@NicolasDorier In my vibecoding adventures, I realized that good UI is effort, not something that comes naturally. Having someone think of a UI and deliver you the full package is still valuable for complex products.
Proposing a new term:
Hardware → Software → Wetware
Wetware is bespoke software, relevant to a single user and their specific circumstances. It is continuously modified and adapted as the user and their circumstances change.
Each layer is more specialized to the individual.
1/ We’re introducing Vinteum’s new fellowship cycle.
Four months ago, 12 fellows and 2 grantees began working full-time across Bitcoin Core, wallets, mining, privacy, cryptography, network observability, fuzzing, and protocol research.
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https://t.co/aOUxHGeATG
Computing one SHA-256 by hand takes about 60 hours of pen and paper.
One brave man tried to compute a single round out of 64. Unfortunately, he flipped one bit by accident, invalidating the entire result.
https://t.co/ojRiUgHscf
There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds.
Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer.
If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.
Want to understand your Rust code better?
Watch this great presentation on assembly https://t.co/oy5yTjCfhQ
Then play around on https://t.co/iNh1j3eP3D, a tool for live compilation of your Rust to assembly. Compare and get a feel for how your assembly changes.
New BTCPay Day 2026 video is out!
The @secondhq team provides a demo of their new Bark plugin for BTCPay, and break down how it can help merchants enable Lightning and Ark payments without having to deal with channels or liquidity.
Wallet implementations: please take a look at the Electrum Protocol 1.7 proposal (link bellow).
It incorporates several cool new features, but the one I'm most interested in is the `blockchain.scriptpubkey.*`. I've proposed those endpoints so personal electrum server such as...