Bitcoin Audible

LIGHTNING IS DEAD! Did you hear about the new exploit discovered that may be the "nail in the coffin" of the broken and defeated Lightning network? I bet you did, but did anyone you heard it from actu...

7 Nov 20231h 5min

"We have no interest in causing confusion, mistakes, or deception. That sounds more like a job for those responsible for telling the market they wouldn’t raise rates after a massive monetary expansion...

4 Nov 202339min

It's often said that Bitcoin is too limited, that you can't build anything interesting on top of the Bitcoin chain… what if that was not only true, but that there were no limits? What if literally any...

1 Nov 20231h 17min

"Will Bitcoin adoption improve the monetary policy behaviors of the Federal Reserve? I submit that it won’t. I do not see the incentive for the Federal Reserve to give into anyone or anything, let alo...

26 Okt 202337min

"Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the real issues of use and implementation instead of a half-defined and vague con...

24 Okt 202349min

We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important, how to stay safe, and how to use it, it's time to answer the most basic question f...

18 Okt 202340min

"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core." — Shinobi There has always been a gap between ...

17 Okt 202336min

"There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment widgets vs. coding a node into an app. With the Breez SDK, Lightning b...

13 Okt 202343min