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2026-08-08T15:52:17Z

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2026-08-07T19:15:54Z

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2026-08-07T19:06:27Z

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2026-07-19T18:43:56Z

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What actually happens to your Lightning node in every chain split scenario, and what to do about it. No sides taken. My side is the Lightning Network. Disclaimer: I'm just a Node Operator, while this article contains zero AI slop, it could contain mistakes. If so, please point them out in the comments. When in doubt, verify against your own implementation.

Why you should care (even if you don't)

BIP-110, the "Reduced Data Temporary Softfork", is a proposed one-year soft fork that restricts arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions. New outputs capped at 34 bytes, OP_RETURN at 83 bytes, data pushes and witness elements at 256 bytes. It ships in Bitcoin Knots, not Bitcoin Core. Whether you think it saves Bitcoin or breaks it is your business. This discussion is outside the scope of this guide. All we care about are your channels.

The dates that matter:

Mandatory signaling window: blocks 961,632 to 963,647 - projected for early August 2026

Activation: block 965,664 - projected around September 1, 2026

Current miner signaling: under 1%, almost entirely through Datum and Ocean

The reason this is a Lightning topic at all: BIP-110's activation design includes a UASF-style fallback. During the mandatory window, enforcing nodes reject every block that doesn't signal bit 4, regardless of how much hashrate is behind the rule. There is no replay protection, because the proposal isn't designed to split the chain, in the words of the proponents. But, Bitcoin doesn't care and might not have read those design documents.

One piece of positivity up front, so you don't panic-close your channels halfway through the intro: UTXOs created before activation are exempt. Your existing channel funding outputs don't become invalid. The risks hide elsewhere, and they're more nuanced.

The mechanism

We can derive every scenario below from a single fact.

A soft fork tightens the rules. That makes BIP-110-valid blocks a subset of Core-valid blocks:

A Core node does not enforce BIP-110. It accepts signaling and non-signaling blocks alike and simply follows the longest chain with the most accumulated work. It cannot disconnect itself from the heaviest chain.

A Knots-110 node on the other hand rejects blocks. During the mandatory window: any block without bit 4. After activation: any block containing a rule-violating transaction. It follows the heaviest chain that is also BIP-110 compliant, even if that chain is shorter, slower, and possibly much lonelier.

Now layer Lightning on top. Your LN node's entire security model assumes one thing: the bitcoind underneath it sees the real, economically dominant chain. Penalty transactions, HTLC timeouts, breach detection and watchtowers, all of those depend on watching the chain your channel partners are actually on. Anything that silently pins your bitcoind to a minority or crippled chain breaks those guarantees. There's no error message. Your node just watches the wrong movie while the plot happens elsewhere.

So the real question behind "Bitcoin Core or Knots?" is not ideological. It's: which chain will my Lightning node be watching, and is that where my peers and their sats are?

The boring baseline

As of mid-July 2026, signaling sits around 0.9% of blocks. No major pool (Foundry, Antpool, ViaBTC, F2Pool, MARA) has signaled. If nothing changes, the mandatory window produces a tiny minority chain crawling along at roughly one block every 18 to 24 hours until its first difficulty adjustment, while the main chain doesn't notice. Most analysts consider a serious split possible but not expected, but analysts are often wrong.

If you stop reading here and conclude "nothing to see", you've made the same mistake as everyone who priced BIP-148 at zero in June 2017. Which brings us to the more fun part.

Game theory

The 0.9% number measures what miners are doing today, when signaling costs them nothing and commits them to nothing. It does not measure what they'll do when the mandatory window makes the choice real. Two mechanisms can move the number fast, and neither requires anyone to actually like BIP-110. Flipping a bit is, technically speaking, not a whole lot of effort.

1. Defensive signaling (the prisoner's dilemma)

Once the mandatory window is live and credibly enforced by at least some economic weight, every miner's calculation changes. It stops being "do I support this proposal?" and becomes "if this activates and I didn't signal, my blocks get orphaned by enforcing nodes and my coinbase reward evaporates." The individually rational move could be to signal as insurance, regardless of your opinion. If enough miners reason this way simultaneously, signaling cascades toward the threshold, and the cascade itself makes signaling even more rational. This is exactly the pressure mechanism BIP-148 used in 2017. It never had to fire, because SegWit locked in first. Whether that means the mechanism works, or was never really tested, is one of my favorite unresolved Bitcoin arguments.

2. Weaponized signaling

A large pool could signal late not because it wants BIP-110, but because forcing a split hurts a competitor or an ecosystem segment more than it hurts them. It's not free (their own reward on the losing chain is at stake), but "not free" has never stopped anyone in this industry from doing something expensive to make a point.

