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ICYMI, the first public Nakamoto testnet went live yesterday!

Note that like mainnet, this testnet has 2 phases: instantiation and activation. Yesterday it was instantiated, meaning the `pox-4` contract is materialized but Nakamoto consensus rules are not yet active. Activation…

Project management learnings:
- Plans are wishes
- Focus on doing the next and most important thing
- Money, time, and scope: Pick 2
- Things will go wrong before they go right
- Over-communicate
- The only thing that matters is shipping. Ship fast and often, iterate and learn.

Friendly reminder 👇

Attention stacks.btc buildoors! New rate-limits for all Hiro APIs are going into effect today -- tl;dr is we're reducing limits for unauthenticated traffic, if you need higher limits, get an API key.

More details here:
hiro.so/blog/updated-r…

Travis is truly exceptional to work with!

If you're in need of a MarkOps expert, I wholeheartedly endorse Trav, you won't be disappointed. 🌟

This is still the best business advice I've ever received:

Think like a farmer

😱 Bitcoin builders conf is starting with an amazing panel!

#BTCBuilders2023

🎉I'll be in Miami on May 17th for ₿itcoin ₿uilders Conference // Returning in 2024! Can't wait to hang out and discuss ideas with other Bitcoin L2s.

If you are around, my is giving away 50% off discounts, just use the code “HIRO” 🙀

bitcoinbuildersconf.com

A release that begins to address the ongoing bug affecting Stacking is now available. 🧵

Release: stx.is/Rj0vRJ

The issue: stx.is/2GFeDT

I am extremely happy to be able to share what my team has been working on for the past few months. 🎉

My Dad’s Facebook just got owned. He had an old email publicly linked to the account on a domain he let expire.

Hacker bought the domain, set up the old email address, and walked right through the front door.

Stacks NFTs...the perfect Ordinals companion 👀

We’ve begun rolling out support to Hiro Wallet for Bitcoin, NFTs and Ordinals for a truly cross-protocol Bitcoin Web3 experience. wallet.hiro.so

🧵 A thread with details… #bitcoin #web3 #stx #nfts #ordinals

🟧 HeroGamer🥕⚡ Hiro @xverseApp Hiro Wallet support for Ordinals is underway as an enhancement to our Bitcoin support which lands on testnet next week 🚀📈

🚨 Just in: Stacks Is the #1 Web3 Project on #Bitcoin For Second Year in a Row

The 2023 Electric Capital ⚡️ report measured this by developer activity. #Stacks is also a top-30 crypto project (at #28) as measured by total developers.

Explore the full report 👇

NEW: we’re releasing two papers that enable trustless movement of BTC in/out of Bitcoin layers; unlocking the full potential of Bitcoin in DeFi & web apps.

A trustless two-way Bitcoin peg has been a holy grail problem for a decade.

More details👇

Perhaps a bit late for Halloween this year...Dark mode is now available in Hiro Wallet (v3.23.0) under the settings menu 🌚🎃

🎉I wrote about Crypto and Web3 in the simplest possible way.

Even you can understand it! give it a try.

hiro.so/blog/crypto-st…

The Hiro Wallet team is hard at work adding Bitcoin support. You'll soon deposit and manage your BTC alongside your STX, then deploy that BTC inside Web3 apps built on Stacks

🧵 Here’s a thread with early mockups of what we have in mind…

wallet.hiro.so