Bitcoin Basics
What is the Lightning Network? A Revolution in Bitcoin Transactions
The Lightning Network represents a significant stride in addressing Bitcoin's scalability challenges.
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TFTC
Technology
How Bitcoin and AI are becoming leverage for builders and independent thinkers.
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Technology
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Markets decisively reversed course from mid-October woes this week, as the latest CPI reading ignited a short squeeze that sent stock indices back near YTD highs.
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Technology
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The capstone for the week came late Friday, when ratings agency Moody’s downgraded its outlook for US sovereign debt to negative.
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The Commoner
The Beginning of the Cyber Pandemic
I'm not going to lie, freaks. Uncle Marty currently has his tinfoil hat firmly settled on his head.
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The Commoner
Travel Rule Compliance is the First Step to Blocking the Exits
This industry needs some more backbone.
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Technology
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We fully expect the excesses and fragilities of late-stage fiat to compound further over the coming decade.
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Technology
The Art of Underclocking
The ASIC testudo is fundamentally an infrastructure play, made possible through down-clocking.
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Technology
Self Hosting Mutiny Wallet
One of the main reasons that I'm so interested in Bitcoin is that it has the potential to usher in a new era of world peace.
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Technology
Our Data Driven Approach to Fixing Payment Reliability
After a few months of testing, we've improved reliability +600% and can now hit most of our probing targets with 1,000,000 sats 95% of the time. Find out more about how we solved t…
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Technology
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After some temporary relief, yields on sovereign debt spiked again this week, with the 10-year US Treasury rising nearly 40bps W/W to break 5% for the first time since 2007 before…
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The Commoner
Lightning Bugs and Regulatory Attacks on Bitcoin
These are two things you should be paying attention to moving forward.
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Technology
Onramp Launches a Global Bitcoin Asset Management Platform Built on Multi-Institution Custody
Institutions and individuals face a dilemma when deciding how to gain access to and safely store bitcoin.
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The Commoner
The New Bitcoin Custody Standard is Being Set
This is one of the beautiful aspects of the bitcoin network. It enables truly novel ways of archtecting financial products and arangements.
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The Commoner
Death Athletic: On Securing 2nd Amendment Rights in the Digital Age
Whether you like it or not, the 2nd Amendment is an imperative if Americans are to ensure their freedom moving into the future.
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The Commoner
The Convergence of AI Data Centers and Bitcoin Mining
Once we reach the point where AI companies are competing on electricity price instead of access to machines the fight for cheap power contracts will become viscous and AI companies…
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The Commoner
Issue #1384: A GPU Mesh Network to Combat the Centralization of AI
It's early days, but the fact that many bitcoiners recognize the symbiotic relationship that is possible between AI and lightning and are quickly moving to bring products to market…
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The Commoner
Issue #1381: A Tough Time to be a Bitcoin Miner
Bitcoin mining is the most ruthlessly competitive industry in the world and nothing makes this clearer than the current economics and landscape of the industry.
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The Commoner
Issue #1379: Using FROST to Increase Privacy in Collaborative Bitcoin Custody Models
I am of the persuasion that exploring everything currently at our fingertips that have been enabled because of upgrades like SegWit and Taproot before having discussions about cont…
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The Commoner
Issue #1369: AI4All hackathon winner combines the power of lightning, AI and Nostr
When you combine distributed open source communications and distribution protocols with distributed open source money and sprinkle in the power of AI things get very exciting.
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The Commoner
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