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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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Payment Splitting And Switching: Improving Privacy And Payment Success Simultaneously

Shinobi -
A relatively simple proposal can help improve both the Lightning Network's payment success rate, but also one of it's worst privacy short comings.
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Why Blockchain Surveillance Needs FinCEN’s PATRIOT Act Ploy

L0La L33Tz -
FinCEN has proposed to regulate Bitcoin privacy tech under the PATRIOT Act. But the data used to support FinCEN‘s proposal is partial at best, highlighting the gravity of blockchain surveillance software shortcomings.
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MicroBT Unveils Highly Anticipated WhatsMiner M60 Series at Blockchain Life 2023 in Dubai

Bitcoin Magazine -
MicroBT, a prominent Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, made an industry-leading announcement in hash efficiency at the Blockchain Life 2023 event in Dubai. The company...
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Postmortem On The Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack

Shinobi -
This is a legitimate vulnerability in the Lightning protocol, but the sky is not falling.
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Why Bitcoin Wallets Need Block Filters

Gustavo Flores Echaiz -
Most Bitcoin wallets leak your private information to the wallet provider, block filters can help fix that.
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