Bitcoin - Reflecting on Privacy and Future Adoption

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-needs-better-privacy-for-fungibility

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-is-losing-favor-on-darknet-markets

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/list-of-bitcoin-privacy-proposals

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Discussion questions:

• To what extent does Bitcoin’s public ledger transparency and lack of default privacy undermine Bitcoin’s future adoption potential?
• Over time, continuing education and developments at the protocol and application levels can help with privacy concerns. How do you envision these practices evolving as Bitcoin adoption continues?

Pieter Wuille stepping down as bitcoin maintainer

https://twitter.com/1440000bytes/status/1545156091813629952

https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1545159642447335424

Gloria Zhao now a maintainer

https://twitter.com/saorihonorato/status/1545442259566559239

Musig2 Scala implementation

https://bitcoin-s.org/docs/next/crypto/musig

Credit: Nadav Kohen

Taproot Script interpreter implementation in Scala

https://twitter.com/Chris_Stewart_5/status/1547228805554532352

Credit: Chris Stewart

Why does OP_CHECKSIGADD stop script execution in the case of an invalid signature?

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/114448/20835

Credit: Andrew Chow & Pieter Wuille

Security problems with relying on transaction fees for security

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-July/020702.html

Credit: Bram Cohen

Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary

https://petertodd.org/2022/surprisingly-tail-emission-is-not-inflationary

Credit: Peter Todd

The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions

https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/

Credit: BitMEX Research