The 21 million cap, block validity rules, the entire consensus ruleset: all enforced by the distributed network of full nodes. SPV wallets assume honest majority hashpower. Full validation removes that assumption. That’s the entire point of running a full node.

Bitcoin Has a Squatter Problem. BIP 110 Is the Eviction Notice.

Bitcoin Has a Squatter Problem. BIP 110 Is the Eviction Notice.

Why a temporary soft fork is the most important thing happening in Bitcoin right now, and why the FUD about it is dead wrong.

Keep is a FROST threshold signing app and dedicated Nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to hold FROST key shares on their phone and sign Nostr events without any single device ever holding the full private key.

App Details - Zapstore

The Incorruptible Tally Board

The Incorruptible Tally Board

Bitcoin isn’t “a” money. It’s the first instance of money itself, and that changes everything.

First merged contribution to @ZEUS , love what they are building!

GitHub

feat: Express Graph Sync prompt: reload invoice on restart by kwsantiago · Pull Request #3380 · ZeusLN/zeus

Description Relates to issue: ZEUS-3361 Saves pending payment data to storage when enabling Express Graph Sync, then automatically restores and dis...

A Zig library for Nostr MIT licensed. Supports NIP-46 remote signing, NIP-44 encryption (h/t @ChipTuner noscrypt), NIP-77 negentropy sync, NWC, Joinstr coinjoin pools (h/t @/dev/fd0) and more. Build fast Nostr infra in Zig.

GitHub

GitHub - privkeyio/libnostr-z: Zig library for the Nostr protocol

Zig library for the Nostr protocol. Contribute to privkeyio/libnostr-z development by creating an account on GitHub.

@ODELL @Francis - bullbitcoin.com ask and you shall receive:

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BREAKING CHANGE: add option to hide exchange features for restricted regions by kwsantiago · Pull Request #1345 · SatoshiPortal/bullbitcoin-mobile

Summary Adds setting to hide exchange UI elements (buy, sell, pay, exchange) Useful for users in regions where exchange features are unavailable R...

Not Your Node, Not Your Bitcoin: Why Knots Matters Now A guide for regular Bitcoiners who care about keeping Bitcoin as money, not a hard drive

Not Your Node, Not Your Bitcoin: Why Knots Matters Now

A guide for regular Bitcoiners who care about keeping Bitcoin as money, not a hard drive

I’ll be at @TABConf 8 - Oct 12-15, 2026 ATL (Technically Accessible Bitcoin) in Atlanta tomorrow. I’ll be hosting a hands-on workshop that teaches developers how to build web applications with Taproot Assets. Glad to meet up, DM me.

TABConf 7

Mission

A Technical Bitcoin Conference

Glad to make another merged contribution to Goose for fixing context limit errors! 🪿

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fix: auto-compact on context limit error by kwsantiago · Pull Request #3635 · block/goose

Summary When context limit is exceeded, automatically compact the conversation to continue instead of failing. Fixes Goose stops responding withou...

@Block Open Source @jack

Six years ago I wrote that smart contracts would revolutionize the world by eliminating trust. Turns out AI eliminated trust by making it computationally free, and the only thing that needed to remain trustless was money itself. Smart contracts were the training wheels. Bitcoin was the bike.

How AI Actually Revolutionized the World

And Why Smart Contracts Were Just the Warm-Up

Made a submission to the LabLab.AI Hackathon Smart Meal Planning Powered by GPT-5

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GitHub - kwsantiago/PrepAI: Smart Meal Planning Powered by GPT-5

Smart Meal Planning Powered by GPT-5. Contribute to kwsantiago/PrepAI development by creating an account on GitHub.

LabLab

LabLab - The #1 Ecosystem for AI Builders

It's your turn to build something that matters. If you're serious about AI, you're in the right place - the community where developers and founders...

switched from Spotify to Tidal today. felt like the right time to move over, same cost.