We’re excited to welcome @niftynei, Founder of Bitcoin++ for an ***AMA***!

***AMA*** with niftynei, Founder of Bitcoin++

bitcoinplusplus

We’re excited to welcome @niftynei, Founder of Bitcoin++ for an AMA!

For those who aren't familiar, Bitcoin++ is a global technical event series exploring the cutting edge of Bitcoin development. We're hosting [8 events on 5 continents](https://btcplusplus.dev/) this year, and we're also building out [a newsroom](https://insider.btcpp.dev/) to cover the latest on the cutting edge of Bitcoin.

Go ask @niftynei all your best questions!

AMA with niftynei, Founder of Bitcoin++

btcpp

antic

starbuilder

Undisciplined

davidw

Loisel

Top Posts I'm Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Casa, ***AMA***! ... 22.3k sats \ 133 comments \ @lopp \ ~***AMA*** \ February 13, 2025 SN release: NWC & LNBits for sending, LND ... Top Territories ~***AMA*** 18.8k stacked \ 844 revenue \ 31.1k spent \ 117 items \ February 13, 2025 ~bitcoin

This Day on SN: February 13

SN Saturday Newsletter 2/14/26

Happy Sat-urday Stackers,

Have a great weekend!

##### Top Posts
1. [OneMiners Proto Scam Revealed by Proto/Block Inc (My $21,846 Lesson…)](https://stacker.news/items/1428998)
    - [@BitcoinAIMusic](https://stacker.news/BitcoinAIMusic) fell for an elaborate managed mining scam that cost them $21,846.
    - 1.8k sats \ 91k boost \ 19 comments \ [@BitcoinAIMusic](https://stacker.news/BitcoinAIMusic)
2. [Boomerang: Bitcoin Cold Storage With Built-in Coercion Resistance](https://stacker.news/items/1429719)
    - [@bitryonix](https://stacker.news/bitryonix) releases Boomerang, a non-deterministic bitcoin cold storage protocol that uses unpredictability as a defense.
    - 12k sats \ 16 comments \ [@bitryonix](https://stacker.news/bitryonix)
3. [I Effed around and Found out about Openclaw so You Don't Have to](https://stacker.news/items/1430883)
    - [@billytheked](https://stacker.news/billytheked) explains how they use Openclaw, what it takes to use it, and offers suggestions for how to responsibly use it yourself.
    - 5.4k sats \ 41 comments \ [@billytheked](https://stacker.news/billytheked)
4. [[REVIEW] The Gold Standard by Saifedean Ammous: My Three Takeways](https://stacker.news/items/1428488)
    - [@BlokchainB](https://stacker.news/BlokchainB) reviews Saifedean Ammous's book _The Gold Standard_, an alternative history where we use gold as money.
    - 5.8k sats \ 16 comments \ [@BlokchainB](https://stacker.news/BlokchainB)
5. [I was robbed of USD 3500 at Hodl Hodl](https://stacker.news/items/1430082)
    - [@bief57](https://stacker.news/bief57) suffered a phishing attack on Hodl Hodl and lost $3,500.
    - 5.2k sats \ 59 comments \ [@bief57](https://stacker.news/bief57)

##### Top AMAs
1. [AMA with niftynei, Founder of Bitcoin++](https://stacker.news/items/1433210)
    - 6.1k sats \ 57 comments \ [@btcpp](https://stacker.news/btcpp)


[**all of this week's AMAs**](https://stacker.news/~ama/top/posts/week)

##### Don't miss
- [A Most Costly Newsletter: Money is the Moderator](https://stacker.news/items/1433165)
- [Koinvote is now live: a forum powered by Bitcoin signatures](https://stacker.news/items/1432284)
- [Are You Making Money From AI?](https://stacker.news/items/1428933)
- [Pleb Economist #10: Copernicus would have been a Bitcoiner](https://stacker.news/items/1430885)
- [Super Bowl Discussion Thread](https://stacker.news/items/1429371)
- [Spruce Pine: America's Little Discussed Strangle Hold on Semiconductors](https://stacker.news/items/1430670)
- [BIP 54: Great Consensus Cleanup soft fork signet implementatoin](https://stacker.news/items/1428059)
- [What's your most underrated stacker news post?](https://stacker.news/items/1432486)
- [Attack on I2P: Bitcoin nodes not reachable via I2P](https://stacker.news/items/1427742)
- [BIP-110: adding a subjective content layer on top of objective consensus rules](https://stacker.news/items/1430460)
- [NFL 2025 Playoffs Pick 'em Contest Final Results](https://stacker.news/items/1430977)
- [Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month](https://stacker.news/items/1429941)
- [[Review] Marty Supreme (2026)](https://stacker.news/items/1430446)


