Quote of the Day ⚖️
“He who says ‘There should be a law concerning this matter,’ means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like to do.” — Ludwig von Mises
Africa Free Routing, a #Bitcoin education initiative operating across Africa, concludes its largest Lightning Network developer bootcamp in Kisumu, Kenya, with 99 participants and 17 project presentations.
Sarthak, a fellow at Bitshala, delivers a technical deep-dive into Coinswap, explaining how the self-custodial atomic swap protocol uses Nostr discovery, fidelity bonds, and hashlock/timelock #Bitcoin scripts to obscure coin ownership transfers without surrendering custody (Jun 14 | 13 min read).
Bennet, a #Bitcoin educator, explains how the Lightning Network solves Bitcoin's 'too slow' critique by layering fast, low-cost payment channels atop the deliberately secure base layer, using HTLCs and multi-hop routing to enable near-instant BTC transactions without compromising decentralization (Jun 15 | 9 min read).