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Top PostsTop Posts

1. The Other Bitcoin Mystery: Where’s Friedcat?
   • Friedcat founded one of the first ASIC mining companies, ASICminer, in 2012, at one point controlling 42% of the hashrate. Then he disappeared on January 25, 2015.
   • 41.2k sats \ 37 comments \ @siggy47
2. Invitation to Munkfest: The New Freedom Territory
   • CypherMunkhouse's London bitcoin hub invites stackers to Munkfest on March 21-22.
   • 15.3k sats \ 3 comments \ @PSYFER
3. Book Review: Everybody Loves Our Dollars, by Oliver Bullough
   • Bullough wrote a book on the many ways AML doesn't work and is impossible to fix. Yet, unwilling to fight crime in ways that work, concludes we need to do more what doesn't work: more AML. If no one can transact freely, neither can criminals. If we make every human a prisoner, no crime goes unpunished.
   • 14.3k sats \ 21 comments \ @denlillaapan
4. Bitcoin Devs Should Be Learning Isogeny Cryptography
   • Isogeny cryptography is a field of cryptography based on the concept of isogenies, mappings, between elliptic curves. Isogenies can be used to build public key cryptosystems able to do bitcoin things while also having no known quantum vulnerabilities.
   • 12.6k sats \ 8 comments \ @conduition
5. BLOG: ~ Do Ya Like Art? ~ No.1 intro
   • @plebpoet visits a contemporary art museum and tries to make sense of this sect of "art."
   • 8.5k sats \ 18 comments \ @plebpoet

Don't missDon't miss

• From cash to crypto: towards a consistent regulatory approach to illicit payment
• As an Iranian, I will explain why war was our only way out.
• global data esim with bitcoin lightning
• The Economics of AI and Infinite Supply
• Yes, we need "builders" all right! (Giacomo)
• An open-source and free alternative for tracking Bitcoin metrics
• How can AI make us wiser?
• USDA announces const. contract for sterile fly production facility in Texas
• BLOG: Do Ya Like Art? No. 2 Experience (with fibbing)
• Are quantum procrastinators dangerous even if Bitcoin has a quantum fix?
• Cathedra Bitcoin and Sphere 3D to merge, expand into AI services
• What did you sacrifice for Bitcoin ?
• PREDYX is looking for funding.
• Help us rename our privacy service — 200k sats bounty
• RIP #15: A Formal Model of Post Effort and Learning on Stacker News
• The Brand Age
• Bitcoin Education App - looking for testers/feedback
• Let’s Make Some (White) Noise — Last Week in Bitcoin (Mar 02 - 08)
• Are there 20 million bitcoins yet?
• The explosion in Building I'm seeing
• My first day metal detecting...

all of this week's top posts

Top metaTop meta

• Stacker News Monthly: February 2026 - Pew Pew Edition
• SN release: what you see is what you get (wysiwyg) editor
• How Stacker News avoids the Brand Age
• SNZ has a Golden Anniversary with #50
• Are political posts (Iran war, Israel) actively downzapped on Stacker News?
• Israel/Iran war posts are heavily downzapped. This extension tracks SN downzaps.
• This Day on SN: March 6

all of this week's meta

Top Monday memeTop Monday meme

all monday memes

Top StackersTop Stackers

1. @Scoresby: 63.8k sats stacked
2. @optimism: 49.4k sats stacked
3. @grayruby: 42.4k sats stacked
4. @BlokchainB: 39.9k sats stacked
5. @Undisciplined: 37.1k sats stacked

Top SpendersTop Spenders

1. @Scoresby: 125.1k sats spent
2. @BlokchainB: 68.5k sats spent
3. @Undisciplined: 58.6k sats spent
4. @Bell_curve: 56.7k sats spent
5. @Public_N_M_E: 56.4k sats spent

Top CowboysTop Cowboys

1. @Undisciplined: 900 days
2. @BlokchainB: 879 days
3. @grayruby: 843 days
4. @Scoresby: 285 days
5. @Public_N_M_E: 160 days

Yeehaw,
Keyan
A guy who works on Stacker News

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