Bună dimineața! Friday assorted links: Rethink Bitcoin What bitcoin actually is. How it behaves over longer time horizons. And what it means to truly own your wealth. An interactive course by Unchained. 🔗 https://www.unchained.com/rethink-bitcoin --- Compare Bitcoin-Backed Loans From Major Lenders: 2026 Guide Free, independent comparison of major Bitcoin-backed lenders: rates, custody, terms. 🔗

borrow/on/bitcoin

Compare Bitcoin-Backed Loans From Major Lenders

Free, independent comparison of major Bitcoin-backed lenders: rates, custody, terms. No credit pull required.

Bonjour! Thursday assorted links: Making Software A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick. 🔗 https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters --- OP_RETURN Search: Find Bitcoin On-Chain Messages | poststr Search messages written to the Bitcoin blockchain via OP_RETURN. Find on-chain text by keyword, or paste a transaction ID. 🔗

poststr

OP_RETURN Search | Find Bitcoin On-Chain Messages

Search OP_RETURN messages written to the Bitcoin blockchain. Find on-chain text by keyword or transaction ID.

Bună dimineața! Wednesday assorted links: Bitcoin Lending Intelligence Every lender that takes Bitcoin as collateral. One table.\r 🔗

Bitcoin Lending Intelligence

Every lender that takes Bitcoin as collateral, in one verified table — plus live BTC price, a loan calculator, a liquidation-price calculator, an...

Ohayō gozaimasu! Monday assorted links: OP_RETURN Report 🔗

mempool research

OP_RETURN Report

A data driven analysis of OP_RETURN usage on bitcoin, revealing that the overwhelming majority of OP_RETURNs are standard, nonstandard usage has no...

--- Explainer: Disk encryption – The Eclectic Light Company History of macOS encryption 🔗

The Eclectic Light Company

Explainer: Disk encryption

Apple has announced that support for HFS+ encryption will be removed in a future version of macOS. How this is all about ending support for CoreSto...

--- Ear Training These exercises will improve your musical ability by developing a more intuitive understanding of what you hear 🔗

Ear Training

Bonjour! Thursday assorted links: Learn FIPS An interactive guide to the FIPS mesh protocol 🔗

Learn FIPS

Learn FIPS | Learn FIPS

An interactive guide to the FIPS mesh protocol

--- WireTap: Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition 🔗

WireTap: Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition

Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition

Guten Morgen! Wednesday assorted links: Satstools 42 free Bitcoin tools for stackers, miners & Lightning users. Sats converter, DCA calculator, mempool fees, mining profitability & more. No login. 🔗

SatsTools

42 Free Bitcoin Tools for Stackers | SatsTools

42 free Bitcoin tools for stackers, miners & Lightning users. Sats converter, DCA calculator, mempool fees, mining profitability & more. No login.

--- Bitcoin Layers Interactive Map Explore Bitcoin's layered architecture and scaling solutions on an interactive map. Discover how the Lightning Network, BitVM, the Ark protocol, Ordinals, E-Cash, Spark, RGB, Rootstock, Citrea, and Liquid interact with the Bitcoin layer. 🔗

Bitcoin Layers Interactive Map

Explore Bitcoin's layered architecture and scaling solutions on an interactive map. Discover how the Lightning Network, BitVM, the Ark protocol, Or...

Guten Morgen! Tuesday assorted links: The Cypherpunk Library A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep. 🔗

The Cypherpunk Library

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

Buenos días! Monday assorted links: @respeak/lucide-motion-vue — 535 animated Lucide icons for Vue 3 The largest animated icon library for Vue 3. 535 Lucide icons, drop-in and tree-shakeable, with hover, tap, and in-view triggers and a live gallery. 🔗

@respeak/lucide-motion-vue

@respeak/lucide-motion-vue — 535 animated Lucide icons for Vue 3

The largest animated icon library for Vue 3. 535 Lucide icons, drop-in and tree-shakeable, with hover, tap, and in-view triggers and a live gallery.

Bonjour! Friday assorted links: Transitions.dev — Essential transitions for web apps Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project. 🔗

Transitions.dev

Transitions.dev — Essential transitions for web apps

Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

--- GitHub - tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI: A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly.

A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. - ...

Dobrý ráno! Thursday assorted links: GitHub - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes: A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb.

