Bitcoin Magazine The Core Issue: Keeping Bitcoin Core Secure Bitcoin Core functions as the backbone for a monetary network securing over two trillion dollars in value. The stakes are immense,…

Bitcoin Magazine The Core Issue: Cluster Mempool, Problems Are Easier In Chunks Cluster Mempool1 is a complete reworking of how the mempool handles organizing and sorting transactions, conceptualized and implemented…

Bitcoin Magazine Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader The Bitcoin whitepaper is clear about Bitcoin’s core feature: it is permissionless. Anyone in the world can pay anyone by joining the peer-to-peer…

Bitcoin Magazine The v2 Transport: Bitcoin P2P Traffic Goes Dark For nearly 15 years, all communication between nodes on the Bitcoin network was transmitted completely in the clear, without any…

Bitcoin Magazine The Samourai Wallet Trial: A Test of Financial Privacy and Developer Freedoms This piece is featured in the print edition of Bitcoin Magazine, The Freedom Issue. We’re sharing…

Bitcoin Magazine Taproot Assets – Bitcoin As A Medium Of Exchange  What is Bitcoin and who is it for? There are a plethora of catchphrases available on Twitter to cover…

Bitcoin Magazine Remote Node Runner Pitfalls For node runners, setting up a remote Lightning node to send and receive your own payments has never been easier. Thanks to modern wallets…

Bitcoin Magazine Lightning Strikes: The Value-For-Value Future of Money and Work When someone holds your funds, these days everyone recognizes the inherent risk: The custodian might misuse the money or…

Bitcoin Magazine Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For Visions of future technology are often prescient about the broad strokes while flubbing the details. The tablets in…

Bitcoin Magazine The Revolution Won’t Have Good UX Adam Curry is the modern-day Prometheus. His discovery of podcasting and sharing it with the world was as significant of a development…