Bitcoin’s self-custody stack is getting sharper: Sparrow, Coldcard, Silent Payments, MuSig2 and mobile wallets are pushing better privacy, security and recovery. The catch? More capability still means more complexity, and bad user habits can wreck the whole setup.
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Bitcoin Silent Payments could make on-chain payments more private by cutting address reuse, but there’s a catch: wallets must scan for incoming funds, and that gets messy fast for lighter setups. Sparrow Wallet is helping push the feature beyond theory, but usability still has to catch up.
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Maelstrom’s Bitcoin Grant Program just hit a useful milestone: 20 months in, five developers funded, four still active, and a stack of real Bitcoin work to show for it. No token nonsense, no marketing fog machine — just people grinding on Bitcoin Core, privacy tooling, and the infrastructure that keeps the network alive. 5 developers […]
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