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Issue #875: PTLCs in the wild

Using PTLCs instead of HTLCs should significantly help with routing efficiency and privacy on the Lightning Network.

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Issue #874: Viewing hashpower as a portfolio

There are many factors to take into consideration when building a mining operation.

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Issue #873: Taproot week begins

These are the type of improvements that you want to see as an individual who believes in future in which the Bitcoin Network is at the heart of the global economy.

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Issue #872: Which way, humankind?

Freedom of association is one of the most important pillars of a truly free society.

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Issue #870: The institutions are scooping up a lot of corn

This is great data to follow up on Issue #863 from a couple week's ago in which we discussed a looming liquidity crunch.

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Issue #870: Is negative yielding debt driving bitcoin?

This is exactly the type of environment Bitcoin was created for.

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Issue #869: Bitcoin in the Senate

I cannot wait to see the discourse that ensues once Cynthia begins educating her colleagues about Bitcoin.

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Issue #868: Light clients, Taproot activation, and a break away from gold

There's a lot going on in the Bitcoin world at the moment. Here are a few things that caught my attention.

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Issue #867: Extreme ownership brings extreme motivation

This is a completely different paradigm when compared to the traditional financial system.

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Issue #866: Bitcoin's Hero's Journey

The network will represent much more than the world reserve currency at that point.

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Issue #865: A sign of things to come?

There seems to be a problem among the world's governments; they're all filled with psychopaths who want to control others.

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Issue #864: Negative yielding debt surges behind the scenes

We are currently approaching the $20T range. Something is terribly off.

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Issue #863: Can the Lightning Network help keep podcasting decentralized?

Monetization via Lightning may be a critical component to creating an environment in which podcasting remains sufficiently decentralized.

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Issue #862: Square sold a lot of bitcoin again

There's a liquidity crunch on the way.

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Issue #861: Dollar dumping, bitcoin pumping

The prospects of an apolitical sound digital currency that cannot be controlled by any one corrupt government, company or individual are becoming increasingly appealing to many around the world.

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Issue #860: Bitcoin is climbing the ranks

via Crypto VoicesElection day in US; to skip the politics and get straight to the money, here's our quarterly update. How do gold, silver, and government fiat money

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Issue #859: *Lightning Pool has entered the room*

This product creates the conditions for a meaningful and actionable yield curve to begin taking form on top of Bitcoin.

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Issue #858: Bitcoin: timestamping history

This is a pretty great way to help prevent the censorship and whitewashing described above.

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Issue #857: Bitcoin and the Fourth Turning

The incumbent system is on a very direct and narrow path towards a world in which the masses are slaves.

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Issue #856: The Iranian Central Bank may start accumulating bitcoins

This is a big development for a couple of reasons.

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Issue #855: Bitcoin: a market response to the inflation tax

Contrary to popular belief, the federal government and the Federal Reserve are not "too big and too powerful" to impede an idea whose time has come.

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Issue #854: Miners unplug, a Singapore bank opens an on ramp, and more gold is discovered

There's a lot going on in the Bitcoin world this week.

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Issue #853: A statechain implementation in the wild

This is a beautiful thing to see at this stage of Bitcoin's maturation.

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Issue #852: Brief thoughts on the new Square Crypto Grant

Slowly but surely, the software and hardware infrastructure that will be necessary to bring bitcoin to the masses is being built out.

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Issue #851: Bitcoin, a reason to be optimistic.

Bitcoin's attributes put it in a unique position to provide the world with a better future.