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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.

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.
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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
Using patterns to remember bitcoin seed phrases is a useful tool which can come in handy if someone is needing to move across borders without being detected.
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Border Wallets: A New Way to Create and Easily Memorize Bitcoin Seed Phrases

By Wartime Microchad
Opinion
Tapsigner NFC Bitcoin Hardware Wallet from Coinkite
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Tapsigner Bitcoin Hardware Wallet: Security Meets Convenience?

By Namcios
Feature
Bitcoin is awesome. top photo
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Simplifying Bitcoin Addresses Using DNS

By Mark Jeftovic
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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Galoy Brings U.S. Dollars To Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

By Namcios
News
Bitcoin private key storage and management is a key part of keeping protection privacy and security of your vaults and wallets top photo.
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Expanding Bitcoin Custody Models With FediMint

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
On-chain analysis for bitcoin Is important because technical analysis helps traders top photo.
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Federated Sidechains Are Bitcoin’s Original Upgradeable Sidechain Implementation

By Shinobi
Opinion
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 To Learn About Bitcoin Using Video Tutorials

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
Peer-to-peer P2P communications chat app with Bitcoin Lightning support
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Keet Is Introducing P2P Digital Communications, Will Integrate Bitcoin Payments

By Namcios
News
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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Making Lightning Payments Private Again With pLN

By Adam Anderson
Feature
Bitcoin is a privacy enhancing and protecting technology, letting users remain pseudonymous top photo.
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Using Bitcoin To Establish VPN Connections Without Trusted Third Parties

By Moustafa Amin
Opinion
Fiat money funnels into bitcoin mining operations (bitcoin miners) top photo.
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Drivechains Allow Sidechain Node Operators To Pay Miners To Mine — And More!

By Shinobi
Opinion
Reviewing the difficulty changes in Bitcoin’s history demonstrates that the practice of mining is near-perfectly competitive and is becoming increasingly so top photo.
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Three Bitcoin Mining Downward Difficulty Adjustments In A Row

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin on chain security is important because it provides privacy for your private keys top photo.
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Softchains Bring Two-Way Pegs And Potential Room For Use Cases — But Not Without Security Costs

By Shinobi
Opinion
Making Bitcoin Unstoppable Part One: Mesh Nets
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Making Bitcoin Unstoppable Part One: Mesh Nets

By L0la L33tz
Feature
There is no such thing as a Lightning Wallet, bitcoin wallets as a term need to be put in the trash like the garbage it is top photo.
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There Is No Such Thing As A “Lightning Wallet”

By Roy Sheinfeld
Opinion
There are various reasons why you should withdraw your bitcoin and utilize self-custody.
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Fedi Raises $4 Million To Scale Bitcoin Custody With Fedimint

By Namcios
Feature
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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Is Adding Functionality To Bitcoin A Problem?

By Bitcoin Magazine
Podcast
While ZeroLink CoinJoin implementations are generally more popular, the JoinMarket project has potential to offer decentralized and truly private Bitcoin mixing top photo.
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Track Me If You Can — How Bitcoin Forward-Looking Anonymity Sets Work

By Brother Rabbit
Opinion
Privacy & security - Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool
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Blockstream Announces Progress On Signature Aggregation Research

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin Optech was founded in 2018 to bridge the worlds of open-source development and companies.
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Gloria Zhao Becomes First Female Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Pieter Wuille Steps Down

By Namcios
News