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Cobra Warns of a New Bitcoin Soft Fork Next Year

[Dec 3 10:30 AM] Cobra, the operator and owner of the bitcoin.org domain, has alerted the community about a new development in the bitcoin world. He stated that unidentified bitcoiners outside of Bitcoin Core are preparing to introduce a user-activated soft fork…

Bitcoin Script: Focus On The Building Blocks, Not The Wild Geese

[Nov 26 5:26 PM] Everything built on top of Bitcoin that you are aware of today is because of the primitives that Bitcoin Script supports. What do I mean by primitives? The basic components of a programming language that you can use to build actual applications to…

No, BlackRock Won’t Ossify Bitcoin

[Nov 15 4:22 PM] Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. In his Take from Wednesday, Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share his concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is…

‘Just Don’t Break’ Bitcoin: Devs Debate Tech Upgrades to Top Crypto

[Nov 12 10:36 PM] The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.

Matter Labs co-founder proposes ‘Ethereum Supreme Court’ for on-chain disputes

[Sep 3, 2023 9:49 PM] The crypto entrepreneur believes it would scare off bad actors and strengthen the state of the Ethereum network.

Controversy as MakerDAO's Spark Protocol blocks users with VPNs

[Aug 6, 2023 8:54 PM] Users attempting to access Spark Protocol with a virtual private network will not be able to, sparking criticism from supporters of privacy.

Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain

[Feb 4, 2023 1:00 PM] During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (NFT) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on…

Bitcoin Records Largest Mined Block to Date, 4 MB Block Containing NFT Causes Unease Among Small-Block Supporters 

[Feb 2, 2023 9:30 AM] Amid the controversy surrounding the Ordinals project and the debate over what types of data should be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, the network mined its largest block, nearly 4 MB in size, containing just 63 transactions. One of the…

A year after Taproot, Bitcoin community works to unlock its DeFi potential

[Dec 9, 2022 3:00 PM] Smart contracts functionalities on the Bitcoin network could boost adoption and provide additional liquidity to DeFi.