The “50-year Bitcoin” joke reveals crypto’s split tempo, where the base layer ossifies while L2s and edge systems innovate rapidly. Bitcoin evolves on two clocks: slow, consensus-driven changes at the ...

Key takeaways:Bitcoin evolves on two clocks: slow, consensus-driven changes at the base layer and fast experimentation at the edges.Major upgrades (such as Taproot) arrive through cautious soft forks ...

Bitcoin’s network carries unnecessary spam that shifts economic incentives, commented Blockstream’s founder Adam Back on X. He called for new protocol rules to control the inscription industry, moving ...

Adam Back, an early Bitcoin developer and the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, has weighed in on the debate about what he calls “JPEG spam” on the Bitcoin blockchain. Back argues that it undermines ...