Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

Colin writes about Bitcoin. Formerly, he worked at CoinDesk as a tech reporter and Luxor Technology Corp. as head of research. Now, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Blockspace Media, and he also freelances for CoinDesk, Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine. He holds bitcoin.

Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity

Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity.

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MakerDAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack

The MakerDAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting.

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Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation

The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.

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Putting Pressure on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Vulnerabilities Will Strengthen It

These vulnerabilities are reminders that improvements come with trade-offs – and that security and usability are two sides of the same coin.

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'A Race Toward Zero': With Hashrate in the Clouds, Bitcoin Mining Is Less Profitable Than Ever

ASIC financing has driven Bitcoin's hashrate to all-time highs in 2020. By consequence, Bitcoin is less profitable to mine than ever.

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4 Bitcoin Lightning Network Vulnerabilities That Haven’t Been Exploited (Yet)

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has a few vulnerabilities that have been discovered in its two-year lifespan, but none have been exploited.

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Closing Time for Bitcoin’s Iconic Room 77 – 'And That’s OK,' Says Owner

Room 77 originally opened as a side project, until Bitcoin came and made it an icon. Now, the first bar to ever accept bitcoin is closing.

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This New Service Plays Matchmaker Between Solo Miners, Big Mining Farms

Compass by HASHR8 matches individual miners with mining farms to host their hardware.

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Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, so These Activists Are Using Bitcoin to Battle Police Brutality

As End SARS protests against police brutality surge through Nigeria, the Feminist Coalition has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline.

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Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here's What That Means

Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot update is one step closer to fruition.

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