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Shinobi

Shinobi is an pseudonymous self taught educator in the Bitcoin space. He is the co-host of Block Digest, a news/tech oriented Bitcoin podcast, as well as What Bitcoin Did Tech Show with Peter McCormack which centers around explaining technical concepts to non-technical users. That is all he will tell us about himself.

Articles From This Author

The El Salvador Legal Tender Bill was historical regulation, writing and an important document top photo.
Culture

Visiting El Salvador, It’s Clear That Bukele’s Bitcoin Country Is Neither Utopian, Nor Totalitarian

By Shinobi
Opinion
Now Bitcoin Core’s most prolific developer, Marco Falke’s work is the daily maintenance and testing of an open-source project that must reject error top photo.
Technical

Exploiting The Lightning Bug Was The Ethical Choice

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin is a pillar of monetary and political change and it stands under arches of cryptography top photo.
Technical

The RBF Debate Is A Matter Of Incentives And Individual Choice

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin is a blockchain protocol with various sidechain implementations that are technology top photo.
Culture

On This White Paper Day, Remember What Satoshi’s Original Publication Is And What It Isn’t

By Shinobi
Opinion
Stablecoins versus the volatility of bitcoin have to be weighed and shown their price. top photo
Technical

Addressing The Realities Of Taro’s Limitations

By Shinobi
Opinion
A deep dive into how Bitcoin’s lack of privacy and, by extension, its insufficient fungibility has led to its loss of market share in darknet markets top photo.
Technical

Learning From The LND Bug That Could Have Robbed The Lightning Network

By Shinobi
Opinion
The digital U.S. Dollar is a CBDC totalitarian nightmare and tech money that can only limit liberty top photo.
Business

The U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency Narrative Is A Fantasy

By Shinobi
Opinion
As Bitcoin becomes more widespread, doors begin to open to use it for more conventional means of purchasing big-ticket items, such as property top photo.
Business

Bitcoin Will Replace SWIFT Before It Replaces Visa

By Shinobi
Opinion
American bitcoin proudly mined in the United States top photo.
Business

Mining Concentration In America Poses A Major Threat To Bitcoin

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin and lightning on your phone is the ultimate mobile quick android and iPhone way to use the network top photo.
Technical

Is Channel Jamming A Threat To Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

By Shinobi
Feature
Stablecoins versus the volatility of bitcoin have to be weighed and shown their price. top photo
Technical

Examining The Incentives Of Stablecoins On Bitcoin

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin maximalism is a question and idea that satoshi Nakamoto is involved in.
Culture

Who Cares About Bitcoin Maximalism?

By Shinobi
Opinion
Lightning pools are great places to lounge chair by since the fees are fast top photo.
Technical

Can Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Overcome The Price Of Anarchy?

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin is a blockchain protocol with various sidechain implementations that are technology top photo.
Technical

An Overview Of The Tradeoffs For Different Sidechain Implementations

By Shinobi
Opinion
On-chain analysis for bitcoin Is important because technical analysis helps traders top photo.
Technical

Federated Sidechains Are Bitcoin’s Original Upgradeable Sidechain Implementation

By Shinobi
Opinion
Fiat money funnels into bitcoin mining operations (bitcoin miners) top photo.
Technical

Drivechain Allows Sidechain Node Operators To Pay Miners To Mine — And More!

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin on chain security is important because it provides privacy for your private keys top photo.
Technical

Softchains Bring Two-Way Pegs And Potential Room For Use Cases — But Not Without Security Costs

By Shinobi
Opinion
The Bitcoin blockchain ensures transactions are transaction history is immutable top photo.
Technical

Exploring The Bitcoin Use Cases Of Spacechains

By Shinobi
Feature
Bitcoin is the first project built on blockchain technology top photo.
Technical

Spacechains: How This New Bitcoin Sidechain Proposal Works

By Shinobi
Feature
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences top photo?
Technical

BOLT 12 And LNURL: What Is The Future For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

By Shinobi
Feature
The Lightning Gossip Protocol is the method in which nodes on that network communicate, speak to each other and talk for Bitcoin top photo.
Technical

Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol

By Shinobi
Opinion
Now Bitcoin Core’s most prolific developer, Marco Falke’s work is the daily maintenance and testing of an open-source project that must reject error top photo.
Culture

Bitcoin Developers Have Technical Expertise That Users Don’t

By Shinobi
Opinion
Adoption & community - Liquid Network Expands With New Memberships and Integrations
Technical

A Problem With Bitcoin's Lightning Network Liquidity And Ideas To Address It

By Shinobi
Opinion
bitcoin-magazine top photo
Technical

Why The Denial-Of-Service Argument Against BOLT 12 Doesn’t Hold Up

By Shinobi
Opinion
With TVL At All-Time Highs, The Lightning Network’s Time Has Come
Technical

