7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (562+ words) The first Stratum V2 solo pool So point your miners to Blitzpool and let's find a block. Why SV2 even matters SV2 isn't just a protocol upgrade for bandwidth and encryption. The real endgame is template control. Via the Job Declaration Protocol (JDP),…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (887+ words) For me, @south_korea_ln was the name of my now-defunct LN routing node, where I had reasoned that showing its geographical location would somehow be useful for peers connecting to my node. Also, as a failed attempt at finding other node runners…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (95+ words) A fun experiment/meme within the community to get bitcoind/validator node running on as many devices as possible. To get the most reach, and a small feeling it might actually be useful, the nodes will be prune=550 and blocksonly…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (205+ words) Vibe coding has unleashed a wave of bitcoin-themed games. Some of them are kinda fun. I want to make a list of all of these games. Here's what I know about so far: Spacezappers Turtle Shitcoin Blaster Mempool Runner Unicorn…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (366+ words) Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly. Sorry for the long hiatus in getting outthis newsletter. I think I'm back on track. The territory has been hummingalong nicely, with plenty of good content. @denlillaapan and @hasherstackerdominated the top five, but it's worth…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (134+ words) // Substring blocklist " 5 random letters can spell things (Kenneth, in the // launch thread: "this is why i bias to numbers, hard to have anything worse // than 80085"). Non-exhaustive, covers the send-to-your-boss-by-accident // tier. If a generated ID contains any of these, re-hash with…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (269+ words) Every epoch we delight stackers with the news that nothing changes yet. .. until it does, of course. Per floppy's comment on the last report, we missed that CTV (Bit 5) signalling hasn't formally started yet, so it's been pointless to report…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (196+ words) There are a bunch of new crypto casinos launching (even Magic Eden launched one called Dicey), and more and more traditional online gambling sites are starting to accept bitcoin. Given how popular prediction markets have become and how fast online…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (202+ words) I did upgrade lnd from 0. 20. 0 to 0. 20. 1 on 17. march. After a day I did notice that server is bit more noisy time to time. I did check graphs and find this: I don't know, maybe it's just a coincidence that there…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (279+ words) @sox made a number of enhancements to the editor. Namely: stacker/territory/item mention edits in compose mode, "rich" copy-paste and quote replies (meaning styling is preserved), and list indentation in compose mode. He made some gifs for your eyes…...