The Bitcoin Roundup

A flaw in Bitcoin’s design created the incentives for ICOs & now chain forks: here’s why

Surprise at China outlawing cryptocurrency exchanges is not news, its naiveté

Did the SEC just stop the music at the token party?

The foul smell of state cryptocurrency legislation

Consensus 2017 roundup

Holy *^&#, time flies. I promised I’d prepare a summary of my thoughts around Consensus 2017 & here we are already — a…

Time stamped chatlogs: Why Jihan and Jiang want to block segwit at all cost.

*edit* I changed the title from Verified to Time stamped, what I obviously meant was that the timestamp of back in December 2016 was verified. *edit*

We tested Lightning on Litecoin

TL;DR We ran eclair on Litecoin (testnet) and it worked. We didn’t even have to change the code!

Until recently we didn’t know that much about Litecoin, mostly because we have always been committed to Bitcoin. But with the recent surge in segwit…

The Bitcoin Dominance Indicator Fallacy

People are often using the Bitcoin Dominance chart to make a point about Bitcoin’s relevance and popularity. I believe in most cases where people tend to use it, they’re using it wrong.

The Data

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…