In this third Plushie Confidential installment, we cover the huge response that Bitty and Itty Bitty got in Japan, as well as our plans to triple down on the Japanese plushie market. Hate reading? Push play to have a dapper Englishman read it to you.
Plushie Confidential #3: The Tokyo Connection
Sometimes Your Market Finds You.
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In this edition of What’s Matt Mad At Now, he covers MEVil, his talk at bitcoin++ tomorrow, Core standardness rules, and all of it flavored by his incandescent, seething, volcanic rage.
The MEVil of Relay Policy
Matt’s back at it, and this time, he’s madder than ever.
Please welcome our first Texan, @benthecarman, to Spiral. After one year probably doing JPEG work at Taproot Wizards, Ben will tackle LDK Server and a new SDK that simplifies how we onboard self-custodial bitcoin users, two things that his Mutiny wallet work lend themselves to. image
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Spiral wizard Yuval Kogman gets to put ”wizard” as his occupation on tax forms, legal documents, and lease applications for a reason. “The Scroll #3: A Brief History of Wallet Clustering“
The Scroll #3: A Brief History of Wallet Clustering
Our previous post in this series introduced the idea behind wallet or address clustering, the trivial case of address reuse, and the merging of clu...
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April’s Nerd of the Month is @the_charlatan_. This one’s so nerdy that it took four of us to make it understandable even to other nerds.
Nerd of the Month: Bitcoinkernel Library
April’s Nerd of the Month is @the_charlatan_, a Spiral grantee whose work on Bitcoin Core’s build system, validation engine, and long-term arch...
Just because our quarterly progress report is now multiple newsletters doesn’t mean we still can’t have a quarterly progress report. It just means that it’s much shorter and mostly bullet points because none of us have attention spans anymore:
2025 Q1 Spiral Progress Report
What you need to know about how little we know.
From the same bitcoin co-working and events space that brought you Presidio Bitcoin Jam comes a no-holds-barred adrenaline-fueled thrill ride called 21 in 21, where our own Haley Berkoe asks people like this dude you’ve never heard of 21 questions about bitcoin in 21 minutes:
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Lightning Dev Kit Documentation
A complete Lightning implementation packaged as an SDK
LDK is a flexible lightning implementation with supporting batteries (or modules).
 by some devs who forgot that Spiral now has a newsletter that covers, among other things, LDK-related stuff like VSS. As recompense, they have all been assigned to eat a bowl of spiders.
LDK: Announcing Versioned Storage Service (VSS)
A solution for live online sync and lightning state backup for non-custodial wallets.
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The Nostr community could be the only community that understands our latest newsletter. Twitter seems to be struggling:
The Scroll #2: Wallet Clustering Basics
In this new recurring newsletter, The Scroll, we’ll be highlighting the highly technical concepts happening within bitcoin.