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Debunking the 11 Most Stubborn Lightning Network Myths
Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of...
Blockstream to Launch First, Instant-Settlement Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges
Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial Bitcoin sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast...
The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks
The block-size limit debate has dominated Bitcoin blogs, forums, chat rooms and meet-ups for months on end, while many of Bitcoin’s brightest minds are...
Adam Back on Three Forms of Centralization That Have Crept Into Bitcoin
At the crux of the block-size limit debate in Bitcoin is an argument between scaling and securing the network. Although raising the block-size limit would allow...
Back to the Future: Adam Back Remembers the Cypherpunk Revolution and the Origins of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast host Trace Mayer interviewed legendary cryptographer Adam Back on his role in the creation and deployment of some of the most potent privacy software...
Blockstream’s Pieter Wuille Proposes Tree Signatures for Improved and Flexible Multisig Bitcoin Transactions
In June, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Blockstream launched Sidechain Elements, a sidechain development framework with open source code, including an experimental sidechain for developers dubbed Elements Alpha. Now, in...
Blockstream’s Pieter Wuille Proposes Tree Signatures for Improved and Flexible Multisig Bitcoin Transactions
In June, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Blockstream launched Sidechain Elements, a sidechain development framework with open source code, including an experimental sidechain for developers dubbed Elements Alpha. Now, in...
Bitcoin Companies Weigh in on Digital Currency Regulations for the California Senate
This week leading bitcoin companies including BitGo, Bitnet, Chain.com, Gem, Mirror, Xapo and Blockstream have sent a letter to the California Senate as a...
Blockstream Moves Ahead with Sidechain Elements, the First Implementation of Sidechains
The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, formed the company Blockstream to implement sidechains...
Blockstream Starts Development on the Lightning Network
The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, have formed the company Blockstream to develop...
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