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,…
Coming To Terms With The Economic Reality Of Scaling
The blocksize war marked a pivotal chapter in Bitcoin’s nascent history, illuminating the ability of node operators to withstand systemic changes that could undermine the network’s foundational principles of decentralization…
Bitcoin Nodes Now One Step Closer to Instant Sync
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…
Drivechains Are Stupid, Prove Me Wrong
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…
ZK Rollups Are Coming To Bitcoin. Here’s All You Need To Know
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…
Chainalysis Denounces Bitcoin Core Contributor As “Unqualified”
If you haven’t had a good laugh at Chainalysis’ attempts to defend the use of its blockchain forensics software for law enforcement purposes in light of recent court proceedings, now…
Why Advanced Bitcoiners Should Consider Upgrading To a Shamir Backup
This is an opinion editorial by Josef Tětek, a Bitcoin analyst at Trezor. Self-custody is an absolute must for every bitcoiner. After the collapses of FTX, BlockFi, Celsius and many…
Waiting For Confirmation: Bitcoin Optech’s Series On Mempool And Policy
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.…
How Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin
Despite a nice few months this summer after Burak, infamous slayer of the Lightning Network, dropped his proposal for the new second layer protocol Ark where people had a lot…