Stefano Pepe 🏔️

Product at @AlpenLabs, #bitcoin OG, speaking Italian 🤌

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@SebastianMEP Someone overseas is thinking, “Guess why we had muskets in the Constitution.”

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@River @BitcoinPierre ‘s about Bitcoin mining

https://t.co/baZIi31zrc

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

woah, CT is back for real

[Craig Raw 🐦 @craigraw]

My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity".

Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.

The context: since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on the App Store, as recently as April this year. Users have contacted me after losing their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators.

I'm the developer of the real Sparrow Wallet, a desktop app, and I hold the registered US trademarks for the name and logo. I have publicly warned @Apple and the community about these fake apps from early 2024, but they keep appearing.

The app @Apple flagged was a placeholder that was never published. Its only purpose was to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and that other "Sparrow" apps aren't mine. This approach may have been misguided, but there was nothing dishonest about it.

I'm confident this is an automated misclassification that Apple would reverse on review - but I may be terminated before a human ever looks at my appeal. The cost would fall on @Apple's own users: blocked installs and no updates for a tool people rely on, which opens the door for more fakes.

If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@zerohedge Billions is the new millions

[Toby 🛩️ @303SnowWolf]

The Linux community of 20 years ago would've taken one look at AB 1043 and pushed an update that limited the network speed of every machine in California to 1 kbps until it was repealed.

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@david_seroy PoW

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@pirosb3 @kepano As we used to say in San Francisco, “daje” ❤️

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@giacomozucco Poe’s Law at work 🤌😂

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@gladstein @farrmacro 14 years after Bitcoin somehow went mainstream, almost a decade since the first “millisatoshi” conversation, and we’re still at this stage of the discussion.

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@Xeer Math. That’s what went wrong here

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@BitcoinErrorLog Information asymmetry. We are still early

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@__el__toro__ that single hook holding everything

[Payjoin Dev Kit @payjoindevkit]

Thanks to @AlpenLabs (chads 😉) for Bitcoind Async Client.

It’s made payjoin-cli much easier to maintain. And @storopoli cooks upstream requests faster than his picanha hits the grill 🇧🇷🔥

Can't wait for Alpen's mainnet launch, especially real borrowing on Bitcoin rails.

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@jimmysong IKEA makes a fortune from it: customers find purpose in building their (very cheap) pieces of furniture.

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@trader_53 The Oracle Problem has entered the conversation.

[Alpen @AlpenLabs]

Inside Alpen’s 2025

A recap of what we shipped, researched, and announced in an eventful year of building Bitcoin's financial system. https://t.co/y8PsirCw15

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@intangiblecoins @gladstein @glxyresearch @TheThadP Back to laser eyes!

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

cbBTC is now larger than native ETH on @base 👀

73% of that cbBTC is locked in a @Morpho smart contract to borrow against bitcoin.

the dominant crypto asset on Base is fully centralized while the other one is native 🤔

[Stefano Pepe 🏔️ @StefanoAlpen]

@storopoli @APompliano Rabbit hole unlocked: futarchy