America added 162,000 payroll jobs on a base of 159.1 million—0.10%. BLS puts the 90% confidence interval on the monthly change at roughly ±122,000. Yet trillions in assets reprice because economists guessed 56,000. We have turned statistical noise into monetary policy.
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Without Lightning, none of the Layer 2s make sense.
Without it, every Layer 2 would be a useless silo and a centralization vector.
Maybe Lightning was Bitcoin's Layer 3 all along.
Sparrow v2.5.4 has been released, delivering the results of several extensive security reviews.
Thank you to all the contributors and security researchers who provided input on this release.
Changelog: https://t.co/1mDfqa7Gu7
Download: https://t.co/HOEwliSIRd
JUST IN: The first post-quantum resistant Bitcoin transaction was mined today.
"It required no soft forks. It required no hard forks. It required no core protocol upgrades. And it's live today."
🟥 URGENT: Critical vulnerability in Core Lightning
Blockstream developers urge users to shut down CLN Lightning nodes right NOW!
Please let everyone know!
We may have spent a decade teaching Bitcoiners the wrong backup model.
Why are we engraving the root secret to our entire wallet onto steel?
Today I tested the Bitcoin Core alternative with my client.
No seed words or hardware wallet. It just worked. ↓ https://t.co/3ad3HSCBao
BREAKING: The US Treasury announces it will double the size long-term US government debt buybacks following the rapid surge in US Treasury yields.
Repurchases of $2 billion will now be increased to "at least" $4 billion, the US Treasury said.
The move is intended to provide "liquidity support" for bonds maturing in 10 to 30 years as total US debt nears $40 trillion.
There is the intervention we have been calling for.