[**all of this week's top posts**](https://stacker.news/top/posts/week)

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##### Top meta
- [SN release: sat filters galore](https://stacker.news/items/1428221)
- [SN release: -infinity sat filters](https://stacker.news/items/1432227)
- [Post to resolve some questions I have on SN (I'm new)](https://stacker.news/items/1428478)
- [Claw-nker influx - raising fees on ~AI](https://stacker.news/items/1430258)
- [CONSUME ISSUE #45 - SNZ](https://stacker.news/items/1428079)
- [This Day on SN: February 11](https://stacker.news/items/1431496)


[**all of this week's meta**](https://stacker.news/~meta/top/posts/week)

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##### Top Monday meme
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/r04Kzaqoe0xGZdSeGjccLxNUz7AmNZK8wVMDFISn_Lo/rs:fit:640:360/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8xMjk2NDU)

[**all monday memes**](https://stacker.news/items/1429916)

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##### Top Stackers
1. [@SimpleStacker](https://stacker.news/SimpleStacker): 286.4k sats stacked
2. [@Scoresby](https://stacker.news/Scoresby): 109.9k sats stacked
3. [@optimism](https://stacker.news/optimism): 107.8k sats stacked
4. [@Undisciplined](https://stacker.news/Undisciplined): 97.8k sats stacked
5. [@Bell_curve](https://stacker.news/Bell_curve): 86.2k sats stacked

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##### Top Spenders
1. [@Solomonsatoshi](https://stacker.news/Solomonsatoshi): 310k sats spent
2. [@optimism](https://stacker.news/optimism): 299.5k sats spent
3. [@BitcoinAIMusic](https://stacker.news/BitcoinAIMusic): 103.2k sats spent
4. [@Scoresby](https://stacker.news/Scoresby): 100.5k sats spent
5. [@Bell_curve](https://stacker.news/Bell_curve): 73.4k sats spent

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##### Top Cowboys
1. [@Undisciplined](https://stacker.news/Undisciplined): 872 days
2. [@BlokchainB](https://stacker.news/BlokchainB): 851 days
3. [@grayruby](https://stacker.news/grayruby): 815 days
4. [@cryotosensei](https://stacker.news/cryotosensei): 289 days
5. [@Public_N_M_E](https://stacker.news/Public_N_M_E): 132 days

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Kazuo Ishiguro on Writing: feels godlike

the_stacker_muse

> RB: What do you do when you think about your story?
KI: I sit in a stuffy room and fill notebooks with possible relationships and situations. In nonfiction, authors have to do a lot of research before they right. I do the equivalent, but my research is not in libraries, or by interviews. I research the world in my head, the people, relationships, and settings. Is it the real world, or is it a few stages removed; in what way?
RB: What’s your process of writing a draft?
KI: I write first in pen, deliberately illegibly. I pay no attention to style; my only objective is to let the ideas come out, to get past my own defenses. I write quickly and intensely. Ideas change; if I decide a character would be better this way, I make the change and carry on. I write 30-40 pages and stop. The first draft is a total mess.
Then I go through a process which my daughter calls “bottling up.” I look at the total mess, and divide it not into paragraphs but “ideas.” This is similar to a technique actors do when they rehearse plays; they break the play into “moments.”
I number all the ideas, say 1-23, and then write down a 1-sentence summary of what happens in each of them, try to produce a flow diagram.
I’m not a good writer of sentences. I think my strength is between drafts. I “pull out” of the story to see its overall shape, stare at the numbered points, shape the ideas, see what’s original and what’s not, consider the forks in the road in the story going forward. Then I write the draft again, and repeat the whole process 3-4 times, until I write 30 pages I’m happy with.
Then I move on to the next 30 pages. I write one section at a time, because the 2nd section has foundations in the first, if I roughed it all to the end I’m afraid there would be structural weaknesses. (But some projects seemed to require it, like Never Let Me Go.) 

