Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs
One of the biggest inherent limitations to the Lightning Network is the limited number of channels that can be opened or closed per block given the blocksize limit. Regardless of…
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…
BitVM: But Can It Run DOOM?
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates. ______________________________________________________________ So, some complete autist who…
Bitcoin’s First Ever EVM Transaction Takes Place Paving Way For ZK Rollup
Bitcoin startup Chainway has taken a significant stride in the space with its introduction of the first Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) transaction on bitcoin. This is part of Chainway’s continued…
The Big Deal with BitVM: Arbitrary Computation Now Possible on Bitcoin Without a Fork
Fear the wizards. Not those wizards, real wizards. Announced today by developer Robin Linus of ZeroSync, an association founded to help scale Bitcoin by using zero-knowledge proofs, BitVM is a…
How Bitcoin Mining Monetizes Grid Resilience, A National Defense Matter
Winter is coming, and with that means a shifting of demands for power and a reshuffling of power generation capacity. During the coldest months of the year the northern hemisphere…
Where Ethereum Fails: DLCs, Atomic.Finance, and Bitcoin-Native Financial Services
Earlier this week, I sat down with Matthew Black, the Chief Technology Officer of Atomic.Finance, to discuss Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs), a cutting-edge development in Bitcoin’s often misunderstood smart contract…
Readers Responses To The Cult Of The Covenant
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates. _________________________________________________________________ Last week I published a…
Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node’s UTXO Set
Yesterday marks coming up to the finishing line after almost four years of work. Assumeutxo was merged into the Bitcoin Core master branch by Andrew Chow yesterday. This is the…