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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.

Ocean Adds Block Template Selection Option

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
As a stepping stone towards eventual integration of Stratum v2, Ocean Mining has added the ability for miners to select from multiple block template sources when mining at the pool.

BTCPay And Strainly Publish Case Study On The Hemp Industry

BUSINESS Shinobi -
BTCPay and Strainly have produced a case study on the efficacy of Bitcoin as a payment rails to serve merchants and users participating in industries closed off from legacy financial services.

Braidpool: A Second Competitor In Decentralizing Mining

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Braidpool is a protocol proposal for a completely decentralized mining pool, leaving no part of the pool's role the responsibility of a centralized actor.

CrowdHealth Crowdfunding Platform Integrates Lightning With Breez SDK

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
CrowdHealth, a startup focusing on crowdfunded healthcare products in lieu of insurance plans, integrates Lightning payments with the help of Breez SDK.

A Post-Mortem on the Launch of Ocean, the Jack Dorsey-Backed Bitcoin Mining Pool

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
The launch of Ocean's mining pool was definitely not smooth, but that shouldn't distract from conversations around the problems they are attempting to solve.

Everyone Needs An Uncle Jim

CULTURE Shinobi -
Whatever happened to Uncle Jim? Does he not care about lending a helping hand anymore?

Lightning Is Doomed

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it's not doomed, but it probably won't be used the way you expected it to be.

BitStream: A Protocol For Atomic Data Exchange

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A Bitcoin powered protocol for atomically exchanging your sats for digital files.

Durabit: Incentivizing Torrent Seeding With Bitcoin

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.

Everyone’s Thinking About Second Layers Is Backwards

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
How a second layer on Bitcoin is designed and functioned has implications for how it affects the base layer. That makes the nature of how a second layer functions very important.
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