The creation of arbitrary tokens on prime of the Bitcoin protocol is in no way new.
In Bitcoin’s now 15-year historical past, there have been many makes an attempt to create suitable protocols that leverage the info storage supplied by Bitcoin nodes in an try to permit the creation of recent cryptocurrencies and crypto belongings. There have additionally been quite a few makes an attempt to market these belongings to the general public through gross sales, mining schemes, or extra inventive issuances.
Nonetheless, in response to the heightened market exercise surrounding the BRC-20 protocol, we really feel the necessity to take this chance to reassert Bitcoin Journal’s Editorial positioning.
Efficient January 2024:
- Bitcoin Journal stays open to platforming dialogue on token requirements – From the early days of Counterparty to trendy makes an attempt to make use of Lightning for asset issuance (Taproot Belongings, Synonym, RGB), Bitcoin Journal has at all times reported on new bitcoin-based token protocols in its information and opinion articles.
As Bitcoin token requirements are a technical idea, representing the scientific debate on the bounds and potential of the community, we maintain that discussing these protocols and growing understanding of their functioning is within the public curiosity.
As such, we’ll proceed to publish content material on these protocols, the variations between mentioned protocols, in addition to how they examine to choices within the wider crypto market.
- Bitcoin Journal stays against platforming dialogue in the marketplace exercise of Bitcoin tokens or token issuers – Bitcoin Journal will uphold its long-standing coverage of refraining from overlaying the market efficiency of each Bitcoin belongings and Bitcoin asset issuers. This can prolong to discussing change listings and market actions, even when referenced in unrelated information and opinion content material.
- Bitcoin Journal stays open to platforming dialogue on novel issuance and market distribution mechanisms utilized by Bitcoin token issuers. This consists of potential advances of their minting, auctioning, and distribution ways, in addition to the varied technical and regulatory ramifications of those strategies.
- Bitcoin Journal stays open to platforming dialogue and critiques about our insurance policies and their validity. We imagine the aforementioned insurance policies provide the best profit to our reader whereas minimizing the chance of shopper hurt, however welcome important suggestions. Submissions will be despatched to: [email protected].
This coverage clarification doesn’t apply to our stablecoin or Ordinals protection.
Additional, it pertains solely to BitcoinMagazine.com and its Print publication, and doesn’t signify insurance policies enforced by the Bitcoin Journal social media crew, the Bitcoin convention, Uncommon BTC or UTXO Administration, the institutional fund owned and operated by BTC Inc, and which can have publicity to numerous Bitcoin-based tokens or token issuers.