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Botanix Labs Launches First EVM-Equivalent Layer 2 Testnet on Bitcoin

Nik -
This represents over a year of dedicated research and development by the team, with a focus on enhancing user experience.
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MuSig2 Is Ready Pending Two New BIPs: Introducing A New Era Of Multisig Privacy

Kiara Bickers -
The final standards are being fleshed out to enable Schnorr based multisig across wallets and devices. After 3 years of hard work, things are almost ready to start talking about implementation.
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Lightning Is Doomed

Shinobi -
A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it's not doomed, but it probably won't be used the way you expected it to be.
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Are Mining Pools Becoming A Problem?

Bitcoin Mechanic -
A thorough analysis of the entire mining ecosystem, from ASICs to mining pools, looking at the systemic risks and issues that exist throughout the industry.
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BitStream: A Protocol For Atomic Data Exchange

Shinobi -
A Bitcoin powered protocol for atomically exchanging your sats for digital files.
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Durabit: Incentivizing Torrent Seeding With Bitcoin

Shinobi -
A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.
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Drivechains: The Future of Bitcoin’s Scalability and Sustainability

Austin Alexander -
An argument for why Drivechains is a necessary piece of the solution to scaling Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin Beyond BIP-300: What Future Holds For ‘DeFi On BTC’

Jagdeep Sidhu -
The crypto community was split in half when a proposal about Bitcoin sidechains was reintroduced. While the proposal aims to expand the utility of Bitcoin, its limitations cause controversy. A blockchain merge-mined with Bitcoin that also employs gas fee-friendly economics might hold the answer.
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Everyone’s Thinking About Second Layers Is Backwards

Shinobi -
How a second layer on Bitcoin is designed and functioned has implications for how it affects the base layer. That makes the nature of how a second layer functions very important.
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Before They Were Cool: Covenants In Production On Liquid

Randy Naar -
The debate around the next change to Bitcoin is focused almost entirely on covenants. Having already implemented numerous covenants, Liquid presents a great learning opportunity in that discussion.
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Understanding The “Bitcoin L2 Trilemma”

Trevor Owens -
An analysis from Trevor Owens on the trade offs involved in different types of second layers possible to build on Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin’s Fifteen Years Of Evolution: A Look Beyond the Original Whitepaper

Shinobi -
It has been fifteen years since the original Bitcoin white paper was published on the cryptography mailing list. Those fifteen years have been a wild ride of progress and new ideas.
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