Happy Sat-urday Stackers,

Have a great weekend!

Top Posts

1. Some updates about DarthCoin Citadel
   • After another season spent building his Citadel by hand, @DarthCoin gives us a late summer progress update.
   • 15.2k sats \ 83 comments \ @DarthCoin
2. Pavel Durov, co-founder of Telegram, arrested in France
   • For not snooping and censoring on behalf of the French government, Pavel Durov was arrested in France. He is currently out on bail and forbidden from leaving the country.
   • 2.2k sats \ 73 comments \ @taxd
3. The Current State of Building in Bitcoin
   • Financializing the internet is a tough job. Co-founder of BitEscrow, @Tristan, vents about building a Bitcoin company.
   • 10.6k sats \ 28 comments \ @Tristan
4. Bitcoin Is Withdrawal
   • @Catcher suggests that adopting Bitcoin requires withdrawaling from modern society and its fiat goals and expectations.
   • 2k sats \ 19 comments \ @Catcher
5. Fixing Lightning Force Closures
   • Package relay goes live with Bitcoin Core v28 and should fix the fee-driven force closures we saw last week.
   • 2k sats \ 3 comments \ @Rsync25

Top AMAs

• Peruvian Bull- Macro Writer AMA
  • 12.9k sats \ 58 comments \ @peruvian_bull
• Nico Moran / Simply Bitcoin / AMA
  • 11.8k sats \ 52 comments \ @BITVOLT

Don't miss

• The Freedom Tech Stack
• Sunday Survey: Do you want covenants?
• Self-sovereign digital ecosystems, now paranoia-free. *Some assembly required
• Buying BTC with Bisq 2 & Lightning
• What does Oppenheimer teach us about CBDCs?
• Lightning Bounties LLC
• Operation Saylor - Episode 26/120
• Update on Wife's Cancer
• What qualities distinguish someone as a high-value person?

all of this week's top posts

Top meta

• Drained SN wallet, connected with NWC for send & lightning address for receive
• 3 Hours Not Using SN Wallet: My Impressions
• SN release: phoenixd attached wallet, no free posts, tor for lnbits, bug fixes
• Freebies are being abused...
• Golden Oldies #9
• SN release: item details, wallet priority change fix and LNC fix
• Running sndev
• Why do SN hold competitions like Meme Monday and Fun Fact Friday?

all meta

Top Monday meme

all monday memes

Top Friday fun fact

The wolf never eats corpses, neither animals, nor people; it spends its whole life with a partner, it does not mate with its mother or sister; it is a monogamous animal, it does not deceive.

If a partner dies, the wolf remains alone; it knows its young ones well: it is the only animal that helps their parents after deep old age and brings them food.

When you kill a wolf, it looks you in the eye until its soul gives out; it's 25% smarter than the smarter dog, and it's the only animal that doesn't obey training, they say...

all friday fun facts

Top Stackers

1. @grayruby: 93.2k sats stacked
2. @Undisciplined: 79.1k sats stacked
3. @Rsync25: 55.5k sats stacked
4. @Bell_curve: 54.7k sats stacked
5. @TheMorningStar: 51.5k sats stacked

Top Spenders

1. @MaxAWebster: 112k sats spent
2. @PlebLab: 100k sats spent
3. @grayruby: 95.4k sats spent
4. @Bell_curve: 63.9k sats spent
5. @SatsforLife: 60.1k sats spent

Top Cowboys

1. @BitcoinIsTheFuture: 358 days
2. @Undisciplined: 340 days
3. @OneOneSeven: 333 days
4. @BlokchainB: 319 days
5. @TNStacker: 315 days

Promoted jobs

1. Everything Engineer #2 \ Stacker News \ Austin or Remote

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