Matt Corallo recently proposed a BIP for Bitcoin, DNS Payment Instructions, with the goal of utilizing the DNS system to fetch information to make Bitcoin payments.
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DLCs Evolving To Meet Institutional Needs
A deeper dive into the design for DLC Markets, LN Market’s recently announced DLC based protocol.
Nostr Wallet Connect: A Bitcoin Application Collaboration Layer
As the complexity of Bitcoin software and applications using Bitcoin grows, the need for a simple coordination mechanism for different applications to interact grows as well.
Bitcoin Is Pure Anarchy
Bitcoin’s “governance” process is defined literally and succinctly by a single word: anarchy. It is literally impossible for a voluntary and distributed system to be “governed” in any other way.
To Meme, Or Not To Meme: The CAT
The OP_CAT meme campaign has undeniably taken on a lot of momentum, but is this really how we want to be deciding consensus changes for a protocol as valuable as Bitcoin?
Why Is Bitcoin Censorship Resistant?
Economic incentives are what guarantee Bitcoin’s censorship resistance, not ethical or moral honesty. This is how.
Don’t Break Userspace!
Linus Torvald’s philosophy of Linux kernel development is governed by one core principle, “Don’t break userspace.” How does this philosophy map to development of the Bitcoin protocol?
The Bitcoin Halving: Why This Time Could Be Different
The fourth Bitcoin halving is approaching, and this one has the potential to be a very different experience from prior halvings.
How CTV Can Help Scale Bitcoin
Lightning has offered a path to massively improve the scalability of transactions conducted using Bitcoin, but has offered no meaningful path to scaling the ownership of coins on the network. CTV opens the door to addressing that missing piece of the scaling puzzle.
Bitcoin Is A Database
Bitcoin and every aspect of the protocol that runs it orbits around facilitating one thing: the maintenance and reconciliation of databases.