1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (104+ words) Calling all stackers! Leave a comment below to let the SN community know what you're working on this week. It doesn't matter how big or small your project is, or how much progress you've made. Just share what you're up…...

8+ hour, 44+ min ago  (73+ words) Currently you can forward sats to up to 5 other stackers when someone zaps your post correct? Nice feature used lots by Scoresby (very generous of him) but what if you could also forward to any Ln address? Also when the…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago  (140+ words) This started as a few separate tools during Summer of Bitcoin. I was building different pieces for different problems, and after a point it felt silly not to just pull them together. that turned into txray. it's a toolkit for…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago  (456+ words) Research in Public #18: Working paper is now public on SSRN The Stacker News paper I've been working on since last October is now publicly available on a working paper website known as SSRN. SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is kinda…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (420+ words) In a previous post, I explained how Bitcoin mining can be modeled as a Poisson process. But Bitcoin mining is not really a single Poisson processes. It's actually a number of Poisson processes competing against each other. Every miner/mining…...

2+ day, 58+ min ago  (65+ words) Do you know of any? I'd prefer one that's open source and that I can find, perhaps, on Zapstore. " I'm really excited to read your replies. If you can contribute to this post with your knowledge, I would greatly appreciate…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (145+ words) Splicing is out of experimental, the node runs leaner, and peer messages are now padded to resist traffic analysis. " Splicing lets you resize channels without closing them, cutting open/close overhead, freeing idle capital, and ending reliance on centralized liquidity…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (152+ words) I build machines, tools, software, and a nine'book world out of a shed on an island. CNCs, 3 D printers, engravers, OS experiments, and a trilogy of trilogies I'm finishing and narrating myself. Most things start sideways before they go forward....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (512+ words) St'phan Vuylsteke joined Brink in 2022 and works full time on Bitcoin Core development. In 2025, he deepened his involvement with the Bitcoin Kernel project, the effort to extract Bitcoin Core's consensus logic into a standalone, reusable library. His contributions to Bitcoin…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (628+ words) The first time the term was used on Bitcoin Talk was in July of 2011 when thechevalier replied to a thread about "Portable Bitcoin Security". thechevalier references an xkcd comic, which is also referenced in the first, slightly earlier (25 April 2011), use…...