ThreeD @[email protected]

Today I had my first look at the (inevitable) future of (gov mandated) minimum wage workers… CPK, California, USA

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #171 is here:

- summarizes a thread about paying frequently-offline LN nodes
- describes a set of proposals for lowering the cost of LN payment path probing in order to make certain attacks more expensive
- links to instructions useful for creating taproot transactions on signet and testnet
- describes recent changes to clients and services
- continues the 'how to prepare for taproot' series: taproot trivia
- BDK 0.12.0 release

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/10/20/

Entering the Matrix 👩‍💻

We are happy to announce an expansion of the Tor community's day-to-day conversations by bridging our IRC community the Matrix platform.

For regular Tor users, it means that you can chat with us using a friendly App like Element.

https://blog.torproject.org/entering-the-matrix

“The first step to understanding
#Bitcoin is to admit you do not understand #Bitcoin “

@lopp

Buying a motorcycle with #Bitcoin 🇸🇻

Lightning fast ⚡️

Encrypted chat app Wickr is funded by the CIA. We'd recommend Signal or Threema instead! https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dawk/wickr-cia-funding-inqtel

To fully trust an app, it's necessary that all client code is published as open source: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/

SLP128 Jan Čapek - Stratum v2 Bitcoin Mining Protocol https://bitcointv.com/videos/watch/fd488f79-7310-4a36-94f8-d516ed95feca

In case you like #i2p, you may like to learn that there's a ticket to implement I2P as a plugin for #Briar.

No one working at it atm, but if you know someone who is interested in such, Briar will support it:
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/187