We've started centralizing work on BIP 448 tooling and Proof of Concepts at github.com/bip448 This is meant to be a collection of repos with code artifacts demonstrating tooling or use-cases, of varying quality. Please take a look, make suggestions, open PRs against branches if you have work, etc
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I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
jsdate.wtf
I took this photo a bit over a year ago, thinking to myself how laughable this marketing was. It was entirely predictable that these photos would be misused eventually.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last yr.New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
Thomas from Pubkey bar named his bathrooms aftetr the two drivechain BIPs 😂
Antoine Poinsot@darosior.bsky.social · last yr.Another day of reasoned, unemotional, technically sound debates on Twitter.
Here's a writeup I did on how Ark, a scaling solution for Bitcoin, works. Includes comparisons to Lightning and rollups and different design variants: nehanarula.org/2025/05/20/a...
Neha's Writings
Neha Narula
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Lots of drama re OP_RETURN on the other app. I don't see it discussed here. If anyone here has questions or comments, happy to take them.
Disclosure of CVE-2025-43707: out-of-bounds read in the Rust-Miniscript satisfier. antoinep.com/posts/cve-20...
CVE-2025-43707: out-of-bounds read in the Rust-Miniscript satisfier
Public disclosure of a crash bug in the Rust-Miniscript library
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I understand where they'd be coming from due to how Bitcoin has been associated with this administration but the Google employee(s) rug pulling the dev list held together by a couple of volunteers for a mostly disorganized open source community is such a prejudiced, petty and unethical move.
Announcing the publication of the Consensus Cleanup BIP draft: github.com/bitcoin/bips....
Consensus Cleanup BIP draft by darosior · Pull Request #1800 · bitcoin/bips
This is a BIP draft for a Consensus Cleanup soft fork. This proposal builds upon Matt Corallo's 2019 proposal, which i set to revive at the end of 2023. I eventually shared my research in a Del...
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One simple thing you could do to test the latest Bitcoin Core release candidate is to try the `-natpmp` option at home. This will attempt to open a port on your router. Check the first log lines to see if it was successful. Please report the results here: github.com/bitcoin/bitc...
Enable PCP by default? · Issue #31663 · bitcoin/bitcoin
Centralize discussion around turning the natpmp setting to on by default. UPnP used to be turned on by default. It was turned off by default following numerous vulnerabilities found in miniupnpc. W...
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NYC BitDevs' next Socratic Seminar meetup is scheduled for Thursday, March 27! Note the new start time -- we'll open the doors at 6pm for socializing and start the discussion around 7pm. Major thanks to our sponsor lava.xyz 🌋🍕 meetup.com/bitdevsnyc/e...
Bitcoin Developers’ Socratic Seminar 145, Tue, Mar 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
BitDevs will be held at CHAINCODE LABS! Please note the new start time! We will open doors at 6pm for socializing, and plan on starting the discussion around 7pm. **RSVPs
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Twitter is down, how can Bitcoin's consensus be decided now??
Another day of reasoned, unemotional, technically sound debates on Twitter.
Interesting comparison of Nostr and ATProto along with useful historical background. The common thread as the author explores how each component is that each make different tradeoffs where ATProto favors UX where Nostr chooses "max-decentralization". The final paragraph gives a few examples of
shreyan (unusual)@shreyanjain.net · 2y agoWrote a little post about Nostr and ATProto: shreyanjain.net/2024/07/05/n...
New tool in Decoding Bitcoin! REORG CALCULATOR ⚒️ Computes the probability that an attacker could reorganize z blocks with a given % of the total network hashrate Here’s the probability of an attacker reorganizing 6 blocks with 30% of the total hashrate bitcoindevs.xyz/decoding/reo...
Latest optech newsletter is a banger. Bluesky Optech wen? bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #340
This week’s newsletter announces a fixed vulnerability affecting LDK, summarizes discussion about zero-knowledge gossip for LN channel announcements, describes the discovery of previous research that ...
bitcoinops.org
A short story in one screenshot: I get tagged in a thread where someone has linked to David Golumbia's bitcoin book. As one does, I link to a review by a credentialed monetary economist who has helpfully documented its errors. "Bye troll"
Craig Wright was found in contempt of the prior ruling that forbade him from claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Some thoughts on soft forks, given recent energy on the topic. antoinep.com/posts/softfo...
Antoine Poinsot - On Soft Forks
Some thoughts on Bitcoin soft forks, and Bitcoin Core, in light of the recent interest in introducing more expressiveness in Bitcoin Script.
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And here's my own first pull request to the BIP repository: github.com/bitcoin/bips... #bips
An updated BIP Process by murchandamus · Pull Request #1712 · bitcoin/bips
This Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) proposes new guidelines for the preparation of BIPs and policies relating to the publication of BIPs. If adopted, it would replace BIP 2.
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How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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