Tommy McThomuel

Tommy totes profesh, all day, ‘er’day. Opinions are my own.

[calle @callebtc]

New L2 design by Burak: Cube

A Bitcoin-native execution layer that combines Ark-style unilateral exits, BitVM dispute resolution, and a programmable virtual machine.

https://t.co/EWb4MvCSbr

[Michael Tidwell @miketwenty1]

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[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

Everyone talks about the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas, but no one talks about the guy who received the 10,000 bitcoin.

Meet Jeremy Sturdivant, the man who got paid 10,000 BTC for selling two pizzas on this day in 2010.

“I had no idea how huge it would become” ✨

[benthecarman @benthecarman]

Taproot Channels merged into the BOLTs!

https://t.co/ldRPG9jC5h

[Dr. Margot Paez @jyn_urso]

For those who missed my PhD defense talk on my research on Bitcoin mining’s load flexibility, energy, and economics, you can now watch it online. Please share!

Watch here: https://t.co/7Lqfb9sozB

[Bitcoin Core Project @bitcoincoreorg]

Bitcoin Core v31.0 was released!
It is available from: https://t.co/WpMuMaejz1
Release notes: https://t.co/f7i5N0YSal

[Michael Ford @fanquake]

Another dependency bites the dust! theuni has replaced Bitcoin Cores usage of Boost Signals 2, with a minimal, straighforward to maintain reimplementation. A nice side-effect of this change, is that the release built bitcoind binary, is a half megabyte smaller!

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Okay, first idea:

Bring back #Bitcoin

[Mike Schmidt @bitschmidty]

400 Bitcoin Optech newsletters!

Thank you to all who have contributed over these 8 years: Optech contributors, researchers whose work we have covered, engineers joining us on the podcast, and readers/listeners. 🧡

(Yes, its actually 401 newsletters, we started at Newsletter #0)

[Tommy McThomuel @TomTotesProfesh]

@mempool Even though it’s probably just for 04/01, it’s a cute look. 😍

[Dan Robinson @danrobinson]

Never do April Fool’s Day

Never ever do April Fool’s Day as a company

Never, ever, ever do April Fool’s Day as a company with a token

[Tommy McThomuel @TomTotesProfesh]

@COLDCARDwallet Black

[COLDCARD @COLDCARDwallet]

We're giving away a COLDCARD Mk5 🔥

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[Adam Back @adam3us]

"BIP-110 restrictions are bypassable. The innovation damage is not. Bitcoin's strength is its credible commitment to neutral, predictable rules. BIP-110 trades that, and Bitcoin's upgrade future, for a spam filter that doesn't even filter spam. That's not a cleanup. That's a downgrade." -@bittyrunes thread https://t.co/mUj2IQL6ZM

[EVAN KALOUDIS @evankaloudis]

.@ZeusLN community — we need your help!

Claude is giving 6 months of Max x20 to open-source maintainers with 5,000+ GitHub stars — which could seriously help us level up development.

⭐ Our repo: https://t.co/mSjXwR1axd

Details here: https://t.co/0mY4POxB0A

Every star counts. Thank you! 🙌

[The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf]

TUNE IN TOMORROW 🎙️

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RSVP & Join 👉 https://t.co/cocZ6UiLNq

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

The recent revelation of a dozen vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, some of them 25 years old, shows that Bitcoin Core made the right decision to remove OpenSSL as a dependency.
https://t.co/wvSnu4w8wO

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Agents want money. Bitcoin makes it possible. Lightning makes it a reality.

Join us this Wed, March 18 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/5pm UTC for our BTC + AI community call where we'll discuss vibe coding, agentic payments, L402, and demos.

RSVP here: https://t.co/S8OL0iCggx

[Michael Ford @fanquake]

We've past feature freeze for Bitcoin Core v31, which should be released in early April. Headliners include:
* Cluster Mempool
* Embedded ASMap
* Private Broadcast
* A new tx output index
* Improvements to the IPC Mining interface
* More bitcoin kernel progress

[Tommy McThomuel @TomTotesProfesh]

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