I wonder if any writers here have tried any such techniques. I've read about others approaching writing similarly. First, unleash the ideas, let them roam the page un-mitigated, then rein them in by reducing, and imposing your order. Ishiguro says this.second step "makes you feel godlike."

I'm guessing each has their own method that works for them, and the more you practice, the more it becomes yours, and then your writing wears your method like a signature.

billytheked

Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon!

Music

Hello Stackers!

Welcome on into the  ~Music Corner of the Saloon!

A place where we Talk Music. Share Tracks. Zap Sats.

So stay a while and listen.

🚨Don't forget to check out the pinned items in the territory homepage! You can always find the latest weeklies there!🚨

🚨Subscribe to the territory to ensure you never miss a post!🚨

Public_N_M_E

Looking for ideas: What would you ask Bitcoin holders?

bitcoin

Hi everyone,

We’re working on a Bitcoin forum where participation is tied to Bitcoin message signatures rather than accounts.

We’re planning to run a reward event, and before deciding on the topic, we’d like to hear ideas directly from the community.

What is one question you’ve always wanted to ask Bitcoin holders?

It can be:
- An open-ended question, or
- A multiple-choice question (feel free to suggest options)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

KoinVote

Hello Stackers!

Welcome on into the  Corner of the Saloon!

A place where we Talk Music. Share Tracks. Zap Sats.

So stay a while and listen.

🚨Don't forget to check out the pinned items in the territory homepage! You can always find the latest weeklies there!🚨

🚨Subscribe to the territory to ensure you never miss a post!🚨

grayruby

Stacker Sports Pod: Fixing the All Star Game and Fighting for Olympic Puck Pride

podcasts

Stacker_Sports

> Undisciplined and GrayRuby talk NBA all star game, the Super Bowl, Olympic winter games and more.

Doctors Photoshoot

Photography

![cover.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/242hek2vujLVv1f2JFfAgN2crMbXX689upyvDRBbTS15KZEm6K9htz4KFiMNJ1WBW6fqK.jpg)


Today I want to share with you a new set of photographs that I took for a doctors office that hired my services because they needed some professional photos to renew their image on social networks and also to be able to create advertising flyers.

The main photos they needed were portraits on a white background to be able to update their personal image I took three photos for each one and guided them all with the same pose so that the photo session would flow faster.




![IMG_0899.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23yTmRP5tEY8JdPZe2BZuwH8jujANdzJUYnm3Awi14sXuPkWScBykKxnVAz2LTc3uRZke.jpg)


![IMG_0903.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23y8zFkuppUC5bpAXoxcbFns3peFak616GdT6VjthCUkPeKtkMraRRbPeVhm8qxeLb9ay.jpg)



![IMG_0921.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23z7NWcBDTVXE8hSRtUo1HBcCK8wvrLa3K5z7SEuKPtj2HkNhWEeyxjX75zdBcqWLs5gs.jpg)



![IMG_1033.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23ydEK5XNsMwuEAAYDZakyC26q7ku2yXaJ62n5brdkQACenU7fnfuxaaActongK5t3io6.jpg)




That day I photographed more than 20 doctors but in this publication I am only showing you my favorite photos there were also females.




![IMG_0937.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/241tfHAo1cuvPe1zSSn4AZTi6yKm7oDAnSne9FU1p51DWqihkjrEiBaGuSpf2XAm1fhcd.jpg)


![IMG_1023.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23yTqWbNeXPznoa8ET6nQLDYXxrZmVkxkBtEYyGiU6z1n9A8gspaWW77CZXZA3twTnfy7.jpg)


![IMG_1019.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23xerMBWSwtZufPofjYtMz7qpsbcSRivoYtDtbvZjXkVcj3y5e2zQfqAcc93mHkC8hKZS.jpg)



We also took a couple of photos with the medical equipment.





![IMG_1043.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23ydA5kfPzjPEiCFQMdQMbqSNifbe6ys3z49ui2cJRJwttytpezK8J2QJtqgC1pMQSYVQ.jpg)



![IMG_1067.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23z7BhMeerJCidwWbVFnRqgjvQho2DZfRYeDRodZ2U7MisasWT61YPxsyLqhE4nmW28uu.jpg)



![IMG_0915.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/241tdRo5eE1uZt3m897Vp38MJBaPbHTtwynRw3iQrLFGRPYqpgoZhWfjM8pfrEtQWsjhj.jpg)



![IMG_0940.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/2432KgzwJuWoHWJSe8kVZDQGnkohtGHcbKMSksqniWSbvqiT3zkcKi2cZoQWokj2ugr2a.jpg)




And then we moved on to take a couple of portraits in the office area first in a general plane so that the whole room can be seen.




