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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.

Exploring The Bitcoin Use Cases Of Spacechains

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
While spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring.

Spacechains: How This New Bitcoin Sidechain Proposal Works

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
Spacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design.

BOLT 12 And LNURL: What Is The Future For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

TECHNICAL Shinobi -
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences?

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.
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