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·Apr 11, 2019

Lightning 101 for Exchanges: Security Part 2 — Backing up your Lightning Wallet

This is the fifth post in our “Lightning 101 for Exchanges” blog series. In this blog post we are going to talk about how the various Lightning implementations handle their revoked commitment transactions and the backup features they offer to protect user’s funds. Lightning for Exchanges: Overview Lightning for Exchanges…

Bitcoin

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Lightning 101 for Exchanges: Backing up your Lightning Wallet
Lightning 101 for Exchanges: Backing up your Lightning Wallet
Bitcoin

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Suredbits

·Feb 13, 2019

Lightning 101: Why is the Lightning Network Secure?

This is the seventh installment in our Lightning 101 series. To see previous installments click any of the links below What is the Lightning Network What is a Lightning Node What is a Lightning Invoice What are Lightning Channels What is Lightning Routing Lightning Network Fees The Lightning network has…

Blockchain

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Lightning 101: Why is the Lightning Network Secure?
Lightning 101: Why is the Lightning Network Secure?
Blockchain

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·Jan 22, 2019

Lightning 101: Lightning Network Fees

This is the fifth installment in our Lightning 101 series. To see previous installments click any of the links below What is the Lightning Network What is a Lightning Node What is a Lightning Invoice What are Lightning Channels What is Lightning Routing The Lightning Network allows for nodes to…

Bitcoin

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Lightning 101: Lightning Network  Fees
Lightning 101: Lightning Network  Fees
Bitcoin

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Jan 8, 2018

First Principles of the Trustless 2 Way Peg for Sidechains

I am going to enumerate what I believe to be the ‘First Principles’ of a trustless 2 way peg for a sidechain. If you want to read about current proposals for pegs in sidechains please see my prior blog post. The goal of this blog post is to create a simple reference for other sidechain developers to reason from when creating their own 2 way peg. I believe these principles hold true for anyone building a ‘trustless’ 2WP.

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Dec 12, 2017

The End of Life of a Sidechain

The End of Life (EOL) scenario for a sidechain is very interesting. This means that the sidechain is about to die. There are a couple scenarios where a sidechain can die It could be because there was a catastrophic failure on a sidechain The sidechain was such a success and…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Nov 21, 2017

The most important thing for non technical users to understand about sidechains

Sidechains are some of the most interesting technical proposals in the blockchain space. A sidechain allows you to use a blockchain’s token as the underlying asset for another blockchain. An example of this could be using bitcoin as the underlying asset for big block version of bitcoin. This means we…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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The Bitcoin Roundup

·Apr 11, 2017

The need for privacy enhancements in the bitcoin protocol

Recently Russia has been looking at legalizing bitcoin as a financial instrument. This is good news for Bitcoin, we want to be a currency for the entire world. However this is a very troubling quote from the Russia’s deputy finance minister Alexey Moiseev: “The state needs to know who at…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Mar 21, 2017

How hard forks justified the biggest bailout in cryptocurrency history

In this blog post I’m going to share how hard forks led to biggest bailout in cryptocurrency history — the DAO. This is a perfect illustration of why setting a precedent for hard forks is extremely bad. When ethereum developers figured out that the DAO — a project whom they…

Ethereum

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Ethereum

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Mar 20, 2017

Where do unalienable rights come from in Bitcoin?

Hard forks have been a hot topic in Bitcoin recently, and I want to try and make sure non technical people understand the implications of a hard fork. This blog post builds off of this previous blog post: What is a hard fork? What is a soft fork? There has been a fierce debate going on in Bitcoin space about how to upgrade the protocol. Currently the maximum block…medium.com First off, consensus rules are equivalent to unalienable rights. By running a…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Mar 17, 2017

Adam Back and Greg Maxwell aren’t the kings of Bitcoin

As everyone in the Bitcoin space knows, there is a massive scaling debate going on. One side wants to increase the block size via segwit, while the other side wants to increase the via hard fork. I have strong opinions on the topic but I won’t discuss them here. I…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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