News with the tag "Censorship Resistance"

Follow Aaron on Nostr or X . The news got buried in part due to Trump’s inauguration and subsequent rumblings of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), but developer b10c recently published research showing that F2Pool — a mining pool representing ~11% of hash power on the Bitcoin network — is censoring...

It’s difficult to find a more fundamental threat to Bitcoin’s continued existence than mining centralization. If —say— there are only a few mining pools, there is a very real possibility that these organizations face regulatory pressure of the kind that exchanges have also had to deal with: they ...

A staff report published by several New York Federal Reserve employees found that Ethereum “is not immune to censorship and cooperation,” which depends on the roles of several actors across the network. The paper examined how the network performed after Tornado Cash, one of the main mixers in the bl...

Leading Bitcoin advocates and entrepreneurs are meeting with human rights activists to explore the imperative of censorship-resistant money in the fight against authoritarianism.

Ethereum's Dankrad Feist and Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz clash on X over the importance of decentralization, revealing differing views on the crypto market's priorities.

Bitcoin is not invincible, but was designed with resilience at its core. The eighth installment of “10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty” powered by Ledger.

Economic incentives are what guarantee Bitcoin's censorship resistance, not ethical or moral honesty. This is how.

As nations become more authoritarian, the crypto economy and its related technologies stand out as powerful counterpoints to overreaching governance. The following Learning and Insights editorial explores why libertarians, especially agorists, embrace digital currencies such as bitcoin and tools of ...

With the Bitcoin Cash network’s May 15 Cashtokens upgrade now three months behind us, bustling development in non-custodial wallets, marketplaces, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), games, and other applications continues unabated. Paytaca wallet CEO Joemar Taganna notes that “improvements in consensus bui...

In a freshly unveiled blog piece, Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto derivatives platform Bitmex, posits that bitcoin is the prime currency for artificial intelligence (AI). Hayes maintains that moving forward, BTC will be the favored currency for AIs since they “must use a system that is availa...