Marty's Ƀent Issue #1347: Bitcoin transaction relay over Nostr gaining some attention No matter what comes of this, I think it is encouraging to see bitcoin beginning to experiment with alternative communications protocols like Nostr to create some redundancies so that bitcoin is as robust as possible.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #910: A griefing attack in the wild Shoutout to Jestopher, Joost, Clark and Phillip for adding valuable data points to these research efforts.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #829: Problem identified. Solution proposed. If you are developer interested in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, consider contributing to the work being started by Joost on Circuit Breakers.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #605: A messaging app on the Lightning Network After seeing the WHATSAPP demo, it's not hard to envision people building apps and user interfaces on top of these primitives that allow users to send payable invoices with messages attached in a P2P fashion