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My analysis on Foundry USA's recent 7-block streak (4th time in 2026 so far). Key findings: • 35 streaks of 7+ blocks observed since 2022 — about 1.25× what pure Poisson randomness would predict. • Largely explained by their high hashrate share (~31-35%). At 35% hashrate, you'd expect a 7-block streak roughly every ~11 days on average. • No strong evidence of selfish mining; second-block uplift and header-first signals are near baseline. x.com/sorukumar/stat…

Indian woman archers. 10,000 BCE. Bhimbetka. Now show me women warriors from around the world from the same period. I'll wait. Because most civilizations from 10,000-2000 BCE don't even have figurative art at this scale—let alone documented women with weapons in public, active, equal. But we've been taught India "oppressed" women. That we needed Victorian England to "liberate" us. Victorian England—where women couldn't own property until 1882. Where riding a bicycle was considered too physically strenuous for the "delicate" female body. Meanwhile, 10,000 years earlier, Indian women held bows. The "backward India" story required erasing 10,000 years of counter-evidence. And we helped. We internalized it. We stopped looking at our own rocks. Bhimbetka didn't fit the script. So it stayed in footnotes. Who decided that Victorian morality was "progress" and our own history was "primitive"? 🏹 And why are we still teaching it?

@AaronTolentinoT Seethe full thread here. The chart in the end shows how bad it’s gonna be:

Something has to change SOON

@JuanSGalt @BitcoinMagazine yes. build it on feb. picking it up again these next couple of weeks to improve it. Let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests. love to hear your thoughts!

@sorukumar @BitcoinMagazine did you build this?

The Core Issue: The Role and History of Bitcoin Core Maintainers In my opinion, this is the most important article I've ever written. bitcoinmagazine.com/print/the-core… via @bitcoinmagazine

India is exploding! 🇮🇳💥 1. 27 million developers building on GitHub right now 2. +2 million joined in 2026 alone (1 in every 7 new global devs) 3. 1 in 3 new developers worldwide will be from India by 2030 → ~57M devs in India vs US ~45M

आप्रा द्यावापृथिवी अन्तरिक्षं सूर्य आत्मा जगतस्तस्थुषश्च || apra dyava-prthivi antariksam surya atma jagatas tasthuaas ca || "Filling space & earth, atmosphere, the Sun is the soul of all that moves and all that are stationary (on Earth)." - Ṛgveda 1.115.1 (~ 3500 years ago).

@nishikoripicks @sushantsinha For sure a story worth noticing. It will be a story of the century , if he wins a Slam! I’ll root for it. Wawrinka in steroid!

I don't think I've ever seen a player who started breaking through this late in his career. Is there any other case like Valentin Vacherot? I can't think of one.

Based on my Chemical Engineering degree + 20 years wrangling data Grok hit me with: 1: AI dashboards turning Bitcoin miners into grid-stabilizing AI data center side-hustles (because why not optimize energy hogs with more energy hogs?) 2: ML-optimized bioreactors for precision fermentation so we can finally make steak from yeast without the cow judging us. 3: And a couple more that sound like they require a PhD co-founder and several government grants just to prototype. Am I finally building atoms… or just more dashboards on top of dashboards?

@armillspaugh its a fair question but i rather founders pursue whatever most motivates them as opposed to being entirely opportunistic

@apachesuperset Big fan and user here! since I can’t join the calls, a quick 2-3 bullet recap here would be great for the community. super excited about the MCP

T-minus 10 minutes 🚀 The Superset Community Town Hall is starting soon. Come hear what's cookin!! Calendar link: hubs.li/Q04bnVSb0 #apachesuperset #opensource #aianalytics

@bitschmidty have created a visualization to gauge individual impact by mapping BIPs, mailing lists, and Delving Bitcoin discussions sorukumar.github.io/orange-dev-net… It’s early stages and not super insightful yet, but the data is there. Now, the goal is to extract insights

@bitschmidty Caught this on Stacker News last week. My vision is to create dashboards that capture the discussions and debates alongside what’s already happened (like code pushes). Let me think through it and build something concrete. I'll share it with you once it's ready

