๐ Introducing BIP Land ๐
BIP Land profiles the biggest organizational challenge facing Bitcoin today: change
Bitcoin as a protocol is inherently resistant to change. And that is largely a good thing! But over time, this resistance has morphed into something ugly andโฆ
1/ The introduction of BitVM by
@robin_linus
marks a paradigm shift in what we thought was possible on Bitcoin.
Put simply, BitVM allows arbitrary computation to be executed and verified on Bitcoin.
The BitVM Primer walks you through what this means:
Gmeow Ordinals!
Excited to announce I'm adopting Quantum Cat 2543 today๐บ
This cat is very meaningful to me for many reasons.
To begin, this cat represents my first foray into the creative side of an Ordinals/NFT collection. The last 3 months crafting the Quantum Cats andโฆ
My Bitcoin Journey: The Road to Becoming a Wizard ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
Nine months ago, I knew almost nothing about Bitcoin from a technical standpoint. I had just started working with the
@TaprootWizards
in a part-time capacity, and it became glaringly obvious to me that all my Ethereumโฆ
๐๏ธ An advanced guide to
@SparrowWallet
๐๏ธ
Recently I've been helping fellow
@OrdinalMaxiBiz
hodlers with padding UTXOs, spending multiple UTXOs, and transferring BRC-20s from Sparrow.
I decided to write up a guide for the Ordinals community ๐ซก
/๐งต
As you all probably know by now, I am a HUGE fan of education and Bitcoin. It's one of the many reasons I love working at
@TaprootWizards
๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
Another community that is near and dear to me is
@OrdinalMaxiBiz
. I've been there since Day 1, and
@ZK_shark
and
@ohareyoufat
haveโฆ
BitVM Bridges Considered Unsafe
by
@Dr_DAO_
&
@rot13maxi
BitVM is a true piece of wizardry. The fact that Robin figured out how to put a computer on Bitcoin using NAND gates is mind blowing. I've learned an immense amount from studying BitVM implementations, and we love theโฆ
The last 36 hours has reminded me why
@TaprootWizards
has the BEST community in Ordinals ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
HUGE shoutout to everyone who joined
@QuantumCatsXYZ
in our search for OP_CAT. The efforts you all put in were truly Herculean ๐ช
The ๐'s in our community have been working aroundโฆ
At the
@TaprootWizards
, bald is one of our core values ๐งโ๐ฆฒ
I'm thrilled that we have the OG bald investor of crypto
@AlokVasudev
leading our seed round to make Bitcoin magical again ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
But don't worry, we're just getting started ๐ซก
๐จ Second episode of Technically Bitcoin: Ordinals p1 ๐จ
@nonfungible_jan
and I are demystifying how the Ordinals protocol actually works. Watch Part 1 below where we cover sat indexing and sat tracking. Part 2 on Inscriptions dropping later this week!
All feedback welcome ๐ซก
๐ BIP Land update: THE BINANA BOAT
Is this the beginning of the end for BIP numbers?
We're 1 week in, and we can already see the effects BIP Land is having on the softfork process.
Yesterday,
@ajtowns
added a new numbering scheme to Bitcoin Inquisition called BINANA (Bitcoinโฆ
What is a block re-org and what does this mean for Runes?
tl;dr - It's like mempool sniping except for miners ๐ง
A block re-org is when a miner (or set of miners) ignores a valid block from the network and continues to build their own chain from the previous block. If thatโฆ
BIP Land Update: OP_CAT assigned BIP 420
Today is a momentous day in the realm of BIP Land. OP_CAT has passed The Count is now BIP 420!
Since OP_CAT already hopped on the BINANA Boat to Bitcoin Inquisition, the next step in OP_CAT's activation is the Testnet Graveyard!
See youโฆ
Congrats to all the winners of our
@QuantumCatsXYZ
Quest 4 !!! ๐ฅณ Head over to Discord to collect your WL spot ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
Which team do you think won:
#ImDed
or
#StayingAlive
???
I've had so much fun cooking up Quest 4 over the past couple of months. Huge shoutout in advance to our captains. They've already been battling behind the scenes getting ready for y'all ๐ฅท
GMEOW to all the cat adoptoors today!
Don't forget, today was just the first step in the long journey through BIP Land...
#BringBackOPCAT
Now let's see those Quantum Cats!!! โ๏ธ๐โโฌ๐
๐ BIP Land: The Game ๐
Always wanted to take OP_CAT through BIP Land but never knew how? Today is your lucky day!
Our revamped BIP Land game board will bring fun to the whole family! Teach your loved ones about the perils of Bitcoin soft forks with new and improved gameโฆ
CatVM has finally arrived!!!
Writing this story over the past month was an amazing experience. I hope everyone enjoys the adventures of Young Rijndael!
