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.

Screen Printing, Paralelní Polis and Cryptoanarchy With Martin Fischer

“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

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

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

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

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

Knapsack mixing offers efficiency and privacy improvements over equal-amount bitcoin mixing.

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

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

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

The end of Bitcoin’s longest stretch without consensus forks?

Bitcoin’s 2019 in Tech: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

As 2019 comes to an end, let’s take a look at the most impactful new technologies that were released for Bitcoin this year.

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