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Using Bitcoin To Establish VPN Connections Without Trusted Third Parties

A Bitcoin VPN allows two or more parties to discover each other and be able to communicate privately over the public internet without trust.

Drivechain Allows Sidechain Node Operators To Pay Miners To Mine — And More!

Drivechain, like softchains, is another sidechain implementation with two-way peg functionality.

Three Bitcoin Mining Downward Difficulty Adjustments In A Row

This will be the third mining difficulty downward adjustment in a row with four downward adjustments over the course of the last five difficulty epochs.

Softchains Bring Two-Way Pegs And Potential Room For Use Cases — But Not Without Security Costs

Softchains are a sidechain implementation that interact on a deeper level with consensus mechanisms, which can bring benefits and risks.

Making Bitcoin Unstoppable Part One: Mesh Nets

It’s time we stop asking for permission. Build a mesh net and make Bitcoin unstoppable.

There Is No Such Thing As A “Lightning Wallet”

The wallet metaphor incorrectly describes the nature of the applications providing Lightning Network services.

Fedi Raises $4 Million To Scale Bitcoin Custody With Fedimint

Fedi raised $4 million to accelerate the development of the Fedimint protocol and its companion app Fedi — tools that can improve and scale bitcoin custody.

Is Adding Functionality To Bitcoin A Problem?

Adding operation codes to Bitcoin can increase the types of functions users are able to perform, but choosing their size limits has been a topic of debate.

Track Me If You Can — How Bitcoin Forward-Looking Anonymity Sets Work

Whirlpool gives a certain level of privacy when using bitcoin, and forward-looking anonymity sets are a measure of how well hidden you are.

Blockstream Announces Progress On Signature Aggregation Research

Signature aggregation could bring massive data-efficiency benefits to the network as well as open up more unique use cases, demonstrating bear market building.

Gloria Zhao Becomes First Female Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Pieter Wuille Steps Down

Zhao gained the Bitcoin Core maintainer status on Thursday as Marco Falke merged her PGP key fingerprint as a trusted key onto the codebase.

How Silent Payments Are Bringing New Privacy Protections To Bitcoin

The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it?
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