0xB10C

Can we spot public spy-Electrum servers run by Chainalysis?

bitcoin

> My primary interest here is finding out how many Electrum servers are Chainalysis honey pots and sybils that collect your data, link your addresses to your IP, and use it to enhance their address-clustering datasets.
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> **[...read more at github.com](https://github.com/0xB10C/project-ideas/issues/11)**

0xbitcoiner

Building Secure and Watchtower-efficient Bitcoin Payment Channels with BitVMX

> This article presents a sample payment channel that uses BitVMX to support efficient revocations. It can be easily extended to function as a state channel and support Hash-Time Locked Contracts (HTLCs) for lightning-like routing. However, we aim to keep it simple so that it serves as a clear example of BitVMX’s capabilities and how it can be integrated as a subcomponent of other Bitcoin protocols. In this example, BitVMX is used to handle state revocations and enable efficient watchtowers that store only O(1) data per payment channel.
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> **[...read more at bitvmx.org](https://bitvmx.org/knowledge/building-secure-and-watchtower-efficient-bitcoin-payment-channels-with-bitvmx)**

The Reorg | Episode 23 – Bitcoin's Rugged Individualism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmBzHuUjg8

Did Adam Back betray Bitcoin for a Wall Street payout?

> Adam Back is one of the earliest and most prominent champions of Bitcoin’s displacement of traditional finance via decentralization and self-sovereignty.
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> However, his latest move—selling 30,000 bitcoin (BTC) to Wall Street giant Cantor Fitzgerald via a SPAC—has drawn scrutiny from those who see it as betraying some of the principles he once passionately espoused.
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> Back was a cypherpunk. His community created BTC and [fought](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/back-future-adam-back-remembers-cypherpunk-revolution-origins-bitcoin-1441741053) for privacy, individual sovereignty, and displacing government-backed banking.
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> **[...read more at protos.com](https://protos.com/did-adam-back-betray-bitcoin-for-a-wall-street-payout/)**

Adoption Stories | Bitcoin Victoria Falls, Bitcoin Dominicana & Bitcoin Valley

> **For the untrained eye, it may be hard to notice, but Bitcoin adoption is speeding up. Join us as we explore successful stories.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/101075)
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> Bitcoin circular economies are popping up all over the world. These grassroots movements can’t be faked and send a clear signal: at its own pace, the world is connecting to the Bitcoin network. The price generates headlines, but this cycle, Bitcoin adoption is the real story.
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> And when we say Bitcoin adoption, we’re referring to BTC as a medium of exchange. As a store of value, Bitcoin is battle-tested; it has outperformed every asset out there for more than a decade. It’s time to evolve, and that’s just what Bitcoin monetary adoption signals.
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>In today’s article, we’ll travel all over the world: Zambia, the Dominican Republic, and Canada. Three very different places connected by a common thread: the hardest money ever created. Let’s explore their stories.
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> **[...read more at blink.sv](https://www.blink.sv/blog/bitcoin-adoption-stories-bitcoin-victoria-falls-bitcoin-dominicana-bitcoin-valley)**

The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

> # INTRODUCTION:
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> Welcome to the seventh newsletter produced by The 256 Foundation and supported by Proto! June was an eventful month for the Bitcoin mining industry with events ranging from Bitcoin surpassing block height 900,000 to difficulty dropping ~7.5%. There are several interesting things developing in and around the Bitcoin mining industry so dive in and catch up on the latest news, developments, grant progress updates, Actionable Advice, and the current state of the Bitcoin network. You’ll gain a better understanding of how the closed systems built to block access to freedom enhancing technologies are proving to be the proprietary mining empire’s greatest point of weakness.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/100416)
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> **[...read more at 56foundation.substack](https://256foundation.substack.com/p/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they)**

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363

> This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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> **[...read more at bitcoinops.org](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/07/18/)**

Bow Valley Credit Union Enables Direct Bitcoin Purchases With Bull Bitcoin

> Bow Valley Credit Union (BVCU), in partnership with Bull Bitcoin, has become the first financial institution in Canada to allow its members to buy real Bitcoin directly from their bank account.
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> **[...read more at bullbitcoin.com](https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bow-valley-credit-union-enables-direct-bitcoin-purchases-with-bull-bitcoin)**

The secret formula for Bitcoin adoption

> **How to apply strategic marketing to accelerate Bitcoin adoption and attract talent to the ecosystem.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/100840)
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> Despite being on everyone’s lips, the idea that people generally have of Bitcoin is distorted to say the least. In continuous search of sensationalism, mainstream media continue to present it as purely speculative technology, useful only to circumvent laws and moreover highly polluting. Most young talents, therefore, aspire to work at Google, Apple, Ferrari or Prada, totally ignoring the disruptive growth of the Bitcoin industry.
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> Many bitcoiners share the dream that every inhabitant of Earth reads the White Paper and the book “Bitcoin Standard”. Someone might even want to impose it as mandatory text in school, perhaps in place of the now outdated Promessi Sposi. Even better, they would want all students and workers to follow a course that explores every aspect of Bitcoin, technical and non-technical. The truth is that all this is not only impossible, but also inefficient.
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> Considering the degree of development of the technology, market volumes and the growth of the ecosystem of companies, it is time to opt for a more mature and strategic approach in trying to reach the much-desired mass adoption. Above all, it is essential to act distinguishing those who can contribute to the development and diffusion of the technology from those who will remain mere users.
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> **[...read more at atlas21.com](https://atlas21.com/the-secret-formula-for-bitcoin-adoption/)**

Presenting One Focus in One Acccedence Focus

Can someone break this down for me like I’m five?

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> I admit that I misunderstood lambda in Bitcoin, let’s relearn what the capitalists have taken, let’s reclaim the rights that should belong to us. Although I have many desires including forcing the market to agree to the Layer-1 that I conceptualized, the Layer-1 under 21 Million that I am not aware of is a need that is clearly different from wants, needs and wants.
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> In changing times, my stance must not change, the one thing I need for Bitcoin Core is to realize the following formula γ^(i/R) + ∑(S[0:i]·τ·φ^j) this means that every Exposed Blockchain or every Exposed Bit will go through Weighted Summing before the arrival of a new bit or Blockchain, to no longer be touched by natural errors, although I was annoyed by some of the treatment but I am aware that it starts from my way of delivery, which I initially believed in Decentralization but why did the treatment in Bitcointalk ban my other accounts? i admit it it’s my mistake and great hope for us to realize γ^(i/R) + ∑(S[0:i]·τ·φ^j) especially in the Poisson Sum, every Poisson Sum that is Exposed will be through Weighted Summing is the key, hopefully it will be useful and better criticism than being considered to never exist, let’s go to true freedom.