Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Satsie's new zine on Silent Payments dropped. It's a neat little introduction to the topic.

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #355 is here: bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

It's raining BIPs, hallelujah... Recently merged: BIP53 BIP54 BIP172 BIP177 BIP321 BIP443 On the cusp: BIP77 Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.

I think about this comic at least once a week

Mike Tidwell and I have collected a bunch of questions and answers around the OP_RETURN debate here: stacker.news/items/971277

I wrote a detailed explanation of Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/126098/5406

Optech’s new Feature Matrix is live! bitcoinops.org/en/matrix

Today, 34.6% of all UTXOs are P2TR, via dune.com/murchandamus...

Today I realized that transactions that only spend one P2A input are non-segwit transactions in the sense that they don’t have a witness section. bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406

Without due process, being innocent or a citizen does not protect you. See you at the next protest.

Jon Atack just gave a talk on the BIPs repository, being a BIP Editor, and the BIP3 proposal. I couldn’t be there, but if you have any questions, please feel free to AMA here: stacker.news/items/941593

If due process is denied for anyone, it can be denied for you too. If anyone can be snatched off the streets, detained, and deported without due process, it can happen to you too. We demand due process is upheld for every single person.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

The mempool is empty. #mempoolreport

For many decades, Freiburg has been expanding tram lines and bike paths, enlarging and beautifying pedestrian zones, optimizing traffic lights, and improving legal regulations. These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Bitcoin will go to 20M within a week¹, guaranteed!!11eleven

It's gut wrenching to watch the US skid into constitutional crisis with barely any resistance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Ooof. Looks like the old "Don’t roll your own crypto" needs a 2025 update: "Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".

Sweden is backpedaling on getting rid of cash: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yet again, it is mindboggling how expensive and slow residential internet in the Bay Area is. Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Don't let them gaslight you. The dog whistle is now a fog horn.

Please share widely. I'm not above begging for Retweets if it means we end up showing how much New Yorkers, even those that initially opposed the program, now see the necessity of Congestion Pricing and show up to Oppose Trump's nonsense.

Woohoo, BIP 3 got merged! github.com/bitcoin/bips...

We'll see you Thursday Feb 20 at Chaincode Labs for our next Meetup! What do you want to discuss? www.meetup.com/bitdevsnyc/e...

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Now that Musk is confiscating money out of bank accounts, do you see more appeal in digital cash that you can hold yourself without intermediaries?

Today is the day: Obscura VPN is NOW AVAILABLE! Obscura is the first VPN that: - CAN'T log your activity by design - Outsmarts network filters We believe Obscura sets the standard for a new generation of VPNs, and hope you’ll check it out! 🔗 obscura.net More details below. 1/🧵

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

The mempool continues to be almost empty. The UTXO set peaked at 188M around Christmas and continues to trend down since. It has now fallen below 180M. Next block: 1.02 ṩ/vB+ #mempoolreport

Looks like Runes have crossed their zenith.

Last night, the mempool shrunk to a depth of less than four blocks worth of unconfirmed transactions before it bounced back. It seems that we will soon see non-full blocks. #mempoolreport

On climate, did you know that only 11% of people in the US (and even smaller percentages in Canada, the UK, Australia and beyond) are dismissive? Yet because their voices are so loud and persistent, people often think they’re 50%. This is why I advocate so strongly for using YOUR voice!

The mempool has come down from over 105 blocks worth of transactions in the 1–2 ṩ/vB band to less than 16 blocks. If you had been waiting for low feerates to consolidate a lot of DCA outputs or move your wallet to a more blockspace efficient output format, now’s a good time! #mempoolreport

I'm posting this for anyone who has teens (or anyone) who might get lured into 'crypto'. It will hopefully help educate them about how to swerve the 99.9% of scams out there. I wish the BBC put out such quality educational material @paullewismoney.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...

Great, we might finally get some clarity on building tools and whether writing software makes us a money transmitter. www.coincenter.org/coin-center-...

‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream

The mempool has not fully cleared since April 2023, but since Xmas,transactions bidding 2 ṩ/vB or more cleared several times and the network has been slowly chipping away at the 1–2 ṩ/vB band. E.g., block 879,439 yesterday contained txs with an effective feerate of 1.08 ṩ/vB. #mempoolreport

If you want to keep abreast with technical news in Bitcoin, check out the weekly Bitcoin Optech Newsletter: bitcoinops.org/en/newslette... If you prefer audio, we also do the Recap, where we talk through the newsletter with guests: bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2...

What is bitcoin even for? Don't we already have plenty of digital money solutions? Who needs this thing? In a three-part series with my co-authors @bradleyrettler.com and Craig Warmke, we address these questions. Here's Part 1.

Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

Woot, congrats Pieter and Greg!

It’s high time we added a Fifth Horseman 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Applications for Chaincode Lab’s Bitcoin Open Source Software program close tomorrow! learning.chaincode.com#BOSS