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Aaron van Wirdum

Aaron van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is the former Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine and author of The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 Released: What’s New

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 cleans up the Bitcoin Core codebase, advances hardware wallet integration and strengthens network reliability, among other improvements.

Screen Printing, Paralelní Polis and Cryptoanarchy With Martin Fischer

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
“My art is for those who already know, and absolutely not understandable for people from outside the crypto community … which I love.”

CoinJoin’s First Steps: How Dark Wallet Paved the Way for a More Private Bitcoin

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
The crypto anarchist story of Dark Wallet, the first bitcoin wallet with a CoinJoin mixer built in.

How Bitcoin Optech Is Connecting the Open-Source and Corporate Worlds

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Bitcoin Optech was founded in 2018 to bridge the worlds of open-source development and companies.

Paying Yourself? Self-Payments Could Be a Key to Lightning Privacy

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Pseudonymous Lightning developer ZmnSCPxj has proposed self-payments as a way of adding more privacy to Lightning Network transactions.

Lightning Labs Announces $10 Million Raise As Lightning Loop Enters Beta

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
Lightning Labs announced a $10 million Series A funding round and released its Lightning Loop service in beta.

Do CoinJoin Mixes Really Require Equal Transaction Amounts for Privacy? Part Two: Knapsack

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
Knapsack mixing offers efficiency and privacy improvements over equal-amount bitcoin mixing.

How Payswap Can Confuse Blockchain Analysts, Benefiting Bitcoin Privacy for All

CULTURE Aaron van Wirdum -
Payswap, from pseudonymous developer “ZmnSCPxj,” offers a simple-yet-effective trick to confuse blockchain analysis and obscure bitcoin transactions.

Do CoinJoins Really Require Equal Transaction Amounts for Privacy? Part One: CashFusion

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A new mixing protocol called CashFusion challenges the assumption that CoinJoins require equal amounts for the mix to be effective.

2020 and Beyond: Bitcoin’s Potential Protocol Upgrades

TECHNICAL Aaron van Wirdum -
The end of Bitcoin’s longest stretch without consensus forks?
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