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I love zapping ⚡️

#bussobushbash

Rise n shine campers! Self custody workshop starting!

#bussobushbash continues today

First up: self custody workshop Grab your coffee and come learn!

GM 😎

Spring weather here is bloody beautiful - clear blue skies and a comfortable 30c

New week! LFG 🔥

OMG

on desktop is bloody unusable with this retarded remote signer BS 🤮

Great conversation with

on the Honest Money Show about the

catastrophe with their

wallets, and some of the immediate lessons we’ve all learned .. some of us brutally

https://fountain.fm/episode/K2fPV18xx0390v6cimUW

tick tock, next block #Bitcoin continues along as usual Not giving a tinkers cuss about any damn thing

Exploit v Patch

This battle has been long simmering and those with superior tools and expertise have had the edge that allows them to find the vulnerabilities first .. and then to choose to disclose them, exploit them or sell them .. and yes, that last one is an entire industry

Exploitation of a BTCPayserver bug was a win for the Exploit team, but also the rapid response for the Patch team .. more news at 9 ;-)

https://opensats.org/blog/ongoing-exploits-of-bitcoin-open-source-software

Until it gets better

And it WILL get better! 💪

.. right now we are at the start of a journey where a mountain of unknown vulnerabilities are being identified .. and closed

It’s a race of Patch v Exploit

Bitcoin is first: Security posture getting upgraded Globally aligned experts Collaborating Funded

Then we’ll watch how it unfolds in the land of fiat 😬

Contribute to a repo?

1. DO THIS NOW: Update your repos with a SECURITY.md to help make contacting you easy when others find vulnerabilities and want to disclose responsibly

2. Then focus on: Now use today’s “frontier” AI model for cyber which is Moonshot’s Kimi k3

The US ai models are unfortunately borked and unable to find vulnerabilities, confirm with working exploits, or help build patches/solutions; everything Kimi can do in a single (well crafted) shot

announces support for red team initiatives; you can specify your donations go to this initiative directly if you want to support this .. 👇

https://opensats.org/blog/code-red-supporting-first-responders

Pay it forward

I appreciate the many many insights and learnings I've gleaned from

and

and

and many others over the last decade 🫂

These are all excellent men who walk their talk They try stuff, they talk about the stuff they value They are generous with their time and their knowledge And they've done it week after week, year after year

I've learned a tonne from them and I'm eternally grateful

Just as I do with friends and family, I share what I believe is 'best' They're always things I use myself - I've got actual skin in each game

Does it mean my approach is faultless?

Possibly not - but it's the very best I can come up with And for my friends and family I owe them no less

I'll continue to share what I know and explain my choices My objective is to help each person make informed decisions

Don't stop helping those who arrive at Bitcoin's door Self-custody is core to the ethos of Bitcoin - it's critical Help each newcomer find the solution that's right for them

Pay it forward 🧡

Thanks

You mate, are a bloody legend 👑

Spending the last few days focusing on pointing KimiK3 at the wider bitcoin ecosystem beyond your own significant responsibilities at Anchorwatch is noted and appreciated - the responsible disclosures are helping other teams and projects close vulnerabilities that were unknown and exploitable

I'm aware you've pushed back on posting a donation address for people who want to contribute to the costs you incurred

BUT GUESS WHAT?

As

would say: YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS!

So I zapped you on nostr and there's nothing you can do about it

Anyone could zap your nostr handle and there's not a damn thing you can do about it

🧡

Chat control in the EU

So the bureaucracy created a procedural loophole to overturn the EU Parliament’s very clear prior ‘NO’ vote on chat control

Horrendous outcome that now enables the bureaucracy to force scanning, logging and recording of every message you send/receive

Yet the real news is the mask-off moment that the EU Parliament is only a circus and utterly irrelevant in any decision making role in EU

If the EU Parliament let this stand then they may as well resign, and pack up and go home for good

Europe has fallen so far 😞

Awesome people like

are doing incredible work all around the world 🌎 🧡

Build the world you want to see

https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-rajarshi-maitra

Plant the mighty trees under whose shade you will never sit

Jurisdictions that restrict access to AI is a lot like the brainiac logic of restricting access to Bitcoin

Ultimately they’re self-selecting out of a global network that empowers their citizens because

FOSS and Open networks are ALWAYS the long term winners; not any different in AI

Never go full retard Good advice then; still good now

on point:

Cause the problem. Ignore the root cause. Punish the reaction. Blame the communication platform. .. and .. Tighten the surveillance Crack down on “unrest”

Authoritarian playbook from history getting dusted off and ramped up

Travel rule & kissing the ring

Does not apply to exchanges sending to plebs holding their own keys .. so exchanges will ask you to confirm you hold those keys

Confirmation is as simple as an attestation, but some exchanges will want to over-comply and talk about white-listing your addresses, or requesting you to sign messages

Smarter exchanges will implement support for Silent Payments so they and their customers have less friction and improved privacy. Less friction because as a customer you only have to provide your SP address once, and every withdrawal comes into a discrete address in your wallet; that means ongoing use continues to validate your attestation.

