Brandon Black

Jan 13, 2025 | dailynews.com | Brandon Black

PUBLISHED: January 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM PSTAs the worst disaster in Los Angeles history continues to unfold — the Palisades and Eaton Fires now among the most destructive wildfires in California , ever — I physically watch from Seattle. But mentally and emotionally, I am at home among my fellow Angelenos. Before moving to Seattle in 2022, I spent the majority of my 36 years in Los Angeles, including Pasadena.

Aug 26, 2024 | swanbitcoin.com | Brady Swenson |Brandon Black |Joe Nakamoto |Stephan Livera

Strapline: Europe lags well behind the United States in terms of Bitcoin in politics, but France now boasts its first-ever political candidate to put Bitcoin on the ballot sheet. For the first time in French history, a Bitcoiner appeared on the ballot papers of France’s recent elections. Aurore Galves Orjol, co-founder of the Bitcoin brokerage Bitcoin Lyon, seized the opportunity to participate in the legislative elections in France on a pro-Bitcoin, and crucially, a Bitcoin-only platform in June.

Jun 7, 2024 | swanbitcoin.com | Joe Nakamoto |Brady Swenson |Brandon Black

This is an opinion editorial by Enza Coin, a Dubai-based Bitcoin-focused investor and content creator. What is the Non-Aligned Movement? For those few of you who are from the former Yugoslavia, you will be closely familiar with the global cause known as the Non-Aligned Movement. Its name and concepts were embedded in the root of the country as the founding member of the cause.

May 22, 2024 | bitcoinmagazine.com | Brandon Black reardencode |Brandon Black

IntroductionYou may have heard about re-enabling OP_CAT as a potential upgrade for bitcoin's script language. Depending on where you get your news OP_CAT has been called "only 10 lines of code", "the best way to enable experimentation with covenants", "too powerful", "dangerous and leading to miner centralization", or "guaranteed to lead to a contentious soft fork". I'm going to make the case that all of these perspectives are mistaken.

Dec 18, 2023 | bitcoinmagazine.com | Brandon Black |Output Bytes |Brandon Black reardencode

This year has seen a massive upswing in demand for the limited space available within bitcoin blocks, leading to higher fees for on chain transactions. Much of the demand is for transactions revealing inscriptions. The contents of these inscriptions are revealed as part of the witness data1 of a bitcoin transaction. This witness data1 is discounted to one quarter the cost of other transaction data. Why are we giving these inscriptions a discount? Should we soft-fork out the witness discount?