Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Please join us for today’s Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsor Bull Bitcoin.

Fun fact: Attendees of a socratic seminar are called Elenctics.

Soundtrack

• Event space fundraiser
• BTC++ April 28-30
• Node Academy starts Wednesday, May 3 (virtual)
• Post-truth Dance Performance
• Bitcoin Pizza Day May 22
• BitDevs May 27

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Spend your sats in Vancouver

Check out our new map and merchant directory

New merchants:

• Denman Street, Vancouver: Milano Coffee
• Yaletown & Gastown, Vancouver: Cocoa Tanning
• Burnaby Heights, Burnaby: Caffe Artigiano
• Lynn Valley, North Vancouver: Big Bite Donair

Reminder: The CoinOS bounty program! Get 1,000,000 SAT for signing up a merchant!

• Satmap.app attempts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in/from Canada

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Android Validated Bitcoin Pruned Node

lightning-dev

• Splicing specifications
• Splicing mailing list announcement
• Taproot channel transactions
• Update LND now, ask questions later

nostr-dev

• Twitter -> super app
• Join the Vancouver Bitcoiners Nostr chat

Bitcoinomics

• Backtested YOLO Buy Strategy
• The Bitcoin Civ Kit

2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• First Republic Bank loses US$100 billion in deposits
• First Republic shares drop 50%

Network Data

• Up to 86% of a block are inscriptions

Token Layer

• RGB Protocol Announcement
• Bug in inscriptions
• What the hell are Bitcoin stamps
• soma (Spacechain-inspired Open Market for Assets) released on signet

New Releases

• LitD Lightning Channel Management
• SoftWar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin
• Phoenix ships with Tor on iOS
• LNBits as a service
• litd 0.9.1 is out
• Lightspark launches with streaming sats
• Bitcoin Beach wallet is now Blink
• Neutronpay partners with El Salvadorian app DitoBanx
• Lamassu releases the Grândola which can process 8 bills per second

Events and Podcasts

• LightningCon Vietnam Videos

Miscellaneous

• AgentGPT for Data Analysis
• Creative Destruction Lab Vancouver
• Bitcoin Whitepaper has been shipping in every copy of MacOS for five years
• Apple removes original Bitcoin whitepaper from the latest macOS Ventura beta
• We must become barbarians
• Exit liquidity