Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special Recap

A successful 1st episode for Mike Brock’s new show ☠️

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I support Marty’s half built house story. Half built structures are a textbook side effect of the business cycle gone wrong. @npub1qny3tkh0a…

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The ICERAID news isn’t surprising given the Bugle’s coverage of solana onchain assasination markets last year

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Citadel dispatch, my go to podcast for actionable compliance tech discussion

Great rip, love the detailed privacy discussion

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@Rod_Palmer_📯_Bugle_News_#40HPW🎧 @npub1hcf3acvqk… bring back the old voice🙏

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Purity tests graded on a curve💯

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We love the bank rant!

Custodians are just future rugs that haven’t happened yet

Need you macro base case for the predictions

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Open sourced decentralized CIA? Sounds like y’all need to tap into the intellectual Silk Road🚬

Arkansas Traveler was a great song recommendation!

PODCONF APPROVED✅

Anchorwatch does not use taproot. They use Segwit.

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Genetically engineered pleb slop is coming

I disagree with Paul a lot but have loved and agree with his feelings on education. School benefited me a lot because I had parents who pushed me towards practical education with good income potential and not liberal arts bullshit. Now most school has little or no real world application and YouTube, AI, Duolingo, Synthesis, etc will teach you better, cheaper, and faster. College is mostly a scam to convey social status, not practical knowledge.

Great to chat with Paul. Wrong about lightning and drivechains are silly, but fun guy.

Somethin you’ve been nagging about is why Jade doesn’t support PSBT 😁 There are some things that are not very clear for me. The most important of which is that I used to think all hardware devices relied on PSBT and I used to think the air-gapped transactions that Jade supports with QR are in fact based on PSBT. Could you please explain how a hardware wallet can keep the seeds secret with using PSBT?

More miniscript please. I am not Rob.

Excellent sermon🙏

👍🏻🫡 Thanks for the Fed acknowledgment, classy move

We are the swamp!

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Orange label link is broken

#40hpw is the new hurdle rate

Intro and outro both🔥

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Podcast dream team 🫡

@npub12eml5kmtr… next book needs to cover mythos class paper bitcoin

Love the poker discussion

Miniscript ftw

Start9 products are objectively really great. Disappointed to see them actively push BIP 110 activation client when it still had consensus critical bugs that would’ve lost users money if a core contributor hadn’t found and disclosed. You can’t claim to be neutral and use your X to actively push a specific client. Offer them all without endorsement and honestly disclose the level of review. In the past the team has bragged about the level of review in the start9 App Store so turning around software the same day it is released on GitHub that has consensus bugs (regardless of the ideology) is a very disappointing. Again awesome tech and awesome work. Learn and grow friends.

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Excited to catch up on these

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Thank you for protecting our democracy

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I recommend reading A Hobbit, a wardrobe, and a Great War by Joseph Loconte

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🔥outro

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Will @npub10pensatlc… be funding a neocon node implementation?

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Pleb slop is a vector 🫳 🎤

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I’ll never see Dulles airport the same

@npub1guh5grefa… You need to practice pronouncing glyphosate

Merry Christmas

I’m immediately buying the first trinket that runs TempleOS

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