Satoshi Scoop Weekly, 3 Jan 2025

Crypto Insights

UTXO Stack Proposes Hybrid Network to Boost Lightning Network Liquidity

UTXO Stack has unveiled its whitepaper outlining a hybrid infrastructure combining the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) and Fiber Network (on Nervos Network) to address LN's liquidity shortages, onboarding barriers, and lack of stablecoin support.

The plan introduces stablecoins into LN, incentivizes liquidity via mining campaigns, and transitions routing nodes to generate income from transaction fees, aiming to strengthen LN's scalability and drive mass cryptocurrency adoption.

The whitepaper: The Decentralized Liquidity Staking Layer for Hybrid Lightning Network

Bitcoin Core: Mandatory Inclusion of Old Transactions to Combat Mining Centralization and MEVil

Bitcoin Core developer Ethan Heilman has proposed a new rule requiring miners to include at least 0.1% of the oldest transactions in their blocks, even if these have low fees. This mechanism seeks to prevent mining centralization and censorship while offering a countermeasure against MEVil (centralizing MEV).

Mostro: No-KYC, P2P Bitcoin Exchange on Nostr

Mostro implements advanced key management, allowing users to rotate keys for each Bitcoin transaction. It also adopts NIP-69, standardizing all P2P orders on Nostr. This creates a larger liquidity pool, improving transaction accessibility.

Who Owns Your Health Data? Nostr and the Future of Medical Sovereignty

This talk emphasizes the importance of medical sovereignty, where patients fully own and control their health data. It explores how Nostr and Bitcoin protocols can revolutionize healthcare. The Illuminodes project in El Salvador is developing open-source solutions prioritizing sovereign identity and data security, ensuring patients remain the ultimate custodians of their health records.

A Directory of Nostr Bots

This curated list of bots on Nostr offering updates on crypto prices, trades, market analysis, news, and more.

AI Agents and Tokenized Social Status: Redefining the Future of Social-Fi

This post argues that AI agents on social platforms have the potential to unlock use cases far beyond automated replies or “yappers”. By enabling the market capitalization of social status, they can lay the foundation for new social networking systems and emerge as a new form of virtual idol and influencers.

Crypto is Bipartisan: Shared Priorities Across Parties

The 2024 State of Crypto Report, highlights growing bipartisan recognition of blockchain networks as drivers of innovation and consumer protection. With many pro-crypto representatives entering Congress, bipartisan collaboration is expected to shape the future of technology and the next generation of the internet in the U.S.. The five issues are:

• Crypto gives more choice to users, creators, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others

• Government needs to pass laws and enact regulation

• Stablecoins strengthen the U.S. and advance America’s interests at home and abroad

• Everyone has the right to a bank account—even crypto companies

• Addressing bad actors and illicit activity is essential.

Mining Bitcoin in Minecraft

The first-ever computational redstone project, capable of mining Bitcoin.

Top Reads on Blockchain and Beyond

Decentralized Compute Meets Crypto: Shaping the Future of AI

This article delves into the potential of decentralized computing in crypto, focusing on its role in the rapidly expanding AI landscape. It examines whether AI systems can be trained on distributed networks, the unique strengths of crypto infrastructure, and growing importance of permissionless compute for AI. As AI and crypto experience simultaneous growth, their intersection emerges as a promising frontier for innovation.

Future Trends at the Intersection of Bitcoin Mining and AI Infrastructure

This report explores the challenges faced by traditional data centers in meeting AI computing demands. It highlights how specific types of Bitcoin miners could fill this gap and examines future trends at the intersection of Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure.