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Sebastian 🟩🥕

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Bitcoin Core now has an interface for its consensus code - it only took a decade. github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…


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You know what’s frustrating? When you’ve got the skills, the drive, and the ideas to make an impact, but the only thing stopping you is a border stamp. That’s the reality for so many brilliant Bitcoin developers across Africa and the Global South. They can write world‑class…

btrustteam's tweet image. You know what’s frustrating? When you’ve got the skills, the drive, and the ideas to make an impact, but the only thing stopping you is a border stamp.

That’s the reality for so many brilliant Bitcoin developers across Africa and the Global South. They can write world‑class…

Running libbitcoinkernel.

theStack's tweet image. Running libbitcoinkernel.

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Okay, v30.0 is tagged. Now that the [OP⏎ Debate|Bitcoin] is about to die, how about we pick something new to bash our heads in about? How about: - SENDTEMPLATE - TH+CSFS+IK - Consensus Cleanup - Great Script Restoration - Activate BIP 3 Links below.


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Excited to share "Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction" - a comprehensive workbook that teaches formal security definitions and proofs through hands-on exercises. Solutions included!

n1ckler's tweet image. Excited to share "Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction" - a comprehensive workbook that teaches formal security definitions and proofs through hands-on exercises. Solutions included!
n1ckler's tweet image. Excited to share "Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction" - a comprehensive workbook that teaches formal security definitions and proofs through hands-on exercises. Solutions included!

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One year ago Marco (@macrohead7) embarked on a year long Brink fellowship in our London office. Today, after a year of progress and contributions, we’re happy to bring him on as a full-time Bitcoin Core engineer…!


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Nominations are open for the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize! Submit papers that made an impact on Bitcoin or Lightning published after 2021: forms.gle/9fo6wUtQ5iaWtQ… Here is the talk by last year’s winners @n1ckler & @chelseakomlo --> youtu.be/9j1smRr_Ebc


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A statement on Bitcoin Core development and transaction relay policy - bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/06/…


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Check out this overview of why you should get involved with bitcoin open source software and ways we can help you get started!

"Introduction to Bitcoin Open Source" talk by @satsie of @Bitcoin_Devs from our Bitcoin Student Dev Day, held March 8th 2025 in collaboration with @laurier_bitcoin and @wlooblockchain @BTCStudents



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On Monday's Livestream (May 5 @ 12 PDT) I'll be reviewing OP_RETURN and discussing github moderation twitch.tv/achow101 I will: - Look at the history of OP_RETURN's implementation - Evaluate the arguments from the ML post and PR for and against the change (cont'd)


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OpenBSD 7.7 is officially out now! 🐡 See what's new here: openbsd.org/77.html


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Bob Ross discusses Bitcoin bugs in Frenchglish with mistery masked man, tune in!

At the @MITBitcoinClub's Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I was able to sit down with @darosior and discuss his version of the Great Consensus Cleanup proposal to address a handful of serious bugs in the Bitcoin protocol.



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Announcing DahLIAS! 🎉 The first crypto protocol for full cross-input signature aggregation that allows reusing Bitcoin's curve secp256k1. ✅ 64B sigs ✅ Verify is ~2x faster than half-agg'd Schnorr sigs ✅ 2-round signing Kudos to the team: @real_or_random @yannickseurin! 👇

n1ckler's tweet image. Announcing DahLIAS! 🎉 The first crypto protocol for full cross-input signature aggregation that allows reusing Bitcoin's curve secp256k1.

✅ 64B sigs
✅ Verify is ~2x faster than half-agg'd Schnorr sigs
✅ 2-round signing

Kudos to the team: @real_or_random @yannickseurin!
👇

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Bitcoin Core v29.0 was released! It is available from: bitcoincore.org/en/download/ Release notes: bitcoincore.org/en/releases/29…


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⏩SwiftSync - smarter synchronization with hints Near-stateless, fully parallelizable validation. Validation is at the heart of Bitcoin. Optimizing performance is invaluable. It's fast. Early benchmarks show a 5.28x speedup (h/t @theStack) 👇Go read! gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a6…


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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #349 is here: - describes a proposal for speeding up Bitcoin Core initial block download, with a proof-of-concept implementation that shows a roughly 5x speed up compared to Bitcoin Core’s defaults - recaps the "Stricter internal handling of invalid…


Only TIL about qemu-user and feel like an idiot for having copied and executed cross-compiled unit test binaries directly on the target for many years 😶yurovsky.github.io/2016/12/14/qem…


as a lispy warmup for the upcoming advent of code, did an old day1 exercise in Guile Scheme (how hard can it be?) and almost went insane😱xkcd.com/297/


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Ledger's and bitcoin-core's MuSig2 implementations successfully signed today both 2-of-2 MuSig2 keypath spend and a script spend. Help review @achow101's PR, and cross-test with your own implementations, to help bring this past the finish line! github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

salvatoshi's tweet image. Ledger's and bitcoin-core's MuSig2 implementations successfully signed today both 2-of-2 MuSig2 keypath spend and a script spend.

Help review @achow101's PR, and cross-test with your own implementations, to help bring this past the finish line!

github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

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