Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin, The Technology of Dissent

“We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of trusted third parties. […] Laws of nature that are higher than man-made laws, being enforced by mathematics, have begun to reorganize a society.” – Nozomi Hayase

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How Lightning Can Improve Encrypted Messaging

“Devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app” – Colin Harper

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Microsoft’s ION Bets on Bitcoin

Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for managing and proving identities available to the globe.

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Bitcoin 2020 with CK_Snarks!

Today I get hyped with ck_SNARKs of BTCMedia and have the opportunity to pick his brain for all the exciting stuff happening at the Bitcoin2020 conference in San Fran!

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Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin

“The technology to provide auditability and transparency for bitcoin held in custody has been inherent to the protocol from its inception. However, the industry has been slow to incorporate”

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Paying Yourself for Privacy on Lightning?

“The Lightning Network is best known for its fast and cheap payments. But the Layer 2 protocol could also offer more privacy than on-chain payments […] the developer thinks that “self-payments” could be an important part of the privacy puzzle.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

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The Rise of SIM Swapping

“For the better part of the last decade, the combination of these two practices has given rise to an increasing number of SIM swap attacks ending in the theft of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.” – David Hollerith

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The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving…

“What’s noteworthy about this point is that, upon this particular halving, Bitcoin “inflating” at a roughly 1.8 percent rate annually will nominally — and by then, quite possibly in real terms — be “inflating” at a rate lower than both the Federal Reserve target of 2 percent per year and current, CPI-based estimates of real U.S. inflation of 1.9 percent annually.” – Peter C Earle

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Bitcoin & the Primacy of the Digital World

“As our perception of the world evolves from the analog to the digital, bitcoin represents digital value without all the problems inherent to a digital world.”

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