Arik ⚡️

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Not like @TheBlueMatt needed more places to get mad online, but screw it. Introducing newsletter 4 of 5 since the Great Reshuffling of our blog.

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In our latest blog post, Spiral’s Bitcoin Wizards are highlighting potential upgrades to the Bitcoin Scripting system that will enable improved scaling across the network, starting with topics like the economic limits of self-custody.

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We broke our blog into 5 newsletters so we could do more stuff like giving our grantees the tongue-in-cheek spotlight they deserve. In this month's second vertical, we're talking Payjoin and the @payjoindevkit team.

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Another year, another grant for one of bitcoin’s most underappreciated communities. While people still ship wallets that make 1980s calculators with the little solar power strips on them look like iPhones, @bitcoin_design is forever there, waiting to give you free feedback:

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How we got into the plushie business, part 1:

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Sometimes, there's a dev, well, he's the dev for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's Justin Moeller (@m1sterc001guy), whose GitHub places him high in the runnin' for most prolific Fedimint dev on earth. But sometimes there's a dev; sometimes, there's a dev.

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@devonzuegel I like using @keepitcloaked for generating a unique phone number for each service.

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@cryptodavidw You can. Just turn off hardware acceleration in your browser.

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@denisoneil @bobreideverest @davidmarcus @pmarca @joerogan A wallet is just a collection of key pairs. Do you mean on- and off-rails?

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@itsmichalll Bamba not being #1 is controversial.

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@kobigurk Just ran into that the other day. At first I thought I had pinned some dependency version.

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@TYonClubhouse @coryswan @CitizenBitcoin @john_at_swan @DzambhalaHODL @phjlljp @Arceris_btc @JoeCarlasare @RonSteslow @AsherHopp @DrNiti_ I guess not even https://t.co/fShVDiB4Ar editors can correctly spell “led.”

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@cryptodavidw Tesla does have an asset nobody else has, at least in the US: a dense, consistently reliable charging network.

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@OrinKerr May I ask your thoughts on SCOTUS and the 9th amendment?

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@dude_from_za @OurielOhayon Medical examiners.

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@dude_from_za @OurielOhayon The autopsies.

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@TiffanyFong_ Oh is this Palette Dim Sum?

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@Javi @rjvir I do feel like it's way more commonly known and used these days than it was just five years ago. Whether it was a self-selecting applicant pool or relatively lax scrutiny, I imagine the rejection rate will soon start climbing.

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@reardencode @lucasdcf @boyacaxa @rusty_twit @stevenroose3 Spiral is still hiring full-time for a Wizard. We're very open to funding consensus change R&D work! In addition to it being a high quality R&D project, we'd also require
* no premature activation talk
* no clown shows on social media
* thorough risk and security analysis

[Arik ⚡️ @arikaleph]

@murchandamus I think of it as "to effect" meaning "to cause," and "to affect" meaning "to modify/alter."

Important exception is "personal effects."