May 7 · 2 min read · L402 is a protocol for machine-to-machine payments. It allows agents to go out and purchase resources or access tokens to APIs online. If this sounds familiar, you might have heard of it before or of
SSweepBase and 1 more commentedApr 16 · 6 min read · AI + Lightning Demo: Getting an Open‑Claw Bot to Run a Lightning Node Welcome to the first installment of our AI‑and‑Lightning demo series (Lightning of course being Bitcoin's second layer for faster,
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Feb 11 · 11 min read · I've been mining Bitcoin since 2019, from home mining to industrial scale. Every week I break down mining economics, fee markets, and what actually moves profitability. Subscribe to get new essays in your inbox. 🟠 Introduction I've been watching Lig...
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Feb 7 · 3 min read · I've been mining Bitcoin since 2019, from home mining to industrial scale. Every week I break down mining economics, fee markets, and what actually moves profitability. Subscribe to get new essays in your inbox. 🟠Introduction Mining Bitcoin since 20...
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Jan 30 · 6 min read · BIP110 Soft Fork Progress: ~4.7 % Node Support, Mining Pools Absent BIP110 was proposed in early December 2025, introducing a temporary, consensus-level limit on the amount of data transmitted in transactions, aimed at mitigating spam. According to d...
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Jan 30 · 2 min read · BIP110 软分叉进展：约 4.7 % 节点支持，矿池尚未跟进 BIP110 于 2025 年 12 月初提出，建议对交易中传输的数据大小设定临时共识级别限制，旨在打击垃圾邮。根据 BitcoinPortal 数据，截至 1 月 30 日，比特币区块链中 23217 个节点中有 1097 个（~4.7%） 支持 BIP110 软分叉。支持仅来自运行 Bitcoin Knots 的节点，而前 20 大矿池尚未发出任何支持信号。 QRAMP：两阶段“隔离模式”优化后量子迁移 比特币开发者 Bnav...
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Jan 16 · 6 min read · Ark as a Channel Factory: Compressed Liquidity Management for Improved Payment Feasibility René Pickhardt proposed and discussed the idea of using Ark as a channel factory, rather than as an end-user payment solution. Pickhardt’s idea focuses on the ...
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Jan 16 · 2 min read · 将 Ark 作为通道工厂，压缩流动性管理，以提升支付可行性 René Pickhardt 提出并讨论了 Ark 作为通道工厂（channel factory），而非终端用户支付解决方案的最佳应用场景的想法。 Pickhardt 的想法聚焦于一种可能性：让大量通道所有者利用 Ark 的 vTXO （virtual Transaction Outputs）结构，将通道流动性的变更（如开启、关闭、拼接）进行批量处理，从而在牺牲一定流动性开销的前提下，大幅降低运行闪电网络的链上成本。这种额外的流动性开销...
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Jan 13 · 2 min read · LNURL-Pay is one of the most important UX improvements in the Lightning Network. It allows users to pay a Lightning Address (or LNURL) without manually requesting an invoice beforehand. Instead of sending money directly, LNURL-Pay defines a negotiati...
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