A reaction to the indictment charges against the Samourai developers yesterday, and the patently absurd distortions of reality, prior regulatory clarification, and the functionality of the software to categorize them as a money transmission business.
Author: Shinobi
How To Keep Your Bitcoin Safe When You Have to Flee Your home
Sometimes things get politically or economically so unstable that you have no option but to flee your home. Bitcoin offers an immensely powerful tool to safely bring your wealth with you.
Fun Facts About The Halving
A short list of little known facts about Bitcoin’s supply schedule and past halvings.
What the heck is CatVM?
A breakdown of Taproot Wizard’s recent CatVM proposal, what it actually is, and what it could be useful for.
Dogma Kills Brain Cells
All cultures require some overarching belief to hold it together as a cohesive identity. But when that belief is followed too blindly it leads to stagnation and dissent. From “The Inscription Issue”.
The BitVM Liquidity Crunch Issue
An analysis of the recent criticism of BitVM based two way pegs published by Taproot Wizards.
BitVM 2: Opening Up The Playing Field
Robin Linus has recently released a proposal for BitVM 2, offering significant improvements from the original BitVM proposal.
Bitcoin: The Tree of Bytes
While Bitcoin is chiefly a system for transferring digital value, it is inherently and always will be so much more than just that.
Mercury Layer’s Lightning Latch Swap Protocol
The new atomic swap protocol developed by Commerceblock for their Mercury Layer protocol begins the process of stitching the Lightning Network and statechains together to function as a singular system.
Understanding Your Bitcoin Keys: Bip39 Seed Words
How large numbers and randomness secure your bitcoin, and what your seed phrase has to do with it. The first installment of “10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty” powered by Ledger.