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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.

Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Currently, the gossip protocol introduces privacy leaks and concerns that could be remedied while condensing the amount of messages sent.

Bitcoin Developers Have Technical Expertise That Users Don’t

CULTURE Shinobi -
Bitcoin is defined by its users, but how many node operators understand and verify protocol changes on a nuanced and deeply technical level?

A Problem With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Liquidity And Ideas To Address It

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
To actually solve the problem of receiving funds without having secured liquidity from someone else's node requires protocol-level changes.

Why The Denial-Of-Service Argument Against BOLT 12 Doesn’t Hold Up

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
A successor proposal to BOLT 11, BOLT 12 is a proposed upgrade to Lightning, the most popular Layer 2 Bitcoin protocol.

A Few Ways We Can Upgrade Lightning Network Payment Routing

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
In order to develop into a protocol usable by the entire world, certain scaling improvements for Lightning need to be considered.

The Problems With Bitcoin Magazine’s Arculus Partnership

CULTURE Shinobi -
Content creators and marketers in the Bitcoin space have a responsibility to help users adhere to the “don’t trust, verify” ethos.

Wasabi Versus Samourai: TX0 Has Nothing To Do With It

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
The feud between bitcoin mixing services Wasabi and Samourai should not come down to the latter’s Transaction Zero feature.

Why Bitcoin’s Ossification Will Eventually Be Necessary

CULTURE Shinobi -
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a classic phrase often repeated, and it naturally applies itself to money that protects our wealth.

How Bitcoin Should Be Upgraded In The Future

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
The history of Bitcoin upgrade activation mechanisms informs an opinion on how to make protocol changes in the future.

Analyzing BIP119 And The Controversy Surrounding It

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
The debate about BIP119 has two central issues being conflated: the proposal itself and the activation mechanisms that could be used to implement it.
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