Author: Shinobi

Bitcoin Magazine Stop Pretending Bitcoin Self Custody Is Easy, It’s Not “It’s just writing down 12 words, anyone can do it.” This is probably one of the most frequently uttered

This is the first in a 10-episode video series focusing on Bitcoin privacy, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and elsewhere. Each episode will touch on some aspect of

This is the first in a 10 episode video series focusing on Bitcoin privacy, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and elsewhere. Each episode will touch on some aspect

What is the Lightning Network? It is generally spoken about in analogies, metaphors or direct explanations of purpose.  “It’s the checking account, versus on-chain as the savings account.” “It’s a

Yesterday’s guilty verdict for Roman Storm on the count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business is absolutely insane.  FinCEN, the regulator responsible for licensing, monitoring, and enforcement

Bitcoin doesn’t scale. That shouldn’t be read to mean that Bitcoin, the asset, or different ways to use it don’t scale. But Bitcoin’s blockchain does not scale. This is a

Last week I touched on the nuances and complexities of “Trustodial” systems, systems that can’t be fully categorized as non-custodial or custodial, and how this causes issues when it relates

Statechains are an original second layer protocol originally developed by Ruben Somsen in 2018, depending on the eltoo (or LN Symmetry) proposal. In 2021 a variation of the original proposal,

What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to first conceptually understand how a user interacts with the Bitcoin network in the first place.  Bitcoin is a database,

Ark is a novel off-chain transaction batching mechanism originally proposed by Burak, a young Turkish developer. There are currently two implementations being built, one by Ark Labs, and the other