by Guy | Sep 22, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible.” – Ben Carman Ben Carmen, a developer with the awesome team at SuredBits, drops a...
by Guy | Jul 27, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for privacy⁵ but transparency and robustness.” – Nicolas Burtey & Chris Hunter As excellent piece...
by Guy | Jul 21, 2020 | Development, Technology
“This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time to upgrade. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how much time is enough; some think forced signaling could start within a year, others believe it should take several years.” – Aaron Van...
by Guy | Jun 15, 2020 | Development, Fundamentals
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” – Satoshi Nakamoto To kick off the Third epoch in Bitcoin we are officially...
by Guy | Jun 15, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers but do it with self-sovereign identity, which is pseudonymous and which is persistent across the network.” – Chris...
by Guy | Jun 15, 2020 | Conversations, Development
Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a ton of awesome technical exploration & how they can be directed toward a scalable and efficient future for...