Short panel on merchant adoption.
Hipster burgers here in Manchester takes bitcoin. The owner says people are generally more curious than dismissive.
Gresham's law implies that people spend their worst money first. They want rid of it. When you give merchants your bank money you give them the worst money. Be kinder to merchants!
Ben from lnbits, the first merchant point of sales lightning devices, says merchants are interested because they want to have a broad portfolio. Accepting bitcoin is the easiest way to get it, without "know your customers" banking rules.
#bitfest #bitcoin
Discovery of carbon monoxide emission from five debris disks around young A-type stars
A. Mo\'or, P. \'Abrah\'am, \'A, K\'osp\'al, G. Cataldi, A. M. Hughes, S. Marino, Q. Kral, J. Milli, N. Pawellek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16104
I love how Fediverse apps like #Peertube and Mastodon are connected and you can like videos from Mastodon. However, the user experience sucks. If I'm on a Peertube page I need to have an account on that server to be able to like videos.
To avoid that, I need to paste the Peertube URL into Mastodon's search to see the video's post and I can like it from there.
I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
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Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…
Currently sitting in a little park near the auto shop I've been going to for the better part of a decade. Which, definitely still a Protip: search out the best indie shop you can find in your area. Stay away from the chains. My credit card balance might be about to eat a fat bill (thank fuck I have the option even tho I hate it lol) but it's worth the money for the piece of mind knowing a real pro did the work.
Was an exciting short trip over here from home 😀 Basically 5mph un…
Short-Lived Radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions
Joseph W. Eatson, Richard J. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12079 https://