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Read_774 - Bitcoin Won't Fix the Federal Reserve
"Will Bitcoin adoption improve the monetary policy behaviors of the Federal Reserve? I submit that it won’t. I do not see the incentive for...
Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning
"Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the real issues of use...
Basics_008 - How to Buy Bitcoin
We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important, how to stay safe,...
Read_772 - Easier Way to Bootstrap the UTXO Set
"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core."...
Read_771 - Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK
"There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment widgets vs. coding...
Read_770 - The Big Deal with BitVM
"It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being able to challenge a...