![IMG_9527.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/241QXJjEsF31ndDkpv1SoU2hsLhb1BqjqWNqN4sdTyua2nw7eRyBMfyJQSPk6aWup1aBS.jpg)


![IMG_0973.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/244y3nJcS1Bvrv4L4Pcp9NpbUvp6xXNAEZ9G5X7Jnmo6oHafca2ZRqHh9RLhXzEtsDFjM.jpg)



![IMG_9561.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23r1sgZgk7Zf8M7RGrL5b14YgzQQYGQJLt5rBuWLdkeQmEHviH8vPxCqqeEaLZs1SPL5V.jpg)



![IMG_9549.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23sK2jgjut7sVkuxdD24QdRhNVbJ4PWSZBiYQ2yBPeT2cpGbizVPuLkzCimgi6kxpH1Ew.jpg)



I took all the photos with my Canon R8 camera a 50mm 1.8 f lens and two light points.

At the end of the photo session we were all super happy with the results and I hope you like them as much as we do!!

Malos_10

Quick Question for the Agora Community

AGORA

What do you usually look for when buying or hiring from someone here?Fair pricing, trust, clear communication, and quality delivery?

Do you prefer working with people who respond quickly and keep things simple?

Are you open to connecting even when there’s no deal on the table yet?

I don’t have anything to sell right now, I'm  just here to connect, learn, and understand what people actually need.What services or offers do you wish more people shared here?

Kayzone

Bitcoin Hackathon 2026 at MIT | 36-Hour Hackathon in Boston

bitdevs

devs

MIT Bitcoin Club & Expo 2026 
<sup>PRESETS:</sup>
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12 Years of Innovation
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*Build the Future of Bitcoin - Join the most prestigious Bitcoin hackathon of the year*
The cryptocurrency space needs you to develop the next generation of projects, applications, and features. In the spirit of MIT, this is a unique hackathon where you'll have 36 hours to learn, share, and build a remarkable project that may be the next big thing to scale this space.

With interactive workshops, mentorship sessions, and a collaborative atmosphere, it's the perfect environment to learn, build, and make meaningful connections — no matter your experience level.

**🆕 New to Crypto?**
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**4 Attend Kickoff**: Join us at MIT on Friday, April 10th at 6:00 PM ET.

**5 Build & Submit**: Code your project and submit on Devpost before the deadline.


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What to Build? Your project must be related to Bitcoin, blockchain, or cryptocurrency

- **Bitcoin**: Core, Lightning Network, Taproot
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Make sure to include all required materials for judging:

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- **Live Application** (Optional): Link to a live application with access credentials if needed.

# 📢 Finalist Announcement
We will announce the 2nd round finalists on Discord on Sunday, April 12th around 8:00 AM ET. Be prepared to pitch between 12:30 PM and 2:00 PM.

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supratic

Poll 473 Abu Dhabi funds bought $1B in BTC ETFs through the dip. The quiet part:

bitcoinbreakdown

Pool: What's the best way to earn Bitcoin?

bitcoin_beginners

Greetings,

I have participated in a poll. 

The question was:

What's the best way to earn Bitcoin?

d) I voted, Get paid in SATs.

The other possible answers to pick from were: 

a) Cashback apps

b) Mining 

c) Trading skills for BTC

I would love to read your selection among this proposition.

What's your take?

Regards

kakashinaruto

Snacks Quiz: Sports, spending, and sitting

Stacker_Stocks

BlokchainB

A quick experiment I did

Please pay attention to this experiment, is fun but if people don't know these details it could end up in disaster.

# Introduction

In the last 2 weeks I did an experiment that want to share it with you now. Initially was just for me testing various LN addresses and wallets on nostr, but then I thought that some of you may find it useful.

So as some of you know, on nostr you just have to add a LN address in your profile in order to receive zaps for your notes. But that is not the fun part. The fun part is what and which wallet associated with that LN address you are using in order to have full control of those sats and also keep a good level of privacy.

