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Issue #834: GLV Endomorphism, efficiency, and patents

This is one of those under-appreciated improvements to Bitcoin that gets your Uncle Marty all hot and bothered.

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Issue #833: Articulating priorities; perspective of a Bitcoin Core/Lightning Dev

As Antoine says in his piece, this build out will probably take a generation. Be prepared to tough this out for the long haul.

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Issue #832: FATF "Red Flags"

There is no escape without their permission.

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Issue #831: Externalities matter

Economies are complex organisms. One cannot simply pull the plug on a complex system and plug it back in expecting everything to go back to normal.

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Issue #830: Disruption beyond money and tech

The Truth machine is incentivizing individuals to spread the Truth.

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Issue #829: Problem identified. Solution proposed.

If you are developer interested in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, consider contributing to the work being started by Joost on Circuit Breakers.

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Issue #828: Two-tiered justice. Nothing new.

Overburdening individuals and companies with KYC/AML compliance has done little to curb criminal activity within the financial system to date.

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Issue #827: Mining Market Dynamics

Hard lessons are learned in this new Wild West. It is truly something to marvel at.

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Issue #826: A Know Your Hash mitigation solution?

Solutions seems to be out there. If they aren't, I am confident they will materialize.

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Issue #825: The transition is only temporary

KYC is a transition problem that exists due to the fact that Bitcoin hasn't attracted a critical mass of people and liquidity to enable a robust enough circular economy that renders KYC compliance obsolete... yet.

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Issue #824: The Lightning Network is maturing

These improvements increase the utility of the Lightning Network considerably while doubling as an overall UX improvement for users sending and receiving transactions.

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Issue #823: Schnorr merged into libsecp256k1

You can do more with less when it comes to Schnorr, mainly condense many signatures/inputs into one signature.

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Issue #822: Oh how far we've strayed

I don't think there is a more prescient warning from this time period that I could share with you freaks today.

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Issue #821: An attack emerges

Speak up. Tell the FATF to go fuck itself.

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Issue #820: Massive opportunity, long time horizon

The future is very very bright. It's just going to take some hard work to bring to fruition. Time to get to work!

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Issue #819: A Discreet Log Contract in the wild

Slowly but surely, Bitcoin's keep it simple stupid/slow and steady development approach is paying off in big ways.

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Issue #818: Great Bitcoin primer

I highly recommend that you read this piece from Yassine and share it with anyone you know who may be interested in learning more about Bitcoin.

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Issue #817: This is why we bitcoin

I do believe in due process and the inalienable rights of individuals to get a fair shot in the courts.

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Issue #816: Wait, what?

The government is turning into an amorphous blob of overlapping unaccountable agencies that have undue power over the individuals in our country.

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Issue #815: Smorgasbord Tuesday

That was this week's Smorgasbord! We'll be back with another whenever we feel like it.

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Issue #814: Under appreciated news of the week

The symbiotic relationship between Bitcoin mining and the Oil and Gas industry in the United States is a no-brainer.

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Issue #813: The Doublespeak has always been there

This is EVIL. The world has been bamboozled by a spell of doublespeak.

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Issue #812: The Triffin Dilemma has run its course

If you take a look at America today, it is pretty evident that we have played out the dilemma that Robert Triffin laid out to a tee.

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Issue #811: Full send incoming

Be on the lookout tomorrow to find out exactly what we have in store. It will be a pivotal moment in the history books that are written by the fall of the Dollar.

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Issue #810: 2020: The Spin Cycle

The thing the operators of this year's spin cycle are most afraid of is a united populace that calls bullshit.