like @spiralbtc has done, we're giving grants to developers who work on goose open source to make it the best self-sovereign development tool out there.

The nerd responsible for our 4th Nerd of the Month newsletter installment, @siv2r, is working on BIP specifications for FROST signing and ChillDKG. Beyond FROST, he's also planning to add support to secp256k1 for batch verifying Schnorr signatures.

They really captured his essence, right down to the monastic bald guy manipulating nature’s wrath aesthetic.

Silicon Valley—help us DESIGN FUTURE MONEY Announcing Bitcoin Design Week @PresidioBitcoin Sept 15-19th We’re inviting Silicon Valley-based product designers to join us for a week of free events to learn about—and shape—the future of bitcoin this fall. RSVP or Apply to attend

👀 Anyone interested in a grant to work on this? Even better, want to do it out of the Presidio Bitcoin office in San Francisco?

You can also use assets for your next hackathon project, enterprise software endeavor, or vibe coded whatever. And with 19 new images recently added, there’re more ways than ever to show people how easily amused you are even as an adult by dumb cartoons.

It’s time for Plushie Confidential #4. This one’s a little different in that instead of focusing on what we have done and learned so far, it serves as a rough sketch for what we will be doing as we expand our plushie business into Japan.

Whenever a sign-up flow requires me to input my ACH and routing numbers, I can feel a shard of my soul struggling to escape my body.

Here’s to @not_nothingmuch‘s rapid rise and inevitable, eventual decision to leave us for a fame-seeking media career that sees him doing 180 bitcoin speaking engagements per year regardless of how dodgy, regrettable, or esoteric the platform.

The only catch is that every presentation, product, and person will be in 16-bit.