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Payment Splitting And Switching: Improving Privacy And Payment Success Simultaneously

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.

Why Blockchain Surveillance Needs FinCEN’s PATRIOT Act Ploy

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.

MicroBT Unveils Highly Anticipated WhatsMiner M60 Series at Blockchain Life 2023 in Dubai

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...

Postmortem On The Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack

This is a legitimate vulnerability in the Lightning protocol, but the sky is not falling.

Why Bitcoin Wallets Need Block Filters

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

Lightning Labs Rolls Out Taproot Assets Mainnet Alpha

Lightning Labs unveils the mainnet alpha of Taproot Assets, a significant milestone to bring dollar stablecoins and other assets natively to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Is Physical: Bits And Bytes Have To Live Somewhere

Even digital pieces of data cannot exist without having a physical presence in computer memory somewhere.

Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs

John Law's Timeout Tree proposal is one of the first concrete designs for a channel factory to address Lightning's scaling limitations.

Two-Sided Coin Control

From “The Withdrawal Issue”, Shinobi discusses the nature of Bitcoin scaling and the choice between trusted third parties, or upgrading Bitcoin to remove the need for them.

From Cyberspace to Outer Space: Will Fiat Imperialism Push Mining Off-Planet?

A serious consideration of the possibilities and motivations for orbital bitcoin mining platforms.

BitVM: But Can It Run DOOM?

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.

Satoshi’s Sophon: Destroyer of BRC-20s

A superintelligent subatomic Artificial Intelligence is reeking havoc in the mempool.

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