The best way is to use a DECOY wallet. Yes, we all want to have a self-custodial wallet, but in a public place like nostr is better to not show your personal linked domains / nodes / wallets.

Are many ways to use a decoy wallet and I will not enter in those details here. [You can read this guide about LN addresses if you want to know more](https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/getting-started-ln-address-en.html).

Among many other LN addresses I used, for this test purpose I used a https://npub.cash/ LN address.
The site is straight forward linking your nostr npub to a dedicated wallet, so nobody can access it without your nsec.

You can also, optional, you can get a personalized LN address, paying 5k sats for it. So I did for darthcoin@npub.cash, especially for nostr.

I do not like too much ecash cashu, but I consider it an interesting way as a decoy. I keep very few sats in some cashu mints and I've tested some wallets with it, just to know how it works and not being clueless. I do not like to talk about things that I do not know or test myself.

# Fun part

So I posted some memes, some comments, some other things, just to get enough zaps. My main goal was to test how to redeem these cashu tokens into self-custody sats.

I got like 245 zaps, that representing 245 tokens. For some of you that don't know, each time you receive sats in form of cashu tokens, it represent a token, like a gift card. Yes... you see your balance displaying 1234 sats, but you don't really know how many tokens (gift cards) you have.

The important part to remember is that for more tokens you have, harder will be to redeem them. Is like a big consolidation of small UTXOs. That's why using cashu on places like nostr, where are mostly small amounts of sats zapped, it can create an issue when the user wants to move them out to another real LN wallet or simply pay somebody else, They will encounter problems when are too many small tokens placed into a payment and the app could crash or simply cannot read that giant token string.

So one day I decided to get out those accumulated sats in the https://npub.cash/ account.
You have only one way out - withdraw all sats into another wallet, being cashu or LN.

It is presenting you a live QR code that contain ALL tokens you received until that moment. That means you will see an animated QR flickering, but in fact is displaying very fast all token QRs to be scanned and redeemed.

It also presenting you a link to [cashu wallets](https://docs.cashu.space/wallets) page but I tried with almost all of them to scan the QR and none was able to read that giant string.

So I decided to use Zeus, that supports cashu wallets as additional custodial accounts.
And surprise ! 

In one of my testing Zeus nodes I had an almost empty LN channel, so I decided to use that one to receive all the sats, without importing the mint from npub.cash and dealing again with all those tokens.

I just open Zeus and click on the main screen to scan the QR. 

REMINDER: You HAVE TO keep scanning ALL tokens / QRs, so have patience and also look on the top of the screen where it displays how many tokens are scanned, wait patiently until it finishes.

It will bring you all the sats and you will be prompted with 2 options:
- import the mint and the tokens into a new cashu wallet in Zeus
- redeem all sats into self-custody, in this case in one of your LN channels that have enough inbound liquidity.

I choose "self-custody" and after few moments appeared the OK message saying that the redeem was successfully. You can close that screen and go back to your wallet. Check the balance and the tx log. You will see 2 txs: one with the entire balance redeemed (in red) and another one (in green) with the remaining sats redeemed after the melt of the tokens and deducted fees (remember that the melt process end up with a LN payment that carry routing fees).

Aaaand done. All sats were safe in my own custody.
And this process leave no trace. Nobody will be able to know where those were going.

# Conclusion

Do not keep in a cashu wallet too many small tokens. Always redeem them or consolidate them. In the end a cashu wallet is just a gift card.

I hope this fun experiment will be useful for you.

DarthCoin

Please consider following me on Nostr, will follow back

nostr

npub1l7cu05yv4c3n7df8wha0npdstakrnye0eqh54273rtcdvt92hqws2tm6cw

I intend to post about books and music, progress with building things in the Nostr ecosystem

nkmg1c_ventures

@acteuramat07's bio

# Howdy, Stackers! ⚡

New to the matrix... I was told that **Sats** make the world go 'round, so I'm here to see it for myself.

Web69 explorer and advocate for free exchange, I'm joining SN to share, learn, and stack.

### Find me elsewhere:
* **Nostr:** acteuramat07@nostrcheck.me
* **Lightning:** acteuramat07@coinos.io

Ready for the journey! 🤝