Spiral x Goose: The Best is Yet to Honk
Spiral is expanding beyond bitcoin into open-source AI by bringing the core goose developers from Block onto the team.
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The Best Money For Agents
Spiral PM Mat Balez weighs the relative merits of stablecoins vs bitcoin for agentic payments and nudges us towards the more neutral option.
Meet Loupe: AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning for Open-Source Bitcoin
The asymmetry between attackers and maintainers shouldn't decide bitcoin's security.
Metacognition is the AI Skill of the future. Always has been.
A Spiral report on the adoption and mindset of AI usage in open-source development.
A Decade of Workarounds
How Bitcoin Core's mempool policy evolved to support Lightning (and other Layer 2s), and why it took nearly ten years to do it well.
Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious
Agentic payments are coming. It’s time for open-source agents to step up or their days are numbered.
Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious
Listen now | Agentic payments are coming. It’s time for open-source agents to step up or their days are numbered.
Bitcoin Merchant Community: One Month Update
The Bitcoin Merchant Community is an effort to accelerate bitcoin payment adoption by merchants.
Bitcoin Merchant Community: One Month Update
It’s been one month since we launched the Bitcoin Merchant Community and we’re off to a strong start.
Making Bitcoin Speak Human
The existing bitcoin address ecosystem looks about as intimidating to newcomers as it could.