This post is written by Spiral grantee, Matt Morehouse, who is working on improving Lightning’s security and stability.

Or, rebuilding the Lightning Network's Foundations.

A Lightning Development Kit Case Study, by Max Fang

Matt’s mad again, but for good reason. If you care about bitcoin’s promise, you should be mad, too.

Spiral Product Managers, Mat Balez and Conor Okus, outline a few long-term plans to grow the influence and impact of the Bitcoin Design Community.

It's 10 PM, Do You Know Where “CoinJoin” Gets Its Meaning?

Listen now | Our thesis is pretty simple: we can only make the case that bitcoin is money if people can spend it.

Spiral has supported FOSS bitcoin since 2019, making bitcoin everyday money by improving security, privacy, and especially UX. That’s why we’re focused on how the next wave of users spend bitcoin.

It’s been one month since we launched the Bitcoin Merchant Community and we’re off to a strong start.

Agentic payments are coming. It’s time for open-source agents to step up or their days are numbered.

How Bitcoin Core's mempool policy evolved to support Lightning (and other Layer 2s), and why it took nearly ten years to do it well.

A Spiral report on the adoption and mindset of AI usage in open-source development.

The asymmetry between attackers and maintainers shouldn't decide bitcoin's security.

Spiral PM Mat Balez weighs the relative merits of stablecoins vs bitcoin for agentic payments and nudges us towards the more neutral option.

Spiral is expanding beyond bitcoin into open-source AI by bringing the core goose developers from Block onto the team.

Descubra como a cebola impacta a saúde do coração e o açúcar no sangue, segundo estudo com 160 mil adultos sobre genética e nutrição.

He nearly lost his mind at twenty. He saw the camps coming twenty years early. We put him on a mug.