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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.

Mercury Layer: A Massive Improvement On Statechains

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.

Breez Announces FiatLink: A Lightning To Fiat API Standard

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

Instant Settlement: The Logistics Industry

The second 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.

Ocean Adds Block Template Selection Option

As a stepping stone towards eventual integration of Stratum v2, Ocean Mining has added the ability for miners to select from multiple block template sources when mining at the pool.

Free As In Freedom Is Not Free As In Beer

Truly decentralized systems are not cheap, not efficient, and not simple to scale. This is a reality many newer Bitcoiners are going to have to learn the hard way.

Braidpool: A Second Competitor In Decentralizing Mining

Braidpool is a protocol proposal for a completely decentralized mining pool, leaving no part of the pool's role the responsibility of a centralized actor.

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