A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb. - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes

Buenos días! Wednesday assorted links: DropLock Simple safe secret sharing. No server involved. 🔗

DropLock

--- WhatCable: Thunderbolt vs USB-C: what the connector hides USB-C is the connector. Thunderbolt is one of the protocols that runs through it. Here's what actually changes between TB3, TB4, USB4, and TB5. 🔗

WhatCable: Thunderbolt vs USB-C: what the connector hides

USB-C is the connector. Thunderbolt is one of the protocols that runs through it. Here's what actually changes between TB3, TB4, USB4, and TB5.

Guten Morgen! Tuesday assorted links: The Website Specification A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence. 🔗

The Website Specification

The Website Specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.

--- The Satoshi Mystery - Sciences | ARTE in English At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, \Satoshi Nakamoto\ put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator. 🔗

ARTE

The Satoshi Mystery - Sciences | ARTE in English

At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, "Satoshi Nakamoto" put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised...

Bom dia! Sunday assorted links: gruuv Decentralized Music Sharing 🔗 https://5jsjq2jytkqh7mc1l5ylux3bsmzhkxpbq82ocsv8v74sir3b6wgruuv.nsite.lol/

Namaste! Wednesday assorted links: Sigbash: Bitcoin's Missing Signing Layer 🔗

Sigbash

Sigbash: Bitcoin

Policy-gated, oblivious Bitcoin co-signing with zero-knowledge proofs. Keep your bitcoin and your privacy.

--- abtest.design Curated collection of A/B test results from best-in-class apps 🔗

abtest.design

Curated collection of A/B test results from best-in-class apps

Buenos días! Tuesday assorted links: files.md A simple application for your .md files. Let's be lazy. No productivity, no planning. Relax. 🔗

Files.md

Simple application for Markdown files. An app for Notes, Second Brain, Zettelkasten, Journaling, Checklists, and more.

--- 60 Temporary Email Providers - Complete List - Lightning News 🔗

Lightning News

60 Temporary Email Providers - Complete List - Lightning News

Among the newest platforms in this space, FreeCustom.Email stands out as one of the most modern and developer-friendly disposable email infrastruct...

--- How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works A visual explanation of how threshold secret sharing lets any k of n shares recover a secret. 🔗

ente

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

A visual explanation of how threshold secret sharing lets any k of n shares recover a secret.

Ohayō gozaimasu! Sunday assorted links: Memdeklaro - Self declaration of identity Memdeklaro empowers people to self-declare their own identity without third parties. Open source, non-government and non-corporate. 🔗

Memdeklaro: Self declaration of identity

Memdeklaro - Empowering people to self-declare their own identity without third parties. Open source, non-government and non-corporate.

Ohayō gozaimasu! Saturday assorted links: Mechanical Pencil Beautifully illustrated guides on how stuff works, by mechanical engineer and artist, Bryan Macomber. 🔗

Mechanical Pencil

Illustrating the Engineering Around Us

--- Models.dev — An open-source database of AI models Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and features. 🔗

Models.dev — An open-source database of AI models

Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and features.

Bom dia! Thursday assorted links: Nostr VPN Nostr VPN connects your own devices without email addresses, third-party accounts, or a control server to maintain. 🔗

Nostr VPN

Nostr VPN connects your own devices without email addresses, third-party accounts, or a control server to maintain.

Bonjour! Wednesday assorted links: timelock.sh — Time-Lock Encryption Encrypt files in your browser so they can only be decrypted after a future UTC minute. timelock.sh provides time-lock encryption with OpenSSL-compatible files. 🔗

timelock.sh

timelock.sh — Time-Lock Encryption

Encrypt files in your browser so they can only be decrypted after a future UTC minute. timelock.sh provides time-lock encryption with OpenSSL-compa...

--- Bitcoin for Nonprofits: A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom - Human Rights Foundation 🔗

Human Rights Foundation

Bitcoin for Nonprofits: A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom

Introduction How Bitcoin Helps Bitcoin Basics Using Bitcoin In Practice Case Studies Risks and Challenges Download If you would like to save this r...

Bom dia! Monday assorted links: Columba — Encrypted Mesh Messaging for Android Message freely without internet. Columba is an open-source Android messenger for the Reticulum network — encrypted, decentralized, and resilient. 🔗

Columba — Encrypted Mesh Messaging

Message freely without internet. Open-source Android messenger for the Reticulum network.

--- Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can. 🔗

Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software

A Manifesto for Small Software