #ArkadeActivation

Last Week in Bitcoin: A Great Script Restoration update, bitcoin_core_sv2 crate, and Go and Dart Bindings for Cashu Development Kit in this week update from @npub1z6dx...f7n9. Find the full post below 👇🏻

Last week in bitcoin (Oct 13 - 19)

Highlights from the bitcoin developer ecosystem...

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I spend half of my time reporting on the edge of Bitcoin development. I spend the other half explaining to my boomers how to download apps on their smart tv.

Did I make my first contribution to Bitcoin Optech? Yes. Yes I did. View quoted note →

For those of you that do not know, I write a weekly newsletter in which I explain how #bitcoin works at the code level. Here is why:

Inside Bitcoin Code

A Brief Introduction

Feel free to subscribe if you always wanted to be able to read the codebase of Bitcoin, even if you know nothing about coding!

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie in the sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

Spotify

Worker's Song

Dropkick Murphys · Blackout · Brano · 2003

My generation doesn’t care. My generation knows what’s coming, it knows what is happening and it knows that it will not be able to live up to the standards of its parents. My generation knows, very well, that it will never see a pension like the ones our grandparents had. My generations knows that something is broken, that something needs to change. However, my generation has been annihilated. It lives in a nihilistic world in which they just don’t care. It just thinks that the cure is out of their reach and that the world is just a train ready to get wrecked. My generation doesn’t want change, just commiseration. Is my generation lost forever?

IBC#023: Bitcoin Core Initialization, Step 8 — Starting Indexers. This episode of Inside Bitcoin Code brings us to the initialization of Transactions, Block Filters and Coin Statistics Indexes. Full article here:

IBC#023: Bitcoin Core Initialization, Step 8— Starting Indexers

Transactions, Block Filters and Coin Statistics Indexes

I have a notebook where I note all my ideas, being them business, philosophy, or everyday life. In the intro, I clearly marked that these ideas are completely free to use for anyone in case I lost the notebook somewhere. Ideas must flow freely. Intellectual property is a scam and so is copyright.

Last Week in Bitcoin: Marmot Protocol for secure messaging, PR1064 on Cashu Development Kit and Fedimint PR7793 in this week update from @npub1z6dx...f7n9 Find the full post here👇🏻

Last week in bitcoin (Oct 6 - 12)

Highlights from the bitcoin developer ecosystem...

Check out the latest Sats Tracker release! View quoted note →

OUT NOW: Inside Bitcoin Code #022! Let’s see the initialization of the peer manager. Full post here 👇🏻

IBC#022: Bitcoin Core Initialization, Step 7— Peer Manager

Peer manager initialization

#bitcoin #foss