I love when people call me a spammer/scammer/jpeg person/etc. People demonstrating a willingness to lie/invent nonsense is just telling on themselves with regards to their own character. The last time I sold or profited from an NFT was in 2016. Every other one I've ever owned I still have, and I always will. They are not investments to me, or something to profit from. They are novelties. They are gifts from friends. They're stupid little mementos from different periods of history in Bitcoin I've lived through. So to all the clowns who constantly whip out those labels because they are incapable of making any logical or principled argument whatsoever: I challenge you to show me a single example of me shilling jpegs or scamming people. You can't.

Wake me up when any business that matters (I.E. not OCEAN) is running Knots.

Here comes the first article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series for @BitcoinMagazine. Here I go through the Ark protocol, the newest Layer 2 protocol for the Bitcoin Network. Ark is both very different from, but also similar to Lightning. Find the article below:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark

The first article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers the Ark protocol designed by Burak, being built by Ark Labs and Second.

Kicking off a new @BitcoinMagazine article series today. Bitcoin Layer 2s. Blockchains definitively do not scale as a transactional architecture to anything close to a global scale, as such, we need to layer up other systems on top of them. Find the intro article below:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Layer 2: The Key To Scaling Bitcoin

Bitcoin and other blockchains are robust and decentralized systems, but they do not scale. In order to make them work, a layered approach is necess...

Hope everyone in Vegas enjoys the Republican National Convention. Time to rock a Beefsteak.

Shalom.