Shinobi

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.

You’ll Activate The Covenants And You’ll Like It

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.

OP_CHECKSEPARATESIG And Actuaries: Fixing Multiparty Channel Factories

With an OP code arguably simpler than CTV, Actuaries could trustlessly solve the problem of everyone needing to be online to update a channel factory.

A New Trustless Way to Calculate the Bitcoin Price

UTXOracle offers a way to derive the approximate fiat price of Bitcoin in a trustless way utilizing only your full node and a single script.

Readers React To Drivechain Incentive Concerns

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.

Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer for Bitcoin

Botanix Labs has designed a mechanism for governing a two-way pegged Bitcoin sidechain system with proof-of-stake collateralized with BTC.

Drivechains Are Stupid, Prove Me Wrong

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.

Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin

The activation of hashrate escrow in combination with blind merge mining inevitably degrades writes Bitcoin Magazine Technical Editor Shinobi.

How ZeroSync Hopes To Reduce The Costs Of Validating Bitcoin Nodes

Using zero-knowledge proofs, ZeroSync seeks to radically reduce the computational costs of bootstrapping a fully-validating Bitcoin client.

Nostr Will Only Scale If It Can Incentivize Users To Run Relays

Nostr, a growing hub for the Bitcoin community, faces some incentives challenges if it’s going to reach significant scale.

To Becomes Bitcoin’s Go-To Platform, Nostr Will Have To Solve Its Key Management Issues

As Bitcoiners turn to Nostr as a censorship-resistant communication platform, user key management problems will arise.

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