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  1. Ledger warns CryptoBilis buyers after reported wallet drains

  2. CFTC opens rulemaking for leveraged bitcoin trading

  3. FinCEN withdraws wallet and mixing proposals

  4. Community banks take crypto trust charters to court

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Explainers

22

What a thing is, assuming nothing. Start here if the words are new.

  1. What is Bitcoin transaction locktime?
  2. What is a dust output?
  3. What is a PSBT?
  4. A Bitcoin signed message proves less than it sounds
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Guides

18

Sit down and do one thing, with a way to check it worked.

  1. Calculate a SegWit txid and wtxid with Python
  2. How to use coin control in Sparrow Wallet
  3. Verify a Taproot address checksum with Python
  4. How to create and check a Bitcoin payment request
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Deep Dives

9

The mechanism underneath, with the spec and the constants.

  1. The 2018 hash war, and what hashrate cannot decide
  2. Bitcoin has no balances, only unspent outputs
  3. How Bitcoin holds a ten-minute block interval
  4. The Lightning implementations, and how they differ
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Features

13

An argument, with the strongest version of the other side.

  1. The block size war, and what it settled
  2. Nobody is in charge of Bitcoin, which is the hard part
  3. Why You Should Accept Bitcoin at Your Beachfront Business
  4. Texas passes a Bitcoin reserve law: what changes
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