Square did their part, now let’s do ours. For bitcoin to become everyday money, merchants need to accept it. But first, they’ll need a reason to. We've put together the resources to help anyone make the case that only bitcoin can defeat credit card fees:

Bitcoin Merchant Community

Bitcoin Merchant Community

The Bitcoin Merchant Community is a growing global community of small businesses helping one another defeat 3% credit card fees by accepting bitcoin

These resources include persuasive leave-behind materials that bitcoiners can bring to local businesses, from subtle, home printer-friendly handouts to bold, attention‑grabbing combo pieces like, uh, a plushie with impeccable penmanship. But no matter how good a leave-behind is, it’s better with a face. Included with each leave-behind is a playbook for you that includes step‑by‑step guidance for how to make the bitcoin case to merchants. We hope for this community to be an open and independent group with a simple goal: bitcoin payment adoption among merchants—regardless of which point-of-sale solution they prefer. It’s also where all of the resources we’ve mentioned so far can be found for free. For now, if you want the plushie combo, you'll have to pick it up at @bitcoinpark_ in Austin and Nashville, @atlbitlab, @SpaceDenver, and @PresidioBitcoin. This might change, though. Who can say? Bitcoin is weird and it’s only getting weirder.

New batch of Bitties at

Here Comes Bitcoin

Here Comes Bitcoin is the central resource for all things Bitcoin (puppet, not currency), including license-free creative assets that you can use t...

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Now that our newsletters and blog posts contain audio versions right at the top, you have no excuse not to keep up with all the important stuff we're pretending to work on.

2025 Q2 Spiral Progress Report

We’re working on stuff. What stuff? This stuff. It’s a lot more stuff than we would like.

Just ₿

Bringing ₿ to the World

Bitcoin has a symbol – let’s use It.

It’s time for Plushie Confidential #4. This one’s a little different in that instead of focusing on what we have done and learned so far, it serves as a rough sketch for what we will be doing as we expand our plushie business into Japan.

Plushie Confidential #4: Logistics, Retail, Building a Team, and AI Nightmares

You’d think that promoting a plushie in a foreign country where plushies are ubiquitous would be all fun and games, and you’d be half right. It...

Just use Veo3, they said. AI will be able to make him spin on his head while flailing his arms and legs, they said. He won’t look like the post-apocalyptic spawn of a bitcoin and a smoldering pile of sentient nuclear waste, they said.

CoinJoin doesn’t guarantee privacy—it just buys you a chance at privacy. One slip post-mix, and intersection attacks can trace you all the way back. Leaks compound fast, and even “perfect” mixes can collapse under real-world pressure. All this and more in The Scroll #4, the longest document or newsletter we have ever published:

The Scroll #4: Intersection Attacks on CoinJoin Anonymity

This is not only our longest edition of The Scroll yet, it might be the longest document we’ve ever published. But, you know what? This is for go...

Mining centralization is one of the biggest risks facing bitcoin. You can help solve it. Spiral is offering a unique grant opportunity for a Senior Engineer to significantly advance Stratum V2. We’re looking for a highly skilled individual with a proven track record in Rust development, specifically within mining infrastructure and distributed systems. The ideal person will excel at building scalable, application-layer APIs, servers, and proxies for real-world deployments. You’ll be at the forefront of creating open-source building blocks for the mining ecosystem.

In this third Plushie Confidential installment, we cover the huge response that Bitty and Itty Bitty got in Japan, as well as our plans to triple down on the Japanese plushie market. Hate reading? Push play to have a dapper Englishman read it to you.

Plushie Confidential #3: The Tokyo Connection

Sometimes Your Market Finds You.

In this edition of What’s Matt Mad At Now, he covers MEVil, his talk at bitcoin++ tomorrow, Core standardness rules, and all of it flavored by his incandescent, seething, volcanic rage.

The MEVil of Relay Policy

Matt’s back at it, and this time, he’s madder than ever.