Upcoming AMAs

• Burak, the inventor of Ark (and infamous "breaker of lnd"), will be doing an AMA Monday June 12th at 10a CT. Come ask him the hard questions!

Top Posts

1. What do the Grateful Dead, cypherpunks, and the EFF have in common? John Perry Barlow apparently. Having been there, @siggy47 gives us a compressed Barlow Biography in The Grateful Dead, Cypherpunks, and Bitcoin: What a Long, Strange Tale.
   • The Grateful Dead, Cypherpunks, and Bitcoin: What a Long, Strange Tale \ 13 comments
2. @super_testnet is up to his antics again. This time he created Musig playground: send btc with many people while looking like just one person. Many of us haven't used Musig yet but it just got Super easy to try on testnet. Scoop: a reliable source tells me Musig Playground is a precursor to an Ark implementation.
   • Musig playground: send btc with many people while looking like just one person \ 14 comments
   • https://supertestnet.github.io/musig-playground/
3. Upset that his friends might not see his goomar's latest Braciole recipe, @TonyGiorgio forked the popular Android nostr client Amethyst and created Onyx. The fork was expressly motivated by Amethyst's non-configurable crowd source censorship rules.
   • GitHub - TonyGiorgio/onyx: A censorship resistant Nostr client for Android \ 15 comments
   • https://github.com/TonyGiorgio/onyx
4. Bitcoin vet, Austin superiority denialist, and statist seer @ODELL suspects identity verification on Twitter will slip into a social credit scoring system, aka a Blue Check Manifesto.
   • Blue Check Manifesto \ 13 comments
   • www.discreetlog.com/blue-check/
5. The US government was fashionably late to their own "Are Cryptohs Securities?" reveal party charging Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency.
   • SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange \ 40 comments
   • www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102

Don't miss

• Rumors Prime Trust is collapsing, Swan withdrawals frozen? \ 42 comments
• So I guess BitGo is Buying PrimeTrust \ 14 comments
• Nic Carter On Bitcoin Maxis and Religion \ 52 comments
• I wish someone had warned me about using self-custodial lightning wallet \ 20 comments
• A discussion about layers \ 31 comments
• Bitcoin's equivalent of the 'Little Old Lady'? \ 25 comments

Spontaneous AMAs

• BitMask had it's first (afaik) mainnet beta release which led to a spontaneous AMA with Director of Eng @cryptoquick. The headlining wizbang of Diba's Bitcoin wallet browser extension is storing "unique digital assets" issued with the RGB protocol.
  • BitMask Wallet 0.6 Beta. With support for Mainnet, Taproot, RGB 0.10, Carbonado \ 27 comments

Top meta

• What sub should Stacker News add next? \ 146 comments
• StackerNews: First Impressions \ 18 comments

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