11+ hour, 38+ min ago  (168+ words) Never. They don't control the network and bitcoin doesn't care if that company is successful or not. we might say that economic nodes exert, at least, a large amount of control over the network. as far as i know, Microstrategy…...

11+ hour, 14+ min ago  (38+ words) can someone ELI5 what Utexo and Lightspark are doing on LN and why Tether is backing them? pull down to refresh can someone ELI5 what Utexo and Lightspark are doing on LN and why Tether is backing them?...

15+ hour, 41+ min ago  (637+ words) In October 2025, bitcoin hit an all-time high of $126, 000. By February, it had shed nearly half its value. None of that was bitcoin's doing. Thank tariff wars, oil prices, and shifting monetary policy. The world moved, and bitcoin moved with it....

14+ hour, 55+ min ago  (402+ words) I was excited today when I visited a local coffee shop that Cash App's BTC map identified as accepting bitcoin "over the lightning network", according to the app. So I got there and ordered my $9 Ethiopian pour over. And when…...

17+ hour, 9+ min ago  (1105+ words) I'm around for a few hours, let's do this. What questions do you have about us living on bitcoin (as much as possible)? What's have been the most notable changes in how you live? I expected to see changes on…...

23+ hour, 31+ min ago  (646+ words) This post describes the audit methodology "CAAS (Continuous Adversarial Audit System)" and why I believe it's structurally more sound than traditional snapshot audits for a library at this stage. ## The Snapshot Problem The Bitcoin community's core principle is "don't trust,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (747+ words) Bitcoin development has gotten political. Over the past year, the accusations, name-calling and tribalism have gotten out of hand. People aren't debating technical merits. They've essentially been reduced to picking teams. I don't think this is because Bitcoiners are bad…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (802+ words) Bitcoin development has gotten political. Over the past year, the accusations, name-calling and tribalism have gotten out of hand. People aren't debating technical merits. They've essentially been reduced to picking teams. I don't think this is because Bitcoiners are bad…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (504+ words) We all walk a different path to becoming a Bitcoiner, some of us were working in software development and or encryption back in the early noughties, so it would have been a logical step to understand 'it' Some of us…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (122+ words) Check out our Launch Post to see what we are about. We've updated the site to include lightning payments via Open Node. This will allow more users to easily purchase cells on our ever-populating grid, and hopefully pave the way…...