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We go beyond the headlines to provide readers with in-depth, expert commentary and explanation of the technical developments that continue to challenge and grow the digital currency and blockchain space.

The Bitcoin Lightning Network allows users to quickly make payments from their smartphones. Top photo
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Data Shows That Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Solved The Scalability Problem

By Stanislav Kozlovski
Opinion
“Mempool” is a portmanteau of “memory pool,” which is the label given to the holding depot for Bitcoin transactions that are waiting for confirmation and inclusion in new blocks by miners top photo.
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RGB Magic: Client-Side Contracts On Bitcoin

By Federico Tenga
Opinion
“Mempool” is a portmanteau of “memory pool,” which is the label given to the holding depot for Bitcoin transactions that are waiting for confirmation and inclusion in new blocks by miners top photo.
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Should Full Replace-By-Fee Be Merged Into Bitcoin Core?

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Now Bitcoin Core’s most prolific developer, Marco Falke’s work is the daily maintenance and testing of an open-source project that must reject error top photo.
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Exploiting The Lightning Bug Was The Ethical Choice

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin and death are interesting questions and inheritance, war or skeletons can lead one to be scared top photo.
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Is It Dangerous To Have Multiple Implementations Of Bitcoin?

By Bill Scoresby
Opinion
Bitcoin is a pillar of monetary and political change and it stands under arches of cryptography top photo.
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The RBF Debate Is A Matter Of Incentives And Individual Choice

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network nodes are integral to the network top photo.
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Analyzing The Insights From River Financial’s Lightning Node Report

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints. Top photo.
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Decentralizing IP Addresses With Bitcoin Helps Distribute The Internet

By Moustafa Amin
Opinion
Companies like Chainalysis offer blockchain analysis services that can monitor and trace blockchain activity of Bitcoin transactions, a form of surveillance. Top photo.
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Another Bug Briefly Took Down Part Of The Lightning Network

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Stablecoins versus the volatility of bitcoin have to be weighed and shown their price. top photo
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Addressing The Realities Of Taro’s Limitations

By Shinobi
Opinion
Lightning shows the way forward for bitcoin as its layer two protocol top photo.
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How A Bug Temporarily Brought Down One Implementation Of The Lightning Network

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
A deep dive into how Bitcoin’s lack of privacy and, by extension, its insufficient fungibility has led to its loss of market share in darknet markets top photo.
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Learning From The LND Bug That Could Have Robbed The Lightning Network

By Shinobi
Opinion
Everything you need to know to install and operate a Bitcoin node connected to the blockchain via satellite, and enjoy full sovereignty top photo.
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Erlay Makes It Easier To Run A Bitcoin Node

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin carbon emissions are criticized, but bitcoin mining is actually a way to incentivize clean, green, environmentally friendly energy use top photo.
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Using Taproot And FROST To Improve Bitcoin Privacy

By Nick Farrow and Dan Gould
Opinion
Bitcoin Lightning Network has dual channels and competing implementations of two or more top photo.
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How BIP Bounties Will Supercharge The Bitcoin Network

By Ariel Deschapell
Opinion
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software code run by nodes and computers top photo.
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The Upcoming Release Of Bitcoin Core 24.0

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Bitcoin mining and ASIC fees and revenue are low, but what does this mean for business and economics top photo.
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Nothing's Cheaper Than Proof-Of-Work Consensus

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
When bitcoin miners HODL their bitcoin in cold storage bitcoin wallets or other secure means, they keep their rewards safe top photo.
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Drivechain Could Ossify Bitcoin's Blockchain For Good

By Nikita Chashchinskii
Opinion
Bitcoin security and private keys are important to maintain the safety and privacy of top photo.
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The Security Budget Flaw That Proof-Of-Stake Introduces

By Mickey Koss
Opinion
The digital U.S. Dollar is a CBDC totalitarian nightmare and tech money that can only limit liberty top photo.
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Developers Can Now Issue Assets Like Stablecoins On Bitcoin

By Namcios
News
Collaborative Custody and multisig are types of bitcoin custody in which you hold your private keys Top Photo.
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The Importance Of Testing Your Bitcoin Custody Setup

By Will Schoellkopf
Opinion
Decentralized Law Vs Centralized Legislation - Bitcoin is a form of governance and regulation that is separate rule top photo.
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A Bitcoiner’s Guide To Proof-Of-Stake

By Scott Sullivan
Opinion
Bitcoin security starts with private keys and privacy features of hardware wallets top photo.
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Public Fedimint Testnet Launched On Signet

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
A Computer meant for bitcoin transactions is superior to a mobile phone or device that's meant for other technology uses top photo.
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How Improving The UI And UX Of Bitcoin Nodes Could Benefit Everyone

