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Before They Were Cool: Covenants In Production On Liquid

The debate around the next change to Bitcoin is focused almost entirely on covenants. Having already implemented numerous covenants, Liquid presents a great learning opportunity in that discussion.

Understanding The “Bitcoin L2 Trilemma”

An analysis from Trevor Owens on the trade offs involved in different types of second layers possible to build on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s Fifteen Years Of Evolution: A Look Beyond the Original Whitepaper

It has been fifteen years since the original Bitcoin white paper was published on the cryptography mailing list. Those fifteen years have been a wild ride of progress and new ideas.

Payment Splitting And Switching: Improving Privacy And Payment Success Simultaneously

A relatively simple proposal can help improve both the Lightning Network's payment success rate, but also one of it's worst privacy short comings.

Why Blockchain Surveillance Needs FinCEN’s PATRIOT Act Ploy

FinCEN has proposed to regulate Bitcoin privacy tech under the PATRIOT Act. But the data used to support FinCEN‘s proposal is partial at best, highlighting the gravity of blockchain surveillance software shortcomings.

MicroBT Unveils Highly Anticipated WhatsMiner M60 Series at Blockchain Life 2023 in Dubai

MicroBT, a prominent Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, made an industry-leading announcement in hash efficiency at the Blockchain Life 2023 event in Dubai. The company...

Postmortem On The Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack

This is a legitimate vulnerability in the Lightning protocol, but the sky is not falling.

Why Bitcoin Wallets Need Block Filters

Most Bitcoin wallets leak your private information to the wallet provider, block filters can help fix that.

Lightning Labs Rolls Out Taproot Assets Mainnet Alpha

Lightning Labs unveils the mainnet alpha of Taproot Assets, a significant milestone to bring dollar stablecoins and other assets natively to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Is Physical: Bits And Bytes Have To Live Somewhere

Even digital pieces of data cannot exist without having a physical presence in computer memory somewhere.

Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs

John Law's Timeout Tree proposal is one of the first concrete designs for a channel factory to address Lightning's scaling limitations.

Two-Sided Coin Control

From “The Withdrawal Issue”, Shinobi discusses the nature of Bitcoin scaling and the choice between trusted third parties, or upgrading Bitcoin to remove the need for them.
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