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Instant Settlement Series: Real Time Streaming Payments

Ivan Makedonski -
The fourth part in an article series by Ivan Makedonski from Breez on how Lightning's instant settlement finality can be a disruptive force fundamentally changing how different industries are organized.
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LN Markets Upgrades Bitcoin Trading With DLCs

LN Markets -
LN Markets breaks down their integration of a DLC marketplace, and their iterations on top of the basic DLC specification.
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To Dust You Shall Return

Joe Rodgers -
An analysis of different feerates and the consequences this has on the economics of spending UTXOs of different values.
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To Meme, Or Not To Meme: The CAT

Shinobi -
The OP_CAT meme campaign has undeniably taken on a lot of momentum, but is this really how we want to be deciding consensus changes for a protocol as valuable as Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin’s Future Is Fractional Reserve: Unless We Do Something About It

Ariel Deschapell -
Bitcoin was designed to be a system without middlemen, but unless we stop pretending it is perfect as is and work to improve it, middlemen will be the only way to interact with it for most people.
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Instant Settlement Series: The Publishing Industry

Ivan Makedonski -
The third part in an article series by Ivan Makedonski from Breez on how Lightning's instant settlement finality can be a disruptive force fundamentally changing how different industries are organized.
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The Bitcoin Halving: Why This Time Could Be Different

Shinobi -
The fourth Bitcoin halving is approaching, and this one has the potential to be a very different experience from prior halvings.
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Miner Extractable Value (MEV) and Programmable Money: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Kiara Bickers -
MEV, or Miner Extractable Value, is a serious problem that any blockchain is going to have to deal with. The only question is how severe will it get based on what features any given blockchain supports. So how bad can it get?
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How CTV Can Help Scale Bitcoin

Shinobi -
Lightning has offered a path to massively improve the scalability of transactions conducted using Bitcoin, but has offered no meaningful path to scaling the ownership of coins on the network. CTV opens the door to addressing that missing piece of the scaling puzzle.
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Bitcoin Is A Database

Shinobi -
Bitcoin and every aspect of the protocol that runs it orbits around facilitating one thing: the maintenance and reconciliation of databases.
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Mercury Layer: A Massive Improvement On Statechains

Shinobi -
CommerceBlock has taken their initial Mercury statechain implementation, a second layer akin to Lightning, and massively improved the privacy for users. The operator now is incapable of learning anything about users on-chain activity.
TECHNICAL

Breez Announces FiatLink: A Lightning To Fiat API Standard

Shinobi -
Breez is integrating a standard API format into Breez SDK for Lightning wallets and applications to integrate fiat on/off ramp functionality.
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