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Shinobi

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

Understanding Your Bitcoin Keys: Bip39 Seed Words

SPONSORED Shinobi -
How large numbers and randomness secure your bitcoin, and what your seed phrase has to do with it. The first installment of “10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty” powered by Ledger.

Anduro: A Network of Sidechains

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Anduro is a federated/merge mined hybrid sidechain design, specifically designed to enable the federation to manage multiple sidechains with differing architectures.

Second EIA Survey Extension Being Pushed With Open Comment Period

LEGAL Shinobi -
While the court case in Waco, Texas over the EIA emergency survey is going well, we are not out of the woods entirely even if the case is decided in miners' favor.

Layer 2 Is Not A Magic Incantation

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Layer 2s are inherently limited in what they can accomplish, and importantly under what trust model they can accomplish things, by what the Layer 1 they are built on is capable of.

Using DNS To Coordinate Bitcoin Payments

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Matt Corallo recently proposed a BIP for Bitcoin, DNS Payment Instructions, with the goal of utilizing the DNS system to fetch information to make Bitcoin payments.

DLCs Evolving To Meet Institutional Needs

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A deeper dive into the design for DLC Markets, LN Market's recently announced DLC based protocol.

Nostr Wallet Connect: A Bitcoin Application Collaboration Layer

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
As the complexity of Bitcoin software and applications using Bitcoin grows, the need for a simple coordination mechanism for different applications to interact grows as well.

Bitcoin Is Pure Anarchy

CULTURE Shinobi -
Bitcoin's "governance" process is defined literally and succinctly by a single word: anarchy. It is literally impossible for a voluntary and distributed system to be "governed" in any other way.

To Meme, Or Not To Meme: The CAT

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
The OP_CAT meme campaign has undeniably taken on a lot of momentum, but is this really how we want to be deciding consensus changes for a protocol as valuable as Bitcoin?

Why Is Bitcoin Censorship Resistant?

MARKETS Shinobi -
Economic incentives are what guarantee Bitcoin's censorship resistance, not ethical or moral honesty. This is how.
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