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Are you an educator who'd like to read Resistance Money, the first comprehensive academic monograph on bitcoin? DM; I'll send you a copy.
Interested in otherwise bringing bitcoin content to your classrooms? I can help with that too.
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EntropyLab’s first release candidate, v1.0.0rc1, is here. 🪨
A Bitcoin key and wallet calculator in one HTML file. You bring your own entropy; it does the math offline.
Download, verify, disconnect. Send feedback:
github.com/OogaBoogaX/entrop…
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There’s a new zine from @satsie out! If you haven’t seen these before, check out all of them on satsie.dev/zines/index.html
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Bark plugin for BTCPay Server is out!
Start accepting Lightning and onchain payments today, right away in your BTCPay instance. Could be a payment POS machine, or fully online shop.
1/ The Bark plugin for @BtcpayServer is now ready for production. It's possibly the simplest way for a business to take self-custodial bitcoin payments (especially Lightning) on their online store, and you don't need to run a Lightning node to do it.
ALT Bark plugin for BTCPay Server: dashboard, send and receive pages, and settings screenshots
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This Week in Bitcoin Core #59
Silent Payments finally made some noise.
Bitcoin Core can now build silent payments, and the wallet is coming. There is also a new way to list every transaction your wallet knows about, and the 32.0 release candidate is up for testing.
Full article below. 👇 and follow @btcinsider__
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If you, like many of us... have found yourself in an endless argument with someone who refuses to observe reality, tag in an AI - it always gets the last word.
Miners supply proof-of-work but do not define the rules—full nodes do. Low signaling showed most hashpower rejected BIP-110. Without economic majority following the enforcing nodes, the rules produced only a minority chain that later needed a PoW change to continue as a separate network.
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For thirty years we've argued that software deserves First Amendment protection because software is speech. But the Constitution gives us another reason: software is a press.
The Free Press Clause protects not merely expressive outputs but the individual's freedom to possess and use technologies for producing and disseminating expression. The founding-era printing press is the paradigmatic example. That is the original understanding of the clause.
Software and open-weight generative models are modern instances of the same constitutional category. Regulation directed at their capacity to produce or disseminate expression and an Americans' right to own and control them directly implicates the Press Clause even when government characterizes the regulated object as a machine rather than speech.
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“A global decentralized protocol should also have a broad and decentralized base of people who understand it deeply enough to maintain, review, and challenge it.”
opensats.org/blog/developer-…
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Thank you, Jack.
"rules built around [leading companies'] resources could make them the only ones able to participate. a sincere concern about safety can still produce a barrier to entry.
nor do i want the US and Chinese governments deciding how much intelligence everyone else is allowed to develop."
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Nym21 has been an OpenSats grantee since December 2024, with his grant renewed in July 2025. That support lets him work on the Bitcoin Research Kit full-time and keep it free to use, verify, and self-host.
opensats.org/blog/developer-…
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Can someone please make 10hrs of @Erikcason please 🙏🏼
Mushroom are consciousness prompt injections designed to ‘taint’ your thoughts for higher levels of conscious evolution by level 4 kardashev civilizations.
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PRESENTING: Data Center Dividends
Rural households could receive annual payments or credits from existing data center tax revenue, without new taxes or added developer costs.
Check out the full report: btcpolicy.org/articles/data-…
NEW: Surplus tax revenues from a single AI data center could pay every family in a rural county up to $8,900 a year in the form of a “data center dividend.”
BPI’s new research applies the sovereign wealth fund model to America’s rural counties to make the case for data center dividends, which are payments or credits provided every year to every household in a county that hosts a data center.
Our financial model borrows from the logic of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which for the last decade, has paid every Alaskan family about $3,900 a year in dividends earned from investing oil revenues. By comparison, we estimate that data center dividends could pay families between $4,500 to $8,900 a year in the average rural county, and even more than $11,000 a year in places like Louisiana.
These payments or credits would be funded by a fixed share of the property tax revenue the county already collects from that data center while still leaving ample funds to finance schools, police departments, and public works projects.
By hosting hundreds of data centers, America’s rural counties have helped usher in the greatest technological revolution of our lifetimes. The men and women who live in these counties deserve to share in the massive economic prosperity being unlocked by AI. Data center dividends make this possible.
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🧵 On Sep 6, ~3,996 L-BTC were "minted" on #Liquid out of thin air.
No broken cryptography. No stolen keys.
The attacker simply made nodes believe they had already checked a proof they never checked - by giving 2 different transactions the same cache key:
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