I convinced another Ukrainian military division to accept Bitcoin donations, the Wild Division, of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade. I visited them at their training camp this summer. They urgently need $1445 to replace a broken drone signal repeater. https://mempool.space/address/bc1qnjedusjssqt2efcfszh2sywek9eavf0dsreyyg bc1qnjedusjssqt2efcfszh2sywek9eavf0dsreyyg You might ask, why am I dressed in green, like a soldier? Because that training camp is ~50km from the front line. Russia knows where it is, and periodically sends drones to observe it. Since Russia actively targets journalists, we were better off blending in rather than following the usual rules of identifying ourselves clearly as press.

As seen in DC!

Another blackout in Belgorod, Russia, apparently caused by a drone attack on a substation. Ukraine has also been attacking Russian power plants lately. When Russia caused blackouts in Ukraine, Ukrainians responded with massive deployments of generators. Russia can't do easily do they as Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries have lead to fuel shortages. The entire Russian economy is a valid military target. Including every tax paying Russian. Also, nice video of a recent attack on fuel storage in occupied Crimea:

Your homework problem: figure out how this can be used to DoS attack Bitcoin Knots nodes. https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/29.x-knots/doc/man/bitcoind.1

Computers used to be really slow. https://youtu.be/Ws4twUyt-MY

We're halfway there to raising 42,000sats for the btc++ OpenTimestamps prize! https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps/goals

Thanks! Although I do have to point out that Libre Relau is actually almost identical to Core, because Core has removed pretty much every non-technical restriction on transactions. So in practice just running Core is almost the same. At the moment the only difference compared to the upcoming v30 release is relaying transactions using the Taproot annex, and replace-by-fee-rate; I do need to get around to removing the dust limit. But that breaks a lot of tests and there isn't a lot of demand for doing that. Libre Relay is in a way more of a piece of performance art, proving that censorship/filtering is a bad path to go down. It shows what's possible, even if in practice it's very close to Core. But yes, people running this piece of performance art is a useful statement in of itself! So thank you!

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/30/situatsiya-kriticheskaya-rossii-gotovitsya-zakupat-benzin-zagranitsei-iz-za-defitsita-a175876 Enough Russian oil refining capacity has been taken out that Russia is preparing to import gasoline and diesel. 😁😁😁

NATO vs Ukraine The interceptor drones that Ukraine has been using to take out ~$50,000 shaheds cost ~$2000 Poland used $250,000 missiles to take them out... and didn't even come close to getting them all. https://yle.fi/a/7-10085384

Lol, no. There's damage everywhere. The first image I showed is typica of the downtown areal: a beautiful building with every single window broken. What holding Russia back is Ukrainians. Nothing more.

Yup...

https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps/goals/778 At the btc++ Berlin Hackathon we're doing a new award: The Most Unnecessary Use of OpenTimestamps In An Otherwise Serious Entry, with a 42,000sat prize. With your donations we hope to guide a young hitchhiker to an entire galaxy of OpenTimestamps use-cases...

https://youtube.com/shorts/_7Wklo6B_so

Safelite image of the massive drone cages Russia has built around the oil refinery in Salavat, 1300km from Ukraine: It didn't work:

The drones that flew in Romanian airspace were allowed to fly unimpeded for 40 minutes before flying into a different part of Ukraine to kill Ukrainians. They were not shot down.