~ Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist

A retrospective on completing Phase 1 of my Summer of Bitcoin 2026 project: 5 PRs, 1300+ tests, and a complete escrow ownership lifecycle built on Cashu and Nostr.

The full story of my SoB 2026 journey, from the first Shopstr contribution, through rejection, to finally getting selected. Raw, honest, and technical.

A behind-the-scenes look at building a P2PK Cashu escrow system for Shopstr. Protocol design, architecture decisions, cryptographic assumptions, dead ends, and lessons from Summer of Bitcoin.

A deep dive into how DNS resolution works end-to-end, covering recursive resolvers, root servers, TLD servers, authoritative name servers, and practical usage of the dig command.

A beginner-friendly guide to cURL - the command-line tool for communicating with servers, testing APIs, and debugging requests directly from your terminal.