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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.

Bitcoin’s Fifteen Years Of Evolution: A Look Beyond the Original Whitepaper

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
It has been fifteen years since the original Bitcoin white paper was published on the cryptography mailing list. Those fifteen years have been a wild ride of progress and new ideas.

Privacy Is A Group Effort

CULTURE Shinobi -
Privacy cannot be accomplished alone, it inherently requires a group effort to be attained.

Payment Splitting And Switching: Improving Privacy And Payment Success Simultaneously

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A relatively simple proposal can help improve both the Lightning Network's payment success rate, but also one of it's worst privacy short comings.

Postmortem On The Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
This is a legitimate vulnerability in the Lightning protocol, but the sky is not falling.

Relai Integrates Lightning With Help of Breez SDK And Greenlight

BUSINESS Shinobi -
Relai's Breez SDK integration will bring a self-custodial Lightning experience to its user base by the end of 2023.

FinCEN Proposes Insane Special Measures

LEGAL Shinobi -
FinCEN proposes regulations that would allow them to force businesses to report transaction details on almost anything they want.

Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
John Law's Timeout Tree proposal is one of the first concrete designs for a channel factory to address Lightning's scaling limitations.

Two-Sided Coin Control

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
From “The Withdrawal Issue”, Shinobi discusses the nature of Bitcoin scaling and the choice between trusted third parties, or upgrading Bitcoin to remove the need for them.

Piecing Together The Pre-History Of Bitcoin With Aaron van Wirdum’s ‘The Genesis Book’

BITCOIN MAGAZINE BOOKS Shinobi -
Aaron van Wirdum pieces together the entire history of the inventions and cultures that culminated with the creation of Bitcoin.

BitVM: But Can It Run DOOM?

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.
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