The takeaway for a node operator: prepare as if a split could happen. The cost of preparation is an afternoon. The cost of being wrong in the other direction is denominated in sats.

Is this unlikely? You tell me after taking a look at this post:

The 4 scenarios

For every scenario: what happens if your LN node runs on top of Bitcoin Core, and what happens if it runs on top of Knots-110 (the enforcing build). We assume your priority is "don't lose channel sats", not "win the fork war". If your priority is winning the fork war, godspeed, but that's a different discussion.

Scenario A: The Fizzle (signaling stays near zero through the window)

The intuitively harmless case, and the one where an enforcing node quietly does the most damage to its owner.

If almost nobody signals during blocks 961,632 to 963,647, a Knots-110 node rejects essentially every block the network produces and accepts only the rare signaling ones. At block 961,632 it detaches from the main chain and crawls forward on a minority chain at the speed of an elderly turtle. This is by design. It's the node doing precisely what it was configured to do. The detachment is permanent for as long as that software runs, because from its perspective the main chain now contains invalid blocks.

LN on Core: Nothing happens. Your node follows the main chain, enforcement works, routing works. You read about the drama on socials.

LN on Knots-110: Your bitcoind's chain height effectively freezes while the real world moves on. If a counterparty force-closes on the real chain with an old state, your node never sees it. The CSV window on their to_self_delay, (the timelock protecting you from counterparty fraud) expires unwatched, they sweep, and your penalty transaction stays home. You lose channel sats to a breach you were technically online for. The bitter irony: the scenario where BIP-110 fails is the one where running its enforcing client costs an LN node operator the most.

Scenario B: Persistent minority chain (~ 10 to 40% hashrate)

Two real chains now exist: the BIP-110 chain (less work, slower blocks) and the standard chain (more work). Both keep producing blocks. Neither has replay protection.

LN on Core: Your node follows the heaviest chain, which is the standard chain, which is where the economic majority sits. Correct behavior, no action needed for chain-following. You still inherit the general split chaos: congested mempools, exchanges freezing deposits, fee spikes.

LN on Knots-110: Your bitcoin client is pinned to the minority chain. Enforcement now has to be reasoned about per chain. A force-close transaction may confirm on both chains, or only on one. If your peer's economic reality is on the majority chain and yours is on the minority chain, your views diverge exactly when they matter. And the hard edge case: if any of your pre-signed transactions (commitment outputs, HTLC scripts) has a construction that BIP-110 forbids (which is highly unlikely, but still possible), it's valid on the standard chain but unconfirmable on yours. Your own justice transaction gets bounced by your own chain, rekt. Frozen sats, self-inflicted.

Scenario C: The Cascade (signaling hits 55%, lock-in, BIP-110 becomes the majority or sole chain)

The prisoner's dilemma resolves in BIP-110's favor. Here the soft fork mechanism shows both its elegance and its trap.

LN on Core: Core doesn't enforce BIP-110, but BIP-110 blocks are Core-valid. If the BIP-110 chain becomes heaviest, Core follows it automatically. You get dragged along without touching anything, which is the soft fork design working as intended. Chain-following: solved. The residual risk: if one of your pre-signed LN transactions is non-compliant, your Core node happily accepts it into ts mempool, and the BIP-110 majority miners never include it. It just never confirms. The takeaway here is, core does not protect you from the enforcement edge case when BIP-110 actually wins.

LN on Knots-110: You're on the winning chain, chain-following correct, same edge case exposure for non-compliant transactions. In this scenario the client choice barely matters. Both converge.

Scenario D: The contested split (roughly balanced, both chains keep market value)

The one scenario educated LN node operators actually fear. Two living chains, active markets on both, no replay protection.

LN on Core: Follows whichever chain is heavier at the moment. If work is close, that can flip, meaning reorgs back and forth. Instability instead of a clean view. Chaos.

LN on Knots-110: Pinned to the BIP-110 chain, at least with a stable view of one chain.

Both clients: Replay means your force-close confirms on both chains. Your channels close twice. You now have to reason about penalties and HTLC timeouts independently on each chain, in congested and unreliable mempools on both sides, with the standing risk of losing sats on whichever chain you're not watching. This is the scenario where methodology beats luck, and where the operators who prepared an afternoon in July look very smart in September.

Read the table with your own priorities. If your priority is channel sats: Core tracks the heaviest valid chain in every scenario, never self-detaches, and auto-converges onto the BIP-110 chain if that one wins. Knots-110 under your LN node only breaks even if BIP-110 becomes the economic chain, and actively works against your watchtower in scenarios A and B. If your priority is enforcing BIP-110, you already know what you're running, and you should at minimum know which risks you're signing up for. Both are informed choices. Being uninformed is the only wrong one.

