BREAKING: As U.S. regulators crack down on crypto blockchain leaders seek refuge in a friendly House hearing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/07/blockchain-leaders-seek-refuge-in-friendly-house-hearing-as-us-regulators-crack-down-on-crypto/?sh=4e0f44de6f7a

EXCLUSIVE: #[0]​​, the pseudonymous creator of Nostr has a day job working at video game payment firm Zebedee, now the most heavily funded firm to launch an app on the platform: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/07/nostr-creators-day-job-to-launch-decentralized-social-app-with-new-bitcoin-functionality/

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Just came across this CME Group event contract for a bitcoin trade. Looks an awful lot like the prediction markets crypto-folks have been trying to make happen for years: https://www.cmegroup.com/activetrader/event-contracts.html?utm_source=press_release_and_external&utm_medium=friendly&utm_campaign=event_contract

This profile of #[0]​ has already been translated into Spanish and is causing quite a stir: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/ To everyone generously offering to zap me, a brief response: In 2014 I promised not to invest while I was covering. To this day, bitcoin is mostly a speculative asset. Projects like NostrMarket could change that, and I hope they do! However, until more of you are spending instead of hodling, or if I change beats, I’m going to stick to my promise:

Why reporters who cover bitcoin shouldn

I first started writing about bitcoin when it was valued at $0.12, for a publication I interned at while still in grad-school that no longer exists.

Keep building!

Damus (as in Nostr-Damus) was downloaded 25,000 in China before the government banned it. See why Damus founder, #[0]​ says the ban was a "badge of honor" https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/?sh=78f6e4c911c0

Who is #[0]​? The reclusive bitcoin developer opens up about the early days of Nostr, the social network protocol he built to set himself and others free of Twitter: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/

Who are some good scientists to follow here?

When a bitcoin developer says they’ve made “typo fixes” to core, do you take that literally or is it developer lingo for being humble?

My local witchcraft supply shop gets it…

EXCLUSIVE: After Elon Musk expressed interest in decentralizing Twitter, he voided a 5-year service agreement with Bluesky, a company tasked by Jack Dorsey to do exactly that. The startup is now preparing to launch with 1M waitlisted users: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/25/twitter-hatchling-bluesky-emerges-from-its-shell/?sh=ffbece5c21a7