A project called Ordinals has launched on the Bitcoin blockchain, effectively enabling Bitcoin-native on-chain NFTs. Led by former Bitcoin Core contributor Casey Rodarmor, the protocol is a convention…
Read more Ordinals Project Launches Enabling NFTs Directly On BitcoinThis is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. I suggest, before reading this, that you read the…
Read more To Becomes Bitcoin’s Go-To Platform, Nostr Will Have To Solve Its Key Management IssuesNostr has gotten a lot of attention and steam behind it since its recent addition to the list of alternative social platforms that are prohibited from promotion on…
Read more Bitcoiners Are Flocking To Nostr, But What Makes It Different Than Twitter?Technology company Fedi is launching a Bitcoin hackathon that will pay out 2.1 BTC to the winner in celebration of Bitcoin’s 14th birthday. Fedi, which is focused on…
Read more Fedi Launches Hackathon Celebrating Bitcoin’s 14th Birthday With 2.5 BTC PrizeThis is an opinion editorial by Dillon Healy, a member of the institutional partnerships team at Bitcoin Magazine and The Bitcoin Conference. A topic that has received increased…
Read more Even Without A Mining Subsidy, These Two Factors Will Protect Bitcoin Into The FutureThis is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. Channel jamming is one of the most threatening outstanding…
Read more Can Antoine Riard’s Lightning Network Proposal Mitigate Channel Jamming Attacks?Last year, I wrote about Commerceblock’s Mercury Wallet, an implementation of both statechains and CoinSwaps. This simultaneously introduced a new mixing tool as well as the first wallet…
Read more Integrating Statechains With Lightning Channels Can Allow For Off-Chain Balancing And Improved FlexibilityLayer 2 Labs is launching with the goal of scaling and building out drivechains for the Bitcoin Network. The company has closed a seed round at launch, raising…
Read more Layer 2 Labs Raises $3M At Launch To Supercharge Bitcoin’s EcosystemIn this article, I enumerate the costs of setting up and running a node in Nigeria, informed by my experience of running one over the past couple of…
Read more The Costs Of Running A Bitcoin Node In NigeriaThis is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a passionate financial inclusion advocate who was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of South Africa’s top-20 young entrepreneurs…
Read more How Erlay Helps Preserve Bitcoin’s DecentralizationThis is an opinion editorial by Thibaud Maréchal, a contributor to privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet project Wasabi Wallet. “Divide and conquer” is a battle-tested military strategy to fracture a…
Read more Navigating The Different CoinJoin ImplementationsThis is an opinion editorial by Pierre Gildenhuys, the co-founder of a Hong Kong-based social environment tech startup. Proof-of-work is the consensus mechanism that the Bitcoin protocol uses.…
Read more Proof-Of-Work Is The Only Viable Form Of ConsensusThe below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1286: “The first mainnet DLC on Lightning has been executed.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Transaction graph…
Read more DLCs On Lightning Open The Door For Bitcoin Smart ContractsThis is an opinion editorial by Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin educator passionate about privacy. Over many years, I have tinkered with various Bitcoin wallets and mentored many…
Read more Why I’ve Settled On The Electrum Bitcoin WalletA new version of the original Bitcoin software launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 has been released. Bitcoin Core 24.0 was worked on by 112 developers for roughly…
Read more Bitcoin Core 24.0 Released: Here’s What’s NewThis is an opinion editorial by Stanislav Kozlovski, a software engineer and macroeconomic researcher. Many Bitcoiners have heard of Bitcoin’s “lack of scalability” — it is one of…
Read more Data Shows That Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Solved The Scalability ProblemThis is an opinion editorial by Federico Tenga, a long time contributor to Bitcoin projects with experience as start-up founder, consultant and educator. Image source The term “smart…
Read more RGB Magic: Client-Side Contracts On BitcoinWatch This Episode On YouTube Or Rumble Listen To The Episode Here: In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost revisit the replace-by-fee…
Read more Should Full Replace-By-Fee Be Merged Into Bitcoin Core?This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. For the second time in roughly a month, btcd/LND…
Read more Exploiting The Lightning Bug Was The Ethical ChoiceThis is an opinion editorial by Bill Scoresby, a bitcoin-based small business owner and writer of several guides for bitcoin self-custody. The bugs that recently caused many LND…
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