Should you close your channels?

Some operators are already closing channels out of split fear, and it saddens me to lose channel partners I had for years. In my opinion, for standard channels, this is mostly solving a problem you don't have while creating several you didn't.

What preventative mass-closing gets you:

On-chain transactions in exactly the pre-window period when everyone else has the same idea, resulting in congestion and higher fees

Loss of routing revenue and channel positions you spent months (or years) building

New channel opens later, which means new on-chain transactions, possibly during post-window uncertainty

Zero protection against the actual dangerous edge cases, because closing standard channels that were never at risk protects nothing

What it protects you from: a scenario where your existing channel outputs become invalid. Which, per the spec, should not happen. Pre-activation UTXOs are grandfathered aka exempt.

The version I can get behind: if you're seriously worried and there's a specific channel you want closed anyway (dead peer, bad uptime, you never trusted them and their node smells like a Raspberry Pi Zero in a sock drawer), close it cooperatively and early, in calm conditions, weeks before the window. That would be about now. A cooperative close today is cheap and clean. A force-close during the window is expensive and exciting, and not the good kind of exciting!

Should you just take the whole stack offline?

Tempting logic: "If chaos hits, I'll shut down bitcoind and LND and wait it out." This feels safe and is actually the single worst thing you can do, so let's kill it properly.

Going offline does not pause your risk. It pauses your defense. Your counterparties can still broadcast old channel states on the real chain while you're off. Your to_self_delay windows keep counting down whether you're watching or not. An offline Lightning node is a node that has voluntarily fired its own watchtower during the exact period when a watchtower matters the most. If a peer breaches during your node's nap and the CSV delay expires, your sats are gone, and finality means no amount of turning it back on afterwards can un-sweep them.

The failure mode is identical to Scenario A with Knots-110, just self-inflicted with extra steps: a blind enforcement node. At least the Knots operator can claim conviction.

What you actually might want instead:

Stay online, stay watching. Enforcement requires an awake node on a backend that tracks the economic chain.

Reduce exposure, not visibility. If you want to de-risk during the window, drain activity instead of pulling the plug: raise your routing fees to discourage forwards, or disable new HTLC forwarding entirely. Fewer in-flight HTLCs means fewer time-critical transactions you could be forced to enforce during mempool chaos. Your channels sit quietly, fully defended.

Don't initiate anything on-chain in the window. The most important part, imo. No opens, no closes, no splices, no boltz swaps between roughly block 961,600 and a comfortable margin past activation.

Keep fee-bumping ammo ready. A few free confirmed UTXOs for CPFP and anchors in case you must force-close into congestion anyway.

Backups current. Static channel backups fresh, seed backup solid. The importance of standard node hygiene just did a 10x.

Watch the signaling, not the timeline. Block heights are projections. Monitor bip110monitor.com or, preferably, your own node. The real tripwire is a sudden signal from a major pool. Small solo miners signaling is weather. Foundry or Antpool signaling is climate.

If you genuinely cannot keep your node online and monitored through the window, then reducing channel count is the honest fallback, because an unwatched channel is an unsecured channel, regardless of any fork. But be clear with yourself that you're solving an uptime problem, not a BIP-110 problem.

The actual risk candidates: custom channels

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. Now it's time to shrink the fear to its real size.

The vast majority of all public LN Channels are standard BOLT channels, and they are built from predictable, compliant primitives. Both funding output types don't violate anything afaik. Commitment and anchor outputs fit under the caps too. HTLC witness scripts sit comfortably below the 256-byte witness element limit. A lot of very technical words to say, if you run a stock LND, CLN, Eclair or LDK node with standard channels, none of your pre-signed transactions trip BIP-110's rules. The enforcement edge cases in Scenarios B, C and D exist for you as a category, not as a practical threat.

The candidates that deserve an actual look before the window:

Exotic taproot script paths. Custom tapleaf constructions with large script reveals or unusual data pushes. If you experimented with hand-rolled tapscript channels, review the reveal sizes?

Custom channel protocols. Anything non-BOLT-standard: experimental LSP constructions, research-grade channel types, protocols that stuff extra data into commitment transactions or use nonstandard output scripts.

Pre-signed transactions with embedded data. If any of your recovery or enforcement transactions carries payloads beyond the plain script logic, I have no idea what could happen.

Anything you can't fully explain. If you inherited a channel setup from a guide you half-followed in 2023 without fully understanding it, might be worth taking a close look at.