Better privacy .. because that's what Silent Payments is all about .. re-usable addresses that preserve privacy. If you're curious and want to learn more

1. Go play with the new version of Sparrow Wallet on your desktop, or Cake wallet on your mobile; learn through doing!
2. Go dig into the explanation of how this works at https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/silent-payments/ .. or both!

And then go ask your exchange when they're deploying support for your Silent Payments address!

If you’re wondering what Silent

Building blocks like the software libraries, is under-appreciated hard background work .. and

so valuable because it then accelerates everyone who follows

Libraries are accelerators🔥 Libraries are force multipliers🔥

freemediaheckyeah

What a great set of links to explore new topics like AI

https://fmhy.net/

"Smart" exploitable contracts

Anthropic's mythos now benchmarking exploits against smart contracts and "in a laboratory environment" managed to steal $35m

.. and today is the worst day of AI capability looking forward ..

The capability to DOUBLE the value of the exploited smart contracts is continuing to reduce, and now occurring MONTHLY

All of a sudden, the bitcoiners pathological focus on security doesn't seem so stoopid huh?

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/exploit-evals/

Excited for the release of this!

Congratulations

- excellent melding of your skills and passions that help us each secure and protect #Bitcoin a little better

https://defendingbitcoin.com/

Thanks

- this was a fun chat about the

🧡

Look forward to seeing you in Byron Bay at the next ‘bash

https://fountain.fm/episode/u0axhB2uOpwZw3HpyyY3

A little bit about what OpenSats supports 🧡

https://opensats.org/newsletter/2026-Q1

Support things you want to see more of

If you’ve been working on open source freedom projects, have a clear view of where you’re going, and are seeking some financial support,

may be able to help you 👇

https://opensats.org/blog/call-for-applications-spring-2026

Reminder to back things up

• offline
• analog
• separate place .. including your nostr keys 💜

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Freezing coins (theft) is right up there as giant red flags for those of us in Bitcoin who value its unconfiscatable property

The “it might damage the price” reasoning confirms that these change proposals are not coming from protecting the very features that value actually derives from

As

, and more recently

in his Bitcoin Magazine essay have highlighted, the legal systems of the world are slowly converging on Bitcoin as property .. and there’s NO wiggle room in the action of spending someone else’s coins (no matter how long they’ve been “dormant”) being theft

The idea that dormancy abdicates ownership is right up there with the framing that saving is hoarding

GM

Half way through the week and today is the midpoint of this epoch Block 945,000 here we come! 4 years is a good timeframe to plan and execute and deliver

Are you (at least) half-way through your current big plan?! 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ↔️ 🟪 🟪 🟪 🟪 🟪 🟪 🟪 🟪

Certainty in an uncertain world 🧡

tfw

finally realises he’s found perfect product market fit

Good advice for securing sensitive information prior to travelling across ANY international borders - the example is the US, but applies broadly if not universally

A further caveat is to assume that if your device is taken out of sight, it will be successfully and permanently compromised; in that case just hit it with a hammer at the first opportunity

New aspirational goal identified😎

GM 🧡 Start of a new week .. LFG 🚀

Cheers n beers to all the other crazies at the Beechworth

this weekend

Gotta admit some fomo 🧡

“Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft. Live a peaceful life."

Bitcoin gives you time; Opt in.

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Bitcoiners fill the gaps 🏆

The longer you’re in Bitcoin the earlier you realise we are .. and the more gaps there are to fill ..

Find one you can fill:

• local meetup
• product that doesn’t yet exist
• integrative connector
• doesn’t matter what it is 🤷‍♂️

Just find one and fill it 🧡

Beers are on

Bitcoin is opt-in Don’t need it? -> don’t use it

.. and in the meantime builders hardening, educators explaining and many adopting ..

.. yet all the while Bitcoin has been under constant (but varying) attacks since inception and no-one has figured how to turn it off

#ticktocknextblock

and

riffing on marmot,

, nostr, Bitcoin, freedom, AI and all the spaces in between

Absolute baller of a rip 🧡

https://pca.st/episode/c10ea351-6ce9-4bde-9f71-233b5a72df11

Bitcoin is opt-in

Two questions to ask your AI(s):

1. From all our conversations, recap what you know about me

2. Are our conversations then used in your training data?

Now think about the privacy implications of some of those conversations .. and the which AI’s you’re using for which purposes

.. and Life is the game of balancing patience with nudging things along

Ownership v Exposure

There’s a lesson currently being dished out in the precious metals markets to those who have conflated ‘exposure’ to an asset, with ‘ownership’ of the asset

Gigantic wads of paper are being called for physical delivery .. and there isn’t enough physical to cover .. serious and overdue pain is arriving shortly ..

The teachable moment for Bitcoiners is to know this difference and never conflate the two

Not your keys, not your coins

Had a great night out for a good steak and catchup with mates

Paid for everything in #bitcoin Rib-eye was really excellent

Dalgety Public House Find it on

has a great visual on the "Gradually, then Suddenly" mechanics of the eventual death of fiat currencies in his weekly newsletter

Obvious case study atm is the Iranian rial reaching that breaking point and the rapid unravelling as depicted in the lower half

Systems collapse from people no longer needing them 🎯

Bitcoin is opt-in .. all welcome

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