Colin Harper

Colin Harper

Colin writes about Bitcoin. Formerly, he worked at CoinDesk as a tech reporter. Now, he is the Head of Research and Content at Luxor Technologies, and he also freelances for CoinDesk, Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine." He holds bitcoin.

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BitcoinACKs Lets You Track Bitcoin Development and Pay Coders for Their Work
BitcoinACKs aggregates pull requests for upgrades to Bitcoin Core and lets users pay for the Bitcoin development they want to see.
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This Entrepreneur Was SIM-Swapped so Often, He Started a Company to Fight It
Efani’s solution to SIM-swapping? Make it so difficult to make changes to a cell phone account that an attack is virtually impossible.
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Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open Source
The Blockchain Commons took on seven interns this year to build out the organization’s many open-source projects.
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BRD Is Breaking Into the Crypto Compliance Game
The new tech stack will provide AML and compliance tools for financial institutions, government agencies and cryptocurrency service providers.
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New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade
Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms.
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Ava Labs Sets Avalanche Mainnet Launch for Sept. 21
With $60 million in funding at its back, Ava Labs' Avalanche is the latest next-gen blockchain network to enter the DeFi landscape.
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Discreet Log Contracts Are Bringing Private, ‘Scriptless’ Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
A smart contract has logged bets for the U.S. election on Bitcoin’s blockchain. When the votes are tallied, we won’t know who won, but that’s the whole point.
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RGB Continues Its Work to Bring Better Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
The RGB protocol, now in beta, is working to outfit Bitcoin with the capabilities that have made Ethereum the go-to blockchain for issuing tokenized assets.
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SushiSwap's Users Ordered Changes, but the Protocol Can't Deliver Without an Overhaul
Another SushiSwap smart contract migration may be on the menu if newly voted-for policy proposals are going to be implemented.
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'No Other Option but More Collateral': The Short- (and Long-) Term Fixes for Dai’s Broken Peg
Stablecoin demand in yield farming is breaking dai's peg. Solutions revolve around USDC and Maker's version of QE, but will these measures last?
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