CatVM: There and Back Again
CatVM is the first permissionless bitcoin bridge, allowing scaling in layers with no liquidity requirements, decentralized trading of ordinals and runes, and much more
CatVM is powered by OP_CAT and Quantum Cats๐ฑ
gmeow!
๐
Bitcoin & Change
The Bitcoin community is very good a pricing the downside risk of change. It's easy. You go look at the market cap. Today, it appears to be ~$850B. If a softfork breaks the protocol, then all of that value goes poof ๐ฌ๏ธ
What the Bitcoin community is not good atโฆ
If we're going to be the bearers of Bitcoin culture, it's incumbent on us to understand how Bitcoin works
@nonfungible_jan
and I are on a mission to make sure that happens ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช
Check out our first episode of Technically Bitcoin and up your UTXO game ๐ซก
๐จ First episode of Technically Bitcoin ๐จ
@Dr_DAO_
and I are diving into the subject of UTXOs. If you're an Ordinals enjoooooyer or just somebody new to
#Bitcoin
you can learn the basics of UTXOs in under 15 minutes.
All feedback welcome! ๐ซก
The battle for the future of Bitcoin is underway...
Check out my latest piece published with
@StanfordCrypto
to learn more!
"Some Ordinary Wizardry: The Future of Bitcoin"
Stanford Blockchain Review:
Mirror:
/ ๐งต below
When you come to visit your hydro homie
@nonfungible_jan
for Ordinals Asia, there's only one way to start the conference day... with a thirst trap.
#stayhydrated
New degens in the TW Discord think that I can't immediately tell what was written about OP_CAT with ChatGPT ๐๐๐
They have yet to learn that Bitcoin takes the path of max pain ๐จ
The Cat Checkerโข is now live! If you successfully paid an invoice on Tuesday, go find your furry friend ๐บ Huge shoutout to
@0xWhittle
for helping us spin this up!
For everyone else, we'll see you on Thursday for adoption 2.0 ๐ซก
This is what I love about our Discord at
@TaprootWizards
:
- No holder chats, all channels open to everyone
- Welcomes newcomers from any community (BTC, ETH, SOL, etc.)
- Actively learning more about Bitcoin each week
- Upgrading Bitcoin with OP_CAT ๐บ
Shout out to all theโฆ
Had a blast doing a 'lil magic with
@rodarmor
and
@realizingerin
yesterday ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช It's impossible to express in a tweet what amazing humans these two are.
Exactly 1 year ago, I published this article: Some Ordinary Wizardry: The Future of Bitcoin (Inscription
#602
,784)
It talks about the changing culture in Bitcoin and why Bitcoin needs a zk-rollup. It's also a big part of how I ended up at the
@TaprootWizards
.
I went back andโฆ
1 year ago we made history.
On Feb 1st, 2023, we mined the first 4MB block in bitcoin's history.
Inside it was a Taproot Wizard. And it changed bitcoin culture forever.
At
@TaprootWizards
, we're in the business of building Legendary Things.
What makes a thing Legendary?โฆ
Just got back from
@btcplusplus
and what an AWESOME conference!
I loved the energy everyone was bringing. At least among the people at the conference, it felt like we had "rough consensus" that we need to work together to make Script magical again.
Huge shoutout to
@niftynei
โฆ
I spent my entire 11 hr flight home from Amsterdam diving into
@super_testnet
's BitVM implementation.
I highly recommend this deep dive for anyone looking to understand BitVM at a fundamental level.
MEET THE QUEST 4 WINNERS!
your submissions BLEW OUR MINDS
SO MANY submissions and they were SO GOOD. we learned a ton about OP_CAT!
the note with the winning team is trapped in a quantum state, so we decided to pick 10 winners from each team!
20 FREE CATS in total ๐
Lesson 7: Mempool
Understanding the mempool is crucial when interacting with
#Bitcoin
, especially if you want to be a better trader.
Learn all about the mempool with
@nonfungible_jan
&
@Dr_DAO_
๐
Just had an awesome Wizard Wednesday collab with
@bearsnake_21
and
@dotta
๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช๐ซก
Had to pick up Battlemage Ravana after hearing everything they have cooking. I'll be adding to the Lore over the the next week ๐ Up only!
Partied hard with the wizards last night?
Feeling a 'lil hungover?
5 hours of sleep?
For
@nonfungible_jan
who can't be in NYC this week.
"No days off!"
I spent weeks digging through Casey and Raph's code only for them to make sweeping changes the night we first recorded this. Fortunately we love our viewers and re-recorded it the next day ๐ซก
Let's f*cking Rune!
Gmeow! You're looking at the first fully functional recursive covenant with OP_CAT ๐
Come join the
@QuantumCatsXYZ
Spaces tomorrow to learn what this giant script is doing and why it matters for Bitcoin's future!
