buck

Previously censored @buckperley, hesitantly reborn at a new account.

Bitcoiner in the Madisonian-mold, engineer @unchainedcom, grateful Texan immigrant

[buck @puckberley]

"Crypto-Governance and the Dangers of Faction:
Lessons from the 18th Century for designing a decentralized future"

In retrospect I probably should have called this "Crypto-Governance and Why We Should Learn to Love Faction"

https://t.co/eiQE7Hf7OO

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

[buck @puckberley]

@niftynei SAME!

[benthecarman @benthecarman]

@puckberley We're so back

[buck @puckberley]

Oh yeah, and don't worry @benthecarman, it's got dark mode too.

[buck @puckberley]

A new iteration of boltwall, the TypeScript suite of L402 tools is now available!

I had some free time recently and thought it would be fun to rewrite my 7-year-old tooling for LSATs using an entirely agentic workflow to modernize the codebase and bring it up to spec with the move to L402.

Check out Boltwall playground live here: https://t.co/eVnhlaXaaf

Full codebase here: https://t.co/Jxd5Pte72e

Read on to learn more about how it was built and how you can use it yourself.

[buck @puckberley]

If you've been curious to learn more about how the L402 protocol works, i.e. lightning powered paywalls using the native 402 HTTP status code, then checheck out the Boltwall Suite! https://t.co/Jxd5Pte72e

Huge shoutout to @roasbeef and @lightning for being way ahead of the curve on this, introducing this nearly a decade ago now. And to @RyanTheGentry for pushing me to do this rewrite.

[buck @puckberley]

A new iteration of boltwall, the TypeScript suite of L402 tools is now available!

I had some free time recently and thought it would be fun to rewrite my 7-year-old tooling for LSATs using an entirely agentic workflow to modernize the codebase and bring it up to spec with the move to L402.

Check out Boltwall playground live here: https://t.co/eVnhlaXaaf

Full codebase here: https://t.co/Jxd5Pte72e

Read on to learn more about how it was built and how you can use it yourself.

[buck @puckberley]

Finally, since lightning development is often quite complex due to the bootstrapping complexity, I wanted to build a way to easily test changes.

So my agents and I also built out docker-based tooling for spinning up nodes, networked between each other in a regtest lightning network with easy commands for making payments. Agents can even use this themselves to validate their work and a local playground and proxy instance can use these directly.

Read the full development guide here: https://t.co/jO02UxUkbP

[Bitcoin Scholars Fund @BitcoinScholars]

Want to fund k-12 bitcoin education in your state next year at $0 net cost to you?

Write your representatives and tell them to opt into the federal tax credit scholarship program!

[buck @puckberley]

@phil_geiger @stephenjhall @BitcoinMagazine 😂

I know a great, once-in-a-millenium party coming up where we'll be covering all of this :)

[buck @puckberley]

@phil_geiger @stephenjhall @BitcoinMagazine You know it's not me because it was the Declaration of Independence that happened 250 years ago. The Constitution was 1789, so 13 years later.

But I do appreciate the sentiment!

[Bitcoin Scholars Fund @BitcoinScholars]

Has your state opted into the 2027 Federal Scholarship Tax Credit?

We've completed the initial outreach to all 29 states that have indicated their support, plus NY and NC! 🎉

We want to fund k-12 bitcoin education in all participating states next year!

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

It's hard to convey how utterly delusional this is.

[buck @puckberley]

That's one big beautiful tax credit you got there @phil_geiger

[Bitcoin Scholars Fund @BitcoinScholars]

In the latest @BitGo podcast, @phil_geiger discusses how @idahohodl discovered the brand new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and how The Bitcoin Scholars Fund plans to use it to raise $21 million in 2027 for k-12 bitcoin education.

"When I heard about the tax credit my jaw dropped... At zero cost to the taxpayer they can choose to fund the kids instead of our next escapade in the Middle East..." 👏👏👏

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Shavuot is a holiday of wonder, the time on our calendar of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, the Sages of the Talmud tell us.

No less.

The great gathering at Sinai, the great submission, the granting of law and universalist morality and particularist purpose and all the great ideas that make our inheritance what it is. (Including, of course -- because humans are what they are -- the great ethical collapses and religious rebellions that accompany the revelation story at every turn).

And precisely because it is so grand, the Sages, and the Hasidic masters in their wake, are keen on anchoring it firmly in the most profoundly sacred realm of existence: Our daily lives.

The great and enigmatic Kotzker Rebbe asks why the liturgy repeatedly calls Shavuot "The Time of the Giving of Our Torah." God did the giving, the people did the receiving. Two different acts by two different actors. Why focus on God's act rather than the experience of the humans?

His answer is anti-romantic, anti-grand, and utterly, well, Kotzkerish.

The giving only took a day. It happened in a particular place and time. And it was important that the revelation happened the way it did: Given to humble, escaped slaves; to all of them at once, not to a holy few; and at a humble mount, not a great sky-reaching monument to divine power. Yes, there is meaning and power in that moment and that place.

But the *receiving*, well, the receiving never stopped. We receive it still. And ponder it, and test it against the great wisdom we have since gained of the universe, and thus of the metaphorical mind of the divine.

Receiving, the Kotzker taught, must happen each day, and depends, unlike the giving, entirely on our own effort and capacity and willingness to seek out and learn the truth and meaning of things.

And so Shavuot can only commemorate the giving. Because the receiving is still underway. It is ours to fulfill, each in his own way.

And another Kotzker teaching in the same vein.

Right after the revelation, with all its grandeur, thunder, lightning and God's own voice (whatever that is), the very next verse instructs the people to make "an altar of earth...for me." (Exodus 20:21)

Why? Why transition so abruptly from the history-bending revelation, the spectacle of the divine and numinous, to building an altar out of dirt?

You're already there. You see it, right?

Because the great and infinite and divine can only matter to humans in ways reachable in human terms. And that can only happen if they are grounded in the very dirt on which we tread and from which we were made.

No mountaintops and no angel-songs can claim to be the sole vessels of truth. It is not in the heavens, nor beyond the distant seas. It is either here and now, alongside us in the dirt, or it is nowhere.

The immediate urgent command drawn from the revelation at Sinai is to turn back from the numinous to our place and time and build from the literal dirt of the earth. Your mundane reality is the vessel, the sacred space.

Chag sameach.

[Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿 @zagrebbi]

As summer comes into view, always remember that more Europeans regularly die in heat waves than Americans die in guns violence.

[buck @puckberley]

Great discussion on this from a few years ago by @EconTalker

https://t.co/O5jpCCtHzD

OKC Surgery center publishes all prices online. Doesn’t accept insurance or Medicare/caid, does accept cash, gold, and bitcoin, pays doctors direct the same amount they get paid from their hospitals and costs didn’t go up for 20 years straight. If I recall correctly something like 5% of their clients are international from countries where healthcare is “free”.

[Jon Gordon @thebitcoinyogi]

Yes. 25% of our $5T annual healthcare spend in the US is administrative costs, and half of that is straight up waste!!