Why Bother Trying To Scale Bitcoin?
The public discussion around scaling in the last few years has become poisoned and captured by an incredibly toxic and defeatist attitude: “Why bother?” “Why bother trying to scale? Basic…
Scaling Liberty: Bitcoin’s Tension Between Ideology and Adoption
Since its inception over 15 years ago, Bitcoin has captured the imagination of libertarians, anarchists, and a variety of other advocates of individual liberty and financial sovereignty. To them, Bitcoin…
Bitcoin’s Future Is Fractional Reserve: Unless We Do Something About It
What started as a single transaction from Satoshi to Hal Finney, has evolved into a complex system of industrial scale miners, evolving meta-protocols like the Lightning Network and Fedimint, and…
Two-Sided Coin Control
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Withdrawal Issue”. Click here to subscribe now. A PDF pamphlet of this article is available for download. Self custody is an essential…
Coming To Terms With The Economic Reality Of Scaling
The blocksize war marked a pivotal chapter in Bitcoin’s nascent history, illuminating the ability of node operators to withstand systemic changes that could undermine the network’s foundational principles of decentralization…
Bitcoin Needs To Change For Its Ethos To Scale
This is an opinion editorial by Michael Matulef, an electrician, independent student of Austrian economics and member of the Mises Institute. Bitcoin needs to change! In the realm of Bitcoin…
Introducing Ark: An Alternative Bitcoin Scaling Solution Focused On Preserving Privacy
This is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a financial inclusion advocate and Mandela Washington fellow. “When use of strong cryptography becomes popular, it’s harder for the government to criminalize…
Bitcoin Developer Introduces Ark, A Layer 2 Protocol For Fast And Efficient Payments
A Bitcoin developer by the name of The protocol operates using virtual UTXOs (vTXOs), which are short-lived notes that expire after four weeks. When a payment is made, existing vTXOs…
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Customizable rollup provider Eclipse announced that the startup is launching a scaling solution that is compatible with Solana and Polygon. Eclipse disclosed that the Layer 2 blockchain can run smart…
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At the Starkware Sessions 2023 event, held at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel, Starkware co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson informed the audience that the company intends to open source “key…