If you have any of the above, you're much more knowledgeable than me and don't need to read my layman's assumptions. You're welcome to do it anyway and chime in if I got something wrong, I'm admittedly out of my depth here.

80 IQ pleb takeaway. Standard channels pass without you lifting a finger. Custom ones can carry unkown risks if not checked in time.

TL;DR for the impatient

Your existing channel UTXOs are grandfathered. Nobody's funding output turns into a pumpkin.

Your LN node's safety equals your bitcoind's view of the economic chain. Choose your backend knowing exactly what it does in each scenario, then own the choice.

Current sub-1% signaling is a snapshot, not a forecast. Game theory ccould move it fast in the mandatory window. Prepare accordingly.

Mass-closing standard channels trades real fees for imaginary safety. Close specific channels you distrust, cooperatively, early.

Taking your stack offline fires your own watchtower. Stay online, drain HTLC activity instead if you want to de-risk.

No on-chain activity you don't need between early August and well past activation. Keep CPFP ammo ready.

Only custom, non-standard channel constructions are genuine edge-case candidates. You explain to me how to prepare best.

Watch pool signaling, not twitter. One major pool flipping is signal. Everything else is noise.

Stay calm, stay online, and may all your force-closes confirm on the chain you're actually watching. That said, my node is staying online and you're welcome to open a channel to it if you found this useful. In any case, I hope this wall of text could help you make an informed decision amongst all the noise.\ \ My fellow Noderunners, what's your preparation strategy? Let me know anything important I might have missed.

Peace

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Quote of the Day ⚖️ “The system of private property is the ...

2026-06-30T13:39:18Z

Quote of the Day ⚖️
“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” — Friedrich Hayek

JACK DORSEY: "In the future, national currencies will become ...

2026-06-30T07:04:56Z

JACK DORSEY: "In the future, national currencies will become obsolete. #Bitcoin will become the single global currency."

JACK DORSEY: "In the future, national currencies will become ...

2026-06-30T06:56:35Z

JACK DORSEY: "In the future, national currencies will become obsolete. #Bitcoin will become the single global currency."

Adam Livingston, in a video for Swan #Bitcoin, argues that ...

2026-06-30T05:29:27Z

Adam Livingston, in a video for Swan #Bitcoin, argues that despite ETF inflows and corporate treasury adoption, Wall Street and retail investors still misunderstand Bitcoin - treating it as a volatile risk asset rather than scarce monetary collateral monetizing into a broken fiat world (Jun 27 | 16:35 min watch). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAiXOQb1h0c&pp=4gcWEhR3d3cuYnRjYnJlYWtkb3duLmNvbQ%3D%3D

Joe Nakamoto, a #Bitcoin educator and content creator, reviews ...

2026-06-30T05:28:17Z

Joe Nakamoto, a #Bitcoin educator and content creator, reviews the Bitaxe Gamma Turbo solo miner, a compact 2.2 TH/s home mining device offering double the hashing power of the original Bitaxe Gamma (Jun 28 | 12:13 min watch). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFEC-JA7YA&pp=4gcWEhR3d3cuYnRjYnJlYWtkb3duLmNvbQ%3D%3D

HAL FINNEY: "I think I was the first person besides Satoshi ...

2026-06-29T20:12:25Z

HAL FINNEY: "I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin.

I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first #bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test.

I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them."

Stack knowledge. ...

2026-06-29T17:56:56Z

Stack knowledge. #bitcoin

RICARDO SALINAS: "Once you have individuals free with their ...

2026-06-29T14:00:56Z

RICARDO SALINAS: "Once you have individuals free with their own monetary assets, it's very hard to make them into slaves. Fiat fraud is what facilitates the current day slavery." #bitcoin

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2026-06-29T12:55:02Z

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NostrHub 2.0: A Meritocracy for Building Nostr Together

Nostr is a mycelial network. It's connected through the ground. In the best case you won't see it, but you'll feel it.

At AOS Convergence 2026, we saw the results from Superbloom's Nostr development survey: "Faster alone, farther together?"

It highlighted issues of coordination in the Nostr ecosystem, exactly what NostrHub was created to solve. Many people echoed that sentiment in person. So we took the feedback and built a new version of NostrHub from the ground up.

Democracy

NIPs on GitHub are centralized. GitHub itself is centralized, but the NIPs repo is also an oligarchy of people who get to decide which NIPs are real (I'm one such oligarch).

There's an ancient issue on GitHub titled Decentralizing the NIPs registry in which much drama ensued. People were critical of the top-down approach.

