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@Vladcostea youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qoo…

Bring back this Bitcoin conference speaker aesthetic

Austin Bitcoin Club is this Thursday April 2nd. The topic will be bitcoin and AI, specifically how AI tools are being leveraged to help accelerate and improve bitcoin applications, tangibly today and what's expected in the future. Sign up! meetup.com/bitcoin-park-a…

Preserving bitcoin’s weirdness is almost as important as promoting its benefits.

@spiralbtc Or that Game Kyuubi's famous "I AM HODLING" post was inspired by a Billy Joel song... stacker.news/items/1353063

@spiralbtc Or that Vitalik got the idea for the term "toxic Bitcoin maximalists" because his dad was a huge Toxic Avenger fan...

📢@boomer_btc AMA on Stacker News starting now! Link below 👇

🚨 AMA with @boomer_btc starting in 1 hour!

Please welcome SHRIMPS🦐 to the family of stateful PQ signatures: 2.5 KB hash-based sigs across multiple devices. SHRINCS🛋️ gave ~324-byte sigs but is single-device. SHRIMPS🦐 addresses multi-device; any device loaded from the same seed creates sigs 3x smaller than SLH-DSA

@bergealex4 Is there a way for a user to export a V-PACK or VTXO json from arkade?

@linkinparkrulz_ @mynymbox Nice site! I posted a link to it on @stacker_news stacker.news/items/1462400/…

I wrote an article to pair with the official release of the PaymentCode dot io website. It is hosted on @mynymbox and has both clearnet and tor options for use. Thanks to all that helped, gave feedback and have signed the guestbook! I hope devs and users can make use of the site 🙏.

@mafintosh @keet_io I've been using meet since last summer. It is pretty awesome! Would you be up for doing an AMA about it on @stacker_news?

@keet_io is growing so fast its not even funny 😅

@hodlonaut reddit sucks. Its not a content thing. They just auto ban accounts without much karma or that are new and try to post. Stacker News won't ban you.

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@carlabitcoin Yes stacker.news/items/1460989/…

TIL men REALLY love chainsaws

@hodlonaut FWIW As part of my written response to questions for this article, I wrote the following about Gloria Zhao

@secsovereign People can come to agreement about what words mean without any governance or governing body. People can come to agreement about how to change Bitcoin without any governance or governing body. Thinking we need to standardize governance is the problem.

@secsovereign No. What creates centralization and power in Bitcoin is people who think that it needs governance. Because it is easy to see whether your node is on the same chain as others, Bitcoin needs no such "heavy standardization" of what should and should not be changed.

Governance ≠ government. Governance is just the mechanism by which decisions get made and power gets exercised. Every system has it. The question is never whether governance exists. It's whether it's visible, accountable, and contestable. Eric is also making the governance argument himself. Competition between implementations and exit rights are governance mechanisms. He's describing the cure while denying the disease exists. Let's be concrete. In 2025, a developer was banned from Bitcoin Core's GitHub for raising a documented conflict of interest. A prominent contributor pushing OP_RETURN removal was a VC backer of Citrea, a for-profit project that directly benefits from the change. Raising that fact got you removed from the discussion. The change shipped anyway over broad, documented opposition from Dashjr, Mow, and dozens of others. That's not the absence of governance. That's informal governance that learned to call itself "the protocol" so nobody has to answer for it. The Knots surge past 25% of public nodes wasn't users opting out of governance. It was users exercising the exact governance mechanism Eric just endorsed, while the people who pushed that change face zero consequences for banning critics and running the process the way they ran it. To be clear, I'm not telling anyone what software to run. Run whatever you want. What I am saying is that Bitcoin is already being governed. Pretending otherwise doesn't make it stop. It just means the people doing it never have to answer for it. "Bitcoin isn't governable" protects the people who already govern it. Nothing more.