Ok, so I wasn’t the only person in the world that saw and recognized @jack wearing a satoshi shirt. View quoted note →

Good walk-thru as well of how we as a community that are custodians of an open, decentralized, and immensely valuable protocol need to have reasonable expectations. Lightning didn’t fix all of bitcoin’s problems, but it also was necessary to get the MVP out, in no small part b/c deploying proof of concept is how we learn. We should look towards the future with the same clear-eyed practicality. View quoted note →

I really like this heuristic for evaluating bitcoin upgrades by Erik Aronesty from the mailing list: > "Best tool for the job" is not the bar. "Safe for all" and "useful for some" is the bar.

Yep! Planning and building under urgency is much riskier https://x.com/4moonsettler/status/1736041734071635997?s=46