How Inscriptions Impact Bitcoin Block Space
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine PRO, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain…
Ordinals Project Launches Enabling NFTs Directly On Bitcoin
The controversial project has been met with equal parts excitement and criticism in regards to its impacts on Bitcoin. A project called Ordinals has launched on the Bitcoin blockchain, effectively…
Even Without A Mining Subsidy, These Two Factors Will Protect Bitcoin Into The Future
Many speculate that Bitcoin’s security will lapse with the end of the mining subsidy. But other factors will continue to incentivize miners. This is an opinion editorial by Dillon Healy,…
Can Antoine Riard’s Lightning Network Proposal Mitigate Channel Jamming Attacks?
A protocol proposal from Antoine Riard seeks to mitigate Lightning Network channel jamming attacks with a Chaumian ecash token. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in…
Integrating Statechains With Lightning Channels Can Allow For Off-Chain Balancing And Improved Flexibility
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…
Layer 2 Labs Raises $3M At Launch To Supercharge Bitcoin’s Ecosystem
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 Costs Of Running A Bitcoin Node In Nigeria
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…
How Erlay Helps Preserve Bitcoin’s Decentralization
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…
Navigating The Different CoinJoin Implementations
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,…