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Blockstream Completes Its First Lightning Transaction on Bitcoin Testnet

Blockstream engineers Paul “Rusty” Russell and Dr. Christian Decker completed their first lightning transaction on Bitcoin’s testnet this week. The test transaction was made...

Here’s What’s Next for Bitcoin Wallet GreenAddress After Being Acquired by Blockstream

Blockstream announced the acquisition of Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress on Wednesday. In a post on the company’s official blog, Blockstream President Adam Back noted,...

Confidential Transactions: How Hiding Transaction Amounts Increases Bitcoin Privacy

To enhance privacy, it is possible to hide the amount of bitcoins transacted. An early version of this concept, then referred to as “bitcoins with homomorphic value,” was first proposed in 2013 by hashcash inventor and current Blockstream president Dr. Adam Back.

Are Altcoins Bitcoin’s Friends or Enemies?

Altcoins have a long tradition in the Bitcoin community, but they tend to cause a contentious divide among those who think they’re useful and...

Features From the Most Popular Altcoins Are Planned for Bitcoin

For many people involved with Bitcoin, altcoins are nothing more than testnets. Hundreds of digital currencies are currently listed on CoinCap.io, but Bitcoin still...

Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling Bitcoin

Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually...

Who Funds Bitcoin Core Development? How the Industry Supports Bitcoin’s ‘Reference Client’

Funding Bitcoin development seems to have always been problematic.While the Bitcoin industry collectively has raised more than a billion dollars worth of investment over the...

Blockstream, Bloq, Gem, ItBit, Thomson Reuters and Others Join the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project

The Linux Foundation is announcing that the Hyperledger Project has filled key leadership positions and 10 new companies are joining the project and investing in the future of an open blockchain ledger: Blockstream, Bloq, eVue Digital Labs, Gem, itBit, Milligan Partners, Montran Labs, Ribbit.me, Tequa Creek Holdings and Thomson Reuters.

Bitcoin Privacy: “Confidential Transactions” Feature Can Fix Some of CoinJoin’s Problems

Andrew Poelstra is a mathematician at Blockstream and was recently part of a panel discussion on improvements for Bitcoin at the 2016 MIT Bitcoin...

I’m a Former Green Beret and Here’s How I Would Bring Down Bitcoin

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of WarAnyone with experience in extended, unconventional...
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