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…

By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data. The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s…

BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences? What is BOLT 12? Well, it is…