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Bitcoin’s Culture War – Discussion With Udi Wertheimer

Abstract: We look at the recent apparent cultural schism in Bitcoin, in particular the so-called laser eyed Bitcoin maximalists and the accusation from “anti-maxis”, that this section of the...

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Abstract: In this piece we evaluate Paul Sztorc’s BIP-300 and BIP-301 Drivechain proposals. We assess the sidechain peg-out system and the benefits of blind merge mining. In particular we...

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Bitcoin’s Culture War – Discussion With Udi Wertheimer

Drivechains

Gensler’s Done It All Before

Miner Fee Gathering Capability (Part 2) – Out of Band Fees

Calvin Kim Developer Grant

Renewal of Rene Pickhardt’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Lightning Payments – When Are They Too Small To Secure?

Renewal of Sjors Provoost’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

The Bitcoin Forum

Renewal of Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Reckless – Chapter 21: Proof Of Stake Economy

Reckless – Chapter 20: Staking Derivatives

Cryptocurrency Interest Rate Derivative Discussion (Twitter Spaces)

Reckless – Chapter 19: The Proof Of Stake Interest Rate

Reckless – Chapter 18: Proof Of Stake

Reckless – Chapter 17: Celsius

Reckless – Chapter 16: The Earn Collapse

Reckless – Chapter 15: Financial Contagion

Reckless – Chapter 14: Crypto Credit Market Structure

Reckless – Chapter 13: DeFi

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Reckless – Chapter 12: Stablecoins

Reckless – Chapter 11: The Earn Model

Reckless – Chapter 10: Bitcoin’s Risk Free Rate

Reckless – Chapter 9: Bitcoin As Collateral

Reckless – Chapter 8: The Emergence Of Lending Markets

Reckless – Chapter 7: The Early Years

Reckless – Chapter 6: Bitcoin Interest Rate

Reckless – Chapter 5: Everything Bubble

Show Us Your Leaves!

Reckless – Chapter 4: The Wrong Rate

Reckless – Chapter 3: The Natural Rate

Reckless – Chapter 2: Interest Rate Ethics

Reckless – Chapter 1: The History Of Interest Rates

BSV Hardfork – Security Considerations

Renewal of Rene Pickhardt’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Reckless: The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates

Renewal of Gleb Naumenko’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Sjors Provoost’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Calvin Kim’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

The power of valves for better flow control, improved reliability & lower expected payment...

Erroneous findings in Merkle Trees Optimized for Stateless Clients in Bitcoin

OFAC Sanctions & Ethereum PoS – Some Technical Nuances

ETHPoW vs ETH2

The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions

TxWithhold Smart Contracts by Gleb Naumenko

Taproot Demonstration

Renewal of Calvin Kim’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Rene Pickhardt’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Chris Coverdale’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Price of Anarchy from selfish routing strategies on the Lightning Network by Rene Pickhardt

Renewal of Sjors Provoost’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Renewal of Gleb Naumenko’s Bitcoin Developer Grant

Michael Ford Developer Grant

A complete history of Bitcoin’s consensus forks – 2022 Update

Why Open Source Matters – Guix

Flashbots

OP_CTV – Summer Softfork Shenanigans

Mining Bull Market

Book review: The Cryptopians (by Laura Shin)

CoinPool FAQ

Don’t Wait For The Inflationary Endgame

Bitcoin’s Lowest Block Hash Values

BitMEX Supports Sending To Taproot Addresses

Bitcoin Address Re-use Statistics

Checking Ethereum’s Total Supply

Ethereum’s New 1MB Blocksize Limit

Bitcoin vs Ethereum – Blockchain Size

Scamwicks and Stop Cascades

Preventing Channel Jamming

Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint

Outsourced Stake

Ethereum’s Proof of Stake System – Calculating Penalties & Rewards

Mapping Out The Macro Endgame

BitMEX Research Is Now An Ethereum Staker

Proof of Reserves & Liabilities – BitMEX Demonstration

Fixing The Privacy Gap In Proof Of Liability Protocols

The Blocksize War – Chapter 21 – Victory

The Blocksize War – Chapter 20 – SegWit2x

The Blocksize War – Chapter 19 – Bitcoin Cash

The Blocksize War – Chapter 18 – New York Agreement

The Blocksize War – Chapter 17 – User-Activated Softfork

The Blocksize War – Chapter 16 – Litecoin

The Blocksize War – Chapter 15 – Dragons’ Den

The Blocksize War – Chapter 14 – ASICBoost

The Blocksize War – Chapter 13 – Exchanges

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The Blocksize War – Chapter 12 – Bitcoin Unlimited

The Blocksize War – Chapter 11 – Scaling III – Milan

The Blocksize War – Chapter 10 – The DAO

Out of Order Block Validation with Utreexo Accumulators

Faster Blockchain Validation with Utreexo Accumulators

The Blocksize War – Chapter 9 – Faketoshi

Breaking Down The Fee Market (EIP-1559)

The Blocksize War – Chapter 8 – Hong Kong Roundtable

The Blocksize War – Chapter 7 – Bitcoin Classic

The Blocksize War – Chapter 6 – Lightning Network

The Blocksize War – Chapter 5 – SegWit

The Blocksize War – Chapter 4 – Scaling II – Hong Kong

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