Bitcoin privacy experts are unimpressed with a circulating slideshow-style privacy report that targets upcoming Bitcoin upgrade Taproot.
Lightning Operators Are Bracing for a Bitcoin Bull Run
Lightning routing node operators are preparing for the horde of new users that will come in bitcoin’s next bull run.
What Is DeFi?
DeFi is short for “decentralized finance,” an umbrella term for Ethereum and blockchain applications geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries.
Unconfiscatable? Using Bitcoin to Resist Police Extortion in Nigeria
It’s common in Nigeria for police officers to threaten and extort citizens for whatever money they can find. This man uses bitcoin as a hiding spot.
Another Bitcoin Lightning Startup Is Working With Visa to ‘Fast Track’ Card Payments
With help from the Visa Fast Track program, LastBit will let users make any purchase with bitcoin, without needing the merchant to actively accept it.
Ready to Wumbo: LND Enables More, Larger Bitcoin Transactions on Lightning
LND now supports Lightning Network wumbo channels. These channels have the capacity to hold more funds, and users can send larger bitcoin transactions.
Writing Bitcoin Smart Contracts Is About to Get Easier With New Coding Language
Bitcoin smart contracts are tricky. Minsc, a new language created by Bitcoin developer Nadav Ivgi, is making them easier to write.
Nigerians Are Using Bitcoin to Bypass Trade Hurdles With China
Nigerian entrepreneurs are increasingly using bitcoin as a way to trade internationally, noting its significant benefits over legacy financial systems.
How a Decentralized Randomness Beacon Could Boost Cryptographic Security
Filecoin will be the first protocol to use this production-ready version of drand to create decentralized, verifiable randomness for “leader selection.”
Fixing This Bitcoin-Killing Bug Will (Eventually) Require a Hard Fork
The bug sheds light on the challenges of Bitcoin’s decentralization. At least we’ve got 86 years for the community to join together and implement a fix.
‘Rat Poison Squared on Steroids’: What’s New in Bitcoin’s Latest Lightning Release
With a sly poke at Warren Buffet’s comment that Bitcoin is “rat poison squared,” c-lightning developers’ latest release adds some key new Lightning features.
Bitcoin Scaling Tech Could Have Saved Companies and Users $500M in Fees: Report
Implementing transaction batching and SegWit could have saved bitcoin companies and users $500 million in fees – if they’d just use the technology.
MIT Lightning Creator Unveils First ‘Demonstration’ of Bitcoin Scaling Tech
Utreexo “can make Bitcoin nodes smaller and faster while keeping the same security and privacy as full nodes,” says developer Tadge Dryja.
4 Experts Agree: Craig Wright’s Latest Cryptography Claims Are ‘Nonsense’
We asked four expert cryptographers about Craig Wright’s “cryptographic evidence” that he is Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. They aren’t buying it.
This New Coding Language Could Help Unlock Bitcoin’s Smart Contract Potential
With the introduction of Sapio, Jeremy Rubin hopes to expand Bitcoin’s smart contract use cases and increase the “financial self-sovereignty” of its users.
This New Coding Language Could Help Unlock Bitcoin’s Smart Contract Potential
With the introduction of Sapio, Jeremy Rubin hopes to expand Bitcoin’s smart contract use cases and increase the “financial self-sovereignty” of its users.
CoinSwap and the Ongoing Effort to Make Bitcoin Privacy ‘Invisible’
Developer Chris Belcher has set his sights on making CoinSwap a reality – a new project he hopes will “massively improve bitcoin privacy.”
Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine Swaps
In its latest major release, Electrum now supports a number of innovations that could make using Lightning more secure and less bumpy for users.
WikiLeaks Shop Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning Payments
In 2011, WikiLeaks was among the first organizations to accept donations in bitcoin. Now its shop is taking bitcoin payments over Lightning.
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Vulnerable to ‘Looting’: New Research Explains
Computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have examined the Lightning Network’s “flood and loot” attack which preys on Bitcoin congestion.