Murch
@murch.one
Doing Bitcoin stuff at lclhost.org • BIP Editor • Co-host Bitcoin Optech Recap • Moderator bitcoin.stackexchange.com
More housing fixes it. UBI is cheaper than poverty. Cars ruin cities. We need Universal Healthcare.
🌐 https://murch.one
More housing fixes it. UBI is cheaper than poverty. Cars ruin cities. We need Universal Healthcare.
🌐 https://murch.one
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Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.
June 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Satsie's new zine on Silent Payments dropped. It's a neat little introduction to the topic.
May 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Satsie's new zine on Silent Payments dropped. It's a neat little introduction to the topic.
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #355 is here:
bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...
bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitco...
bitcoinops.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #355 is here:
bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...
bitcoinops.org/en/newslette...
It's raining BIPs, hallelujah...
Recently merged:
BIP53
BIP54
BIP172
BIP177
BIP321
BIP443
On the cusp:
BIP77
Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
Recently merged:
BIP53
BIP54
BIP172
BIP177
BIP321
BIP443
On the cusp:
BIP77
Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
May 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It's raining BIPs, hallelujah...
Recently merged:
BIP53
BIP54
BIP172
BIP177
BIP321
BIP443
On the cusp:
BIP77
Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
Recently merged:
BIP53
BIP54
BIP172
BIP177
BIP321
BIP443
On the cusp:
BIP77
Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
Mike Tidwell and I have collected a bunch of questions and answers around the OP_RETURN debate here: stacker.news/items/971277
Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here. \ stacker news ~bitcoin
There has been a lot of debate about a recent discussion on the mailing list and a pull request on the Bitcoin Core repository. The main two points are about whether a mempool policy regarding OP_RETU...
stacker.news
May 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Mike Tidwell and I have collected a bunch of questions and answers around the OP_RETURN debate here: stacker.news/items/971277
I wrote a detailed explanation of Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/126098/5406
Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust
What are P2A and ephemeral dust? Please explain in simple terms, without using Lightning Network lingo.
In particular I am curious about the purpose of this address type, how it is created, why it ...
bitcoin.stackexchange.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a detailed explanation of Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/126098/5406
Optech’s new Feature Matrix is live!
bitcoinops.org/en/matrix
bitcoinops.org/en/matrix
April 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Optech’s new Feature Matrix is live!
bitcoinops.org/en/matrix
bitcoinops.org/en/matrix
Today, 34.6% of all UTXOs are P2TR, via dune.com/murchandamus...
April 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today, 34.6% of all UTXOs are P2TR, via dune.com/murchandamus...
Today I realized that transactions that only spend one P2A input are non-segwit transactions in the sense that they don’t have a witness section.
bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406
bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406
Pay to Anchor and Ephemeral Dust
I have a question about P2A and ephemeral dust. Can somebody please explain this new output without the lightning language, just on-chain vocabulary. How this address is made, why is it so small, is
bitcoin.stackexchange.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today I realized that transactions that only spend one P2A input are non-segwit transactions in the sense that they don’t have a witness section.
bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406
bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/126119/5406
Without due process, being innocent or a citizen does not protect you.
See you at the next protest.
See you at the next protest.
April 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Without due process, being innocent or a citizen does not protect you.
See you at the next protest.
See you at the next protest.
Jon Atack just gave a talk on the BIPs repository, being a BIP Editor, and the BIP3 proposal. I couldn’t be there, but if you have any questions, please feel free to AMA here:
stacker.news/items/941593
stacker.news/items/941593
AMA: BIP3 and proposed changes to the BIP Process \ stacker news ~AMA
Jon Atack just gave a talk on the BIPs repository’s last year, his work as a BIP Editor, and BIP 3, my proposal to update the BIPs Process. Unfortunately, I was not at the conference and could not chi...
stacker.news
April 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Jon Atack just gave a talk on the BIPs repository, being a BIP Editor, and the BIP3 proposal. I couldn’t be there, but if you have any questions, please feel free to AMA here:
stacker.news/items/941593
stacker.news/items/941593
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If due process is denied for anyone, it can be denied for you too. If anyone can be snatched off the streets, detained, and deported without due process, it can happen to you too.
We demand due process is upheld for every single person.
We demand due process is upheld for every single person.
April 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If due process is denied for anyone, it can be denied for you too. If anyone can be snatched off the streets, detained, and deported without due process, it can happen to you too.
We demand due process is upheld for every single person.
We demand due process is upheld for every single person.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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For many decades, Freiburg has been expanding tram lines and bike paths, enlarging and beautifying pedestrian zones, optimizing traffic lights, and improving legal regulations.
These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.
These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.
March 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For many decades, Freiburg has been expanding tram lines and bike paths, enlarging and beautifying pedestrian zones, optimizing traffic lights, and improving legal regulations.
These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.
These efforts have been a great success: 79% of all trips are made by bicycle, bus, train, or on foot—the best in Germany.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Bitcoin will go to 20M within a week¹, guaranteed!!11eleven
March 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bitcoin will go to 20M within a week¹, guaranteed!!11eleven
It's gut wrenching to watch the US skid into constitutional crisis with barely any resistance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism
From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts say
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It's gut wrenching to watch the US skid into constitutional crisis with barely any resistance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Ooof. Looks like the old "Don’t roll your own crypto" needs a 2025 update:
"Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".
"Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ooof. Looks like the old "Don’t roll your own crypto" needs a 2025 update:
"Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".
"Don‘t roll your own crypto and most certainly don’t trust an LLM to generate your own crypto for you".
Sweden is backpedaling on getting rid of cash: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As cyberwarfare threat looms, cashless Nordic nations go back to banknotes | Miranda Bryant
Nordic countries were early adopters of digital payments. Now, electronic banking is seen as a potential threat to national security
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sweden is backpedaling on getting rid of cash: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Yet again, it is mindboggling how expensive and slow residential internet in the Bay Area is.
Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.
Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.
March 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Yet again, it is mindboggling how expensive and slow residential internet in the Bay Area is.
Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.
Of all the places on the world, you’d think the Bay Area would have managed to build out fiber.