Bitcoin Magazine Economic Bitcoin Nodes: Why You Need To Use Your Node For It To Matter What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to first conceptually understand…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark Ark is a novel off-chain transaction batching mechanism originally proposed by Burak, a young Turkish developer. There are currently two implementations being built, one…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Layer 2: The Key To Scaling Bitcoin Bitcoin, and for that matter all blockchains, do not scale. It is a fundamental limitation of blockchain based systems that…

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Mempool: Relay Network Dynamics In the last Mempool article, I went over the different kinds of relay policy filters, why they exist, and the incentives that…

Bitcoin Magazine OP_RETURN Limits: Bitcoin’s Battle Over Arbitrary Data An OP_RETURN debate flared up in the Bitcoin industry in recent weeks and has by now invaded most conversation spaces within…

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Mempool: Why We Have Filters In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Covenants: OP_CAT (BIP 347) This is the fifth article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an…

Bitcoin Magazine SLICE: Making PPLNS Work for Demand Response Bitcoin mining has come a long way since the days of GPUs and basement set ups. In that time, miners have…

Bitcoin Magazine Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Is Not A Finished Project In the beginning of April at the MIT Bitcoin Expo I was able to sit down with Jameson Lopp to…