CrowdHealth Crowdfunding Platform Integrates Lightning With Breez SDK
CrowdHealth, a crowdfunding platform for paying medical experiences in lieu of an insurance policy, is integrating Lightning payments with Breez’s Lightning SDK. The United States spends more than twice the…
An Ocean Launch Post-mortem
Well, let’s just say the launch of Ocean from the social perspective was anything but smooth. The decision to filter out transactions conducting inscriptions should have been communicated clearly on…
The Rise Of Ordinals And NFTs On The Medium Of Bitcoin
The Ordinals protocol was introduced to Bitcoin in early 2023 at a most opportune time. Bitcoin had nearly two years of low transaction fees from the lack of demand to…
MuSig2 Is Ready Pending Two New BIPs: Introducing A New Era Of Multisig Privacy
Traditionally, creating an n-of-n multisig using CHECKMULTISIG means you’ll publish a proportional number of signatures and public keys on the blockchain to signers in the transaction. This approach not only…
Lightning Is Doomed
Lightning is doomed. High fees from Ordinals have killed all hope of scaling Bitcoin non-custodially, there is no chance at all that people will be able to cost effectively open…
Are Mining Pools Becoming A Problem?
Bitcoin miners provide a valuable service to the ecosystem. In exchange for the work they do securing the network, they are rewarded by the same network they protect. This sound…
BitStream: A Protocol For Atomic Data Exchange
Atomically purchasing digital files with digital currency is an idea that has a long history in this space. Digital goods, digital money, the two seem like a perfect pairing together.…
Drivechains: The Future of Bitcoin’s Scalability and Sustainability
Austin Alexander is Co-Founder of LayerTwo Labs, a company focused on advancing the Bitcoin ecosystem through innovative solutions and specializing in the development of Drivechain, a specific type of blockchain…