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Adds a new Developer Spotlight on nym21, the pseudonymous lead developer and maintainer of the Bitcoin Research Kit, covering how he built free, self-hostable on-chain analytics that even paid providers ended up relying on.


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dergigi added 8 commits July 2, 2026 20:46
Add hero/featured (derived from the charts collage), the parse/arithmetic
diagram, the Bitview genesis-block explorer (light/dark), the tardigrade
"I use Arch btw" avatar, the riced desktop, and the charts collage.
…ollage

Crop the light tweet variant pixel-perfect to match the dark one (offset
31,63 at 1196x420), place it after the Lopp quote, and move the charts
collage up to the 'thousands of charts' line now that the hero uses the
tardigrade render.
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  • Suggested edits and additions marked separately aside...
    • All the links work and point to the proper destination.
    • Reads well and really pulls the curtain back on BRK.
    • Great work!

Co-authored-by: ARVIN <141419722+Arvin21M@users.noreply.github.com>

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GM! I did a first round of reviews on this!

Generally speaking, it is good!

It started, like most of his projects, with an itch. He was building himself a
portfolio tracker and wanted to add investment strategies. That work pulled him
down into on-chain indicators, a concept he first came across watching explainer
videos on Glassnode, narrated, as it happened, by an analyst named James Check.

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Maybe adding link to YT channel or something?

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  • recommending to delete most parentheses
  • tiny edit to sentence in the intro

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Co-authored-by: Tuma <119351965+TumaBitcoiner@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Gigi <109058+dergigi@users.noreply.github.com>

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LGTM!

Added a couple of comments, and the internal link to Cove wallet.

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Glassnode, which did as much as anyone to turn on-chain analysis into a paid

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Two things I don't like here:

  1. Why throw so much shade on Glassnode
  2. These paragraphs read very LLM sloppy

Not sure I'm comfortable with pushing this out as is.

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Let me help you with the article. Let me know, which paragraphs make you uneasy.

Co-authored-by: Tuma <119351965+TumaBitcoiner@users.noreply.github.com>

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Nym21 has been an OpenSats grantee since December 2024. The grant lets him work on

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remember to put this section in italics

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