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A recently publicized paper co-authored by Ren Crypto Fish, Steve Lee, and Lyn Alden provides an analysis of bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, focusing on the roles of various stakeholders, their powers, and the incentives that guide their actions.
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1A1z researchers Dan O'Prey and Mas Nakachi published a comprehensive report exploring the funding of the Bitcoin Core project. The study focuses exclusively on Bitcoin Core and 13 main sponsoring organizations that either actively hire Core developers or have active developer grant programs.
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Bitcoin developer Peter Todd compiled a comprehensive overview of soft-fork and covenant-dependent layer 2 proposals, including Ark, LN-Symmetry, Validity Rollups, BitVM, CTV, SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT, LNHANCE, OP_TXHASH, OP_CAT, Consensus Cleanup, and others.
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"One might be tempted to think that Bitcoin ownership is a kind of identity that reflects political orientation. We found that not to be the case. Bitcoin owners are politically just like the rest of America: mostly moderate, with smaller conservative and liberal contingents."
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"Introducing Brollups: a Bitcoin-native rollup design that works with a native Bitcoin peg and requires no changes to the Bitcoin protocol," announced Burak.
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"The founding idea behind Ark was to eliminate technical barriers and scale bitcoin payments for all in a user-friendly manner. This is where Ark v2 comes in."
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This mempool research report aims to thoroughly explore the causes and frequency of empty blocks through Bitcoins history.
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"Dandelion is a propagation protocol designed to obfuscate where a Bitcoin transaction originated," writes L0la L33tz.
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"I’d like to describe a way to use Chaumian Ecash to commit to a conditional payment using an Ecash mint as a blind but trusted intermediary," writes CONDUITION.
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"The positive news is that the level of capital a pool operator needs to smooth out the impact of luck is not as large as some people might think, perhaps around $20 million to $40 million. Therefore while the issue is a problem, it may not be critical."
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Trammel Venture Partners announced its second annual research brief on Bitcoin-native startups and related venture capital ecosystem. This research brief represents three years of data and subsequent analysis of the early-stage Bitcoin startups.
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This report explores the increasing use of Bitcoin by Iranians, a population facing economic challenges and censorship by the regime and foreign powers. The goal is to depict how Bitcoin serves as a tool for protecting freedoms and preserving value in a complex economic and political context.
