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Top PostsTop Posts

1. Mint your own Casascius style bitcoin with $1 NFC tags, new FOSS bitcoin project
   • @justh0dl made an app and guide for producing DIY NFC bitcoin tags aimed at casual bitcoin tipping.
   • 6.3k sats \ 27 comments \ @justh0dl
2. [HM] A History of Heatpunkery - Where can I get a bitcoin miner water heater?
   • Bitcoin miners have been finding use for waste heat since the days of GPU mining in 2011. @Scoresby explores early instances of heatpunkery and how it's evolved.
   • 5.7k sats \ 21 comments \ @Scoresby
3. A Sovereign Brain on a Laptop: Local LLM + Pi Agent + Markdown
   • @rolznz built an AI assistant meant to use a local LLM and a simple markdown database.
   • 5.6k sats \ 10 comments \ @rolznz
4. What the heck is digital credit?
   • Digital credit is a marketing term. Buying "digital credit" means loaning bitcoin treasury companies dollars so that they can buy more bitcoin. Importantly, it lacks all the protections that such loans normally have.
   • 4.5k sats \ 36 comments \ @Scoresby
5. Brink is Now Funding My Research
   • @conduition becomes a Brink grantee, continuing work on PQC hash-based signature upgrades to bitcoin, rescue proposals, and isogeny cryptography.
   • 4.6k sats \ 3 comments \ @conduition

Top AMAsTop AMAs

• Yoo HT AMA LFG!
  • 4.3k sats \ 58 comments \ @HodlTarantula1
• 📣 AMA Announcement: Grubles and co from Second.Tech (Ark) - Tuesday, 10AM
  • 1.3k sats \ 0 comments \ @Scoresby

all of this week's AMAs

Don't missDon't miss

• LLM weights small enough to fit in a bitcoin tx
• BTC vote: Do you support the U.S. pausing arms sales to Taiwan?
• BTC vote: Do you miss Gary Gensler?
• Carl: the torrent client I always wanted but couldn't find
• Trip Report: Vienna
• Motion vocabulary
• First real Nostr Zap via CLINK noffer between Zeus and ShockWallet
• Solving Bitcoin's Biggest Problem through Human-to-Human Communication
• Trezor says your crypto is safe after Ledger audit exposes a hardware flaw
• How the Boomers Screwed Europe (The Economist)
• Fewer migrants, fewer homeless
• Freedom Clock: I measure my wealth in years, not dollars or sats
• Praxeology of Privacy Book Club - Part I
• NBA Finals Game 1 Discussion
• NBA Finals Game 2 Discussion
• Flesh-eating screwworm case suspected in South Texas, USDA says
• Does bitcoin have to 'go up' to be a good currency?
• IPO Partying Like It's Nineteen Ninety-Nine (FT, Robin Wigglesworth)
• The pagan gods of politics [Original essay]
• 2026 World Cup Predictions (Silver Bulletin, Nate Silver)
• Twenty One Capital: four days to comply with NYSE rules
• Added contributing documentation for Bitcoin Backbone

all of this week's top posts

Top metaTop meta

• Issue #60 you know what it is!!
• Notifications need an upgrade!
• What are you working on this week?
• This Day on SN: May 31
• This Day on SN: June 2

all of this week's meta

Top Monday memeTop Monday meme

all monday memes

Top StackersTop Stackers

1. @Scoresby: 75.8k sats stacked
2. @grayruby: 50.3k sats stacked
3. @BlokchainB: 43.9k sats stacked
4. @0xbitcoiner: 30.4k sats stacked
5. @gsc360: 11.6k sats stacked

Top SpendersTop Spenders

1. @rizful_com: 230.2k sats spent
2. @BlokchainB: 147.2k sats spent
3. @Scoresby: 133.6k sats spent
4. @sox: 54.1k sats spent
5. @MaxAWebster: 51.4k sats spent

Top CowboysTop Cowboys

1. @BlokchainB: 963 days
2. @grayruby: 927 days
3. @Scoresby: 369 days
4. @Public_N_M_E: 244 days
5. @OT: 133 days

Yeehaw,
Keyan
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