Unfortunate. It probably creates a chilling effect on bitcoin devs and builders.

This is a terrible outcome for Roman and for all of crypto. If the Trump administration wants the USA to be the crypto capital of the world, then DOJ must not be allowed to retry the two deadlocked charges. This is existential. If you've been sleeping on Section 1960, wake up.

The Bitcoin dollar Based on the V2 codebase, a true BTC stablecoin is launching soon. No token. No governance. Only BTC collateral. A public good for the crypto industry.

🔓 @AlpenLabs’ Bitcoin financial system testnet is now live! Developers can build trading, borrowing & stablecoin apps directly on BTC using ZK-rollups. Mainnet next! ⚡ - Features BTC-backed "Bitcoin Dollar" stablecoin. - EVM compatibility for Ethereum devs. - Backed by Ribbit, Castle Island Ventures.

The promise of ZK-enabled Bitcoin yield is being realized one polynomial at a time (and will be here sooner than you might have expected)

Alpen is the first Bitcoin rollup that will make native BTC a productive asset. Excited for their testnet launch! One step closer to mainnet :)

Expanding Bitcoin's functionality & scalability is one of, if not the most important technical frontier in all of crypto Couldn't be more excited to watch Alpen come to life and get to use it soon

@AlpenLabs Public testnet is live. Many of the things we’re doing are zero-to-one innovations for Bitcoin. I continue to feel incredibly optimistic about our team and the work we do.

Bitcoin’s financial system is coming online. Alpen's Public Testnet is now live! Borrow, trade, earn yield & use stablecoins – soon on Bitcoin.

Excited to continue working on Bitcoin Layers 🧡 I’ve received funding from StarkWare (the creator of @Starknet), Alpen Labs, and Lightspark to maintain the @BitcoinLayers open-source repository. @StarkWareLTD, @AlpenLabs, and @spark have done extensive R&D on bitcoin scaling, and I’m excited to work with them on improving bitcoin’s L2 transparency dashboard and other research-focused products. With the upcoming (and previous) launches of various L2 schemes, sidesystems, and improved two-way peg designs, *now* is the best time to research bitcoin L2s. My goal remains the same: ensure users, and developers, understand the tradeoffs for all bitcoin layers that exist. I’ll be maintaining the Bitcoin Layers’ repository in addition to my role with @btcinsider__. This funding sees me working on the project through early 2026. And reminder, I am the only active contributor to the project. Everything is open-source. PRs and creating issues are welcome!