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What Features Does Bitcoin Need For Global Adoption?Bitcoin Asia 20252025-08-28
Panel argues Bitcoin needs concrete changes: adding OP_CAT as a soft-forkable primitive to build Merkle trees and enable on-chain STARK/SNARK verifiers…
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Bitcoin Privacy Tools and TechniquesBitcoin 20242024-07-25
Panel argues regulators are already shutting down coordinator-based privacy tools after the Samurai arrests and Wasabi coordinator shutdown, pushing a shift to…
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The State of Bitcoin Core DevelopmentBitcoin 20242024-07-25
Panel announces new disclosure policy: two weeks after an affected version reaches end‑of‑life, documents vulnerabilities back to 0.21 and schedules…
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Bitcoin is CypherpunkBitcoin 20242024-07-25
Argues Bitcoin directly descends from the 1990s cypherpunk movement, which builds concrete tools like PGP, remailers, ecash and hashcash and runs a mailing…
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The Goal of BitcoinAdopting Bitcoin Arnhem 20242024-05-25
Argues Bitcoin merges two concrete goals: a hard money incentive to bootstrap adoption and a digital-cash privacy lineage; cites eCash and eGold as concrete…
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Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 Day 1Bitcoin Amsterdam 20222022-10-12
Panels that give answers not slogans: a developer demos RGB smart contracts (privacy + Turing‑complete logic on Bitcoin), miners show profitable use of waste…
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The Future of SidechainsBitcoin Amsterdam 20222022-10-12
Paper first appears in 2014 and a miner-pegged BIP-300 drivechain is prototyped on testnet (clones of Zcash, Ethereum, NFTs and even a joke “trainchain”)…
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Lightning Scaling ChallengesBitcoin Amsterdam 20222022-10-12
Panel argues adoption, not base protocol scaling, is the main blocker and lists concrete tools and failures: LMbits demo and hosted-channel wallets for easier…
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FUD (Perceived vs Real Risks in Bitcoin)Breaking Bitcoin 20192019-06-08
Panel debates concrete tradeoffs: Bitcoin functions today more as a store of value than a daily payment rail, SegWit activation in 2017 proves upgrades are…
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Economic and Social Risks PanelBreaking Bitcoin 20192019-06-08
Panel argues that Bitcoin’s survival hinges on concrete facts not slogans: the 21 million cap is treated as a social rule (recall the inflation bug that was…
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Proof of Work - An interview with – Aaron van WirdumUnderstanding Bitcoin 20192019-04-05
Conversation traces career from a history-and-journalism background into early Bitcoin involvement: buys about €100 during the 2013 run to ~$260, briefly falls…
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