Aaron Van Wirdum

Aaron Van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is interested in technology and how it affects social and political structures. He has been covering Bitcoin since 2013, focusing on privacy, scalability and more. Hodls BTC.

Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Monero Is Hard to Beat (and Hard to Scale)

The second article in our series on privacycoins looks at Monero. One of the oldest privacycoins on the market, it's based on the innovative CryptoNote protocol first used by Bytecoin.

Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private

While Dash does, with its GUI-interface, offer a more user-friendly CoinJoin solution for now, the privacy guarantees are weaker than on Bitcoin.

Lightning Is Made at the #LightningHackday Series in Berlin

The Lightning Hackday drew in some of the biggest Lightning and Bitcoin experts from around the world.

Bitcoin as a Privacycoin: This Tech is Making Bitcoin More Private

Bitcoin is not really private - but these projects are making significant improvements to Bitcoin privacy.

The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

Digital currency, a cash for the internet, was always a central goal for the Cypherpunks. But few dived into the subject matter like Nick Szabo did.

The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

"Efficient cooperation requires a medium of exchange (money) and a way to enforce contracts,” Dai explained when he introduced b-money in November of 1998.

The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like

Bitcoin’s overlay payment network is projected to improve over the next few years in areas ranging from network architecture to security and usability, and more.

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

A look at how the technology underlying Hashcash — proof of work — would shape research into digital money for more than a decade to come.

Breaking Bitcoin Conference Heading for Lisbon This Summer as “Building on Bitcoin”

The Breaking Bitcoin conference, first organized last summer in Paris, is returning for its second edition under the name “Building on Bitcoin,” this time in Lisbon, July 3–4, 2018. While the...

The Genesis Files: How David Chaum’s eCash Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can trace their roots to this earlier, privacy-focussed payment system for the internet.

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