My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea". I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.

There have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record

Some brutal figures from Treasury's latest monthly statement, for the fiscal year to date —The U.S. deficit is at $1.8T, larger than the deficit for all of last year —$1.2 *trillion* spent on interest on the debt —Corporate tax receipts down 18% And still two months left to go!

UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF BOLTZ 📢 Over the past couple of months, AI-assisted attackers have been targeting Boltz with increasing frequency, intensity and sophistication. Several of these attacks succeeded, but because Boltz is non-custodial, user funds were never at risk. The entirety of the risk was ours, and as a result of the losses incurred, on August 3rd we made the difficult decision to suspend the service to prevent further damage. While working on a plan to bring Boltz back over the past days, we had to accept one painful insight: as a bootstrapped five-person startup, we simply don't have the resources to withstand the current level of attacks in the long run. Today, we are happy to announce that a group of veteran Bitcoiners came forward to help, bringing the capital and engineering power the project needs. They have agreed to take over Boltz and continue the service. Work to find and fix the vulnerabilities is already under way, with the goal of bringing swaps back as soon as possible. As we want to give them the freedom to introduce themselves in their own time, we are not attaching any names today. All original founders of Boltz have stepped down from the company, effective immediately. None of us will have any formal or authoritative role with the Boltz project going forward, and any future open-source participation by us is strictly on a voluntary basis. We are grateful for the community's support all these years, for the patience and understanding of our integrators affected by the disruption of our service, and to everyone who reached out offering support over the past week. It was a hell of a ride, and we are proud of our contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Godspeed to the new Boltz team as they navigate these perilous times. We know Boltz is in good hands. - Kilian, Michael & Karl

someone in the community put Hermes Agent on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM. the Pi 4 is a credit-card-sized computer that costs about $50 and draws a few watts. 2GB is less memory than most phones have. it works because of how Hermes Agent splits the job: the agent runs on the Pi, and the model does not. it talks to models over API, so the heavy lifting happens elsewhere and the Pi only runs the agent loop, memory and tools. this way you get an always-on agent and no VPS costs on a very affordable hardware.

The Interest Expense on US Public Debt hit $1.37 trillion over the last 12 months, another record high. If it continues to increase at the current pace it will soon be the largest line item in the Federal budget, surpassing Social Security.

Payjoin 1.0.0 has been released! What a journey it has been. Congrats to the PDK team. Expect excellent news on the same to follow shortly. We at BULL been working very hard to improve Payjoin, it's privacy and its adoption across the network.

BREAKING: Watch moment a total solar eclipse is reached over Iceland 🌑 Follow our live blog for more: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

2-bit NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ran tool calls nonstop for 10 minutes on just 22GB of VRAM. 🤯 It cited 80+ websites, executed code & searched for 10 real-world locations. Run and train via Unsloth Desktop. GGUF: Guide:

Payjoin Dev Kit 1.0 is here. The Rust implementation of BIP 77 and BIP 78 payjoin is stable on with foreign language bindings for wallets that aren't written in Rust available in Dart, C#, JavaScript, Python & more