Please welcome our first Texan, @benthecarman, to Spiral. After one year probably doing JPEG work at Taproot Wizards, Ben will tackle LDK Server and a new SDK that simplifies how we onboard self-custodial bitcoin users, two things that his Mutiny wallet work lend themselves to.
Opinions vary on how best to get strangers into bitcoin.
Spiral wizard Yuval Kogman gets to put ”wizard” as his occupation on tax forms, legal documents, and lease applications for a reason.
“The Scroll #3: A Brief History of Wallet Clustering“
April’s Nerd of the Month is @the_charlatan_. This one’s so nerdy that it took four of us to make it understandable even to other nerds. https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/nerd-of-the-month-bitcoinkernel-library?publication_id=3715684&post_id=160906093&isFreemail=false&r=53cq2n&triedRedirect=true
Just because our quarterly progress report is now multiple newsletters doesn’t mean we still can’t have a quarterly progress report. It just means that it’s much shorter and mostly bullet points because none of us have attention spans anymore: https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/2025-q1-spiral-progress-report?publication_id=3715684&post_id=160394314&isFreemail=true&r=1nuiv3&triedRedirect=true
From the same bitcoin co-working and events space that brought you Presidio Bitcoin Jam comes a no-holds-barred adrenaline-fueled thrill ride called 21 in 21, where our own Haley Berkoe asks people like this dude you’ve never heard of 21 questions about bitcoin in 21 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PaV_6vjkXI
This post was originally released a couple of days ago on http://lightningdevkit.org by some devs who forgot that Spiral now has a newsletter that covers, among other things, LDK-related stuff like VSS. As recompense, they have all been assigned to eat a bowl of spiders.
The Nostr community could be the only community that understands our latest newsletter. Twitter seems to be struggling: https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/the-scroll-2-wallet-clustering-basics
This is quickly becoming my all-time favorite Spiral writing project. And we have had SO MANY of those over the years: https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/plushie-confidential-2-rooting-for?publication_id=3715684&post_id=158552109&isFreemail=false&r=53cq2n&triedRedirect=true
This is quickly becoming my all-time favorite Spiral writing project. And we have had SO MANY of those over the years: https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/plushie-confidential-2-rooting-for?publication_id=3715684&post_id=158552109&isFreemail=false&r=53cq2n&triedRedirect=true
If your bitcoin investment strategy can’t fit in a fortune cookie, it’s too complicated.
In our latest blog post, Spiral’s Bitcoin Wizards are highlighting potential upgrades to the Bitcoin Scripting system that will enable improved scaling across the network, starting with topics like the economic limits of self-custody. https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/the-scroll-utxo-sharing 
How we got into the bitcoin plushie business, part 1: https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/plushie-confidential-1-big-start?r=53cq2n&triedRedirect=true%E2%80%9D 
Drawn between doing another plushie that is either this herecomesbitcoin.org cat or this Warhammer-inspired battle mech. These are the kind of decisions you get to make working within the bitcoin space and practically nowhere else.
I’ve regretted every minute since we made this decision.
Last day to save big on small: https://bitkey.world/en-US/campaigns/free-plushie
Our free-to-use library of bitcoin assets has a new look: https://www.herecomesbitcoin.org/
Literally years in the making, Saving Satoshi is an interactive RPG that uses storytelling and gaming mechanics to onboard developers into the FOSS bitcoin ecosystem: https://savingsatoshi.com/