I created the first version of NostrHub out of spite, because fiatjaf closed Chad's geocaching NIP pull request. He took issue that it was generated by AI, although in my opinion the quality exceeded a lot of the human slop left open or even merged. We built AI context files to make the AI write NIPs in the tone of the NIPs repo. We even created a fake version of fiatjaf we argued with, to understand his positions. Recently the real fiatjaf relented and merged geocaching as an official NIP, NIP-CC.

That first NostrHub got covered in spam. Then ManiMe added web-of-trust scoring to it, which improved the quality, but it was still missing a way for a NIP to become "official."

For NostrHub 2.0 I wanted NIPs to be enshrined. To get there, I figured I'd have to build a democracy. Or so I thought.

I looked into decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). I stressed about adding people to a group and kicking them off. I thought a lot about Ethereum.

When I mentioned all this to fiatjaf, he replied with sarcasm: "Voting? That sounds like a recipe for disaster." He was right.

Democracy basically means government by the people. Of the people. For the people. But the people are retarded.

— Osho

But what was the alternative, fascism? fiatjaf has been accused of being one by dishonest journalists, but I knew there was more to the story.

So I traced that infamous "but the people are retarded" line back to its full speech by Osho. The Indian philosopher's answer was not fascism. It was meritocracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQoukZvvFo

Democracy cannot be the highest possibility man can attain. It is good in comparison to other forms of government that have preceded it. But not something that can succeed it. I call it meritocracy. I want a government by the people of merit.

— Osho

But how do you build a meritocracy? Is it even possible?

A meritocracy is a system ruled by experts. But who decides who the experts are? Measuring impact is subjective. Choose the wrong experts and you've built an authoritarianism. Choose the right ones and you've built a benevolent dictatorship, arguably the rarest and best form of society.

Meritocracy

My solution for NostrHub 2.0 was to ship a default set of experts, but make them configurable by the user.

Instead of a "Follow" button, profiles on NostrHub have an "add as expert" button. You can remove experts too. Experts wear a shield badge above their avatar wherever they appear, so you always know whose judgment you're looking at.

To choose the default experts, I simply took the top twelve contributors of the existing NIPs repo on GitHub: fiatjaf, hodlbod, Vitor Pamplona, PABLOF7z, jb55, Kieran, mattn, and the rest. There are strong signals of expertise in that list, and leaning on it keeps my personal bias out of the defaults. Since users can customize it, we get the best of both worlds: a subjective meritocracy.

Anyone can approve a NIP on NostrHub. Approvals are NIP-32 label events, so they're just ordinary Nostr data. But only approvals from your experts count toward a NIP becoming "official." NIPs are ranked by how many experts approved them. Change your experts, and the rankings rearrange themselves around your trust.

The Community

Not everyone can be an expert. What about the rest of us?

Here's where the mycelium spreads. From the experts, NostrHub derives a much larger community. It combines the follow lists of every expert, ranks each followed account by how many experts follow them, and caps the result at 1,000 (configurable, or you can turn the cap off entirely). The experts and you are always included.

So to be seen on NostrHub you have to have already earned the attention of people the experts trust. You engage with the developer community through clients like Amethyst, Coracle, and Ditto first. You do good work. The trust flows back through the network to you.

This is what kills the spam that drowned NostrHub 1.0. Not a moderator, not a captcha, not a blocklist. Just the shape of the network itself. The same community set scopes everything downstream: comments, chat, the plan graph, the apps, the repos. One trust primitive applied everywhere.

Building Nostr Together

I've been trying to figure out a way for people to collaborate on a bigger-picture strategy for Nostr. The goal is to align people so that we can identify problems and missing gaps together and tackle the highest-value issues.

I started by creating a simple public chat with AI agent integration, loosely inspired by Block's Sprout (now Buzz). I didn't feel I had quite nailed it, so I then tried building a collaborative mindmap I called Plan.

These are both experiments and I'm not satisfied with either solution yet. Play around with them and let me know what you think.

These experiments inspired us to create Armada, an upcoming community chat client we're building at Soapbox. We may extend Armada with collaboration features like this, and definitely with AI agents. We'd also like to start organizing weekly community video calls hosted on NostrHub. More on that later!

NIPs, Apps, and Repos

NIPs are the heart, but a protocol is only as real as the software that implements it. So NostrHub closes the loop.

The app directory lists applications announced on Nostr itself, as NIP-89 handler events, with no central submission. The community then rates how well each app actually implements each NIP, ProtonDB-style: Flawless, Incomplete, Isolated, or Borked. Because these reports are themselves Nostr events, the ratings can flow between clients instead of being trapped in one. Interoperability, measured interoperably.

