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Lightning Strikes: The Value-For-Value Future of Money and Work

Harnessing Lightning reshapes you, just like lifting weights sculpts muscles: The value-for-value revolution will fundamentally change how we work, produce, consume and live on a bitcoin standard.

Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For

Ark and Spark revolutionize Lightning Network’s scalability in 2025, slashing on-chain transactions with shared UTXOs for fast, cheap Bitcoin payments. Their interoperable, trust-minimized designs overcome channel factory hurdles, cementing Lightning’s role in Bitcoin’s layer-2 future.

Book’s Books: Matt Sekerke and Steve Hanke, “Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System”

This book on money, by two economists, was so bad that I stopped reading after 33 pages. The authors ignorantly dismissed Bitcoin in a single sentence; thus, I concluded that the title wasn’t worth my time — or indeed anybody concerned with building a better monetary future.

The Revolution Won’t Have Good UX

Revolution is hard, and technology that actually has the potential to change the world, is never easy to use at first. Neither is Bitcoin.

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.

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