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Scaling Bitcoin Workshops

FOR THE ENGINEERING AND ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

In early 2015, the Bitcoin development community faced difficult discussions of how to safely improve the scalability and decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network. To aid the technical consensus-building process, we organize workshops to collect technical criteria, present proposals, and evaluate technical materials and data with academic discipline and analysis that fully considers the complex tradeoffs between decentralization, utility, security, and operational realities. This may be considered as similar in intent and process to the NIST-SHA3 design process where performance and security were in a trade-off for a security critical application.

Since Bitcoin is a P2P currency with many stakeholders, it is important to collect requirements as broadly as possible, and through the process enhance everyone’s understanding of the technical properties of Bitcoin to help foster an inclusive, transparent, and informed process.

In order to facilitate wider audience participation, Scaling Bitcoin events are live-streamed with remote participation possible via IRC and WeChat for parallel online discussions and the ability to participate in live Q&A.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers (related areas of expertise)
• Academics with research in related areas
• Journalists affiliated with technical publications

Hacker tastes own medicine as community gets back stolen NFTs

The dev partner of the Solana-based NFT game raised the royalty to 98% from the usual 5%, resulting in the scammer listing the 25 stolen NFTs for sale, which were then bought back and returned.

Tales of traders getting scammed out of their nonfungible tokens were quite common at the peak of the NFT boom. However, in an interesting turn of events, the Solana community came together to “scam” a scammer in order to get back some stolen NFTs.

It all started with the Discord channel hack of cross-chain gaming development studio Uncharted NFT, where scammers managed to drain 109 user wallets. The scammers got away with 150-plus SOL tokens and 25 World of Solana (WOS) NFTs, including three rare and highly valuable digital collectibles.

WOS is a collection of 2,222 unique heroines, with the most expensive avatar currently listed for 123 SOL ($5,600). The current floor price of the collection is 2.03 SOL.

In the aftermath of the hack, the community decided to get back the stolen NFTs. The WOS team got in touch with their development partner, who goes by Cyberfrog on Twitter, and raised royalties on the stolen NFTs to 98% from the default 5%.

#nft #crypto #metaverse #blockchain #nonfungible #gamefi #metafi #defi #bitcoin #playtoearn

Hiro's Weekly Community Updates: Developer Monthly Call #2, Future Work for Clarity, Muneeb Ali on Impact Theory, Hyperchains Explained, and more!

Hey Stacks developers! Before heading into the long holiday weekend we want to bring you a roundup of all the latest developer resources, tutorials, and events to keep on your radar. Don’t miss out! Here are a few of our latest posts:

• Developer Monthly Call #2 - We had a great time chatting yesterday with the community on Hyperchains and our new Hiro Wallet feature Arbitrary Signing! A recording will be available shortly via YouTube.
• Future Work for Clarity - Unlock Clarity's potential by ushering in more bitcoin applications through language and reliability improvements.
• Everything You Need To Know About the Future of Bitcoin - Chairman of Hiro Muneeb Ali weighs in for Impact Theory on unique attributes that allow bitcoin to stand high above the rest.
• Hyperchains Explained - Here's an overview of hyperchains architecture as well as an update on our progress for hyperchains V1, which will be live on Testnet later this year.
• What Does Lightning's Taro Proposal Mean for Stacks - In this blog, we dive into the possibilities of a Taro integration for Stacks and deeper integration with new assets.

Stay tuned here and on our Twitter for more updates and announcements,

- Hiro Team

Bitcoin is DED with Knoxville Bitcoin Network - State of Bitcoin

In this episode Brandon is joined by the leader of the Knoxville Bitcoin Network (@BitcoinKbn) who also works for GRIID a Bitcoin mining company. They get into his Bitcoin origin story, what it is like running a Bitcoin meetup, what it is like working for a Bitcoin mining company, and more! They also dive into 6 current event stories surrounding Bitcoin including Bitcoin price falling with 8 straight red candles for the first time in history, the use of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion to be used in Bitcoin mining, Oslo Freedom Forum, Central African Republic creating a Bitcoin Island, Bitcoin being taught in 40 high schools in Argentina, and Balenciaga and other luxury brands accepting Bitcoin payments.   

Check out the episode here.

Bitcoin is DED with Knoxville Bitcoin Network - State of Bitcoin

In this episode Brandon is joined by the leader of the Knoxville Bitcoin Network (@BitcoinKbn) who also works for GRIID a Bitcoin mining company. They get into his Bitcoin origin story, what it is like running a Bitcoin meetup, what it is like working for a Bitcoin mining company, and more! They also dive into 6 current event stories surrounding Bitcoin including Bitcoin price falling with 8 straight red candles for the first time in history, the use of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion to be used in Bitcoin mining, Oslo Freedom Forum, Central African Republic creating a Bitcoin Island, Bitcoin being taught in 40 high schools in Argentina, and Balenciaga and other luxury brands accepting Bitcoin payments.   

Check out the episode here.

Bitcoin is DED with Knoxville Bitcoin Network - State of Bitcoin

In this episode Brandon is joined by the leader of the Knoxville Bitcoin Network (@BitcoinKbn) who also works for GRIID a Bitcoin mining company. They get into his Bitcoin origin story, what it is like running a Bitcoin meetup, what it is like working for a Bitcoin mining company, and more! They also dive into 6 current event stories surrounding Bitcoin including Bitcoin price falling with 8 straight red candles for the first time in history, the use of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion to be used in Bitcoin mining, Oslo Freedom Forum, Central African Republic creating a Bitcoin Island, Bitcoin being taught in 40 high schools in Argentina, and Balenciaga and other luxury brands accepting Bitcoin payments.   

Check out the episode here.

Bitcoin is DED with Knoxville Bitcoin Network - State of Bitcoin

In this episode Brandon is joined by the leader of the Knoxville Bitcoin Network (@BitcoinKbn) who also works for GRIID a Bitcoin mining company. They get into his Bitcoin origin story, what it is like running a Bitcoin meetup, what it is like working for a Bitcoin mining company, and more! They also dive into 6 current event stories surrounding Bitcoin including Bitcoin price falling with 8 straight red candles for the first time in history, the use of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion to be used in Bitcoin mining, Oslo Freedom Forum, Central African Republic creating a Bitcoin Island, Bitcoin being taught in 40 high schools in Argentina, and Balenciaga and other luxury brands accepting Bitcoin payments.   

Check out the episode here.