🛡️ Privacy Warrior Needs Bitcoiners' Help

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⛏️ Home Miner Hits The Jackpot

Peter Earle, Senior Research Fellow at AIER, argues that AI-driven abundance cannot make money obsolete because scarcity, uncertainty, and tradeoffs persist in land, time, status goods, and institutional access - ensuring prices remain essential for economic coordination (May 6 | 4 min read).

Sylvain Saurel, author of the 'In Bitcoin We Trust' Newsletter, argues that Strategy's $8.5B STRC preferred stock issuance at 11.5% APY has forced Saylor to abandon his 'never sell' BTC pledge, shattering the 'infinite money glitch' narrative and introducing structural sell pressure on Bitcoin's market (May 6 | 13 min read).

Blockstream, the technical provider behind the Liquid Network, unveils its 2026 roadmap for Liquid, covering 0-conf instant settlement, quantum-resistant cryptography, BitVM bridge research, and key UX upgrades including multi-asset fees and a $5B+ tokenized asset ecosystem (May 6 | 11 min read).

Fountain, a Bitcoin-native podcast platform, outlines how independent podcasters can build predictable, sustainable income through direct listener subscriptions, detailing platform options, conversion strategies, and retention tactics to shift monetization away from advertising dependency (May 6 | 14 min read).

Nick Ward of Bitcoin For Corporations suggests eBay to rebuff GameStop's speculative $55.5B leveraged buyout and instead adopt Lightning Network payments to slash processing costs by 50%, unlocking $1.2B in annual savings for its 135M sellers (May 6 | 5 min read).

White Noise, a privacy-focused open-source messaging client on Nostr, argues that centralized content moderation is both technically flawed and privacy-invasive, advocating instead for user-driven, community-based self-policing as the only effective and freedom-preserving solution to online harm (May 6 | 8 min read).

Max Hillebrand, Bitcoin and privacy advocate, in an article on Nostr, argues that Bitcoin's core design achievement is converting monetary policy from a complex discretionary problem into a complicated but fully auditable protocol, relocating emergent economic complexity above fixed, verifiable consensus rules (May 6 | 5 min read).

My First Bitcoin's Phase 1 Impact Report reveals how the Bitcoin education network has expanded to 83 communities across 46 countries, shifting focus from direct teaching to empowering independent local educators - with open-source programs now reaching 40+ languages globally (May 5 | 6 min read).

Roasbeef of Lightning Labs maps out how Lightning can be upgraded to withstand quantum computing threats, proposing post-quantum replacements layer by layer while acknowledging the tradeoffs in size, bandwidth, and complexity each change would bring (May 5 | 20 min read).

WhiteRabbit, a Bitcoin and privacy advocate, reviews P2P Bitcoin Voucher Bot - a self-custodial, pseudonymous Lightning Network marketplace for trading BTC directly against fiat currencies, highlighting its escrow system, encrypted chat, and protocol-enforced rules that eliminate the need for trusted middlemen (May 5 | 5 min read).

Nick Szabo, cypherpunk and smart contracts pioneer, argues that collectibles - shells, dentalia, and ultimately bitcoin - predate and enable markets by stitching together desires and crucial life events across time and space, solving humanity's oldest wealth-transfer problems (May 5 | 5 min read).

James Scaur, contributor to Arkade, explains how Arkade addresses work by embedding a server public key alongside a Taproot output key, enabling instant offchain Bitcoin payments while preserving sovereign, trustless unilateral exit options on mainnet (May 5 | 3 min read).

Nakadai, in an article on Substack, argues that unlike Bitcoin, which only needs to choose one valid chain, decentralized AI systems must still solve the harder problem of deciding who is right when trusted claims conflict (May 3 | 4 min read).

El Sultán, Gerson Martinez, and Kaan Farahani of Luxor examine how Paraguay's Bitcoin mining sector, commanding ~4.3% of global hashrate via its hydro surplus, has matured into a heavy-infrastructure play as rising tariffs, steep deposit requirements, and a looming 2027 contract cliff reshape the competitive landscape (May 4 | 11 min read).

Dan Robinson of Paradigm proposes PACTs (Provable Address-Control Timestamps) as a silent, no-onchain-cost method for BTC holders to cryptographically timestamp proof of key ownership today, preserving their ability to spend funds if Bitcoin ever sunsets quantum-vulnerable addresses (May 1 | 11 min read).

