"This little tip might help you to maintain your privacy online while using Bitcoin."
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"Blockstream’s Neil Woodfine lays out the solutions developers are working on to make Bitcoin impervious to interference."
"The Lightning Network has generated a lot of hype over the past couple of years because it enables fast, cheap Bitcoin transactions without sacrificing too much censorship resistance and decentralization."
"As we approach the Bitcoin halving due in May 2020, a heated debate has raged among Bitcoiners about whether the issuance change is being anticipated by the market or not. Those who downplay the purported impact of the issuance change tend to make references to market efficiency."
"Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and a symbol. As such, it will become widely recognized as the flag of technology over the course of the 2020s."
"It can be tricky for newcomers to wrap their head around what sort of proposals are more likely to be accepted for Bitcoin because there are plenty of unwritten rules regarding protocol changes. Some of these rules are more on the philosophical side, some are more on the engineering and security side, and some are a blend of the two."
"With Bitcoin’s halving coming in 2020, some investors see a pump on the horizon, and they’re betting on Bitcoin mining to capitalize on that opportunity. Will that work out? It may be tempting to view mining machines as “money printers,” but they’re not. Major fluctuations in Bitcoin’s price pose a huge risk for miners. And 2020’s halving could pose other problems as well."
"So much is happening at the many layers of Bitcoin’s technology stack, it can be incredibly difficult to keep track of emerging solutions."
"If you have ever heard (or happen to believe) that bitcoin is primarily a tool used by criminals, stop and take a quick sample of your friends and family that you suspect may own bitcoin, and then ask yourself how many are known criminals."
"The past two years have been filled with much hype but little traction around blockchain games."
"Every four years or so, the reward for mining Bitcoin is halved. The next “halvening” is due next year; here’s how it’ll impact on Bitcoin’s price."
"Asset allocators have to fit every position into their portfolio — to think about risk/reward and correlation to other asset classes. I’ll address both concerns in this piece."
"To celebrate the 11th anniversary of the publishing of the Bitcoin white paper, we examine eleven quantitative indicators that Bitcoin is gaining momentum, enabling economic opportunity, and increasing global utility."
"So the anchor point for this line of criticism assumes that bitcoin is functional as money. And then, the question becomes whether or not government intervention could successfully cause an otherwise functioning bitcoin to fail."
"Reputation systems are necessary to organize social interactions, power connected objects or prioritize ideas. With the advent of decentralized identities and claims, blockchains reinvent these systems, simultaneously assuming their role of trust machines for the world wide web."
"This article explains why it’s important to run a Bitcoin node"
"First, we need to understand what is unique about bitcoin’s supply compared to the supply of another “hard currency.” Let’s start by comparing bitcoin to another monetary good: gold. "