“Where is the public roadmap for Bitcoin Core?” This sentiment from Zach is common and Ill give my own thoughts on it x.com/zachherbert/st… The subprojects that individual Bitcoin Core engineers contribute to reflect the project’s *software development priorities* which can include things like testing improvements, refactors, features, maintenance, or performance improvements. These software engineering efforts are distinct from the Bitcoin *protocol*, whose consensus rules change only through broad community agreement and network adoption, not by decisions made exclusively within the Bitcoin Core repository. If I were looking to derive a shorter term “public roadmap for Bitcoin Core” (again, the Bitcoin Core software, not Bitcoin protocol), there are a few places to look. Working Groups Contributors actively working on similar efforts form working groups to implement and review projects in Bitcoin Core. A list of the current working groups is on the Bitcoin Core Wiki: #current-working-groups" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/bitcoin-core/b… From here we can see interest in: Erlay, Fuzzing, Kernel, Benchmarking, Silent Payments, Cluster Mempool, Stratum v2, Multiprocess, QML GUI, and Net Split These working groups also provide updates at the weekly Bitcoin Core developer meetings on IRC: bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/ This is another place to see current work. Tracking issues Many subprojects within Bitcoin Core have a place to track a todo list of code changes that roll up into that project. Here are just a few examples (search the GitHub for “tracking issue” for more): Multiprocess - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Mining interface - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… MuSig2 - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Cluster mempool - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Erlay - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Bitcoin Kernel Library - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… SENDTEMPLATE - github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Core Dev meetups What developers discuss at recent in-person meetings is another data point. Here are transcripts from the October 2025 meeting - btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-d… February 2025 meeting - btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-d… Merged PRs As code changes are merged into the Bitcoin Core GitHub before the next release you can see what will be in the upcoming release. These code changes include PRs related to projects above, but also more general changes unrelated to a particular project, like maintenance work, additional testing, one-off features, etc. github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Likewise Optech has a weekly notable code segment that picks interesting code merges to cover: bitcoinops.org Release Milestones As Bitcoin Core progresses toward a new release, PRs can be tagged with a milestone representing that release. For example, here are the items tagged for the previous v30 release: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… And here are considerations for the v31 release: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… TLDR, just tell me what will be in v31 Sorry, there isn’t a definitive authoritative answer for a decentralized open source project like this. But also in the spirit of decentralization, I can provide my own guesses of what might be in there based on the source material above: Kernel API - modular use of Bitcoin’s consensus and validation logic outside the full node MuSig2 (in wallet) - fee-efficient, privacy-preserving multi-signature support Cluster mempool - makes transaction relay and block assembly more efficient, predictable, and network reliability. ASMap - help diversify peer connections, strengthening network resilience against eclipse attacks Static builds - reproducible, portable binaries that enhance security, verifiability, and ease of deployment Again, just my personal guesses. I’ll emphasize that while these projects took a ton of work to get where they are, there will also be a majority of PRs in v31 that will not be part of a “project”. They will simply be the general improvements, bug fixes, (fuzz) testing, and maintenance work that is also critical for the project (see x.com/bitschmidty/st… for examples). I hope this is helpful for people. Feedback welcome.

@bitschmidty Mike, Any progress on this? If not, I’m keen to dive in and build out some visualizations to make this data/discussions more accessible for everyone. Planning to integrate it here: sorukumar.github.io/orange-dev-tra…

@zherbert Maybe Ill make something

@mattracquet @allunavano Sinner is a learning machine. If he thinks a tactic is good for his style, he will find a way to do it. Side note: do you think it will be insightful to see how Sinner/Alcarz are against others vs each other.

@allunavano He was deeper than avg on deuce side vs Humbert & deeper than avg on both sides vs Machac but bang on avg vs FAA today (approx 2.5m). It depends on matchups. He’s very bimodal on 2nd serve return position but has been for well over a year

A nice way to look at differences in hard & clay court strategy is return positions. Both Alcaraz and Sinner move back a lot on clay (Sinner 1.2m further behind baseline than on hard, Alcaraz 1.3m). But Alcaraz has a bimodal distribution on clay, taking it early & deep evenly

@Bquittem Spot on, Brandon! analyst heavy distribution is textbook innovators + early adopters. Rogers' diffusion model playing out in real time. curious: are we watching that same archetype explore the Bitcoin+AI intersection right now? same psychology, new frontier

1/ 2025 Bitcoin personality types (Myers-Briggs) survey results are LIVE Here's what jumped out: 71% of Bitcoiners are "Analysts" (INTJ, INTP, ENTJ, ENTP). Nearly 7x higher than the general population 🤯

@darosior Do you think it’s good idea to automate bnoc post here on X. More coverage for the discussion

If you are a researcher on Bitcoin, in academia or not, you should know about BNOC dot XYZ

@hishibui @kneerajsinha DM'ing you his number.

@sorukumar @kneerajsinha How can we speak?

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Claude Mythos is Delusional

@pavlenex @StratumV2 I want to add a tab on solo mining in my mining dashboard. would love your feedback. and also any pointer on identifying solo miners. for now, i have created this json to identify solo from mining pool slugs: github.com/sorukumar/bitc… x.com/sorukumar/stat…

Solo mining fomo got me, running Nerdaxe connected to my bitcoin node through @StratumV2 UI.

@Anton__BTC @ckpooldev Pls explain. Also is there a way to identify solominers from block data. I want to add a tab for solo miners in bitcoin miners dashboard

@ckpooldev Except that person was not a miner, he/she was merely a hasher.

Congratulations to miner bc1q~edvj with only 70TH for solving the 313th solo block at eusolo.ckpool.org! A miner of this size has only a 1 in ~100,000 chance of solving a block per day, or once every 300 years! mempool.space/block/00000000…