Kudzai Kutukwa, a Bitcoin and financial sovereignty advocate, argues that Palantir's corporate manifesto reveals a blueprint for a techno-fascist surveillance state where programmable stablecoins enforce total financial control, and that self-custodied Bitcoin represents the only viable resistance to this (Apr 30 | 15 min read).

Joseph Solis-Mullen, Ralph Raico Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, writing for the Mises Institute, argues that fractional-reserve free banking fails both historically and theoretically, contending that Scottish and British 'free banking' relied on legal privilege and government support, and that a truly free market in money logically demands full-reserve banking (Apr 29 | 5 min read).

Pablo, a Bitcoin hobbyist, shares his hands-on experience scaling from a 600GH/s Bitaxe to multiple PH/s of rented hashrate via Braiins Hashpower and OCEAN's DATUM Gateway, and details the open-source 'hashbidder' tool he built to automate bid management (Apr 16 | 5 min read).

Destiny Smart of Blink maps seven confirmed Bitcoin-only conferences across Africa in 2026, spanning Francophone West Africa, East Africa, Nigeria, and Southern Africa, writing that the packed events calendar proves that continent-wide Bitcoin adoption is already underway (Apr 16 | 6 min read).

Jim, a Bitcoin advocate writing on X, argues that combining hired hashrate spot markets like Braiins Hashpower with DATUM gateways offers Bitcoiners a voluntary, free-market alternative to tail emission or demurrage for funding long-term Bitcoin network security (Apr 11 | 8 min read).

Alby, launches the Alby Hub Skill to enable AI agents to self-custodially manage Lightning nodes, transact, and automate Bitcoin payments.

Boltz, a self-custodial Bitcoin swap provider, launches USDC swaps enabling instant, KYC-free conversion between bitcoin and Circle's regulated stablecoin across the Lightning Network and major sh!tcoin chains.

Fold, a Bitcoin rewards app, ships its April update featuring redesigned home screen quick-actions, a revamped gift card wallet, and new balance animations, with richer transaction details coming soon.

Asicprofitability(dot)com maps Bitcoin ASIC miner profitability across efficiency and electricity cost variables using live network data.

Nucula, an open-source Cashu ecash wallet for the ESP32-C6 microcontroller, enables NFC tap-to-pay, Lightning invoice minting, and offline bitcoin token storage on a pocket-sized device.

Robin Linus, a Bitcoin protocol researcher, outlines a trustless zero-confirmation payment system where funds held in a 2-of-2 multisig with a co-signing server allow instant payments while a connector UTXO enforces a timelock exit path, ensuring senders can always recover funds unilaterally.

Cinderwright Discovery Hub is a cross-protocol discovery hub that indexes 1,551 paid API services across x402, MPP, and L402 (Lightning) payment protocols for the agent economy.

Zap Browser, an open-source Electron-based web browser, lets users pay Lightning Network invoices directly from the toolbar by connecting to their own Bitcoin node via Nostr Wallet Connect.

SatRank, an open-source Lightning Network trust oracle, features a federated Bayesian scoring system that ranks L402 paid API endpoints for autonomous AI agents using Bitcoin's payment layer.

LN(dot)STORE is a curated directory of Bitcoin, Lightning Network, and Nostr resources featuring stores, software, and articles, with automatic profiles and no registration required.

OpenSats, a non-profit Bitcoin grants organization, launches a spring 2026 call for applications focused on base-layer Bitcoin privacy improvements.

PythonStarter, a Flask-based software-as-a-service starter kit, integrates Lightning Network payments via Strike's custodial API, lowering the barrier for developers to accept bitcoin in web apps.

LaWallet, an OpenSats-funded open-source wallet, releases version 0.10.0, shipping a full monorepo, admin dashboard, user wallet, and new per-address NWC routing schema.

Marmot Protocol, an open messaging standard built on Nostr, finds a permanent home at the new Internet Privacy Foundation while shipping disappearing messages and achieving better interoperability.

Enclavia, a managed enclave platform built by Bitcoin Dev Kit founder Alekos Filini, offers end-to-end encrypted computation and storage for Bitcoin teams via a simple Docker workflow.