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Lightning Is Misunderstood

The Lightning Network is one of the most exciting and innovative technologies built on Bitcoin, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood... Not everyone will run a Lightning node, and that’s okay. Custodians feels like a compromise, and in a way, it is: Running Lightning infrastructure isn’t meant for everyone.

From the Bitcoin Jungle to the Sea, Let Lightning be Free!

From Costa Rica to Kenya to Ghana, it’s becoming easier than ever to live on a bitcoin standard thanks to homegrown apps that allow users to settle fiat mobile money bills with bitcoin over Lightning.

The Lightning Network Is Like the Ship Of Theseus

What is the Lightning Network? It is generally spoken about in analogies, metaphors or direct explanations of purpose.  “It’s the checking account, versus on-chain as...

The Lightning Issue: Letter From The Editor

In this Letter From the Editor, Shinobi explores the hard truth that Bitcoin doesn’t scale on-chain - and why the Lightning Network is Bitcoin’s most promising solution for scaling trustlessly and globally.

The Freedom Issue: Letter From the Editor

Bitcoin is freedom money, a censorship-resistant form of digital cash allowing anyone with an internet connection to send money to anyone else, regardless of...

Book’s Books: Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, and “Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World”

Knut Svanholm's new book "Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World," is the perfect combination of light, relaxed reading and hard-hitting punch — sprinkled with a whole jar of humor.

The Future of Bitcoin Mining is Distributed

Troy Cross argues that Bitcoin mining's future lies in global distribution, not U.S. dominance, to protect its neutrality and value against nation-state attacks.

The Financial Anarchist Manifesto

Using technologies like Nostr and Chaumian ecash, the Financial Anarchist challenges the status quo, aiming to reclaim economic sovereignty and disrupt centralized financial power through Bitcoin.

Give Me Time

With the Fourth Halving in the rearview mirror, it seems a perfect time to provide some on-record analysis of Bitcoin from the perspective of Number and Time, aka Crypto-K

Choose Privacy

Technological capability, on its own, is not enough to create Bitcoin privacy. Unless users and society actively defend and demand privacy, it will die. From "The Privacy Issue".

Privacy and Pain: Craig Raw, Creator Of Sparrow Wallet, On Self-Custody

An interview with Craig Raw, creator of the popular Sparrow Wallet, on Bitcoin privacy best practices and pain as a teacher. From "The Privacy Issue".

The Fight for Bitcoin Privacy Has Truly Begun

"Then they fight you" has finally arrived. Financial privacy is in the crosshairs and Bitcoin's promise as "freedom money" is at stake. From "The Privacy Issue".

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