This will be the third mining difficulty downward adjustment in a row with four downward adjustments over the course of the last five difficulty epochs. The below is a direct…

Softchains are a sidechain implementation that interact on a deeper level with consensus mechanisms, which can bring benefits and risks. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator…

It’s time we stop asking for permission. Build a mesh net and make Bitcoin unstoppable. This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine’s ”

Fedi raised $4 million to accelerate the development of the Fedimint protocol and its companion app Fedi — tools that can improve and scale bitcoin custody. Fedi Inc. on Tuesday…

Whirlpool gives a certain level of privacy when using bitcoin, and forward-looking anonymity sets are a measure of how well hidden you are. Let’s talk about Whirlpool “forward-looking anonymity sets”…

Signature aggregation could bring massive data-efficiency benefits to the network as well as open up more unique use cases, demonstrating bear market building. The below is a direct excerpt of…

The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it? This is an opinion editorial by Seth…

The work of Rene Pickhardt shows that despite being mainly used for small, fast Bitcoin transactions, Lightning can also deliver large payments. and mailing list post. More resources are also…

While spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring. In the last article, I broke down what a spacechain is and how…

Spacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design. The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin…