My 2026 in ā3 Mās
Meditation - create more time and space and calm the monkey brain down
Math - itās been almost 20 years since I did much math during undergrad physics and my math brain has completely atrophied
Monitoring - Iām working on the Bitcoin monitoring challenge, looking to support nostr:nprofile1qqstzrqqqqre4q70y6q4m36n3qvd34t29xp7xa8rpfq58egqvztcg4cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qws2wph in his heroic efforts of many years
Subagents preserve the context of the main agent, so you can achieve a lot more with the main agent before you exhaust the context window
Where can I find me some of those āDMT machine elvesā nostr:npub1jss47s4fvv6usl7tn6yp5zamv2u60923ncgfea0e6thkza5p7c3q0afmzy nostr:npub1qkntvygrrxkc3ynfzw56aq8far9wnxcfjd8d4lfwhnnlnctn4k5sa2d05s
Best gift I gave this year, a silent Bitcoin miner (designed in Perth, WA no less!!)
2 of 3 already up and hashing, the other not yet home.
Recipients were super engaged and excited
Merry Christmas š šæ š
In for a seemingly typical Christmas Day in Perth today, 40Ā°C
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special is here:
- notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2025
- feature: Vulnerability disclosures
- feature: Quantum
- feature: Soft fork proposals
- feature: Stratum v2
- feature: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects
- feature: Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/
In 2025, Optech summarized more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#vulns
With the increased attention on the potential for a futureĀ quantumĀ computer to weaken or break the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm (ECDL) hardness assumption that Bitcoin relies on to prove the ownership of coins, several conversations and proposals were put forward throughout the year to discuss and mitigate the impact of such a development.
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#quantum
This year saw a bevy of discussions around soft fork proposals, ranging from the tightly scoped and minimally impactful, to the broadly scoped and powerfulā¦
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#softforks
Stratum v2Ā is a mining protocol designed to replace the original Stratum protocol used between miners and mining pools. Throughout 2025, Bitcoin Core received several updates to better support Stratum v2 implementations....
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#stratumv2
Optech covered major releases of popular infrastructure projects throughout the year...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#releases
In Optechās eighth year, we published:
- 50 newsletters
- over 80,000 words, a 225pg book equivalent
- over 60hrs of podcasts, with 500,000 words of transcripts w/75 guests
- 150+ non-English translations
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/19/#optech
A special thank you
After contributing as the primary author for 376 consecutive Bitcoin Optech newsletters, Dave Harding stepped back from contributing regularly this year. We cannot thank Harding enough for anchoring the newsletter for eight years and all of the Bitcoin education, elucidation, and understanding he brought the community. We are eternally grateful and wish him all the best.
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this special newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
Squats are the standard
Itās amazing how much better my back feels the day after doing squats
Ahh I mean when stuff is posted here to Nostr
I mean, Iām interested in Aussie context stories but wonāt be so much in American stories for example
If itās clear that the article is related to American context, Iād probably scroll along
Providing this feedback as I saw you mentioning expanding outside Aussie context articles a few days ago!!
nostr:nprofile1qqsqtf4kzyp3ntvgjf5382dwsr573jhfnvyexnk6l5hteeleu9e6m2gaaqhxu can we get me this on a T-Shirt?
I will buy this
We've had a new submission go live.
Headline: Crypto exchanges to be required to hold financial services licences
Author/s: James Eyers
Rank this article here: https://bitcoinmediawatch.com/articles/ad4b85e3-ac90-4d90-88d6-285b25a2ff51
Would be cool if you enabled Nostr ālogin to commentā?
We've had a new submission go live.
Headline: Start-up banks millions to offer bitcoin-backed home loans
Author/s: Tess Bennett, James Eyers
Rank this article here: https://bitcoinmediawatch.com/articles/b9cc9b0b-d8d4-4a33-a358-d05b874234b4
If youāre going to expand to non-Aussie sources maybe have a tag or something in the post to help user with read/not-read decision?
Looks like I have to auto-post sorted for NOSTR from newly approved articles listed at nostr:npub1c5wtpavmt0rremw2an0wnnndr430gx6ra4vxu0x3uzqnj3lgp7rq5r6t8a!
A lot of Australian articles listed.
Could do with more UK and US articles.
This is cool, nice one
ā”ļøš® GAMING - Multi-platform bike racing game "LANESPLIT" is set for release on January 28 next year.
https://blossom.primal.net/a2fd3ce9ee683f1c965e9742a1736f727361f9c6df5bb8e22142c940abcef1c0.mp4
F-Zero X 2026
Part 2 of Life imitates Bluey - Tattoo Shop
lol wut
My Aussie twist on Santa for playgroup this morningā¦
It worked finally š¾
Some crazy footage.
What a hero the guy that disarmed the attacker wearing white pants.
Sad day for Oz.
Have you setup to receive zaps?
Had issues when I tried to zap you 2 days in a row now!!
I mean, thatās a pretty sweet name, if nothing else
THE MUTHAFUCKIN SPEECH YOU SHOULD BE HAVING WITH YOUR KIDS STRAIGHT UP šš¼
https://blossom.primal.net/7aa05393bb1e6b6a9e3135d7211e5399a97cfd944c72837755ccb10c4c265ce8.mp4
Fucking awesome movie
Developing a small Bitcoin TX classifier using 3 different techniques to experiment with the ābestā way to build things:
1) Vanilla Claude Code
2) Claude Code with a custom āmvp-spec-designerā agent
3) OpenAI Codex
Initial thoughts, Codex is much better than when I tried it maybe a fortnight ago, OpenAI catching up?
For all the doomerism and gloom, feels to me like weāre entering a technology golden age
If youāve got enough curiosity and drive āyou can just do itā (pretty much)
Perth BitDevs Bitchat represent
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Yeah, itās at least prudent to start making plans were they to eventuate.
Thoughtful preparation well in advance trumps panicked reactivity
Posting transcripts and summaries from a couple of AI dialogues, that take a podcast and an idea to explore then work through it in a dialogue.
If you like that check out the source material in in the podcast ;)
https://github.com/humansinstitute/everest-pipeliner/wiki
But where is mention of HATE!?
nostr:note1ghqvj974d3jz2650ye2du7yd9nz8dkdk5wemjgs7e97jnh96dd0sq4whvcAdelaide is nice though, I lived there for 8 years 2011-2019
Yeah those Aussie cities are equally as unaffordable in terms of housing