What is the most fitting term for someone that is putting forth a new BIP to the Bitcoin community?

2017 Murch had a pretty decent take on Scaling:

Nature is healing

Does the BIP process need more Status field values than these?

The mempool was cleared of transactions bidding 7+ ṩ/vB.

It’s only a soft fork when it’s from the rough consensus region of the Bitcoin Community. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling majority attack.

BIP 432: Ephemeral Anchors looks close to ready, if you wanted to give it a read before it gets merged:

I heard yesterday that someone thought the Bitcoin Developer mailing list was dead. In case you missed it: The Bitcoin Developer mailing list migrated to googlegroups. Read more here: groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c….

BIP 328: github.com/bitcoin/bips/b… BIP 373: github.com/bitcoin/bips/b  BIP 379: github.com/bitcoin/bips/b  BIP 390:

Mea culpa, 379 is here:

Some new BIPs were merged, by the way: • BIP 328: Derivation Scheme for MuSig2 Aggregate Keys • BIP 373: MuSig2 PSBT Fields • BIP 379: Miniscript • BIP 390: musig() Descriptor Key Expression

GM, Affect vs. Effect As verbs: • _Affect_ means "to produce an effect upon". • _Effect_ means "to cause to come into being" or "accomplish." Usually _effect_ is used as a noun to mean "a change that results when something happens". merriam-webster.com/grammar/affect…

Reminder, BitDevsNYC is meeting at PubKey_NYC this Thursday! Please, note the different location. See you there!

Credit where credit is due: @BitGo has had Taproot support since the week Taproot activated and had MuSig2 support since June 2023.

Made me laugh out loud a few days ago: Before Bitcoin, digital cash suffered from "oversupply or FBI". #resistancemoney

GM, Bitcoin invoice addresses don’t exist at the protocol level. Addresses are just a shorthand notation for output scripts that is exclusively used out-of-band at the user level in wallets, explorers, or invoices.

This question deserves a more helpful answer: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/123045/5406 Anyone know of a mobile phone wallet with signet support?

How to be a Bitcoiner: Step 1 - decide that you are a Bitcoiner. Step 2 (optional) - inform people that you're a genuine and authorized Bitcoiner. Who's going to tell you otherwise, when it's you that defines what Bitcoin is per the rules that the software you run enforces?

There are 135 million poor and low-income people in the USA, the richest country on earth. It’s an avoidable situation: study after study shows that securing basic living needs would reduce the overall economic toll e.g. per improving resulting health and educational outcomes.

Oops, apparently, I must submit the mandatory photo before continuing ...erm... "starting" to read.

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding. Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

BIP 46: Address Scheme for Timelocked Fidelity Bonds seems almost ready for merge. If you were waiting to review it, now would be a good time.

Merged PR from instagibbs: Cluster size 2 package rbf

Bitcoin Core 27.1 released

Would you believe that you can draw colorful triangles for less than ~$17m?

What’s the best way to refer to a BIP?

BTW, I’d like to thank Starkware for instigating a distributed spam attack on developers. Not a day goes by in which not some idiot contacts me to ask me to "borrow my GitHub account" so they can collect your shitcoin airdrop on my behalf. Hope you never need anything from me.