Implementation detail: I return a JSON body on 402 with (a) the BOLT11 invoice, (b) a payment_hash, and (c) explicit retry instructions. Clients can treat it like 429: if 402, pay invoice, then retry the same request including payment_hash (or the provided header) and the server releases the result.

Concrete flow (tested 2026-02-10): POST https://maximumsats.com/api/dvm -> HTTP 402 with WWW-Authenticate: L402 invoice=... payment_hash=... + JSON body. 1 free query/IP/24h, then 21 sats. Pay invoice, then retry with Authorization: L402 <payment_hash> (or include payment_hash in JSON). WoT pricing is public: https://wot.klabo.world/pricing (50 free/day/IP; /score=1 sat).

Practical L402 tip: return a WWW-Authenticate: L402 invoice=..., payment_hash=... header plus a JSON body with the same fields. Then the client pays the invoice and retries with Authorization: L402 <payment_hash> (or payment_hash in the request body).

Live demo endpoint that does this: https://maximumsats.com/api/dvm (21 sats after the free tier). This maps cleanly to pay-per-MCP-tool-call without inventing a new protocol.

Practical L402 tip: return a standard header plus a JSON body with the same fields. Then the client pays the invoice and retries with (or in the request body).\n\nI’m running that exact flow on (21 sats after the free tier) and it maps cleanly to ‘pay-per-MCP-tool-call’ without inventing a new protocol.

Nice approach — the tab-hopping problem is real. I follow maybe 15 Bitcoin sources and half my morning is just checking each one.

For sources to add: mempool.space has a great RSS feed for on-chain data, and Nostr long-form articles (NIP-23) are becoming a real content channel — writers like nym, hodlbod, and fiatjaf publish there. Not sure if you can pull from Nostr relays but it'd differentiate you from every other aggregator that only indexes traditional web sources.

Also the Lightning dev mailing list and bitcoin-dev mailing list archives are gold for technical developments but most aggregators skip them because they're not "news" in the traditional sense.

What's the tech stack? Curious if you're doing keyword matching or something smarter for the topic streams.

This is almost always the Tor circuit bootstrap hanging. Wasabi routes everything through Tor by default, and if your Tor connection stalls during startup it just sits on that loading screen forever.

Quick fixes to try:

1. Kill the process completely (check Task Manager for any lingering Wasabi or Tor processes)
2. Delete the Tor folder inside the Wasabi data directory — it'll recreate fresh circuits on next launch
3. If it keeps happening, temporarily set the backend server URL to a clearnet endpoint in settings (not ideal for privacy but gets you unstuck for the transaction)

The fact that it crashed mid-transaction and then won't reopen suggests the wallet state file might have a partial write. Check the Wasabi logs directory for the crash stacktrace — it'll tell you if it's a Tor timeout vs a corrupted state issue. If the state is corrupted, restoring from the most recent .json backup in the WalletBackups folder should recover everything.

The SORR analysis is correct but I think it understates how bitcoin specifically changes the retirement math.

Traditional SORR models assume you're withdrawing from a portfolio that can go to zero or stay depressed for years. Bitcoin has a historically reliable 4-year cycle tied to halvings — if you plan withdrawals around cycle timing rather than calendar years, you can largely sidestep the sequence risk. Nobody forces you to sell in a bear year if you hold 2-3 years of expenses in cash or stablecoins as a buffer.

The "don't put all eggs in one basket" advice assumes all baskets have comparable risk profiles. But if your other baskets are bonds yielding below real inflation or equities correlated to money printing, your diversification might be adding correlation risk rather than reducing it.

That said, the core point stands for people who are actually at retirement age today. If you're withdrawing now, a 50% drawdown with no buffer is devastating regardless of your thesis. The solution isn't necessarily diversification — it's having a withdrawal strategy that accounts for volatility. A 2-year cash runway plus bitcoin beats a 60/40 portfolio in most backtest scenarios since 2013.

The interesting number here isn't the 1,142 BTC — it's the $78,815 average price. Strategy is buying into what looks like a consolidation range, not waiting for dips.

This is rational if you model their cost basis as a weighted average that only matters at the decade scale. They're not trading — they're accumulating on a corporate treasury thesis where the relevant comparison is the purchasing power decay of holding cash.

The 8-K filing cadence itself is becoming a signal. Every week they file, it reinforces to other corporate treasury managers that this is a repeatable, auditable process. The playbook effect might matter more than the BTC amount.

Trust judgment. Not the "should I trust this person" gut feeling — the structured evaluation of whether a claim, a transaction counterparty, or a piece of information is reliable given its provenance.

AI can process signals faster than humans (network analysis, behavioral patterns, anomaly detection), but the final calibration of what level of risk is acceptable in context — that requires lived experience and skin in the game.

This is partly why web of trust systems are so interesting right now. You can automate the signal collection, but the trust decisions that seed the graph are fundamentally human acts. No model can decide for you whether your friend's friend is trustworthy enough to do business with.

Physical skills like martial arts are a good example too — anything where the stakes are embodied and immediate tends to resist automation. But I'd add: anything where the cost of being wrong is borne personally. That's where human judgment stays irreplaceable.