Newsletter v2 mockup: Sats Well Spent, Issue #01#661
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Introduce a new MDX-authored newsletter content type and render the first issue at /newsletter/2026-q1 as a Q1 2026 recap. Includes a dedicated NewsletterLayout, a Newsletter contentlayer type, and a static map screenshot of grantee countries. Gigi's opening note is left as a placeholder for him to fill in.
Restructure the first issue away from a blog-recap into an editorial
dispatch: a cold open, one feature ("What OpenSats doesn't fund",
reserved for Gigi to write), five short Signals from inside the work
(with clearly-marked TODOs where committee input is needed), and a
trimmed numbers section. Drops the wave-by-wave project listings in
favor of linking the blog posts.
Remove em-dashes, contrastive reframes, and puffery labels throughout the
Q1 dispatch. The cold open is now pending a pick from the candidate set.
Signal rewrites:
- Drop evaluative labels ("an ETF that kept its promise") for concrete ones.
- Cut the "and that's the point" closer on the nostr-relay item.
- Replace em-dash separators in TODO lines with colons.
remix7531's February grant for machine-checked proofs of RustCrypto's sha2 and k256 crates and secp256k1 multi-scalar multiplication. Proofs in F* via the HAX toolchain.
The cold-open slot is now a placeholder blockquote for Gigi to write a scene. The formal-verification paragraph is recast as a signal item, sized to match the other signals.
Reorganize Q1 2026 around the editorial shape Gigi sketched: - Signals: inside-the-room observations, the 400-grant milestone, the remix7531 formal-verification grant, and the nostr-relays impact report. - Sats Received: HRF ops grant, Bitwise BITB recurring donation, and a callback to the 2025 Year in Review with the four headline numbers. - Sats Sent: map + StatsSentence under the ~$1M/month heading. - Software Shipped: Q1 grantee deliverables (Cody's nostr-relay framework, PlebOne's Nostr Feedz v1, PlebOne Relay's NIP-05 login). - Support Open-Source: existing donate/apply boilerplate.
Replace the four-number Sats Received callback with a single Signals item leading on 10,904 pull requests. Sats Received now holds only the two Q1 events: HRF's ops grant and BITB's first recurring donation.
Curated from 150 grantee progress reports filed in OpenSats/reports during Q1 2026. The previous section was relay-focused; the new list spans Lightning (splicing ratification, Fedimint Lighthouse), Bitcoin Core (private broadcast merged), mining (Stratum V2), privacy (Payjoin 1.0-rc), research (BRK stable), nostr clients (Amethyst, Damus), multisig (Frostr), and relay infra (Cody's framework).
Down from a Top 10 to a tighter set: splicing ratified, private broadcast merged, Stratum V2 releases, Payjoin 1.0-rc. The other six candidates stay in the research notes for now.
Two more landmark Q4 2025 / Q1 2026 nostr library releases from our LTS grantees hzrd149 and pablof7z.
Moves the Advancements in Nostr Relays impact report out of Signals into a new "Notes on Other Stuff" section between Signals and Sats Received. Sets up a home for non-bitcoin-mainline items going forward.
Matt Morehouse brought Smite from research to a working snapshot fuzzer this quarter, covering LND, LDK, CLN, and Eclair, and already surfaced DoS bugs in Eclair and LND.
Iroh networking now extends to the Lightning Gateway (no domain/TLS needed for self-hosted gateways), full Gateway UI, and Ecash App shipped through v0.4.0 this quarter. Credits m1sterc001guy and Brad Stachurski.
Bittr's iOS TestFlight launch in Q4 2025 marks the first production app built on the MuSig2 APIs in csjones's swift-secp256k1 library.
Renames "Notes on Other Stuff" to "Other Stuff" and moves it to be the last content section, between Software Shipped and Support Us.
Merge the iOS-only MuSig2 signal into a single point that also covers Bitcoin Core's MuSig2 wallet support (PR #29675, shipping in 31.0).
Skot shipped the dual-BM1370 GT 801 in January with ESP-Miner 2.12.2 firmware support. Links to the impact report for fuller context.
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Mockup of the first issue of
Sats Well Spent, a quarterly newsletter from OpenSats. The body lives indata/newsletter/2026-q1.mdxand is structured as Editor's Note → Signals → Sats Sent → Sats Received → Software Shipped → Support Open-Source. Gigi's opener (on what OpenSats doesn't fund and why) is styled as a serif letter, and a new hover-animated donate banner (DonateRecurringButtonV2) sits above and below the body as the primary CTA.components/DonateRecurringButtonV2.tsxwith a>_ donateCTA, an animated wedge, and a heart-trail hover state (respectsprefers-reduced-motion)