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PortuguêsBitcoin’s Lightning Network is a Layer 2 technology that offers many advantages over altcoins for making Bitcoin into a peer-to-peer payments technology. This is an opinion editorial by Yuya Ogawa,…
Continue ReadingUsing patterns to remember bitcoin seed phrases is a useful tool which can come in handy if someone is needing to move across borders without being detected. This is an…
Continue ReadingCoinkite’s new credit card-like bitcoin hardware wallet aims to unite affordability with convenience to scale cold storage to a broader market worldwide. Bitcoin company Coinkite has launched its newest hardware…
Continue ReadingDNS might be disregarded as old technology, but it could provide greater address functionality and ease of verification. This is an opinion editorial by Mark Jeftovic, cofounder and CEO of…
Continue ReadingIn addition to its new bitcoin-backed U.S. dollar balance on Lightning, Galoy also announced a $4 million raise. Galoy Inc., the team behind the wallet of El Salvador’s Bitcoin circular…
Continue ReadingThe Fedi team is using the ideas behind Chaumian Ecash to develop alternative custody solutions in order to onboard many more people to bitcoin. Disclaimer: The author is a venture…
Continue ReadingFederated sidechains utilize key management to provide security and allow functionality beyond the Bitcoin mainchain. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and…
Continue ReadingEducational videos are a great resource for learning about Bitcoin tools and how to use them. BTC Sessions has made it his mission to make helpful videos. This is a…
Continue ReadingThe new P2P video and chat app, Keet, offers private and secure communications, with Bitcoin payments on Lightning on its roadmap. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and USDT stablecoin issuer Tether have…
Continue ReadingpLN is a new wallet project that aims to make it easy for users to follow the “happy path” of making bitcoin payments privately on Lightning. A version of this…
Continue ReadingA Bitcoin VPN allows two or more parties to discover each other and be able to communicate privately over the public internet without trust. This is an opinion editorial by…
Continue ReadingDrivechains, like softchains, are another sidechain implementation with two-way peg functionality. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host.…
Continue ReadingThis will be the third mining difficulty downward adjustment in a row with four downward adjustments over the course of the last five difficulty epochs. The below is a direct…
Continue ReadingSoftchains are a sidechain implementation that interact on a deeper level with consensus mechanisms, which can bring benefits and risks. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator…
Continue ReadingIt’s time we stop asking for permission. Build a mesh net and make Bitcoin unstoppable. This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine’s “Censorship Resistant Issue.” To get a copy, visit…
Continue ReadingThe wallet metaphor incorrectly describes the nature of the applications providing Lightning Network services. This is an opinion editorial by Roy Sheinfeld, cofounder and CEO of Breez. Although Breez often…
Continue ReadingFedi raised $4 million to accelerate the development of the Fedimint protocol and its companion app Fedi — tools that can improve and scale bitcoin custody. Fedi Inc. on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingAdding operation codes to Bitcoin can increase the types of functions users are able to perform, but choosing their size limits has been a topic of debate. Watch The Episode…
Continue ReadingWhirlpool gives a certain level of privacy when using bitcoin, and forward-looking anonymity sets are a measure of how well hidden you are. Let’s talk about Whirlpool “forward-looking anonymity sets”…
Continue ReadingSignature aggregation could bring massive data-efficiency benefits to the network as well as open up more unique use cases, demonstrating bear market building. The below is a direct excerpt of…
Continue ReadingZhao gained the Bitcoin Core maintainer status on Thursday as Marco Falke merged her PGP key fingerprint as a trusted key onto the codebase. Developer Gloria Zhao has become the…
Continue ReadingThe Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it? This is an opinion editorial by Seth…
Continue ReadingThe work of Rene Pickhardt shows that despite being mainly used for small, fast Bitcoin transactions, Lightning can also deliver large payments. The Lightning Network is seen as the main…
Continue ReadingOnly using Bitcoin addresses one time is best practice. By using addresses more than once, users give up information that can result in negative outcomes. Listen To This Episode: Apple…
Continue ReadingWhile spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring. In the last article, I broke down what a spacechain is and how…
Continue ReadingSpacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design. The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingBy making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data. The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s…
Continue ReadingA lively conversation and response to Jameson Lopp’s recent article that researches the answer to the question, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked?” Listen To The Episode Here: Apple Spotify Google…
Continue ReadingBOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences? What is BOLT 12? Well, it is…
Continue ReadingBy replacing reliance on third parties in a trustless way, Bitcoin adds a layer of non-intermediated trust to the infrastructure of the internet. Stephen Thompson is a senior technical editor…
Continue ReadingThe proof-of-work consensus mechanism used in Bitcoin is an objective measure of history which cannot be changed on the whims of validators. Alan Szepieniec holds a PhD in post-quantum cryptography…
Continue ReadingSilent payments improve user privacy and are similar to stealth addresses and reusable payment codes, but actually save space on the Bitcoin blockchain. Listen To The Episode Here: Apple Spotify…
Continue ReadingCertain characteristics of Bitcoin create a loss in fungibility. These must be addressed and solved in order for Bitcoin to gain widespread adoption. Aneta Karbowiak has been writing articles about…
Continue ReadingReviewing Bitcoin’s history of proposed privacy improvements can help us learn from the past and keep up with new improvements as we go. A version of this article was originally…
Continue ReadingCurrently, the gossip protocol introduces privacy leaks and concerns that could be remedied while condensing the amount of messages sent. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator…
Continue ReadingMaking sure your bitcoin transactions remain private is made significantly easier with a computer dedicated to this function alone. This is an opinion editorial by Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingNow you can take the Bitcoin Layer 2 implementation wherever you go, giving you the ability to transmit sats everywhere! This is an opinion editorial by Anthony Feliciano, a Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is defined by its users, but how many node operators understand and verify protocol changes on a nuanced and deeply technical level? This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi,…
Continue ReadingTo actually solve the problem of receiving funds without having secured liquidity from someone else’s node requires protocol-level changes. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in…
Continue ReadingA successor proposal to BOLT 11, BOLT 12 is a proposed upgrade to Lightning, the most popular Layer 2 Bitcoin protocol. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught…
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