A Commerceblock BLIP facilitates Lightning channels built on Bitcoin statechains, improving flexibility for the Layer 2 protocol. Last year, I wrote about Commerceblock’s Mercury Wallet, an implementation of both statechains…

The firm, led by BIP 300 and BIP 301 author Paul Sztorc, is on a mission to bring privacy, scalability and better UX solutions to Bitcoin. Layer 2 Labs is…

The hardware, electricity and internet costs of running a Bitcoin node in Nigeria and ideas for mitigating these costs. In this article, I enumerate the costs of setting up and…

Erlay is a new relay protocol that seeks to minimize the bandwidth usage required to connect Bitcoin full nodes. This is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a passionate financial…

How does one cut through the noise and confusion to find the optimal way to utilize CoinJoins and obscure their bitcoin transactions? This is an opinion editorial by Thibaud Maréchal,…

Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism ensures that work needs to be done in order for transactions to confirm and secures bitcoin in the fairest manner. This is an opinion editorial by Pierre…

The first successful discreet log contract has been executed on the Lightning Network by creating a new type of transaction when opening a Lightning channel. The below is a direct…

The Electrum wallet allows Bitcoiners to interact with the protocol in ways that do not limit or sacrifice more detailed features for a friendlier interface. This is an opinion editorial…

The latest version of Bitcoin’s original software client brings improvements on usability, privacy and security. Here’s all you need to know. A new version of the original Bitcoin software launched…

A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way. This is an opinion editorial by Stanislav Kozlovski, a software engineer and…