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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.

Leveraging Lightning, Bitfinex Users Can Now Shop at Bitrefill

TECHNICAL Aaron Van Wirdum -
Bitfinex users can now shop at Bitrefill straight from their trading environment on bitfinex.com, and the two have established a Lightning channel.

Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? One Developer Thinks So, and He Figured Out How

TECHNICAL Aaron Van Wirdum -
Developer Femenías’ Easypaysy proposal for Bitcoin accounts could improve the user experience significantly, enabling non-repudiation, recurring payments and more.

Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 Released: Here’s What’s New

TECHNICAL Aaron Van Wirdum -
The latest major release for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core 0.19.0, includes a range of performance improvements, modernizations and bug fixes.

SNICKER: How Alice and Bob Can Mix Bitcoin With No Interaction

CULTURE Aaron Van Wirdum -
SNICKER, a draft BIP, could allow for bitcoin mixing without any synchronization or interaction between users.

‘Scam’ or Iteration — in Berlin, Bitcoin Diehards Still Believe in Lightning

INDUSTRY EVENTS Aaron Van Wirdum -
At the Lightning Conference in Berlin, attendees and presenters were ready to tackle obstacles to Lightning adoption and celebrate its progress.

ACINQ, Startup Behind Eclair Lightning Implementation, Raises $8M

MARKETS Aaron Van Wirdum -
ACINQ, the firm behind the eclair Lightning Network implementation, has held a successful series A funding round.

Secure the Bag: Cutting Transactions in Half to Resolve Bitcoin Network Congestion

TECHNICAL Aaron Van Wirdum -
Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin may have figured out how to reliably smooth out network congestion, increasing Bitcoin’s throughput in peak hours.

Hardware Wallets Just Got a Bit More Secure With Trezor’s Shamir Backups

CULTURE Aaron Van Wirdum -
Shamir Backups, developed by Trezor’s SatoshiLabs, lets users split up their hardware wallet backup seeds.

Chainalysis: Most Mixed Bitcoin Not Used for Illicit Purposes

CULTURE Aaron Van Wirdum -
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has found that only a small fraction of coins sent to bitcoin mixers were previously used for illicit purposes.

Miniscript: How Blockstream Engineers Are Making Bitcoin Programming Easy(er)

TECHNICAL Aaron Van Wirdum -
By stripping down the Script programming language to its bare essentials, Miniscript should make programming on Bitcoin easier and safer.
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