A Few Ways We Can Upgrade Lightning Network Payment Routing

By Shinobi
Opinion
Paul Puey talks about buying bitcoin on the Edge mobile wallet and tackles key issues related to Bitcoin privacy.
Culture

The Problems With Bitcoin Magazine’s Arculus Partnership

By Shinobi
Opinion
The feud between bitcoin mixing services Wasabi and Samourai should not come down to the latter’s Transaction Zero feature top photo.
Technical

Wasabi Versus Samourai: TX0 Has Nothing To Do With It

By Shinobi
Opinion
Lightning shows the way forward for bitcoin as its layer two protocol top photo.
Culture

Why Bitcoin’s Ossification Will Eventually Be Necessary

By Shinobi
Opinion
What Are Bitcoin Forks?
Technical

How Bitcoin Should Be Upgraded In The Future

By Shinobi
Opinion
Everything you need to know to install and operate a Bitcoin node connected to the blockchain via satellite, and enjoy full sovereignty top photo.
Technical

Analyzing BIP119 And The Controversy Surrounding It

By Shinobi
Opinion
Specter is a bitcoin wallet provider that was interviewed in this piece top photo.
Business

A Look At The Future Of Specter And Bitcoin Sovereignty With Moritz Wietersheim

By Shinobi
Feature
Bitcoin private key storage and management is a key part of keeping protection privacy and security of your vaults and wallets top photo.
Technical

Weighing The Options Of Bitcoin Private Key Management

By Shinobi
Feature
Bitcoin is a key that unlocks a metaphorical prison cell top photo.
Technical

Bitcoin Silent Payments And Secret Blinding Keys

By Shinobi
Opinion
Lightning is in a race to become the fastest Layer Two implementation and Bitcoin will go quicker top photo.
Technical

How Bitcoin’s Leading Lightning Implementations Are Expanding Functionality

By Shinobi
Feature
Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Business

Sanctions As A Driver Of Bitcoin Adoption

By Shinobi
Opinion
Organizations meant to help Ukraine resist occupation by Russia are raising significant amounts of bitcoin donations. But they need to do so more privately top photo.
Culture

How Bitcoin Allowed A Ukrainian Refugee To Escape War And Start Fighting Back On His Own Terms

By Shinobi
Feature
Bitcoin mining pools rely on centralization, but P2Pool and other protocols have sought to reduce the need for trust in third parties top photo.
Technical

How P2P Protocols Seek To Solve Bitcoin Mining Centralization

By Shinobi
Feature
Law & justice - Tether Partly Backed by Bitcoin
Business

Bitcoin, Tether And Poking The Financial Beast

By Shinobi
Opinion
NFL star and Nigerian descendant Russell Okung asks the Nigerian government to adopt a Bitcoin standard or risk falling behind top photo.
Culture

As It Embraces Bitcoin, Nigeria Offers Lessons To The Developing World

By Shinobi
Feature
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Business

How Centralized Is Bitcoin Mining Really?

By Shinobi
While ZeroLink CoinJoin implementations are generally more popular, the JoinMarket project has potential to offer decentralized and truly private Bitcoin mixing top photo.
Technical

JoinMarket Vs. ZeroLink And The Road To Decentralized Bitcoin Privacy Through CoinJoin

By Shinobi
Bitcoin is the first project built on blockchain technology top photo.
Technical

Yes, Bitcoin Is A Smart Contract Platform

By Shinobi
Taproot Is Coming To Bitcoin, How It Works, Its History And Implications
Technical

Taproot Is Coming To Bitcoin: How It Works, Its History And Implications

By Shinobi
Computer chips are critical to Bitcoin technology, particularly bitcoin mining rigs or ASICs top photo.
Business

Bitcoin Mining And The Global Semiconductor Shortage Are On A Collision Course

By Shinobi
With 40 million tons of e-waste generated each year, the unique incentives created by bitcoin miners offer a solution to a growing problem top photo.
Business

How Bitcoin Mining Is Solving Our E-Waste Crisis

By Shinobi
Bitcoin as a thought philosophy and idea is extremely complex top photo.
Culture

NFTs And The Definition Of Art

By Shinobi
When Bitcoin projects, businesses and platforms raise money (fundraise), they receive large amounts of capital in fiat top photo.
Culture

The FCA Influencer Program And Bitcoin

By Shinobi
Lightning is the future for bitcoin technical operation and cryptography top photo.
Culture

Two Different Ideas Of The Lightning Network

By Shinobi
Bitcoin security and private keys are important to maintain the safety and privacy of top photo.
Technical

This Tool Can Protect Your Privacy When Using Bitcoin

By Shinobi
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Technical

Why The Bitcoin Lightning Network Doesn’t Work (Yet)

By Shinobi