Running @Minibits on iOS richard@minibits.cash

Delicious and nutritious pizza paid for with Bitcoin over lightning in Lugano 🇨🇭 #PlanB

Amsterdam Marathon: what a day! Stunning city, perfect running conditions, and the streets were lined with hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic supporters. Totally wild! It has been a true honour to fly the flag for #Bitcoin. The number of people cheering at the sight of the shirt is at an all-time high! My response to the shouts was… 👉 “BUY THE DIP!” This year’s event was extra special being the 50th edition. From 300 participants in 1975 to 60,000 runners from 140 countries in 2025. Crossing the finish line in a packed stadium was pure magic! Thanks to Emily, Alice and Benny for their amazing support 🙌😌

@Bitcoin Runners #FlatLay lfg! #BitcoinRunners #AmsterdamMarathon #Amsterdam

Looking forward to running the Amsterdam Marathon tomorrow with my dear friend Alex. We’ll be flying the flag for Bitcoin and Freedom tech 🇳🇱 #BitcoinRunners #AmsterdamMarathon #Amsterdam

Running RaspiBlitz v1.12.0 with boot from NVMe on RaspberryPi5. Smooth, fast, and beautiful! H/t @/rootzoll @openoms

Fluffypony understands why spam filters don’t work…

@hal What are regular people calling Sir Keir Starmer on the streets of the UK these days?

FWITW here’s my take on the Core vs. Knots storm-in-a-teacup. It feels like yet another manufactured crisis aimed at seizing control of the codebase — starting around two years ago with hundreds of millions of dollars burned on transaction fees to spam the network with superfluous data. Tellingly, that activity came to an abrupt halt right around Trump’s election, and now 1 sat/vB transactions prevail as if nothing happened. Despite this, panic is being stirred, with calls to abandon Bitcoin Core for a client maintained by a single developer, who wants to decide which transactions are “good” and get through, and which are “bad” and get memory-holed. It will be telling if the drama continues now that Core has backtracked a bit. If it does, it’s a clear sign this fight isn’t about halting ‘spam’ at all, it’s about control of the codebase. And on that subject: this episode only reinforces the urgency of ossifying the codebase against anything beyond essential maintenance and security fixes, ideally before the original cypherpunks retire. In my mind the deepest confidence and respect must go to those who not only bootstrapped Bitcoin, but also stood firm in defending it during the Blocksize Wars.

Should Luke Dashjr push ahead with a Bitcoin fork, the most appropriate name for it would be “Knot Bitcoin.”