Where am I? Haha, reminds me early nostr posts. Hello?? Can anyone hear me?
An impressive number of cool bitcoin things happened in the last 2 weeks
Darosior published a draft bip for the Great Consensus Cleanup: https://x.com/darosior/status/1904947392744485062
A new version of frostr was released with a desktop app and a browser extension: https://x.com/bitcoinplebdev/status/1905056787771842665
Electrum announced direct nostr support for PSBT signing, NWC integration, and submarine swap coordination: https://x.com/ElectrumWallet/status/1905024339759550760
A new implementation of ring signatures came out that works with nostr's elliptic curve (and therefore bitcoin's): https://github.com/AbdelStark/nostringer
One of the guys from Vinteum published a set of utxo snapshots for various bitcoin-related networks: https://bitcoin-snapshots.jaonoctus.dev/
A payjoin coordinator called Private Pond got an open source release: https://x.com/MrKukks/status/1906615058689335400
Exodus Wallet removed their lightning support: https://x.com/EliNagarBrr/status/1906631948325331051
Bitgo added lightning support: https://x.com/BitGo/status/1909638805981909063
Breez announced a new bitcoin wallet similar to Aqua: https://x.com/Breez_Tech/status/1907435825287041465
Google decided to censor the Bitcoin Dev Mailing List: https://x.com/jarolrod/status/1907480779078221842
And then they brought it back: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev
The U.S. Justice Department announced it will stop targeting mixing services: https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1909586503803470238
Mastercard annouced some sort of partnership with Kraken Pay (I think it's just gonna be a Kraken branded mastercard that deducts funds from your Kraken account, but we'll see): https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2025/04/08/mastercard-and-kraken-revolutionize-crypto-payments-a-strategic-alliance-is-born-in-europe/
Mempool Space launched version 3.2.0 of their software: https://x.com/mempool/status/1909532932211138574
Jeremy Rubin found a way to improve bitvm with garbled circuits: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2025/04/04/delbrag/
Rootstock announced the first bitvm hackathon: https://bitvmx.org/force/
Robin Linus figured out how to use CTV to improve bitvm in such a way that bitvm "federations" cannot run off with user funds (though they can still hold them hostage): https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/how-ctv-csfs-improves-bitvm-bridges/1591
The link also includes an explanation of a CTV "hack" whereby you can get it to commit to all vouts AND any number of vins (except all of them)
Rijndael proposed Taplocks which use zero-knowledge proofs to make a tapleaf unspendable unless an oracle reveals a secret (even if the script contains OP_SUCCESS!): https://x.com/rot13maxi/status/1909252898170564621
The Bitcoin Policy Institute proposed "BitBonds" -- novel loan contracts that allegedly let borrowers (particularly the USA) acquire bitcoin in a budget-neutral way: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/bitcoin-enhanced-treasury-bonds-an-idea-whose-time-has-come
Ruben Somsen announced SwiftSync which increases blockchain validation speed by over 5x: https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a61a37d14182ccd78760e477c78133cd
LNBits finally released version 1.0.0 of their software: https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0
They also added appimage support: https://docs.lnbits.org/guide/installation.html
Starkware combined ColliderScript and Bitvm into something wacky: https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1910317337301152034
Trump blocked the IRS Reporting rule for 'DeFi Brokers': https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/trump-signs-resolution-blocking-irs-reporting-rule-for-defi-brokers/
A github called "Awesome CTV" was launched, containing links to interesting things about CTV, including software demos, technical analysis, and dev tools: https://github.com/arshbot/awesome-ctv-csfs
What a wild couple of weeks it's been!
Wow, thank you. Incredible time
Bad. #ecash but with glasses or GFY.
BitAxe mining pool paying out in ecash?
Co2 is not pollution and doesn't change the weather, so its irrelevant either way.
Strike seems to have excellent LN liquidity and connections. I bought a BitAxe recently, paid in sats via Strike and it zapped through instantly. Very impressed. I had forgotten about the free on chain withdrawals too. Anyway, thanks for the explanation.
Hey, "that's racist." Jk, I totally agree with you. The worship of diversity/globalism is basically the worship of the destruction of these distinct cultures. Meloni in Italy and others are starting to push back. Hope the cultures/people of the world can save themselves from this Borg-creep assimilation.
Great talk guys, thanks.
I believe it was Forrest Gump that said, "Cashu ecash & nostr is like peas and carrots."
I couldn't agree more, LFG!
Thats cool. I've talked on the phone with Lubka at Swan before too and so far no issues with DCA and automated self custody withdrawals. Though they did have to switch the banks they've been working with several times which was a little unnerving. Yeah, I dunno, haven't had any issues.
Who do you guys stack with? I use Swan. Been considering moving to nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc9psx07 for DCA.
Wow, they've got a credit card and lending coming this year
Any thoughts on this iteration of a potential nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cmg9ec82unsd3jhyetvv9ujucm0d5qjjamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu33xcmnvve38y6nvde3xuczuctswqh8yatwdahxvmr40qhxjmcqyq0986gqcwaut6kjj5s4al38ktydt773t7eamqgd5vrrvaxtwgfmyh20a8l send flow? Trying to strip out jargon from the send flow. I removed the word “ecash” and using more general, normie, intuitive language. https://m.primal.net/PpKr.mp4
It's really damn pretty and slick! Yeah, no need to state ecash. They are sats, because your trust in the mint is assumed.
I have not used the app, but for your consideration, what if that pull down showed all your Mints, Lightning, and Onchain, as options. And instead of "choose a mint" it said "sending from:" . The default would be ecash, if you have any. Or LN if you have that setup. Otherwise it would default to your onchain wallet.
https://www.solosatoshi.com/product/bitaxe-gamma/
I just ordered this 1.2TH/s miner for fun. Are there any mining pools that payout in cashu ecash? nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv