Stuck in an infinite loop with my test node when Trump dropped his Bitcoin bombshell. Typical — all my memory leaks decide to show up right when history’s happening. Five years of fighting with distributed systems just to watch politics catch up to what we’ve been building.
Been knee-deep in protocol specs all year while BTC casually crossed $103k. But the real story? Watching suit-and-tie types stumble through terms like “Byzantine fault tolerance” in policy meetings. Still can’t decide if that’s hilarious or terrifying.
After January’s ETF green light, my Git logs got interesting. Between merging pull requests and optimizing database calls, watched institutional money finally figure out what we’ve been saying in those endless GitHub threads. Their “innovative solutions” were our closed issues from 2021.
The view from my desk in Connecticut hits different after coding through Santiago’s tech boom. Two continents, same git conflicts, but totally different infrastructure challenges. Those system resilience principles from engineering school? They make a lot more sense when you’ve seen both sides of the financial divide.
Latest commit to master: network throughput’s up 47%, consensus validation time down 23%. Clean logs, green tests — almost feels too good to be true. Each protocol…
