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Kyle Torpey

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Kyle Torpey is a freelance writer and researcher who has been following Bitcoin since 2011. His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard, Business Insider, NASDAQ, New York Post,The Next Web, American Banker, and other media outlets. You can view all his work at kyletorpey.com or sign up for his personal newsletter.

Does the Lightning Network Threaten Bitcoin’s Censorship Resistance?

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The Lightning Network may well be Bitcoin’s primary solution to the issue of scalability, but many skeptics believe there are unresolved issues with this layer-2 system for the blockchain....

BIP 75 Simplifies Bitcoin Wallets for the Everyday User

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
Although Bitcoin is more than 7 years old, making payments on the network is still a rather cumbersome task. With a user interface that requires users to send money...

MIT Panel: Democracy Is Antithetical to What Bitcoin Represents

CULTURE Kyle Torpey -
Day one of last month’s MIT Bitcoin Expo featured a panel discussion on various improvements to Bitcoin that are either currently in the works or already deployed on the...

The United States Is Falling Behind in Bitcoin Regulation

BUSINESS Kyle Torpey -
Lawmakers and regulators in the United States could be doing a much better job attracting innovative fintech startups to the country, Coin Center Executive Director Jerry Brito said at...

Ethcore Raises Financing Round as First Venture Capital Funded Ethereum Startup

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Ethereum startup Ethcore has raised $750,000 in a preliminary, pre-seed funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Blockchain Capital and Shanghai-based Fenbushi Capital. Ethcore intends to further pursue the development of...

This Bitcoin Developer Is Working Hard to Prepare Projects for Segregated Witness

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Nicolas Dorier is the main developer behind NBitcoin, which is a comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework. NBitcoin is used in the backend of multiple Bitcoin services such...

Zooko: The Financial Industry Is Demanding Privacy for Blockchains

CULTURE Kyle Torpey -
Although one may assume that the demand for privacy in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems is coming from crypto-anarchists and libertarians, the reality is that a huge push for...

Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling Bitcoin

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Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually scale to millions or billions...

Supporters of 2 MB Bitcoin Blocks Unable to Convince Miners to Hard Fork in Beijing Meeting

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
Updated at 6:51pm EST: Bitcoin angel investor Roger Ver contacted Bitcoin Magazine about the Beijing meeting but declined to go into any detail about what took place. However, he told Bitcoin Magazine, "I...

Blockstream’s Johnny Dilley: We’ll Eventually Have an Adaptive Block Size Solution

TECHNICAL Kyle Torpey -
The Crypto Show recently interviewedJohnny Dilley, who runs strategy at Blockstream. Dilley shared his views on the future of Bitcoin’s block size limit, and explained why he’s not worried...
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