And there are git repos. NostrHub implements NIP-34: code that lives on Nostr, announced over relays, cloneable from anywhere, owned by no forge. You can spin up a brand-new repo entirely in the browser and push it straight to a GRASP server (a relay that doubles as a git host), or mirror an existing GitHub repo onto Nostr in a few clicks. The repo pages are laid out GitHub-style, with issues, pull requests, and a file browser, except there's no GitHub underneath.

We started by trying to escape GitHub's oligarchy over the NIPs. We ended up rebuilding the good parts of GitHub itself, the proposals, discussion, code, and issues, on a substrate nobody owns, governed by a meritocracy you control.

Farther Together

Superbloom asked whether we'd go "faster alone, or farther together?" The honest answer is that Nostr has spent years going fast alone. Brilliant developers building brilliant things in parallel, occasionally colliding, rarely coordinating.

NostrHub is my attempt at the "together" without giving up the things that make Nostr worth it: no central server deciding what's real, no committee you have to beg, no king. Just a network of trust you can see, shape, and grow, with experts at the core, a community in the canopy, and a mycelial web of NIPs, plans, apps, and code connecting it all through the ground.

It's not a democracy. It's not a dictatorship. It's a meritocracy you configure yourself. And for the first time, I think it can actually work.

Come build Nostr with us at nostrhub.io.

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2026-06-29T12:28:48Z

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2026-06-29T11:35:08Z

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2026-06-29T06:07:30Z

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Hi fren,Individuals will beat financial giants with #Bitcoin.

2026-06-29T06:04:38Z

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Hi fren,Individuals will beat financial giants with #Bitcoin.

Quote of the Day “The market is a democracy where every penny ...

2026-06-29T06:00:12Z

Quote of the Day
“The market is a democracy where every penny gives a right to a vote.” — Ludwig von Mises

1 BTC=1 BTC 1 sat=1 sat #bitcoin #btc

2026-06-28T14:23:15Z

1 BTC=1 BTC
1 sat=1 sat
#bitcoin #btc

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2026-06-28T14:11:09Z

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“Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

A lighter week on the meetup calendar, but still plenty of chances to get out and meet other Bitcoiners.

This week includes a new Bitcoin-accepting venue for Bitcoin Nottingham, complete with free pizza and a home mining talk from The Solo Mining Co. There are also regular meetups in West London, Newcastle, Portsmouth and Leeds, plus the weekly Bitcoin Walks in London and Edinburgh for anyone who wants to stretch their legs while talking sats.

All the details below…

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Upcoming Bitcoin Meetups

What We're Up To This Week 📆

Monday

🍺 Northamptonshire Bitcoin Network: Join an impromptu Bitcoin meetup on Monday 29th from 20:00 in the garden of The Black Prince, Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE. Come and talk Bitcoin, local circular economies, and Bitcoin-powered marketplaces with @Yojimble and Sync, host of the Nostr Open Markets podcast.

Tuesday

🍺 Bitcoin Nottingham – June Meetup: Tuesday, 30th June 2026 at 18:30 for the first meetup at O'Connors Irish Bar, 33 Central Ave, West Bridgford, NG2 5GQ (upstairs function room), a new venue that now accepts Bitcoin. Expect an evening of Bitcoin conversation, free pizza courtesy of DTV Electronics, and a talk from The Solo Mining Co on home Bitcoin mining and running small mining hardware. Whether you're new to Bitcoin or a long-time Bitcoiner, everyone is welcome.

Wednesday

🍻 West London Bitcoin: Meeting monthly at The Snug - Alice House, NW6 1RD at 18:30. Close to the West Hampstead Tube station. Head along and meet your new bitcoin buddies.

Friday

☕️ Newcastle Bitcoin Coffee Morning Meetup: Every Friday morning at Pumphreys Coffee Centre and Brewing Emporium (bitcoin accepted). Whether you're a total beginner or a seasoned maxi, head along to chat, share ideas, and connect with the local Bitcoin community from 10:00 to 12:00.

Saturday

☕️ Bitcoin Portsmouth: Join fellow bitcoiners this Saturday at 10:00am at Panero Lounge for relaxed Bitcoin chat, good conversation, and good coffee. No agenda, just informal chats. All welcome.

🚶‍♀️Bitcoin Walk - London: The London Bitcoin Walk will meet this SATurday at the Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park at 11:00. Check the Telegram group chat (avaliable at the link) for details.

🚶🏽‍♂️ Bitcoin Walk - Edinburgh: Join fellow bitcoiners every Saturday at 12:00 for a walk, meeting at Meadows City Tennis Club.. It’s a relaxed way to keep fit, enjoy the city, and chat about Bitcoin along the way.

