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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.

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.

Satoshi’s Sophon: Destroyer of BRC-20s

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A superintelligent subatomic Artificial Intelligence is reeking havoc in the mempool.

The Big Deal with BitVM: Arbitrary Computation Now Possible on Bitcoin Without a Fork

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Any arbitrary computation can now be verified on Bitcoin, with no softfork necessary, in a challenge-response based protocol that can be enforced on-chain.

Readers Respond To The Cult Of The Covenant

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.

Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node’s UTXO Set

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core.
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