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There is a mainstream narrative that cryptocurrencies cannot succeed, because deflation leads to lower spending, higher unemployment and…

History of money is a very sensitive and controversial story that shows us the dark side of human nature through centuries till modern…

In the third article we try to understand if layer-2 watchtowers can scale without becoming a tool of global financial surveillance.

Rotate watchtowers, fuzz transaction time, bundle together many states updates, create network noise, request to delete old states, etc.

Why LN watchtowers and RDN monitoring services are essential for off-chain scaling, how do they operate, and what are the main challenges.

Lightning Network should be decentralized, censorship-resistant, trustless and privacy-oriented, but can that really be achieved? And when?

Tether threat is still undervalued and only recently got some attention due to CFTC subpoena and following huge price dip.