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UTXOracle: A Decentralized Approach To The Oracle Problem

Using the UTXO set to calculate a bitcoin price.

Readers React To Drivechain Incentive Concerns

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.

Bitcoin vs Ethereum: A Culture War Rooted in First Principles

Willem Schroe, founder of Botanix Labs, discusses the reasons why his company is working on a decentralized second layer to bring the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to Bitcoin.

Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer for Bitcoin

Botanix Labs has designed a mechanism for governing a two-way pegged Bitcoin sidechain system with proof-of-stake collateralized with BTC.

Coming To Terms With The Economic Reality Of Scaling

Scaling Bitcoin isn't as simple as waiving a magic wand, and there are inescapable economic realities to grapple with in order to succeed.

Bitcoin Nodes Now One Step Closer to Instant Sync

Inside ZeroSync: how zero-knowledge proofs are making a massive advance toward instant bitcoin node sync.

Drivechains Are Stupid, Prove Me Wrong

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.

ZK Rollups Are Coming To Bitcoin. Here’s All You Need To Know

Zero-knowledge rollups are coming to Bitcoin, as two teams race to bring this novel scalability and privacy solution to the oldest cryptocurrency.

Chainalysis Denounces Bitcoin Core Contributor As “Unqualified”

Chainalysis attempts to render Bitcoin Core contributor Bryan Bishop as “unqualified” to audit Chainalysis’ source code as the surveillance firm’s own experts stumble cluelessly around the blockchain.

Why Advanced Bitcoiners Should Consider Upgrading To a Shamir Backup

Advanced users should consider the trade-offs between complexity and resilience to backup loss Shamir secret sharing offers.

Waiting For Confirmation: Bitcoin Optech’s Series On Mempool And Policy

A summary of the 10 part Bitcoin Optech series describing the inner workings of Bitcoin nodes' mempools and the rules and incentives that govern them.

Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin

The activation of hashrate escrow in combination with blind merge mining inevitably degrades writes Bitcoin Magazine Technical Editor Shinobi.

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