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Is Adding Functionality To Bitcoin A Problem?

Bitcoin Magazine -
Adding operation codes to Bitcoin can increase the types of functions users are able to perform, but choosing their size limits has been a topic of debate.
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Track Me If You Can — How Bitcoin Forward-Looking Anonymity Sets Work

Brother Rabbit -
Whirlpool gives a certain level of privacy when using bitcoin, and forward-looking anonymity sets are a measure of how well hidden you are.
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Blockstream Announces Progress On Signature Aggregation Research

Marty Bent -
Signature aggregation could bring massive data-efficiency benefits to the network as well as open up more unique use cases, demonstrating bear market building.
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Gloria Zhao Becomes First Female Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Pieter Wuille Steps Down

Namcios -
Zhao gained the Bitcoin Core maintainer status on Thursday as Marco Falke merged her PGP key fingerprint as a trusted key onto the codebase.
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How Silent Payments Are Bringing New Privacy Protections To Bitcoin

Seth For Privacy -
The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it?
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Pickhardt Payments: How To Send Large Bitcoin Payments On Lightning

Namcios -
The work of Rene Pickhardt shows that despite being mainly used for small, fast Bitcoin transactions, Lightning can also deliver large payments.
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Reusing Bitcoin Addresses Can Lead To Private Keys Being Stolen

Bitcoin Magazine -
Only using Bitcoin addresses one time is best practice. By using addresses more than once, users give up information that can result in negative outcomes.
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Exploring The Bitcoin Use Cases Of Spacechains

Shinobi -
While spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring.
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Spacechains: How This New Bitcoin Sidechain Proposal Works

Shinobi -
Spacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design.
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We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy

Marty Bent -
By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data.
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A History Of Bitcoin Hard Forks

Bitcoin Magazine -
A lively conversation and response to Jameson Lopp’s recent article that researches the answer to the question, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked?”
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BOLT 12 And LNURL: What Is The Future For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?

Shinobi -
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences?
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