The Lightning network is dying
Over time, the small blockers' narrative about the Lightning Network being a solution to scaling Bitcoin is proving to be untrue, as seen in the shutdown of custodial wallets using it.
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BTC sandcastles and the next civil war
The changes in Bitcoin's original protocol, deemed "improvements" in the BTC community, were not significant upgrades but a mere diversion of what the technology advocates for.
What’s up with the blockchain space?
On the latest CoinGeek Discussions, hosts Zach Weiner and Alex Vidal tackle the biggest news in the blockchain space, the latest developments, and what guests envision to be blockchain's impact in the future.
SegWit, Forks, and COPA: Why BSV blockchain, not BTC, is the true Bitcoin
In this article, Marquez Comelab outlined why the BSV blockchain is the true Bitcoin while he explored the significant protocol change known as SegWit, which BTC developers implemented.
A retrospective: The Bitcoin’s Big Split
Today, we remember the network wars and the struggles, and we celebrate the fact that amid it all, we are still here—celebrating Bitcoin's liberation from the control of the BTC Core cabal.
The economics of a free mint
“Free” mint is a concept in the digital currency space where users of various blockchains mint an NFT for only the mining costs of the transaction, but the creator earns no profit from this action.
Decentralized? Ethereum and Lightning Network both at the mercy of cloud computing giants
It is a cruel irony that Ethereum and other blockchains had come to rely on large cloud computing firms like AWS when the original Bitcoin was designed to challenge them.
Binance fires staff, cuts benefits, ditches sponsorships, claims ‘this is fine’
Binance’s layoffs could top 3,000 by year’s end, according to an exchange staff who claimed that the U.S. Department of Justice probe would likely end in a consent decree or settlement.
Vitalik Buterin says BTC’s ‘really weird politics’ holding back adoption
Vitalik Buterin said in a Twitter Space with Eric Wall and Udi Wertheimer that BTC has effectively merged its technical and cultural systems, resulting in “really weird politics holding it back."
Why enterprise and government will be the last to adopt blockchain technology
Almost six years later, despite these clear technical advantages of Bitcoin and blockchain, we still have not seen any meaningful adoption by legacy companies that generate significant revenue.
BTC + LN is worse than shared IPv4 addresses
Advancements in technology have led to the improvement of IP-to-IP transactions, and one of the contributing factors is IPv6 and Bitcoin, which enable people to develop newer forms of transactions.
On-chain scaling vs layer 2 scaling: What are the differences?
In this discussion moderated by Kurt Wuckert Jr. at the London Blockchain Conference, industry experts zoom in on blockchain's ability to scale, the differences between L1 and L2, and the utility a truly scalable blockchain could offer.