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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.

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.

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.
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