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Consensus Magazine

Rafael Cordón: Safeguarding Elections With Bitcoin

Software engineer Rafael Cordón’s Simple Proof system helped prevent fraud in Guatemala’s most recent presidential election. Can this technology be used to insure against election interference in other jurisdictions?

(Rafael Cordón)

Consensus Magazine

Willem Schroé: Building Botanix, a Bitcoin Layer 2 That Brings the EVM to Bitcoin

A Belgian polymath and his team are building a “spiderchain” network that harnesses both bitcoin’s sound money properties and Ethereum’s technological capabilities.

(Paul Mascher/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

Shinobi: How Covenants Help Scale Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine’s technical editor says it’s necessary to implement covenants - which allow joint ownership of UTXOs - if Bitcoin is to fulfill its promise of bringing financial self-sovereignty to people globally.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia.

Consensus Magazine

Lorraine Marcel: Bringing Bitcoin to African Women

The founder of Bitcoin Dada, a virtual education program and sisterhood started in Kenya, on how she’s getting African women involved in the Bitcoin space.

(Bitcoin Dada)

Consensus Magazine

Machankura 2.0: Turning Feature Phones Into Bitcoin Hardware Wallets

When Kgothatso Ngako launched Machankura two years ago, he enabled Africans to transact bitcoin via feature phones for the first time. Now, he’s on the verge of helping Africans self custody their bitcoin, as well.

Kgothatso Ngako presenting at the 2023 African Bitcoin Conference in Ghana. (Frank Corva)

Consensus Magazine

How PubKey Revived Bitcoin Culture in New York City

NYC-based Bitcoin enthusiasts, as well as the crypto-curious, now have a place to nerd out, discuss and learn about Bitcoin.

PubKey’s Bitcoin shrine (PubKey)

Opinion

Is it Really ‘Up Only’ for Bitcoin?

With spot Bitcoin ETFs set to be approved, and a halving on the way in April, everyone expects bitcoin to rise in 2024. But history suggests that might not be the case, says Frank Corva, at Finder.com.

A bitcoin mining operation. (Cipher Mining)

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