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Assessing the Lightning Network's Last-Mile Solutions

[Aug 13 3:37 PM] Custodial Lightning has clearly achieved product market fit. Users benefit from instant Bitcoin payments and minimal fees, while custodians manage the complexities of channel and liquidity management. Major platforms like Coinbase, Cash App…

Anduro: A Network of Sidechains

[Feb 29 1:23 PM] Marathon yesterday announced their Anduro layer two proposal. While there aren't really any fundamentally new pieces or developments in the Anduro design, they do compose in slightly different ways compared to other existing sidechain systems such…

Block size and scalability, explained

[Dec 10, 2023 10:25 AM] Block size and scalability trade-off involves optimizing transaction capacity while ensuring network performance amid increasing demand.

Bitcoin Beyond BIP-300: What Future Holds For ‘DeFi On BTC’

[Nov 8, 2023 11:00 AM] Does Bitcoin need any sidechains for its future? The DeFi community nowadays is split between “yes” and “no” as an answer to this question after the resurgence of a six-year-old proposal. Since the controversy around sidechains involves advanced

Bitcoin vs Ethereum: A Culture War Rooted in First Principles

[Sep 20, 2023 12:00 PM] Bitcoin and Ethereum, despite acting as twin forces for accelerating and adopting cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, have historically been at odds with each other due to the “L1 wars” and their vocal online proponents. To some, the…

Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer

[Sep 18, 2023 3:02 PM]  This is an extension to my previous article series discussing the different sidechain proposals that exist. Those articles can be found here: Spacechains, Spacechain Use Cases, Softchains, Drivechains, Federated Chains, and Trade Offs Of…

Drivechains Are Stupid, Prove Me Wrong

[Sep 13, 2023 1:00 PM] Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.______________________________________________________________We are going to…

How Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin

[Sep 5, 2023 9:00 AM] Despite a nice few months this summer after Burak, infamous slayer of the Lightning Network, dropped his proposal for the new second layer protocol Ark where people had a lot of discussion around different covenant proposals, drivechains are once…