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Blocks, keys, trees, and couples

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Bitcoin v0.1.0, fully annotated and revised by Opus 5.5.

New in version 0.3.9: • Reading Paths: follow a transaction, a block, a signature across the code • Bitcoin Protocol primer + 15 diagrams • OpenSSL appendix: the crypto Satoshi called • Glossary

Get it at Bitcoin Amsterdam!

Open sourcing in progress! • Demo devices and meet the

team • Get the

conference badge • Learn from builders with technical workshops • Attend the BitDevs Amsterdam and participate in the discussion • Use the tech with

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You will not meet a tightest group of bitcoiners without having to go to prison 😉

Noderunners show up consitently and celebrate bitcoin in the best possible way: with people, freedom, and tech.

Artur Virgílio Alves Reis (Lisbon, 8 September 1896 – 9 July 1955) was a Portuguese criminal who perpetrated one of the largest frauds in history, against the Bank of Portugal in 1925, often called the Angola e Metrópole affair.

At a point, he had duplicated 1% of the Portuguese GDP, leading to the collapse of the country's financial system. He was tried in May 1930, convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, where he converted to Protestantism.

He was released in May 1945, and died of a heart attack in 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis

Now what?

What are you curious about today?

Streaming services will make you pay to serve you ads. It’s coming full circle.

Can’t wait for the future.

Dense and compact living in downtown HK.

Exit the void

Cool frostsnap demo by

at #bitcoinasia

Exciting to see novel approaches to multisig.

I mean...

The consolidation continues.

Tech deployments happen downstream of mass culture. Not a coincidence, deliberate preparation to condition our reaction to disruptive technologies.

Trust the politician, Trust the owner's hand, Trust the paranoid, Trust the nerd.

Trust the expert's sight, Trust the code they write, Trust the oracle's word, Trust the herd.

Trust the algorithm, Trust the electric noise, Trust the dice we roll, Trust the logic's void.

Trust the bonds we hold, Trust the voices online, Trust the hands we've sold, Trust the shrine.

Trust the dead machines, Trust the systems play, Trust the in-between, Trust in trust's decay.

Moments after I took this picture I met Peter. We talked for a bit about Coldcard and his dynamic with NVK. And then he left for his panel on hardware wallets where he made the joke I had heard NVK make so many times on podcasts: “hardware is hard”. Everyone giggled… we were in the presence of a grey beared, security expert after all.

Never saw him again in any conference.

This was September 23, 2022. In an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

So the screen had colors but where never used to improve user experience. Just black and white to improve the larp. and I fell for it….

Please God, don’t let kimi and fable collude.

Multi-model multi-vendor ai certified multi-vendor multi-sig wallet.

It’s a mouthful…

How much do we trust these open models to report back on all security vulnerabilities. Or the patches they produce?

They can also introduce more bugs and back doors.

The machine is learning and we’re paying for it.

Will probably keep 1 Coldcard on the table just as a trigger for randomness discussions.

Still going :(

These last few days have broken the trust in the bitcoin projects, and that’s a good thing.

We’ve been way too trusting.

You need to start taking entropy, and all the other attack vectors more seriously.

Multiple sources of entropy, multiple codebases, multiple interfaces. Phone, computer, and hardware wallets can work well together.

Diversify.

Take your agent and start dissecting the software you use. Don’t trust, verify.

Don’t just say it, do it.

We’re just going to keep seeing software appear out of the necessities of bitcoiners, because we’re the only ones that actually want to own the full stack.

It’s that time of the year.

Open Source Hub is going to Asia.

Our brains are out there now.

The demo table is back to Hong Kong and we’re partnering with

and bringing you more devices to experience bitcoin in the wild.

Partially signed transactions transmitted over radio to be signed by dedicated hardware. Even a little bit of mining on the side, with a touch of AI and VR.

All in one place.

ITM JCD

I vibe coded a whole desktop publishing system that translates all my typesetting, layout, footnotes, section architecture, thumbnail preview, pre-flight, and print files output into code commands.

No more dragging the mouse around. Text instructions only.

Open Source Hub is running an AI + immersive VR thread at Bitcoin Asia. Hong Kong · Aug 27–28 · HKCEC Come for the open stack. Stay for the demos.

Inside bitcoin.

Made a wave, of sand.

An app can be a home cocked meal. And you don't cook for the market, you cook for your family.

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Someone is making a list

Be happy! We’re getting to the bottom.

Nice

“I’m not technical” no longer applies.

You will read the bitcoin source code, and you will understand it.

Let’s go

C.S. Lewis , Mere Christianity, 1952

This is a true bitcoin native game. Application of the bitcoin principles in the gameplay, in the menu and settings, the reward system, and the player identity.

For the last 4 years @FrancisMars has been touring the worlds biggest and smallest bitcoin conferences looking for the next champion, testing the UX, and improving the game. Pushing the wallets to implement the spec, challenging bitcoiners to spend their sats, and onboarding pre-coiners to their first sats, won with proof of work.

We’ve created the most vertically integrated Bitcoin application known to man, not because it was easy, but because that was the goal. We did it the hard way because we know our users can step up to the challenge.

Now you can play at home by yourself, and win sats if you can beat the multiple level bots.

Old technology finds new purpose.

New champion is born

I just beat the NORMIE DUEL challenge on

and got 21 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

You can make your own tools.

Imagine seating in class, wearing uniform, being interviewed by the state TV, asking you how miserable you’re going to feel when the state cuts you off from social media.

working his magic on the ground. Fixing, testing, and pushing the protocol to the limits.

Bitcoin is polarizing Nostr is polarizing

Bear market is for bitching.

New nostr client? Handles communications and payments!

https://youtu.be/nS97AzfKp3U?is=u94AofOuKMSz3vL_

The tallest stick casts the biggest shadow.