epochbtc

I remember reading an article by him in the 90s where he claimed e-commerce would never take off because all internet users expect everything to be free.

If you've ever tried to integrate with Bitcoin Core (bitcoind) you know how annoying it is to either poll the legacy JSON-RPC API, or set up a ZMQ listener. Satd provides a modern, strongly typed streaming event consumption API (with gRPC and JSON websocket transports) with features like the full event firehose, narrowly-scoped watches (for wallet backends, for example), privacy-preserving prefix matching, etc.

There's also a Rust SDK (Go SDK coming next release): https://epochbtc.github.io/satd/rust-sdk.html

Comments or feedback welcome!

With all the recent controversy around BIP-110 (which is likely failing to reach activation threshold), I implemented a comprehensive, cost-bound transaction filtering DSL for satd, the independent Bitcoin node implementation written in Rust.

Two things can be true at the same time:

- Bitcoin was and is a massive, historic accomplishment in creating digital scarcity for the first time and the long term effects are still playing out.

- Virtually all of the "crypto" or Bitcoin 2.0 schemes in the 15 years since have been scams. Essentially a way for a tech founder to mint tokens out of thin air, and then try to convince others to treat them as money so he can get a huge (fiat-denominated) exit. Stablecoins are basically the only crypto innovation of note that have achieved PMF.

Don't confuse the former for the latter!

evaporative cooling, which saves on energy costs

My opinion throughout this AI revolution of the past few years is: appetite for software is insatiable. AI tooling will 3x-10x the output and sophistication of software but will not meaningfully decrease employment over the long haul, except perhaps in legacy or not-forward-thinking organizations.