W. Aaron Daniel

@craigwarmke @wvuchambers So pumped for you. Glad this came together!!

Some personal news. This fall, I'll be the Satoshi Nakamoto Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Business Ethics at West Virginia University, in the Chambers College of Business and Economics. Thanks to everyone who has supported me. It's time to work even harder. 🌄

The insights, mentorship, and support we’ve gotten through the @PurdueInnovates Accelerator have been invaluable as we build Resolvr. Our co-founder @TheSchwab recently demonstrated how we’re creating regulated infrastructure to bring digital assets into insurance and reinsurance as efficient collateral and capital. This is just the beginning of reimagining how risk moves through the global economy, and we’re glad to have such a strong team in our corner. stories.prf.org/purdue-innovat…

"There's nothing worse than trying to protect against quantum computing and then making Bitcoin insecure against regular computing." @adam3us on why hash-based signatures are the conservative post-quantum choice for Bitcoin. Based on a 1979 paper. Decades of analysis. SHRINCS is where @blksresearch landed.

@BlockstreamJade @Liquid_BTC VJLHN4d4CU2dW4R1j7P12vfpp6DvsH6HTvb9nxebWvXgQkjFADC5UzCQR6T82KpBXuzt4qKNLbBsiBU6 @AquaBitcoin 💪

16 years ago, the first Bitcoin faucet gave away free bitcoin. Today, we’re honoring that legacy. 🚰⚡️ Happy Blockstream Faucet Day! We’re giving away $5 in L-BTC per redemption on @Liquid_BTC. To claim yours: 👇 Reply with your Blockstream app Liquid receive address 📸 Attach a screenshot of your receive screen

@TimKotzman When the elephants go to war, only the grass suffers.

The grass survives the storm. The oak tree doesn’t.

@Nat_Dowzicky @reason @robbysoave @JRussellMI Why did everyone dress up to hang out in @petersuderman ‘s basement?

Your faves from @reason

@ASFleischman Legendary Miami trial attorney Ervin Gonzales advised that you should be thinking about your jury instructions when you draft your COMPLAINT.

If I had one piece of advice for trial attorneys, it's this: Spend a solid hour thinking about your jury instructions before trial. Do not make them a morning of afterthought. Good instructions win trials. And when a judge rejects a good instruction, that wins appeals.

Why is #bitcoin an infinitely better asset to insure than a diamond ring? 💍

We are in the early innings of building out insurance infrastructure for an asset that is, by its nature, better suited to insurance than anything the specie and financial lines markets have ever seen. youtu.be/iyB7FwrIpzw @AnchorWatch @Bitsurance_ @lianabitcoin @Resolvr_io

Bitcoiners who self-custody have access to BETTER insurance than those who use custodians. And you have @coinjoined @Rob1Ham and @KLoaec to thank! Fortunate to moderate this killer panel. Looking forward to next year! (video soon™)

@mattkita Weekends in high school: Cruising ATL with 5 friends relaxing on plush powder blue bench seats in my 1990 Chevy lumina.

RETVRN TO BENCH SEATS

Today we are launching a new BPI campaign at fixbasel.org to stop the shadow ban on Bitcoin — and we need your help 🇺🇸 Right now, Bitcoin financial services are severely limited due to guidance from central banks called “Basel” that treat bitcoin as a toxic, high risk asset. Basel serves as a backdoor way for global central banks to limit what Bitcoin products and services Americans have access to. US regulators are actively considering revising this guidance. They are accepting public comments on this issue until June 18th — We need your help to make this issue a priority for the administration. On our website below you can learn more about this issue and submit a comment. We’ve even provided a sample comment to help you get started. Check it out below.

Just published from @TheBitcoinConf 2026: Self-Custody Insurance: Protecting Your Bitcoin Without Giving It Up with @coinjoined @Rob1Ham @KLoaec moderated by @wadaniel youtube.com/watch?v=iyB7Fw…

@Ys0Complicated @coinjoined @Rob1Ham @KLoaec A kidnapping and ransom policy from @AnchorWatch paired with a policy covering your @BitBoxSwiss by @Bitsurance_ mitigates risk of French tax collector data leaks!

@wadaniel @coinjoined @Rob1Ham @KLoaec french people would disagree.

@freddienew @mullvadnet @nym @ProtonVPN @obscuravpn accepts Bitcoin. No signup, no account needed. Very smooth ui/ux. And pretty innovative tech on the backend.

It's fairly clear that the EU, the UK and potentially even some US states are soon going to attempt to ban VPNs. These efforts will of course fail, but you might want to make sure you already have one installed on your devices ahead of time - @mullvadnet, @nym and @ProtonVPN are all decent options (DYOR). Finally, as a fallback, you may want to look into eventually running your own VPN, if there is a real app store clamp down. A useful technical guide is in the thread, and you may want to bookmark this for later. Hopefully you won't ever need it, but it's here just in case.

All-time high transaction volumes, $5 billion in RWA TVL, 87 federation members - get the quick download in the latest Liquid quarterly report. 🌊 blog.liquid.net/liquid-federat…

Ever wanted to build DeFi without the exploit risk? Join the Simplicity Hackathon. Build on the only formally verified smart contract language on a Bitcoin layer-2. 3k for the winner. A @BlockstreamJade Plus for all members of the top teams.

@Carlos_Frias @gregmaddux @Braves @KentuckyDerby @ChurchillDowns League-wide DH certainly changed the game, but I'm not sure it was for the better!

Greg Maddux, a career .171 hitter, legged out a triple the same day as the Kentucky Derby, which we writers used to watch during the game. Announcer Skip Caray later says: "Maddux running the bases replaces the Derby as the most exciting 2 minutes in sports." #kentuckyderby