Sunday

🔮 Leeds Bitcoin Network: The first Sunday of every month the Leeds Bitcoin Network meet at the Global Tribe Cafe, LS1 6LG at 13:00.

Supporting this week’s issue…

The Once Bitten Podcast with Daniel Prince shares real stories and honest conversations that cut through the noise to show how Bitcoin is reshaping lives, families, and the future of money.

The Solo Mining Co designs and builds bespoke home Bitcoin miners, and offers UK solar-hosted mining rentals, backed by real support, beautiful hardware, and mining passion since 2011.

https://www.thesolomining.co/

🧭 On the Radar

Big events further down the line.

🗓️ 29th - 30th August - ₿ the Change - Glasgow, G2 1BP.

Supporting this week’s issue…

A real physical CD swap, coordinated on Nostr. Make your mix, burn three copies, post them to plebs. Receive CDs in return.

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Start a Meetup: Want to launch a Bitcoin meetup? We'll support you. Contact us on Twitter or just reply to this email.

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Get out and support the meetups where you can, visit Bitcoin Events UK for more info on each meetup and to find your closest on the interactive map.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

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JAMES LAVISH: "A few of you will someday tell your kids about ...

2026-06-28T12:01:10Z

JAMES LAVISH: "A few of you will someday tell your kids about buying #Bitcoin under $100K. It will be legendary."

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2026-06-28T11:56:58Z

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Sometimes exchanges get hacked or become insolvent long before ...

2026-06-28T08:16:10Z

Sometimes exchanges get hacked or become insolvent long before people find out about it

Your #Bitcoin could be long gone already while you're still blissfully unaware

Man does it feel good to bull-post again 🐂 Sned it! 🚀 ...

2026-06-28T08:08:14Z

Man does it feel good to bull-post again 🐂

Sned it! 🚀 #bitcoin

#Bitcoin always survives every major "crash" This is ...

2026-06-27T14:27:06Z

#Bitcoin always survives every major "crash"

This is nothing new. HODL 🚀

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2026-06-27T10:55:00Z

#Bitcoin is working today. So are we.

How #Bitcoin works: ...

2026-06-27T07:32:47Z

How #Bitcoin works:

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2026-06-26T20:25:22Z

#Bitcoin will always be cheaper than it is tomorrow.

JACK MALLERS: "#Bitcoin's price is just noise. Every dip ...

2026-06-25T17:02:01Z

JACK MALLERS: "#Bitcoin's price is just noise. Every dip is a chance to own a bigger slice of monetary freedom."

I SAW #BITCOIN FALL TO $3,000. I STACKED MORE. I SAW BITCOIN FALL ...

2026-06-25T16:54:16Z

I SAW #BITCOIN FALL TO $3,000. I STACKED MORE.

I SAW BITCOIN FALL TO $16,000. I STACKED MORE.

I SAW BITCOIN FALL TO $60,000. I STACKED MORE.

If it were easy, everyone would be rich.

17 years after #Bitcoin's creation: • still 10 minutes per ...

2026-06-25T16:50:42Z

17 years after #Bitcoin's creation:

• still 10 minutes per block
• still capped at 21 million
• still adjusts difficulty every 2016 blocks
• still decentralized
• still open source
• still SHA-256
• still 99.99% uptime
• still never hacked
• still immutable
• still growing

Yet most people still think it's going to zero.

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2026-06-25T13:16:57Z

#bitcoin

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2026-06-25T08:38:33Z

#bitcoin

2010: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $0.1 2011: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $1 2013: ...

2026-06-25T06:49:21Z

2010: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $0.1

2011: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $1

2013: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $50

2015: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $200

2018: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $3,000

2022: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $15,000

2024: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $39,000

2025: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $74,000

2026: BITCOIN CRASHES TO $59,000

BITCOIN HAS DIED 446 TIMES.

HAVE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING? #bitcoin

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2026-06-25T03:02:41Z

#bitcoin

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2026-06-24T14:14:51Z

I recommend allocating 100% of portfolios to #Bitcoin.

"#Bitcoin is worthless" The Dollar: ...

2026-06-23T15:09:43Z

"#Bitcoin is worthless"

The Dollar:

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2026-06-23T14:01:19Z

#bitcoin

Quote of the Day ⚖️ “Sound money was devised as an ...

2026-06-23T13:41:35Z

Quote of the Day ⚖️
“Sound money was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights.” — Ludwig von Mises

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2026-06-23T06:27:53Z

#bitcoin

#Bitcoin isn’t competing with dollars. It’s competing with ...

2026-06-23T05:39:27Z

#Bitcoin isn’t competing with dollars.
It’s competing with time preference.

