deyw

∞/21M ⚡️ 😎

[deyw @deyw]

@Loic_Pandul @BitMEXResearch A node could fake the Libre Relay service bit and selectively drop transactions, which would resemble a relay-degradation attack. btw, this is very likely just one French node showing up twice via IPv4 and IPv6.

[deyw @deyw]

@ChartsBtc The Epoch #5 is not over yet. It will end at the 5th halving, at block 1,050,000, which is expected around April 2028.

[Martti Malmi @marttimalmi]

New version of Nostr VPN is out. Like tailscale, but no email addresses or 3rd party accounts, just public keys. New:
* native multiplatform user interfaces
* Nostr-based multihop routing (FIPS protocol) — very useful when NAT holepunching fails
* improved network management UX

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.

Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.

Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.

The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.

The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.

This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The European Union is preparing for the next stage of censorship, banning VPNs.

They are worried European citizens will use VPNs to open anonymous social media accounts from countries outside of the EU.

If Europeans are anon, they can’t be arrested for their opinions online.

[Keonne Rodriguez @keonne]

I am writing from FPC Morgantown prison in West Virginia. It has been about 5 months since I first surrendered myself in December, and I will be honest, the prospect of a Presidential pardon is very low. There was some hope during the Bitcoin 2026 conference, but that has now come and gone, and one must come to terms with the fact that I am simply a federal prisoner without money, power, or influence, and I will serve my full sentence. It will be years before I can even attempt to rebuild my life. Which is why I am now writing this appeal to you all now. Things are dire and we need your help.

Lauren and I need your help desperately. More than ever before. We have over $2 Million of debt due to legal fees. We have a $250k fine the judge levied against us. Every day I get letters and calls from anxious lawyers looking to be paid. Or the DOJ demanding I start making payments on my fine. Perhaps it was denial or delusion, but I had hoped to do what I have always done and dig myself out of this hole myself - but with the reality of serving a full sentence that is not possible. I hate to ask for your help in this way but we are entirely out of options. We need to pay off these legal bills and other debts accrued attempting to defend myself. We desperately need your help. Now.

For 10 years Bill and I built and published open source code and tools for Bitcoin users. Those same tools and code are what the government says were criminal. The tools and code still exist, they are out there right now and always will be. The creators however are locked away in Federal prison. The creators are the ones whose lives have been decimated. The creators are the ones who have been financially wiped out. The creators are the ones who desperately need you now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 . We have to get this albatross from around our neck.

Samourai had well over 100,000 users. These users pushed over 2 billion dollars through our open source tools. We need those users and any bitcoiner who appreciates the work that we put into this industry for over a decade to help us now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 right now.

If you require a private address please DM my wife @leamuirleyn and she will provide one. Please do not delay. Time is of the essence. Please help us.

- Keonne

[CR1337 @CR1337]

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez cared so much about the true meaning of cryptocurrencies and the fight for financial privacy, that he gave an interview 48 hours before he was scheduled to report to federal prison, which was now published by @reason:

"There has never been another time other than the last several decades where the government or corporations could just peer into your finances [..] I think they should have to defend that to us, not us have to defend private transactions to them."

Free Keonne Rodriguez!

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

🇺🇸 President Trump says he will consider a pardon for the CEO of privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Samourai.

"I've heard about it, I'll look at it. Let's take a look at it."

[Blockstream @Blockstream]

January 3, 2026 - the 17th anniversary of the Bitcoin Genesis Block.

Happy birthday, Bitcoin.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day!

Did you know that in 2013 someone paid 0.596175 BTC ($55.46) to embed the Bitcoin whitepaper in the blockchain? And the transaction was confirmed in a block by @LukeDashjr's Eligius mining pool?

How did they accomplish this without Taproot or OP_RETURN? Turns out they just stored the data as bare multisig pubkeys. You can reconstruct the PDF on a Linux node with the following command:

bitcoin-cli getblock 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 0 | tail -c+92167 | for ((o=0;o<946;++o)) ; do read -rN420 x ; echo -n ${x::130}${x:132:130}${x:264:130} ; done | xxd -r -p | tail -c+9 | head -c184292 > bitcoin.pdf

[jack @jack]

https://t.co/Txt3eLyRRn

[Ross Ulbricht @RealRossU]

Ten years ago to the day, I was sentenced to die in prison. Instead I gave my first public speech in freedom.

I wore a red tie as an homage to @realDonaldTrump, the man who saved my life.

[Free_Ross @Free_Ross]

FREEDOM!!!!

[deyw @deyw]

@Cipherhoodlum 👉 https://t.co/Tvi646mJAs

[deyw @deyw]

@_Honza_Dvorak 1 ₿

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Julian walks out of Saipan federal court a free man. I can’t stop crying.
#AssangeFree #AssangeJet

[deyw @deyw]

@lopp Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes, March 1993

https://t.co/cQYOmUyJRn

[deyw @deyw]

@davidjgoosey @PeterScottMorg1 @BitMEXResearch https://t.co/WaBSYpcmL9

[Arthur "lynch mob" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ @Arthur_van_Pelt]

Here is the full transcript of what Justice Mellor just said.

[Roman Reher @RomanReher]

Happy Birthday #Bitcoin🥳

https://t.co/6x50MR9nfY

[deyw @deyw]

@Wondere12985276 @renepickhardt You are free to start mining yourself and include any transactions of your choice into the block you mine.