Jameson Lopp

On why banning arbitrary data is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down. Excellent objective analysis by Andrew Poelstra.

Today is a good day for folks to read the sidechains whitepaper (from 2014) and then ask what went wrong. [link]

Fun to re-read every year!

Excellent write-up that explains the obfuscation and tactics employed by the HEX scam.

This is great content; please keep writing about your development experiences!

Great write-up from Rolling Stone on the hacker who became a home invasion victim.

This "early bitcoin miner" paper makes some odd conclusions due to misunderstanding how the protocol works, but it's not completely devoid of interesting analysis. In particular, the temporal analysis of Patoshi miner downtime vs Satoshi public activity...

For a deep dive into this topic I suggest reading "Wealth" by Stuart Lucas.

The only comprehensive article I'm aware of that delves into thermodynamic security of the network with regard to the declining block subsidy is @danheld's:

John Oliver aired an epic episode on data brokers recently. Highly recommend watching if you're unfamiliar with this shady industry.

Pretty cool adoption trend: @PodcastindexOrg lists 5,122 podcasts that accept Lightning payments.

Really good discussion about how criminals are breaking into folks' crypto exchange accounts and draining them; starts at 40min mark.