News
Institutional adoption is changing bitcoin's role in finance, is that good or bad?
The Fragility of Bitcoin: Potential Challenges and Resilience (https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/the-fragility-of-bitcoin-potential)
Despite these challenges, there is reason to believe Bitcoin’s resilience shown to date will allow it to continue to push ahead into the future
Nigeria removes bitcoin banking ban (https://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-central-bank-lifts-february-2021-crypto-prohibition-order/) in favor of trying to regulate crypto companies
Ocean pool is adding block template options (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/ocean-adds-block-template-selection-option) that do not filter transactions per bitcoin knots policy, but you need to pay more to use them
Economics
Arthur Hayes lays out the fiat debasement hedge (https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/expression) that is bitcoin and why other crypto value traps do not provide this fundamental value
Altcoins
Vitalik Buterin, one of the Etherium creators, thinks that ETH's technical complexity is undermining its functionality (https://nitter.net/techleadhd/status/1740415339312345256#m) and proposes limiting the number of validators and/or making them trusted parties (https://ethresear.ch/t/sticking-to-8192-signatures-per-slot-post-ssf-how-and-why/17989)
Bitcoin Education
BTC Payserver LNbank plugin is discontinued (https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/btcpay-server-ln-bank-plugin-2nd-cve/) after two serious vulnerabilies have
Seth for Privacy has an awesome and actionable guide to build your own bitcoin mining pool (https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/run-your-own-bitcoin-pool), docker, ubuntu, shell commands, a great way to get some linux experience as well
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