Privacy Is A Group Effort
Privacy is a complicated subject. It’s not always a simple binary thing, private or not private, seen or unseen. Seen by whom? Private from whom? Private to what degree? If…
Argentina’s Golden Opportunity: The Surprising Outcome of Recent Elections
The recent outcome of the 1st round in the elections in Argentina, will send Sergio Massa and Javier Milei into the 2nd runoff round. Javier Milei a Libertarian recently entering…
Africa: The New Land Of The Free
I write this article as a resident of New York City, home of the Statue of Liberty, one of the most widely recognized symbols of America — the “land of…
Payment Splitting And Switching: Improving Privacy And Payment Success Simultaneously
One of the fundamental limitations of the Lightning protocol is how payment routing is handled and accomplished. It is entirely source routed, meaning that the sender of a payment is…
Why Blockchain Surveillance Needs FinCEN’s PATRIOT Act Ploy
FinCEN’s Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern would criminalize Bitcoin privacy tools under the suspicion of money…
Postmortem On The Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack
So a lot of noise has been made around the Lightning vulnerability recently disclosed by Antoine Riard. Many people are claiming the sky is falling, that Lightning is fundamentally broken,…
Beyond Bukele: Sustaining El Salvador’s Orange Wave of Freedom
Is El Salvador’s Orange Enlightenment Only One Leader Deep? The world is witnessing a miracle unfold in the beautiful country of El Salvador. In just the first four years of…
Bukele Likely To Step Down As President To Seek A Second Term
In recent weeks, the Salvadoran media has been abuzz with speculation that Bitcoin Country President Nayib Bukele will step down from his current role to pursue a second term in…
FinCEN Proposes Insane Special Measures
Yesterday’s FinCEN rule proposal is incredibly overbroad, comprehensive, and perfectly designed to allow arbitrary information collection at any scope they choose to enforce. It truly is a mind-blowingly large grab…
Bitcoin-Only Events In Europe: A Perspective On The Community
From the very first days of Bitcoin, the community was its key driving force. Even more: it was the only one. Without any marketing or PR, it was the community…