10th known contributor to Bitcoin Core. Full-Time Open-Source Bitcoin Lightning Projects @spiralbtc. Open-Source Bitcoin for 15 years. Mostly reposting @soona.
Joined February 2011
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Feb 13
It’s time for bitcoiners to step up and build. You don’t need to know anything about software development anymore, you just need to know how to write words!
We have a golden opportunity to build out agentic payments based on open money, rather than letting agentic payments be captured by megacorps yet again. But we’re squandering it arguing about useless crap instead of building.
Play with openclaw, give it a bitcoin wallet (moneydevkit makes this super easy! Also Lexe and phoenixd!), make it do things. If it fails to do what you want, go fix it! Have your agent build that bitcoin domain reseller, that bitcoin airline ticket reseller, or whatever it is you want!
Bitcoin doesn’t just happen, it’s built. Join in.
USDC on base seems far more common for 402 payments now than Bitcoin. Recently, even Stripe joined the bandwagon. That’s a centralized stablecoin on a permissioned chain. Agents are starting to use fiat. It’s a huge loss, and in a race, many aren’t even aware that it exists.
The scam coins are marching on, and even fiat is evolving.
Where are the Bitcoin solutions that attract real users? Which other concept other than buying and selling Bitcoin has actually broken out of the bubble and made it to the mainstream?
Bitcoin doesn’t just happen. These missing solutions need to be built by someone. Reject the “Bitcoin wins by hodling” narrative. The devs and entrepreneurs are what keep this project alive and keep marching forward.
It’s not the scammy influencers, not the psychotic drama queens, the child-like infighting, or incompetent idiots dancing on the graves of word-class devs leaving Bitcoin.
I hope the bear market flushes all that crap away, and we can get back to building stuff instead of tearing it down.
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Many of us don't care about the Bitcoin price because it's pre-programmed.
What's on my mind and way more important to me:
1 - Does the world need Bitcoin? Yes.
2 - Is there a thriving open source ecosystem? Yes (this is my personal focus).
3 - Are there companies building on Bitcoin? Yes.
4 - Is Bitcoin used for everyday payments? Yes (this has most room for improvement).
1 is deterministic.
3 happens as a side-effect.
2 & 4 are what will ultimately determine the success of this project, and it's the one thing that's most in our hands. If we fail, it's on us.
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Buried great news, and for reasons totally unrelated to the blatantly absurd policy, but great news nonetheless.
Yesterday, for the first time since 2008 (17 years), warrantless spying of Americans using FISA Section 702 ended.
This is huge, and definitely cause to celebrate! 🥳
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Jun 11
We’ve had a few similar cases recently. Worse, our org currently has no CI because GitHub wrongly flagged a contributor (not admin/maintainer, just someone new who opened a few PRs). We’ve escalated it through corporate account managers and still basically nothing.
Omarchy on Asahi creator lost access to his GitHub account two weeks ago due to some automated process flagging his account. Repo went offline and has been since. Not even me personally reaching out to GitHub twice has been able to restore his account. Terrifying. Embarrassing.
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Jun 10
Fable is a great name -- you take a detailed Myth full of depth and nuance, add a bunch of moralising, and dumb it down for an audience of children.
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New on our blog: @lexeapp is running self-custodial Lightning nodes inside Intel SGX secure enclaves.
The result? Always-on nodes that send & receive 24/7.
How they pulled it off 👇
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Jun 10
The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...
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Matt Corallo 🟠 retweeted
Jun 3
Stripping the BRCA from Clarity would not make the bill tougher on industry.
It would not address ethics concerns.
All it would achieve is hurting open source developers.
coincenter.org/the-brca-is-r…
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May 29
1/ In 2026, Bitcoin wallets are still making users choose between on-chain and lightning. When will the madness stop?
We've had a solution to this for a long time: Unified QR codes ⬇️
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1/2 Three months ago we announced the resurrection of FIBRE. Today, we take our next step. Localhost Research has established a Mining Unit: a group of contributors working full time on reducing centralization pressures in Bitcoin mining.
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i can’t express enough gratitude to my supporters, collaborators, thought provokers, teachers, and preachers.
it’s an immense honor to fight with you for the future of the internet, open source, communication, money, and ultimately our civilization.
this is our time.
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May 22
Bitcoin Pizza Day feels different this year.
The first real-world bitcoin transaction wasn’t a mistake. It was the beginning of #bitcoin being used as money.
Now, more than 15 years later, people are using bitcoin to pay, earn, save, and move money around the world everyday.
Laszlo helped prove that future was possible.
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HUGE RELEASE: Obscura VPN is now on Android 🥳
To celebrate, we're offering 25% off any Obscura subscription or top-up with code ANDROID26
👇 Links below for Google Play or Obtainium (more stores coming)
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May 16
Good conversation on Quantum and where we stand/why so much of the conversation is, as usual, often talking past each other starting at 42:05.
May 15
Bitcoin developers are divided over spam filters.
Matt Corallo of Spiral joins Galaxy Brains to discuss Bitcoin's development debates, node implementations, and how the network might mitigate a future quantum threat.
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May 15
It's easy to think stablecoins will be popular, we enable them at @ZapriteApp (limited capacity), some customers value it. However, if you actually interact with them, it makes bitcoin's interoperability make so much more sense and also makes clear why money converges to one!
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Special thanks and recognition go to @coincenter, @valkenburgh, and @SenLummis for their leadership on this issue and their years-long effort to ensure protections for developers. BRCA is an indisputable win for innovation and the right to code
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May 14
"AI & Bitcoin: What's the deal anyway" from @TheBlueMatt w/ @spiralbtc
→ What needs to be built
→ Chicken & egg problem
→ Long tail of ai agent preference
→ Open vs closed networks
"We have a genuine shot to built the future of AI payments on Bitcoin, but it's a narrow window"
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May 14
🚨 CLARITY ACT ADVANCES FROM COMMITTEE IN BIPARTISAN VOTE
FINAL VOTE: 15-9, with Sens. Gallego and Alsobrooks joining Republicans to vote out on bipartisan basis
May 14
🚨 SEN. GALLEGO (D-NM) SAYS HE WILL VOTE YES FOR CLARITY ACT IN SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE, PAVING THE WAY FOR A BIPARTISAN SUCCESSFUL VOTE OUT OF THE COMMITTEE
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HUGE.
Looks like we got a non-partisan vote out of Senate Banking with the BRCA still intact. I'm thrilled. The last minute compromise reflects Coin Center's analysis from last January, there were some steps forward since then and then back but we are feeling very comfortable.
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May 13
AGENTIC PAYMENTS
🤜 STABLECOINS VS BITCOIN 🤛
🏆 WHO WILL WIN? WHO DESERVES TO WIN? 🏆
@MATBALEZ INVESTIGATES
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