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Proof-Of-Work Is Objective, Proof-Of-Stake Is Not

The proof-of-work consensus mechanism used in Bitcoin is an objective measure of history which cannot be changed on the whims of validators.

Bitcoin’s Trustless Nature Adds Trust To The Internet

By replacing reliance on third parties in a trustless way, Bitcoin adds a layer of non-intermediated trust to the infrastructure of the internet.

Silent Payments Improve Privacy Without Adding Data To Bitcoin

Silent payments improve user privacy and are similar to stealth addresses and reusable payment codes, but actually save space on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin Needs To Be More Private For Adoption

Certain characteristics of Bitcoin create a loss in fungibility. These must be addressed and solved in order for Bitcoin to gain widespread adoption.

Reviewing Privacy-Enhancing Proposals For Bitcoin

Reviewing Bitcoin’s history of proposed privacy improvements can help us learn from the past and keep up with new improvements as we go.

Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol

Currently, the gossip protocol introduces privacy leaks and concerns that could be remedied while condensing the amount of messages sent.

Why You Should Use A Computer Specifically Meant For Bitcoin Transactions And How To Do It

Making sure your bitcoin transactions remain private is made significantly easier with a computer dedicated to this function alone.

How To Make Your Bitcoin Lightning Network Node Mobile

Now you can take the Bitcoin Layer 2 implementation wherever you go, giving you the ability to transmit sats everywhere!

A Problem With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Liquidity And Ideas To Address It

To actually solve the problem of receiving funds without having secured liquidity from someone else's node requires protocol-level changes.

Why The Denial-Of-Service Argument Against BOLT 12 Doesn’t Hold Up

A successor proposal to BOLT 11, BOLT 12 is a proposed upgrade to Lightning, the most popular Layer 2 Bitcoin protocol.

Lightning For Life — How Lightning Can And Will Integrate With The Web

Lightning is poised to seamlessly integrate into our everyday operations much in the same way the internet has.

DIY Bitcoin Nodes — A Project Anyone Can Do

Almost anyone can use one of these DIY Bitcoin node projects to participate in securing the network and to learn more about Bitcoin.

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