UTXOracle is a simple Python script [Attention: direct download link] that takes advantage of a surprising fact about the Bitcoin blockchain – by parsing on-chain data it’s possible to derive…

Retirement savings have always been a priority for hardworking individuals, especially those who belong to unions or serve as firefighters. These individuals dedicate their lives to protect and serve their…

One of the latest developments in the Bitcoin market is the potential approval of a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). An ETF is a financial product that allows investors to gain…

Bitcoin light clients are now able to sync to the tip of the blockchain nearly instantly, thanks to a new development enabled by bitcoin startup ZeroSync and their work in…

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates. ______________________________________________________________ We are going to try…

Chris sits down with Thomas Shewchuck from Evertas to talk about having his company Bitshure get acquired to make the bitcoin mining insurance landscape more robust. He talks about bitcoin…

Zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups are coming to Bitcoin. Recently, two different projects took turnkey steps into turning this development into a reality for the original cryptocurrency, an advancement that could help…

Much of the discussion about Bitcoin technology lately revolves around various soft-fork consensus changes to the Bitcoin protocol including new opcodes or sighashes or around layer 2 technologies like Lightning.…

In August 2023, during the “Barbie” media tour, actor Margot Robbie commented on how two of the movie’s producers, David Heyman and Tom Ackerley, gave off “big Ken energy” while…

Bitcoin is a geographic chameleon. And, as such, this “magic internet money” that lives on a decentralized, permissionless system is changing the world right in front of us. One of…