If you run a public #Bitcoin company there is no valid excuse for ...

2026-06-23T03:46:37Z

If you run a public #Bitcoin company there is no valid excuse for not providing proof of reserves

Around here we don't trust, we verify

Focus #bitcoin ...

2026-06-23T03:41:10Z

Focus #bitcoin

Fiat currencies always eventually collapse It just doesn't ...

2026-06-22T20:07:38Z

Fiat currencies always eventually collapse

It just doesn't happen frequently, which tricks people into thinking it's unlikely

Once you realise it's an inevitability, you start stacking #Bitcoin and opting out

In 1997, a British cryptographer named Adam Back was trying to ...

2026-06-22T19:27:10Z

In 1997, a British cryptographer named Adam Back was trying to solve something boring: email spam.

His fix was called Hashcash. To send a message, your computer had to burn a tiny bit of real work first. Cheap if you sent a few emails. Ruinously expensive if you wanted to blast out a million. Proof, in math, that effort had actually been spent.

No coin. No company. Just a way to make a digital action cost something real.

Eleven years later a whitepaper appeared with a short citation list. Hashcash was on it. Satoshi had taken Back's anti-spam tool and made it the heartbeat of a monetary network. The same "work" that once filtered junk mail now secures every #Bitcoin block, making the ledger astronomically expensive to rewrite or fake.

Here's the lesson. The tools that end up protecting your freedom rarely show up dressed as freedom. They start small, practical, almost dull. Someone solving spam quietly built the engine of sound money.

Adam Back @adam3us wasn't trying to change the world. He was trying to stop junk mail. That's usually how it starts.

If it's not in self-custody, then it's not your #Bitcoin ...

2026-06-22T15:11:15Z

If it's not in self-custody, then it's not your #Bitcoin

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2026-06-22T15:08:56Z

#bitcoin

Once #Bitcoin clicks, you’ll never see money the same way. ...

2026-06-22T14:11:29Z

Once #Bitcoin clicks, you’ll never see money the same way.

The lines of #Bitcoin ...

2026-06-22T10:53:42Z

The lines of #Bitcoin

#Bitcoin has the same number of users as the Internet had in ...

2026-06-22T08:27:15Z

#Bitcoin has the same number of users as the Internet had in 1997.

Don't listen to the doomers, we are just getting started.

Quote of the Day “Money has not been generated by law. In its ...

2026-06-22T06:51:24Z

Quote of the Day
“Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution.” — Carl Menger

There is no second best #bitcoin

2026-06-22T04:02:14Z

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There is no second best #bitcoin

No calculators. Pick one: 1000 BTC instantly 1 BTC every week ...

2026-06-21T17:56:59Z

No calculators. Pick one:

1000 BTC instantly
1 BTC every week
0.01 BTC every minute
0.004 BTC every second
#bitcoin

Happy Father’s Day to all the #Bitcoin dads! Thank you for ...

2026-06-21T17:25:44Z

Happy Father’s Day to all the #Bitcoin dads!

Thank you for building today with tomorrow in mind. 🧡

#lightning #bitcoin #nevent1q…g3xl

2026-06-21T17:07:22Z

#lightning #bitcoin

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Lightning Network will make altcoins obsolete.

Ethereum 15 TPS 🙈

PayPal 200 TPS 😭

Visa 24,000 TPS 🤐

Solana 65k TPS 😶

Lightning 40,000,000 TPS 🤯
#lightning #bitcoin #btc

A father’s love has no bear market. Happy Father’s Day 🧡 ...

2026-06-21T17:02:46Z

A father’s love has no bear market.

Happy Father’s Day 🧡

#bitcoin

Stack sats or regret later #bitcoin ...

2026-06-21T11:42:27Z

Stack sats or regret later #bitcoin

Everyone picks the orange pill #Bitcoin at $63,000 You don't ...

2026-06-20T19:17:32Z

Everyone picks the orange pill

#Bitcoin at $63,000

You don't need a time machine

#Bitcoin is freedom. Get yours. ...

2026-06-20T17:40:35Z

#Bitcoin is freedom. Get yours.

Nostr notes by ₿itcoin Umuttur⚡⚡

If you keep your #Bitcoin with a trusted third party, you're ...

Just early Study #bitcoin ...

We should stop calling them #Bitcoin hardware wallets and start ...

￼ New announcement in the organization Bitcoin ...

⚠️ AI Setback for Bitcoin Services Boltz has suspended all ...

🧠 Quote Of The Week "The question isn't who is going ...

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The criticisms are overly subjective and don't justify that ...

Owning #Bitcoin is owning certainty in an uncertain world. ...

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