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DLCs Evolving To Meet Institutional Needs

A deeper dive into the design for DLC Markets, LN Market's recently announced DLC based protocol.

Nostr Wallet Connect: A Bitcoin Application Collaboration Layer

As the complexity of Bitcoin software and applications using Bitcoin grows, the need for a simple coordination mechanism for different applications to interact grows as well.

Instant Settlement Series: Real Time Streaming Payments

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.

LN Markets Upgrades Bitcoin Trading With DLCs

LN Markets breaks down their integration of a DLC marketplace, and their iterations on top of the basic DLC specification.

To Dust You Shall Return

An analysis of different feerates and the consequences this has on the economics of spending UTXOs of different values.

To Meme, Or Not To Meme: The CAT

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?

Bitcoin’s Future Is Fractional Reserve: Unless We Do Something About It

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.

Instant Settlement Series: The Publishing Industry

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.

The Bitcoin Halving: Why This Time Could Be Different

The fourth Bitcoin halving is approaching, and this one has the potential to be a very different experience from prior halvings.

Miner Extractable Value (MEV) and Programmable Money: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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?

How CTV Can Help Scale Bitcoin

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.

Bitcoin Is A Database

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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