In May this year, Bitcoin Core contributors Gleb Naumenko and Antoine Riard proposed the use of Fidelity Bonds for LN Routing to prevent channel jamming, a type of denial-of-service (DOS) attack that can occur on the Lightning Network. Channel jamming, first described in 2015 by Rusty Russell, usually describes a scenario in which an attacker sends a payment to themselves through a series of routing nodes and then stops responding. However, channel jamming can also occur when a laggy receiver n

If you’ve been following Bitcoin for any amount of time, Michael Saylor needs no introduction. As the founder and CEO of MicroStrategy, Saylor captured a zeitgeist when his publicly traded company announced a $250 million bitcoin purchase in August. Since then, he has increased the company’s Bitcoin investment to $425 million and ratcheted up his personal holdings, all while starring in relentless in GigaChad memes. After months of pestering, I finally pinned Michael Saylor down for a chat with

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and an advocate for Bitcoin as a tool to fight surveillance and monetary repression. He has served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum and written about human rights protection for leading media outlets worldwide. The BTC Times sat down with Alex Gladstein to talk about his work, supporting human rights with Bitcoin, and Bitcoin's privacy model. Hi Alex, thank you for joining us. How were you first

Peter McCormack is a podcaster, moderator, filmmaker, and the creator of What Bitcoin Did, a Bitcoin-focused podcast launched in 2017 that counts more than 250 episodes and has grown to over 280,000 downloads a month. In 2019, Peter kicked off his second podcast Defiance, which branches out into a wider range of topics and shines a light on stories surrounding politics, economics, and societal change. The BTC Times recently sat down with Peter to talk about his journey into Bitcoin, his views o