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This is an excerpt of the remarks I gave at this year’s annual Coincenter Diner.

This post originally appeared as a guest post in Bitcoin Magazine.

This post originally appeared as a part of Spiral’s newsletter.

This post originally appeared as a part of Spiral’s newsletter.

In 2024, I wrote about the delicate position of Bitcoin today.

This post originally appeared as a part of Spiral’s newsletter.

This post originally appeared as a part of Spiral’s newsletter.

In Lightning, whenever you send a payment, you must first pick a path over which to send it.

These next few years are as existential for bitcoin as the Blocksize Wars.

As the systems built on bitcoin become increasingly expressive, the use-cases for bitcoin grow exponentially.

This was originally posted on the bitcoin-dev mailing list targeting a technical audience bbut is preserved here as it is of more general interest.

This post was originally written for an opinion series marking ten years since the announcement of Bitcoin.

A few months ago I ran a hacker residency program with Chaincode Labs where we taught about Bitcoin philosophy, security, implementation, and technology.

With Scaling Bitcoin over, and lots of interest in the conference, I figured I should post a summary of my views of how the conference went.

I’m excited today to announce that, for a few months this coming fall, I will be taking up residency with Chaincode Labs in New York on sabbatical from Blockstream.

When the Bitcoin Relay Network was announced, there were some (understandable) complaints about the centralization pressure that it might introduce.

The scaling debate that has been gripping the Bitcoin community for the past half year has taken an interesting turn in 2016.

Bitcoiners, from Bitcoin Core developers to long-time Bitcoin enthusiasts to recent /r/Bitcoin discoverers, love to talk about how Bitcoin’s decentralization is its ultimate feature.