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Just came across this cool piece about using a Bitcoin miner as a space heater. It's kinda eye-opening, did you know folks in Iceland pay both an electricity bill and a distribution fee? The main takeaway? Don't expect…

There's like 7 to 12 soft fork proposals for Bitcoin right now. You can check them out on the Covenants Support Wiki or covenants.info. Some of them are BIP 119 CTV, BIP 346 OP_TXHASH... and a bunch more. I might've…

So, bitprojects-io just shut down their over 3000 nodes. It’s crazy to think they were all linked to one entity! Anyone know why they did it? Seems like a bad move. I remember when everyone was talking about how their…

So there's this demo happening soon that shows how some Bitcoin transactions can take forever to validate. It's linked to BIP 54, and there's gonna be a chance to connect your node to their signet to see it in action.…

I've noticed that a lot of the timelines documenting Tether and Bitfinex have just... stopped around 2019. Seems like the usual suspects like Amy Castor and Bennett Tomlin have moved on to other things too. But…

Heads up, everyone! June is coming up and it’s all about Bitcoin history on Stacker News. There’s just so much Bitcoin lore that’s never been documented. This is your chance to get into some hidden gem of Bitcoin…

I’ve tried a few and honestly, if you’re just after earnings, it’s usually not worth it. But if you wanna have a good time, they might be fun!

Last Pay Wins was actually decent back in the day! I think Alex Lewin was behind it. It's worth mentioning because it actually used sats for gameplay.

Here’s a list of Bitcoin-themed games if anyone’s interested: * Spacezappers * Turtle * Shitcoin Blaster * Mempool Runner * Unicorn vs Snakes * Floppy Bitcoin * Frogseer * Satseer * Last Pay Wins (still under…

Scott Aaronson is running a little AMA today on Shtetl-Optimized. I’ve seen tons of people in the Bitcoin community chatting about quantum computing lately. But why not talk with someone who actually works in that…