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Issue #1102: Minimint gets support from Blockstream

As with everything that involves Bitcoin, this product comes with tradeoffs.

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Issue #1042: A vision of The Bitcoin Stack

The Lightning Network presents the ability to build a communications and data transfer stack on top of the Bitcoin base layer.

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Issue #972: Taproot Speedy Trial Activation has been merged into Bitcoin Core

This is a very exciting time to be observing the Bitcoin network.

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Issue #960: DLCs, scaling sat streaming, & Tesla contributing to FOSS

Bullish.

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Issue #954: Bitcoin; fulfilling the vision of "Web 3.0"

It's getting increasingly hard for the grifting shitcoiners to justify the existence of their tokens in a world in which Sphinx and similar apps exist.

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Issue #902: Back to basics

Find your zen. Learn to look away from the price if you can. It is only going to be more distracting from here.

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Issue #900: A step towards Hal Finney's vision of Bitcoin?

Regardless of how it plays out, the OCC's announcement creates regulatory clarity that will enable banks to attempt to compete.

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Issue #888: Are multicoin exchanges attacks on Bitcoin scaling?

Those exchanges who have implemented SegWit and Lightning seem to be exchanges who have a focus on Bitcoin.

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Issue #877: Counter-party risk, trust minimization, and the Lightning Network

Slow and steady wins this particular race and Bitcoin seems to have an insurmountable lead when viewing success through this lens.

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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 #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 #847: Smorgasbord Friday

There is a lot going on that I think you freaks should be aware of.

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Issue #837: Thread on different scaling tradeoffs

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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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 #786: Utreexo moves forward

Slowly but surely Bitcoin is becoming more robust and scalable. Onward!

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Issue #737: In-game assets on Liquid

Bitcoin can support use cases that many altcoin scammers have tried to say it cannot.

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Issue #684: Discreet Log Contract demo

Over the course of the last year, the team at Suredbits has been working to bring the dream of DLCs to fruition on Bitcoin.

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Issue #524: Signs of scaling

What is incredibly beautiful about this process is that it is completely voluntary. Individuals opt-in to the creation and utilization of these features by their own volition as Bitcoin draws their attention and leverages their labor to fortify itself.

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Issue #509: Tradeoffs are important to consider

Bitcoin has decided to take the hard route on its journey towards sufficient decentralization, and this makes people very uncomfortable.

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Issue #497: Scaling with Utreexo and Statechains

It's small, incremental, boring changes like Utreexo and Statechains that get ya boi all hot an bothered when observing Bitcoin's proliferation throughout our world and beyond.

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Issue #470: assumeutxo proposal

Friend of the Ƀent and fellow Beefy Bitcoin Boy, James O'Beirne, recently took to the [bitcoin-dev] mailing list to propose the inclusion of an assumeutxo functionality within Bitcoin Core.

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Issue #467: Very important to understand

A common topic that we have harped on around these parts for the last two years has been the fact that Bitcoin is an amoral protocol that has no idea what we humans are attempting to use it for.

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Issue #440: Schnorr refresher

A couple topics of conversation that frequently pop up in the Ƀent are privacy and multisig solutions. When they are brought up it is usually because Uncle Marty is opining on the inherent shortcomings of what I deem to be imperative for the long-term success and survival of the Bitcoin network.

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Issue #339: Patience is 🔑

That's one of my biggest problems with this "industry" at the moment, no one is patient. Everyone wants every functionality ever conceived out of the box or they deem these blockchains "inadequate" or "rudimentary".

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Issue #314: The BIS, some fuccbois

> 1/ There's a lot of opinions about what we are fighting against with Bitcoin. Warren Buffet famously called Bitcoin "rat poison", so let's dissect the rat. Safe to say it's not retail banking, rather we are questioning the legitimacy of a far more powerful