๐ช SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT ๐บ
@Dr_DAO_
will be speaking at
@Ordinals_Asia
in Hong Kong, breaking down CatVM and everything else they're cooking at
@TaprootWizards
๐๏ธ TICKETS:
Gmeow to Ordinal DAOs!๐
Teaming up with frens to co-own some Ordinals (ahem
@QuantumCatsXYZ
)?
Here's how to set up an Ordinals Multisig with
@asignaio
+ Xverse๐ซง
Shout out to all the sandos on my timeline, but I'm onto your master plan...
>> Post reubens on timeline
>> Make CATs hungry
>> CATs eat too much from seeing too many tasty Reubens
>> CATs ded from corned beef
#StayHumble
#StackCats
#RubinsReubens
#TeamCovenants
๐Adam Back has blessed my unused app! ๐
In all seriousness, it's an incredible feeling to see
@adam3us
enjoying BIP Land If anyone in Ordinals does not know who Adam is, it's time to learn.
Adam is an OG of OG cypherpunks. Among his many contributions, the one you shouldโฆ
We're excited to announce the official
@TechnicallyBTC
channel is live!
@nonfungible_jan
and I are cooking up lessons so all Ordinals enjoyoors can learn how Bitcoin works. Our first episode on UTXOs is out now!
Level up your Bitcoin knowledge and follow
@TechnicallyBTC
๐
Technically Bitcoin
Episode 1: UTXOs
@Dr_DAO_
and
@nonfungible_jan
are diving into the subject of UTXOs.
If you're an Ordinals enjoooooyer or just somebody new to
#Bitcoin
you can learn the basics of UTXOs in under 20 minutes.
@BrunnoEth
@businessmaneth
@udiWertheimer
Have you taken the time to read through/watch the phenomenal content our community created around OP_CAT in the last week? I've put a few examples below. I have a spreadsheet with thousands.
I encourage you to actually engage with the material the community produced andโฆ
am I dead enough for life or alive enough for death?
either way the
@QuantumCatsXYZ
party was gmeow โฆ there is no second pet
๐
@EnglishNFTea
for the vid
Outside of the HMP episode on Runes, has anyone produced a useful guide to how Runes work from a technical standpoint?
Gearing up for the next
@TechnicallyBTC
episode ๐
Winning the Quantum Cat Costume contest came with terms and conditions.
Not only was I required to take a Wizard Shower, I was informed that I have to join the Taproot Wizards team!
So I guess Iโm now officially working with the wizards in Making Bitcoin Magical Againโฆ GMEOW!
Couldn't ask for a better CTO to do a 'lil magic with ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ช๐งก Already learned so much from
@rot13maxi
. Can't wait for what we build together ๐ซก
Did you know your jpeg data doesn't live in your wallet ๐คฏ? Find out where the inscription data really lives in this week's episode of
@TechnicallyBTC
!
Episode 3: Ordinals Protocol
Part 2: Inscriptions
@Dr_DAO_
and
@nonfungible_jan
breakdown inscriptions.
Learn the basics of inscriptions in the mempool and how they move throughout the blockchain. ๐ซก
What the f*ck is OP_CAT
Interactive explanations forever on Bitcoin: a7e927ae46941d7ff3e15d9a21d1889a271fd14232f398a3f5d0276a9a712680i0
View on ordiscan:
@QuantumCatsXYZ
#StayinAlive
#OP_CAT_IS_ALIVE
This is an emotional moment for me.
@phantom
- imo the best web3 wallet out there - is adding Bitcoin and ordinals support.
Last year, in 2022, bitcoin was a joke. The stagnant uncle of crypto. โNothing to see hereโ was the sentiment across the industry.
I went on one of theโฆ
BIP LAND game by
@TaprootWizards
@QuantumCatsXYZ
Goal: reactivate OP_CAT ๐ฑ๐ช
After playing over and over again these are my tips to help you reach the end of the game successfully:
1. Pick your best wizard
@udiWertheimer
and
@ercwl
may be good choices for this mission. ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ชโฆ
Episode 4: BRC-20s
Before there were Runes.... there were BRC-20s
BRC-20s once dominated the Ordinals landscape. Though Runes are all the rage now, it's important to understand how BRC-20s work.
This episode will inform your perception of Runes and allow you to degenโฆ
Stoked to announce the launch of with
@AlokVasudev
and
@annimaniac
๐ฅณ
We've put together an awesome summer program for students who are ready to build the future of Web3 and DeFi ๐
If you or anyone you know fits the bill, give me a shout!
I'm a Block Explorer! ๐
Let's delve into the genesis transaction of this
@OrdinalMaxiBiz
and uncover where it's on-chain data resides.
Try it yourself with any Digital Artifact you possess.๐ซก