How BIP Bounties Will Supercharge The Bitcoin Network
Bitcoin’s protocol is slow to change by design, but incentivizing the BIP feedback process with bounties could improve development.This is an opinion editorial by Ariel Deschapell, co-founder of multi-cloud hosting platform Hydra Host, senior fellow at Lincoln Network and a team member at BIPBounty.org.The idea that Bitcoin lacks innovation compared to other cryptocurrencies is pervasive, but is it true?The Bitcoin protocol undergoes significant changes much more slowly than other cryptocurrencies, the latest, of course, being the implementation and activation of Taproot. But this is a....
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