Knots demonstrates the difficulty of alternative node implementations. It's barely different from bitcoin core and requires a ton of upkeep from one of the earliest and most accomplished bitcoin core devs. It's not independent of Core, IMO.

Hypothetical: I want to build a bitcoin node for mining that doesn't use the mempool or p2p layer. It needs to run the exact same blockchain consensus code but I want to rip out the rest and write something new from scratch. How would I do it?

It's not feasible. I would have to create and maintain a fork that includes all of the stuff I wanted to delete. I can't just run the same consensus code that bitcoin core runs.

GM

The most important bitcoin core project is libbitcoinkernel because the best thing core can do for bitcoin is deprecate themselves.

🚀 DATUM Hits 100 Blocks 🌊

Miners all over the world are letting the industry know that decentralization matters.

In less than a year, OCEAN’s DATUM Mining Protocol has spread like wildfire. 📈 Over 65% of OCEAN’s miners are using DATUM, and that number is growing every day.

This means block template construction is making its way back into the hands of the miners, which is not only the most profitable for miners on OCEAN but also one of the best things for Bitcoin.

Decentralization is happening.

Bitcoin is becoming censorship resistant again.

The future is starting to look bright again.

To all of our miners who helped make this possible: Thank you.

We’re humbled by your support and trust.

To all of our future miners: what are you waiting for?

DATUM is ready when you are. 💪

The leader of the /e/OS project and Murena company, Gaël Duval, has been ramping up his attacks on GrapheneOS. His community has been engaging in an increasing level of harassment towards our team including in response to our post on Mastodon about one of our senior developers being conscripted.

>6 years ⚡️ and not stopping 🫡

🇺🇸 Phoenix Wallet announces its return to the United States app stores.

What many people don't get is that "custodial vs. non-custodial" is NOT about how secure the Bitcoin is that's held by the custodian. It doesn't matter. Think like an autist or a mathematician:

Do you control your Bitcoin, yes or no?

It's not about "how easy can someone collude to steal your Bitcoin that you don't control" or "does the code run in an HSM" or "theft would be detectable". All these things don't matter for this question. They're interesting but that's not the point. You're thinking about the wrong categories, namely *security*, not *custody*.

Words have meaning. Unilateral exit is a necessary condition.

NEW: A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) from developer Agustin Cruz suggests destroying unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) to protect Bitcoin from potential ⚛️💻 quantum computer attacks.

The proposal, “Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol” (QRAMP), would require users to move funds to quantum-resistant wallets before a deadline or face their coins being effectively burned.

An open question in my mind: if Bitcoin reaches mass adoption and the overwhelming majority of participants are statist cucks using regulatory compliant services, can the ecosystem retain censorship resistance?

You can set your own relay if you'd like.

The Bitcoin self custodial dream isn't coming, adapt.

What exactly do you need to backup on a grapheneOS phone besides files which are easily transferable?

Been messin' with liquid with Boltz and it's great so far

What wallets do you use for Liquid? I've always meant to runa Liquid node for the past 5 year, just never got around to doing so

I get a ton of questions about my husband. As a somewhat public figure I suck at privacy, while he is a privacy maxi.

He’s my main editor, oversees support on my website, and yet quietly is like “nah, don’t want any attention.”

In 2021 when I went to a dinner/meeting at Saylor’s house, my husband dropped me off and then picked me up as my personal ride. To Saylor’s credit, he came out personally at night to make sure I was safe while I waited on the curb for a ride, as his only female guest that night and Miami at night can be challenging.

The next day my husband dropped me off at some VC event and my friend Elizabeth Stark was aware enough to be like “you got out of the front seat of that uber. It wasn’t an uber, was it?”

And I was like “No, that was my husband, lol.” He dropped me off at every similar event event that year (Ubers were hard to hire in 2021, amid pandemic constraints, so he rented a Camaro, since normal utility cars were sold out, and he drove me around in it to my various events and then wouldn’t enter them even though he could.

For years since then he does stuff like this. Touches events but purposely won’t attend.

We have a ton of pictures, but he doesn’t like them to be public, and allowed a 2022 vacation post, which I still use. Adding a second one here as a Nostr exclusive. The second ever public pic of him.

His first name is Mohamed, the most popular first name in the world, and yet hardly anyone knows his last name. Which is how he wants it.

He had dinner with Peter McCormack in Manhattan once, and then the only side event I ever got him to show up at was in Bedford at Peter’s CheatCode event. So Mohamed met Natalie Brunell, Preston Pysh, and a few other people there. And then went dark again.

In 2022 amid the bitcoin bear market capitulation depths while I was buying, he was like “So, how many do we have? Okay thanks for the breakdown, add way more here.” It’s up 500% since then.

When family members ask me about. Bitcoin, I’m like “well it’s this open source people can…” and then Mohamed intervenes and is like “She’s being polite. And also kind of her robotic retard self. You should buy a lot of it, here’s why.” Then proceeds to orange pill the entire extended family.

He watches some of my podcasts and knows a ton of people in both the bitcoin space and macro space, and then quietly is like “I’ll literally drive you there but then I’ll stay away, privately.”

He’s the GOAT at not drawing attention.

He also lies Nostr but doesn’t post here; or anywhere. He likes hearing updates though.

He unintentionally made himself as a meme by not posting publicly and being private. And yet if he saw it, embed be like “it’s ephemeral. Building a fitness facility is her gets direct sun. Need your input on whether it will meet our goals, since you optimize all these details.”

My favorite bitcoiner, who isn’t a bitcoiner.

It's about not saying the amount uprfront. Especially useful when sending whole UTXOs.