Development

Announcing Bitcoin OpTech

“We’re as excited about Lightning, Schnorr signatures, Taproot/Graftroot and scriptless scripts as any other Bitcoin engineers, but the project’s focus is on technology that can be deployed by companies today.” – @bitcoinoptech

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Schnorr Poised to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Change Since SegWit

Thanks to the incredible work by Pieter Wuille (@pwuille) and others, #Schnorr signature scheme has an official proposal. Despite still much work and testing to be done, schnorr is poised to grant #Bitcoin a plethora of amazing improvements.

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Wasabi Privacy Focused Bitcoin Wallet

“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.” – @nopara73

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Dandelions, and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy

Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” –@TheCryptoconomy

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Announcing C-Lightning 0.6

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!” – Christian Decker & Rusty Russell

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Giacomo’s Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin

“So, what people call “SPV” today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules.” @giacomozucco

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The Importance of Layer 2

“the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to reach a billion people?” @neha

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The Truth About Smart Contracts

Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are? Or are there serious and often insurmountable challenges that too many ignore? Find out more in @JimmySong’s excellent article on the Truth About Smart Contracts.

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BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization

@TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article breaking down what this could mean for the future of Bitcoin.

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Exploring Lightning Network Routing

Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-path payments. Take a dive into the tech behind Lightning routing with Bryan Vu and the Lightning Labs Blog.

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