By Ram
Opinion
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences top photo?
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Validating Lightning Signer Separates Keys From Nodes

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Now Bitcoin Core’s most prolific developer, Marco Falke’s work is the daily maintenance and testing of an open-source project that must reject error top photo.
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Don’t Sleep On The Next Generation Of Bitcoin Developers

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
How to take your bitcoin self custody to the next level by backing up your wallet recovery seed on a stainless-steel, fire-proof plate top photo.
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The Benefits Of Storing Private Keys Using SeedQR

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
The Lightning Gossip Protocol is the method in which nodes on that network communicate, speak to each other and talk for Bitcoin top photo.
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New Mnemonics For Memorizing Bitcoin Seed Phrases

By Thorbjørn König
Opinion
KYC and ID requirements are lame and bitcoiners should fight and break computers that request identification top photo.
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Is Bitcoin Private Enough To Maintain Our Financial Freedom?

By Kudzai Kutukwa
Opinion
Whirlpooling your bitcoin involves mixing your transactions in order to preserve privacy and security, whirlpool also means throwing your phone in a pool top photo.
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A Plan To Opt Out And De-Google Your Phone To Use Bitcoin Privately

By Anthony Feliciano
Opinion
Companies like Chainalysis offer blockchain analysis services that can monitor and trace blockchain activity of Bitcoin transactions, a form of surveillance. Top photo.
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How Our Smartphones Spy On Us, And What You Can Do To Avoid It

By Anthony Feliciano
Opinion
Bitcoin and lightning on your phone is the ultimate mobile quick android and iPhone way to use the network top photo.
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The State of Lightning One Year After El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption

By Namcios
Feature
A Computer meant for bitcoin transactions is superior to a mobile phone or device that's meant for other technology uses top photo.
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What Do Bitcoin Core Contributors Do?

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Bitcoin and lightning on your phone is the ultimate mobile quick android and iPhone way to use the network top photo.
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Is Channel Jamming A Threat To Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

By Shinobi
Feature
Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network nodes are integral to the network top photo.
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How The Lightning Network Could Enable A More Decentralized Web

By Kishin Kato
Opinion
Stablecoins versus the volatility of bitcoin have to be weighed and shown their price. top photo
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Examining The Incentives Of Stablecoins On Bitcoin

By Shinobi
Opinion
Bitcoin Lightning Network has dual channels and competing implementations of two or more top photo.
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Lightning Shines For Its Practicality

By Koji Higashi
Opinion
Lightning pools are great places to lounge chair by since the fees are fast top photo.
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Can Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Overcome The Price Of Anarchy?

By Shinobi
Opinion
After experiencing back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes, one Bitcoiner recognized the clearest way to prepare for an uncertain monetary future.
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A Conversation About Proof-Of-Work Versus Proof-Of-Stake

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
The bitcoin lightning network is a connection of different nodes and fee pools top photo.
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The Scaling Problem For Lightning Lab’s Taro On The Bitcoin Blockchain

By Evan Price
Opinion
Houses and Homes are the best ways for communities and neighbors to interact with bitcoin and talk about the discussion of social speaking top photo.
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Next Step To Widespread Bitcoin Adoption: Community Banks

By Leo Weese
Opinion
Bitcoin is a blockchain protocol with various sidechain implementations that are technology top photo.
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An Overview Of The Tradeoffs For Different Sidechain Implementations

By Shinobi
Opinion
Lightning is the future for bitcoin technical operation and cryptography top photo.
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Lightning Network May Have A Channel Jamming Problem

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Federal authorities tracked down and seized more than 94,000 bitcoin allegedly stolen from Bitfinex. But how did they get their hands on the pseudonymous funds top photo?
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Now That Authorities Have Sanctioned Tornado Cash, Is Bitcoin Next?

By Namcios
Feature
The Bitcoin blockchain ensures transactions are transaction history is immutable top photo.
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With Drivechain, Bitcoin Will Make Altcoins Obsolete

By Nikita Chashchinskii
Opinion
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences top photo?
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How The Early Days Of The Internet Is Similar To Building On Bitcoin

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
The philosophy and idea of bitcoin is a dream as represented by this plant top photo.
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Learning About Bitcoin Basics With Hash Functions

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Guy Fawkes is a representation of freedom, privacy, security and revolution against the status quo and censorship top photo.
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Bitcoin Fedimints Offer Privacy In Exchange For Trust And Custody

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Locking files with encryption is a good privacy and security technique like bitcoin cryptography.
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How To Protect Yourself With A More Secure Kind Of Multi-Factor Authentication

By Heidi Porter
Opinion
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints. Top photo.
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Lightning Network’s Advantages As Payment Technology

By Yuya Ogawa
Opinion