Https://stacks.co is building smart contracts through a separate blockchain which reads and writes to the main bitcoin blockchain. There are others too. These higher expression layers will allow bitcoin to be used in finance with reduced counterparty risk. Bitcoin is money. Please don’t FOMO into any of these projects; just put a few sats in; see how they work / don’t work. Beta testing mentality. These other... Source: over 1 year ago

We have DeFi on bitcoin — https://stacks.co. Source: over 1 year ago

TLDR: The sBTC whitepaper proposes Stacks[1] and sBTC[2] as layer-two mechanism for unlocking defi (DEXs, NFTs, and other dapps, etc.) on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. I've started deconstructing and analyzing it in relation to what it means for both Bitcoin and Stacks. [1] https://stacks.co/ [2] https://assets.stacks.co/sbtc.pdf. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I suggest fellow Bitcoiners research the stacks project https://stacks.co. Source: over 1 year ago

Stake (they call it stack) Stacks and get paid in either BTC or STX (stacks.co). No trust needed - as you keep your coins in your own wallet and delegate them like you do with Tezos. Source: about 2 years ago

Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago