Breez

Lightning is now making transactions for everyone virtually free. Its a slick looking, easy to use wallet and point of sale system.


https://breez.technology/technology.html

Taproot

Taproot is the new Segwit. Scaleability improvements, on chain multisig and time lock improvements, master keys. P2SH, MAST Schnorr, privacy! It is the next wave of upgrades. People are scrutinizing and testing this and if it doesn't make sense to you, let's just say its looking good. The metaphor says in all. It makes bitcoin stronger and features will make it more institutionally entrenched in a decentralised way. it's in the name, it's like evolving a taproot.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin

https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/bitcoin-taproot-privacy-update-on-track-for-2020

Bitcoin Union

Here's an idea in the face of huge money printing by governments devaluing our work. No Bitcoiner shall work for less than 10 Satoshi's an hour. if you have a few already you probably wouldn't need to anyway. With a bitcoin based working union nobody will be able to destroy the value of our fixed forward wage contracts. Its more power to the people. It's a world wide decentralised union.

Collaborative Custody

What is this? Seems weird, but it can be. Bitcoin is the best way to run your commune safely.

https://unchained-capital.com/collaborative-custody/

Bonds vs Bits

With world wide economic turmoil brewing a new battle is coming into frame and it is on a whole new level. US bonds or Bitcoin?

Battle of the Payment Processors

It heating up, Bitpay have a new competitor BTCpay. With all its deployments its open source, its   decentralized and its got lightning! Its pretty cool.

42 Million in 20 42

Is this a price target or a fork proposal? Both are risky to the roasting. Either way its interesting to thin think about long forward dating a plan to create a fork air drop with double the sacred 21 million coins. A planned new forked bitcoin could provide a second tare for features and transactions to whilst adding to pumpability to the original in the preceding years.