Bitcoin Beyond BIP-300: What Future Holds For ‘DeFi On BTC’
Does Bitcoin need any sidechains for its future? The DeFi community nowadays is split between “yes” and “no” as an answer to this question after the resurgence of a six-year-old…
Everyone’s Thinking About Second Layers Is Backwards
I have written quite a bit about my concerns regarding drivechains and miner incentives over the years, because I think it is a very important set of risks to be…
Before They Were Cool: Covenants In Production Nn Liquid
Ever since the Bitcoin community embarked on discussions surrounding the optimization of covenants, there’s been a growing interest in learning more about their tradeoffs and the covenants already deployed on…
Bitcoin’s Fifteen Years Of Evolution: A Look Beyond the Original Whitepaper
Today is fifteen years from the date of the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper. A lot has happened in that fifteen years. Bitcoin went through the blocksize war. A nation…
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…
MicroBT Unveils Highly Anticipated WhatsMiner M60 Series at Blockchain Life 2023 in Dubai
MicroBT, a prominent Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, made an industry-leading announcement in hash efficiency at the Blockchain Life 2023 event in Dubai. The company unveiled its latest generation mining rigs,…
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,…
Why Bitcoin Wallets Need Block Filters
With the advent of software development kits like BDK and LDK, building a bitcoin wallet has never been easier. However, as much as easier development is necessary, it’s important to…
Bitcoin Is Physical: Bits And Bytes Have To Live Somewhere
Sound money is money that is not prone to sudden debasement. The conversation surrounding sound money has reached a critical point, given the present uncertainties in the global financial landscape.…