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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.

Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer for Bitcoin

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
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

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.

Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
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

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
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

CULTURE Shinobi -
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

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

Bitcoiners Are Flocking To Nostr, But What Makes It Different Than Twitter?

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Nostr is an alternative to Twitter that better protects users from censorship, and it’s built in a way that could appeal to Bitcoiners.

Can Antoine Riard’s Lightning Network Proposal Mitigate Channel Jamming Attacks?

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A protocol proposal from Antoine Riard seeks to mitigate Lightning Network channel jamming attacks with a Chaumian ecash token.

Integrating Statechains With Lightning Channels Can Allow For Off-Chain Balancing And Improved Flexibility

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A Commerceblock BLIP facilitates Lightning channels built on Bitcoin statechains, improving flexibility for the Layer 2 protocol.

Visiting El Salvador, It’s Clear That Bukele’s Bitcoin Country Is Neither Utopian, Nor Totalitarian

CULTURE Shinobi -
After a week in El Salvador, it’s clear that state-run Bitcoin adoption is a slow but critical foundation for revitalizing the country.
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