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Murch @murch.one · 15/06/2026

Passed 13 years a couple weeks ago and just passed 80,000 rep. Too bad hardly anyone asks on Stack Exchange anymore, in the age of text-generating clankers. End of an era.

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Murch @murch.one · 17/04/2026

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401 is out: bitcoinops.org/en/newslette... • Discussion of using nested MuSig2 in the Lightning Network • Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication • Changes to services and client software • Release candidates • Notable code and documentation changes

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. Also included are our regular sections...

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Murch @murch.one · 18/03/2026

BIP446: OP_TEMPLATEHASH & BIP448: Taproot-native (Re)bindable Transactions were published: • github.com/bitcoin/bips... • github.com/bitcoin/bips...

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Murch @murch.one · 31/05/2025

Satsie's new zine on Silent Payments dropped. It's a neat little introduction to the topic.

The cover of Satsie's Pocket Guide to Silent Payments. The guide can also be found on satsie.dev

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Murch @murch.one · 22/05/2025

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

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Murch @murch.one · 22/05/2025

It's raining BIPs, hallelujah... Recently merged: BIP53 BIP54 BIP172 BIP177 BIP321 BIP443 On the cusp: BIP77 Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025

I think about this comic at least once a week

- I want things to be different
- *smashes everything*
- oh no

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Murch @murch.one · 23/04/2025

Optech’s new Feature Matrix is live! bitcoinops.org/en/matrix

The old outdated Compatibility Matrix on the Optech site.

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Murch @murch.one · 23/04/2025

Today, 34.6% of all UTXOs are P2TR, via dune.com/murchandamus...

Cake chart of the UTXO set composition by count. It shows 34.6% P2TR, 28.6% P2PKH, 26.6% P2WPKH, 7.8% P2SH.

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Murch @murch.one · 18/04/2025

Today I realized that transactions that only spend one P2A input are non-segwit transactions in the sense that they don’t have a witness section. bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406

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Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust

I have a question about P2A and ephemeral dust. Can somebody please explain this new output without the lightning language, just on-chain vocabulary. How this address is made, why is it so small, is

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Murch @murch.one · 15/04/2025

Without due process, being innocent or a citizen does not protect you. See you at the next protest.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 08/04/2025

If due process is denied for anyone, it can be denied for you too. If anyone can be snatched off the streets, detained, and deported without due process, it can happen to you too. We demand due process is upheld for every single person.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 29/03/2025

For many decades, Freiburg has been expanding tram lines and bike paths, enlarging and beautifying pedestrian zones, optimizing traffic lights, and improving legal regulations. These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.

People walk, cycle, and ride trams along the low-traffic streets of Freiburg, Germany.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Murch @murch.one · 26/03/2025

Bitcoin will go to 20M within a week¹, guaranteed!!11eleven

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Murch @murch.one · 21/03/2025

Ooof. Looks like the old "Don’t roll your own crypto" needs a 2025 update: "Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".

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Murch @murch.one · 18/03/2025

Yet again, it is mindboggling how expensive and slow residential internet in the Bay Area is. Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia

Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

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Project Liberal 🗽 @handle.invalid · 21/02/2025

Don't let them gaslight you. The dog whistle is now a fog horn.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Please share widely. I'm not above begging for Retweets if it means we end up showing how much New Yorkers, even those that initially opposed the program, now see the necessity of Congestion Pricing and show up to Oppose Trump's nonsense.

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Murch @murch.one · 21/02/2025

Woohoo, BIP 3 got merged! github.com/bitcoin/bips...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Murch @murch.one · 14/02/2025

Now that Musk is confiscating money out of bank accounts, do you see more appeal in digital cash that you can hold yourself without intermediaries?

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law.

We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.

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Murch @murch.one · 10/02/2025

The mempool continues to be almost empty. The UTXO set peaked at 188M around Christmas and continues to trend down since. It has now fallen below 180M. Next block: 1.02 ṩ/vB+ #mempoolreport

Screenshot of mempool.space. There are barely more than two blocks worth of transactions waiting for confirmation with the next block starting at 1.02 ṩ/vB. The recent blocks show one block that is not full.

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Murch @murch.one · 03/02/2025

Looks like Runes have crossed their zenith.

The proportion of blockspace used by Runes went from over 30% to low single digits since mid December.

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Murch @murch.one · 31/01/2025

Last night, the mempool shrunk to a depth of less than four blocks worth of unconfirmed transactions before it bounced back. It seems that we will soon see non-full blocks. #mempoolreport

Last night around 1 AM, there were only 3.58 MvB of transactions waiting for confirmation. This low point is followed by the mempool growing to over 20 MvB by 10 AM.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/01/2025

On climate, did you know that only 11% of people in the US (and even smaller percentages in Canada, the UK, Australia and beyond) are dismissive? Yet because their voices are so loud and persistent, people often think they’re 50%. This is why I advocate so strongly for using YOUR voice!

Six colored circles representing the proportion of people in the US who are alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged, doubtful and dismissive about climate change. 72% are alarmed, concerned or cautious! Source: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/

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Murch @murch.one · 30/01/2025

The mempool has come down from over 105 blocks worth of transactions in the 1–2 ṩ/vB band to less than 16 blocks. If you had been waiting for low feerates to consolidate a lot of DCA outputs or move your wallet to a more blockspace efficient output format, now’s a good time! #mempoolreport

The mempool visualization from mempool.space shows that the transaction data waiting for inclusion in the Bitcoin blockchain has been trending down towards the mempool clearing altogether since Christmas.

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm posting this for anyone who has teens (or anyone) who might get lured into 'crypto'. It will hopefully help educate them about how to swerve the 99.9% of scams out there. I wish the BBC put out such quality educational material @paullewismoney.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...

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The Ugly Truths Behind Crypto Scams

YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto

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Murch @murch.one · 16/01/2025

The mempool has not fully cleared since April 2023, but since Xmas,transactions bidding 2 ṩ/vB or more cleared several times and the network has been slowly chipping away at the 1–2 ṩ/vB band. E.g., block 879,439 yesterday contained txs with an effective feerate of 1.08 ṩ/vB. #mempoolreport

A visualization of the last month of mempool data shows the shrinking data volume of the 1-2 ṩ/vB band.

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Murch @murch.one · 16/01/2025

If you want to keep abreast with technical news in Bitcoin, check out the weekly Bitcoin Optech Newsletter: bitcoinops.org/en/newslette... If you prefer audio, we also do the Recap, where we talk through the newsletter with guests: bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336

This week’s newsletter describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners, summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks, and discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetr...

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 13/01/2025

What is bitcoin even for? Don't we already have plenty of digital money solutions? Who needs this thing? In a three-part series with my co-authors @bradleyrettler.com and Craig Warmke, we address these questions. Here's Part 1.

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Why Bitcoin? Part 1: Cypherpunk Dreams

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