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Pickhardt Payments: How To Send Large Bitcoin Payments On Lightning

Namcios -
The work of Rene Pickhardt shows that despite being mainly used for small, fast Bitcoin transactions, Lightning can also deliver large payments.
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Reusing Bitcoin Addresses Can Lead To Private Keys Being Stolen

Bitcoin Magazine -
Only using Bitcoin addresses one time is best practice. By using addresses more than once, users give up information that can result in negative outcomes.
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Exploring The Bitcoin Use Cases Of Spacechains

Shinobi -
While spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring.
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Spacechains: How This New Bitcoin Sidechain Proposal Works

Shinobi -
Spacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design.
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We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy

Marty Bent -
By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data.
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A History Of Bitcoin Hard Forks

Bitcoin Magazine -
A lively conversation and response to Jameson Lopp’s recent article that researches the answer to the question, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked?”
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BOLT 12 And LNURL: What Is The Future For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

Shinobi -
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences?
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Proof-Of-Work Is Objective, Proof-Of-Stake Is Not

Alan Szepieniec -
The proof-of-work consensus mechanism used in Bitcoin is an objective measure of history which cannot be changed on the whims of validators.
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Bitcoin’s Trustless Nature Adds Trust To The Internet

Stephen Thompson -
By replacing reliance on third parties in a trustless way, Bitcoin adds a layer of non-intermediated trust to the infrastructure of the internet.
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Silent Payments Improve Privacy Without Adding Data To Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine -
Silent payments improve user privacy and are similar to stealth addresses and reusable payment codes, but actually save space on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Bitcoin Needs To Be More Private For Adoption

Aneta Karbowiak -
Certain characteristics of Bitcoin create a loss in fungibility. These must be addressed and solved in order for Bitcoin to gain widespread adoption.
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Reviewing Privacy-Enhancing Proposals For Bitcoin

Seth For Privacy -
Reviewing Bitcoin’s history of proposed privacy improvements can help us learn from the past and keep up with new improvements as we go.
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