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The proposed solution involves maintaining a total ordering of the mempool's transactions, which would be used to implement symmetrically opposite mining and eviction algorithms.
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"Bip-119 or CheckTemplateVerify (CTV), introduces the capability to pre-commit transactions through pre-signed hashed transactions. But what does this mean exactly? To put it in perspective, if Taproot enables signature aggregation, CTV takes it a step further by enabling transaction aggregation."
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Autocratic governments around the world are increasingly turning to internet blackouts and censorship to maintain their rule, prevent the dissemination of information and to impede organizational efforts.
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The paper authored by Robin Linus and Lukas George discusses the implementation of the chain state proof and presents zkCoins, a client-side validation protocol combined with ZKPs, improving on RGB and Taro.
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The amount of Bitcoin on exchanges is now at its lowest ratio since December 2017.
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"The following proposal is intended to adapt the existing PTLC protocol into Payment Route Reservation flow."
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"The recent spike in fees caused by Ordinals and BRC-20 shitcoinery has shown that Lightning isn’t a silver bullet. Channels are too fragile, it costs a lot to open a channel under a high fee environment, to run a routing node and so on."
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"Long-term-holder activity and strong network usage indicate a bullish trend for bitcoin," says The Bitcoin Monthly report by ARK Invest.
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Developer Dan Gould has been documenting the growth of the technology in a few big tables on the Bitcoin wiki this past week.
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Privacy Affairs research into the supply and prices of various goods and services sold on the dark web shows that stealing user sensitive accounts and data has become relatively inexpensive.
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"Our proposed approaches work well and can achieve success rates up to %95 on large mobile wireless mesh networks" when channels have sufficient liquidity.
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Trammel Venture Partners (TVP) announced a first-of-its-kind research brief on the emergence of Bitcoin-native startups as a growth category in venture capital.
