ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet

ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet

“ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged.” – ION Announcement With the help of Casa and a number of other partners, Microsoft finally releases the beta of their new decentralized ID system, anchored...
The Blockchain is Exhaust

The Blockchain is Exhaust

Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world? This was a fascinating Twitter thread by Udi Wertheimer that explores what...
Does Bitcoin Need Accounts?

Does Bitcoin Need Accounts?

Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called “Easypaysy,” developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that...
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain

Bitcoin, Not Blockchain

Next up in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis and available on the incredible blog over at unchained-capital.com is “Bitcoin, Not Blockchain.” There is nothing about blockchain that makes it inherently immutable. Immutability emerges over...