hand_picked/[Seth For Privacy]/
Flint is now live in the BTCPay plugin store
Boltz is gone. Seth shipped the replacement: nodeless Lightning for BTCPay, per-store wallets, automatic sweeps, zero channels required.
open_signal ->// news · culture · no noise
The Signal
Bitcoin + surf. Cut the rest.
Hand-picked first. Our writing second. The wire last, and only as loud as it deserves. If it is not culture or hard money, it does not belong here.
// hand_picked
Curated
Latest signal first. The standing stack stays below.
// latest
Latest
hand_picked/[NostrMag]/
The $400,000 Bet on Censorship-Resistant Money
HRF just dropped half a billion sats on builders shipping mobile-money bridges, offline Lightning, and Nostr messengers for when the state flips the kill switch. Infrastructure, not slogans.
open_signal ->// standing
Standing
hand_picked/[21lessons.com]/
21 Lessons
Gigi's field manual for leaving fiat time. Short, sharp, and still the cleanest orange pill that does not talk down to you.
open_signal ->hand_picked/[Stackchain Magazine]/
Stackchain Magazine
Print for people who still touch paper. The original home of ITS ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE DAWN STRIKES — and the kind of room SurfSats came out of.
open_signal ->hand_picked/[Satoshi Nakamoto]/
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Nine pages. No VC. No brand guidelines. The source document. If you have not read it in a while, read it again.
open_signal ->// from_the_coast
Articles
Writing published on SurfSats. Ours. Unfiltered.
Essay//via Stackchain Magazine
ITS ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE DAWN STRIKES
Fiat is a mind virus. Bitcoin is the Doom Destroyer. A raw dispatch on Cantillonaires, doomscrolling, and the radical hope of separating money from state.
SurfPorn · 7 minread_file
Jukebox/
21 Sats, One Song
The Global Jukebox is a shared soundtrack anyone can feed — one Lightning payment at a time.
Maya Costa · 4 minread_file
Culture/
Dawn Patrol, Hard Money
Surfers and Bitcoiners share the same muscle: show up early, ignore the noise, wait for the set.
Kai Nakamura · 5 minread_file
Guides/
Salt, Sand, and Self-Custody
How a beach-town node, a cheap UPS, and a little salt-air paranoia keep the keys offline.
Lina Voss · 7 minread_file
Lightning/
The Lightning Lineup
Instant payments at surf camps, ding-repair stalls, and the taco stand that finally ditched the tip jar.
Diego Alvarez · 6 minread_file
Culture/
Orange Pill, Blue Water
A field guide to talking Bitcoin in the lineup without becoming the person everyone paddles away from.
Riley Chen · 5 minread_file
// underground_signal
Pleb feeds
cypherpunk · independent · no desks
- [TFTC / Marty Bent]Melody Wright: The Housing Market Is Rigged to Fail
- [Stacker News ~bitcoin]I tested SN's Spark Wallet workflow. It's smooth as butter.
- [TFTC / Marty Bent]Treasury Cuts Egyptian State Bank From Dollar System Over Iran Ties
- [Bitcoin Audible]Learning the Wrong Lessons
- [dergigi]META to MEZA
- [Bitcoin Optech]Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420
- [Bitcoin Audible]Chat_177 – Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier
- [Bitcoin Optech]Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419 Recap Podcast
- [dergigi]Rebuilding Boris
- [The Bitcoin Manual]What Is Bitcoin Purity?
- [The Bitcoin Manual]Bug Found In BitBox Hardware Wallet
- [Stacker News ~bitcoin]OpenBitcoin.com: A new bitcoin block explorer with guides tools and games
- [Cypherpunk Cogitations]BIP-110 Post Mortem
- [No Bullshit Bitcoin]COLDCARD Disaster: Weak Entropy Bug Enables Drain of Funds from Seeds Generated Since 2021
- [Bitcoin Core announcements]Bitcoin Core 29.4 released
- [Bitcoin Core announcements]Bitcoin Core 30.3 released
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