Occasional notes on Bitcoin, product leadership, and the tradeoffs that actually matter.
I built Paywritr (the Lightning-paywalled blog you are reading) by standing up a two-agent Product + Engineering delivery system with isolated workspaces, scoped permissions, persistent memory, and hard quality gates, and this post unpacks the control surfaces that made it deterministic, auditable, and resilient under token and context limits.
A Bitcoin Core v30 bug can delete your entire wallet folder during a legacy wallet migration, and most people in the blast radius don't know they're in it.
A quiet relay-policy tweak in Bitcoin Core (removing the default 80-byte OP_RETURN limit) has triggered a very loud fight over whether Bitcoin should be optimized for payments or treated as a neutral data layer, with a growing chunk of nodes switching to Bitcoin Knots to keep tighter spam filters.
If your gut is telling you to hide in gold, listen, but while you stack the occasional ounce, let me translate Bitcoin into the language you already understand, property, scarcity, and safe-haven logic, minus the hype, so you can decide if it belongs in your mental model.
Fintech product teams can keep shipping through regulatory fog by treating policy risk like a first-class product surface, building configurable compliance into the stack, and running structured experiments that survive rule changes.