Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node’s UTXO Set
Yesterday marks coming up to the finishing line after almost four years of work. Assumeutxo was merged into the Bitcoin Core master branch by Andrew Chow yesterday. This is the…
Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Server Now Easier to Integrate with React Apps
BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build out a software project with the goal of obsoleting the payment processor BitPay in response to…
Cynthia Lummis: Bitcoin Is the Anti-CBDC
Do We Need CBDCs? Bitcoin Backstage with Cynthia Lummis In the world of digital currencies, two terms frequently come up for discussion – Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and Bitcoin.…
Runes: An Attempt At A Serious Protocol, Or Another Children’s Toy?
Casey Rodamor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol and reference implementation, recently dropped a proposal for a replacement to the BRC-20 fungible token protocol: Runes. It took roughly seven hours…
The Lightning Network Makes Bitcoin Unstoppable: Bitcoin Backstage with David Marcus
One of the biggest challenges Bitcoin faces is scalability. Transactions can be slow and costly, making mainchain settlement less efficient for everyday transactional use. Enter the Lightning Network, an innovative…
You’ll Activate The Covenants And You’ll Like It
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. ______________________________________________________________ It’s been two years since…
OP_CHECKSEPARATESIG And Actuaries: Fixing Multiparty Channel Factories
Many people these days are finally starting to realize the shortcomings and limitations of off-chain channels limited to two participants, i.e. the Lightning Network, and the necessity to start exploring…
The Evolution of Bitcoin Wallets: From the Early Days to Today’s Modern Solutions
Since its conception in 2009, Bitcoin, a revolutionary digital money, has advanced significantly. The development of Bitcoin wallets has been astounding along with the rise of Bitcoin. It has been…
A New Trustless Way to Calculate the Bitcoin Price
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…
Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer
This is an extension to my previous article series discussing the different sidechain proposals that exist. Those articles can be found here: Spacechains, Spacechain Use Cases, Softchains, Drivechains, Federated Chains,…