Bitcoin Ekasi: The Township One Year Later

A recently publicized paper co-authored by Ren Crypto Fish, Steve Lee, and Lyn Alden provides an analysis of bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, focusing on the roles of various stakeholders, their powers, and the incentives that guide their actions.

1A1z researchers Dan O'Prey and Mas Nakachi published a comprehensive report exploring the funding of the Bitcoin Core project. The study focuses exclusively on Bitcoin Core and 13 main sponsoring organizations that either actively hire Core developers or have active developer grant programs.

Bitcoin developer Peter Todd compiled a comprehensive overview of soft-fork and covenant-dependent layer 2 proposals, including Ark, LN-Symmetry, Validity Rollups, BitVM, CTV, SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT, LNHANCE, OP_TXHASH, OP_CAT, Consensus Cleanup, and others.

"One might be tempted to think that Bitcoin ownership is a kind of identity that reflects political orientation. We found that not to be the case. Bitcoin owners are politically just like the rest of America: mostly moderate, with smaller conservative and liberal contingents."