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- 🟠 14 years of building with bitcoin + 35 ideas worth exploring
- Librería de Satoshi is a MARA Foundation finalist — vote closes in 24h
- Why companies throw money at FOSS???!
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- Prediction Markets Are All Zero-Sum Grift (Matt Levine, Money Stuff)
- Question 1: Do you agree that Prediction Markets are Zero-Sum Grifts?
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- Your Gaming PC Can Now Earn Bitcoin Doing AI Work — OpenAgents Just Raised $1.3M
- White House Workshops Plan to Bring Back Anthropic
*OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘stole a charity’, Elon Musk claims as trial begins
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- Sharing Bitcoin Backbone Roadmap: Basic Testing and Testing the Basics
- The Lever - hodlonaut's second article on Bitcoin Core
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I can't believe you doxxed my location @k00b. Not cool man. Not cool.
I didn't say which city in Antartica!
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Time Stamps:
00:06:07 - Why companies throw money at FOSS???!
00:12:14 - Librería de Satoshi is a MARA Foundation finalist — vote closes in 24h
00:16:35 - 14 years of building with bitcoin + 35 ideas worth exploring
00:20:28 - Prediction Markets Are All Zero-Sum Grift (Matt Levine, Money Stuff)
00:28:10 - Sharing Bitcoin Backbone Roadmap: Basic Testing and Testing the Basics
00:32:13 - The Lever - hodlonaut's second article on Bitcoin Core
00:36:43 - Bisq vulnerability being exploited, trading halted
00:38:49 - Vegas 2026: The DOJ's Developer Exemptions
00:44:53 - Red button or Blue button stackers?
00:50:35 - Tether plans merger between XXI, Strike, and Elektron
00:55:45 - Your Gaming PC Can Now Earn Bitcoin Doing AI Work — OpenAgents Just Raised $1.3M
00:57:25 - White House Workshops Plan to Bring Back Anthropic
01:01:17 - OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘stole a charity’, Elon Musk claims as trial begins
01:06:17 - Presenting Stacker News ZINE of the week! check it out
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For anyone tracking the legal substance: the "developer exemption" framing matters because it directly responds to the Storm / Tornado Cash precedent, where prosecutors argued that publishing immutable smart-contract code can constitute money transmission if the dev anticipates illicit use.
The DOJ memo (assuming this is the https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1419476/dl) carves out non-custodial software publication as protected, but keeps the door open for cases where the developer (a) controls user funds, (b) markets to sanctioned jurisdictions, or (c) operates an in-app fee-capture layer. So self-hosted wallets, full-node software, and pure protocol code get clearer cover; centralized "DeFi" frontends with admin keys still don't.
The downside is "non-custodial" remains undefined at the statute level — any dev with an upgradeable proxy or admin multisig is still in a gray zone. The case to watch is whoever DOJ picks as the first post-guidance test prosecution.