#Bitcoin competes with central banks and base money #LiquidNetwork competes with SWIFT #LightningNetwork competes with Visa https://t.co/UyTnhWtUJn

bitcoin has an off by one error in the protocol that allows miners to mine all the remaining subsidy blocks in a few weeks the proposed fix has slowly progressed for 6 years but yeah, lets neuter bitcoin script in 90 days

More than you wanted to know about a BIP that's dumber than you could possibly imagine.

Great opportunity for c# devs to join us!

The DOJ says non-custodial software transfers funds. That it’s the *users* who execute transactions is "both factually wrong and irrelevant,” the Government argues in opposition to Roman Storm's motion for acquittal. *Anyone* can be held liable for unlicensed money transmission

@LukeDashjr is there some kind of Luke Lintjr hotline we should have been calling to check if our taproot scripts are deemed worthy enough not to be frozen?

The average channel size on the lightning network has gone absolutely vertical. This indicates a higher level of conviction in channel connections, enabling larger payments between peers. So far, this shift isn't coming from @blocks node despite its huge product rollout week.

People are underestimating the magnitude of this. The Bitcoin Preferred signs now refer to the network OR the asset. Merchants get lower fees. Buyers pay without a taxable event. Paradigm shift. Big step towards real MOE adoption. Incredible work @square team!

Eltoo soon™ coming to a TEMPLATEHASH-enabled node near you 🙌 Kidding aside, an Inquisition impl is in the works and we might build a poc Ark on top of it.

This means: - For @CashApp customer: no taxable event, no decrease in bitcoin stack - For @Square merchants: no fees, no chargebacks - For the world: no middleman, just pure open network Feels like the future.

@itme_brain It's a very strange argument I see repeated in pleb slop and makes no sense, there's no indication bitcoin is "turning into ethereum", there will never be first class tokens on bitcoin, there will never be a native turing complete VM on bitcoin which makes these eth claims

Wtf does it mean for something to "become Ethereum" Someone please explain to me, because I see this incessent crying that Citrea is "turning Bitcoin into Ethereum" Are we switching to PoS? Are we swapping script out for solidity? Are we changing the blocksize/blocktime?

444Forkers are doing the meme: 1. There won't be a fork, that's absurd 2. OK, we need a fork, but it's fine 3. A fork is happening—sadly it'll seize some coins 4. We must fork at all costs, and people using Bitcoin in advanced custody setups deserve to have their coins seized 🤡

Holy smokes. There's already 50 pages of @Square merchants waiting to be added to @btcmap 🤯 https://t.co/6FTAMSb0wh

this taproot OP_IF example is much more worrying for the RDTS proposal than I first realized. it's actually a miniscript wallet policy: thresh(3,pk(A),pk(B),pk(C),pk(D),older(T1),older(T2)) meaning "a 3-of-4 multisig, decaying to 2-of-4 after time T1, and 1-of-4 after time T2"

RDTS is simply the wrong pathway to go. Yes they're upset about spam and the inscription envelope using OP_IF, but the answer isn't to ban OP_IF. There are genuine monetary and security reasons to keep this functionality in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not a cult. But it is used as a schelling point for several cults.

since this is a tapscript using OP_IF, any funds received by such a wallet after RDTS activation would be frozen. the owner would also be unable to move their coins to refresh the relative timelocks, perhaps forcing an unintended and catastrophic reduction in security.

Good morning, drink tea, Bitcoin has died

Square did their part, now let’s do ours. For bitcoin to become everyday money, merchants need to accept it. But first, they’ll need a reason to. We've put together the resources to help anyone make the case that only bitcoin can defeat credit card fees: https://t.co/fYkCARD5MD

Most likely outcome at this point: RDTS people fork off into a minority chain in early Feb 2026. Reasoning: - Almost all blocks nowadays contain spam - Most mining pools are not concerned about spam. If anything, F2Pool came out AGAINST RDTS. - Most pools will just keep on